Responding to Mistral, captjohns wrote:
Andromeda's swimming in them.
Ok I'm missing things totally, who is what avatar on Andromeda? I can'tplace anyone on that show with Blake's 7.
Dylan's very Blake-like in many ways... Charismatic idealist, leads relucant group of criminal-types on a possibly hopeless quest by sheer force of his personality. Tyr has definite echoes of Avon: the cynicism, the sarcastic wit, the avowed total selfishness. One might draw a comparison between Beka and Jenna: tough blonde smuggler pilots, both, though I hate to say it, but Beka's a much more fully-drawn character than Jenna ever really got a chance to be, unfortunately. If one really wanted to stretch things a bit, one might draw a comparison between Cally and Trance (mysterious alien with poorly-defined paranormal powers) or even Cally and Rev (alien mystics who are often more concerned with moral issues than their crewmates). Rommie is nothing like Zen, but the _Andromeda_ itself compares quite easily to the _Liberator_, being just about the biggest, most powerful, most kick-ass ship in the galaxy.
I don't know to what extent the parallels were deliberate (though I supsect they weren't *entirely* accidental)... As I suggested here some time ago, I think it may just be that B7 was ahead of its time, and its time has finally come, which is why we're seeing variations on its basic formula all over the place these days...