From: Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net I only watched Excalibur once, and it was when I was twelve. I only remember the parts I disliked; I'm sure it has charms I didn't appreciate.
I still have problems with Sand, having first seen it at the same age and with the same reaction as Helen to Excalibur. The twelve-year-old me who thought vampire sand was stupid keeps rearing its less than aesthetically pleasing head whenever I try to suspend disbelief. Strangely, there would've been things even less believable in Doctor Who episodes being shown around the same time, yet I seem to have accepted them within their stories without fuss or much in the way of thought.
Regards Joanne
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--- J MacQueen j_macqueen@hotmail.com wrote: >
I still have problems with Sand, having first seen it at the same age and with the same reaction as Helen to Excalibur. The twelve-year-old me who thought vampire sand was stupid keeps rearing its less than aesthetically pleasing head whenever I try to suspend disbelief. Strangely, there would've been things even less believable in Doctor Who episodes being shown around the same time, yet I seem to have accepted them within their stories without fuss or much in the way of thought.
What does and what does not spoil people's watching of B7 ? As far as I am concerned Vampire Sand is very silly (as was that scene in Excalibur). On the other hand the galactic minefield in Star One is also silly, but doesn't stop me rating Star One as my favourite episode. Probably because the minefield is a symbolic minefield - it could have been something else without changing anything fundamental. I suppose for Tarrant and/ or Servalan fans, who like Sand, getting them stranded together is more important than the Sand itself.
What plot holes/ dodgy special effects are forgivable and which make episodes incurably naff ? I offer the shoot out in Hostage (that bit of string ?!) as my own sacrificial candidate.
Stephen.
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Stephen wrote:
What does and what does not spoil people's watching of B7 ? As far as I am concerned Vampire Sand is very silly
I appear to be in a minority here. I liked the vampire sand, I thought it was a weird and imaginative idea. The only bit I don't like in that episode is that awful planet effect where Servie and crew are standing against the most awful studio backdrop and we are clearly being encouraged to see this as an alien environment.
What plot holes/ dodgy special effects are forgivable and which make episodes incurably naff ? I offer the shoot out in Hostage (that bit of string ?!) as my own sacrificial candidate.
The living cable that attacks Blake and Avon in 'Redemption'.
Una
Una McCormack wrote:
The living cable that attacks Blake and Avon in 'Redemption'.
Really? I thought that was wonderful - fits in with the idea of Liberator as a sort of semi-living technology. It goes with the ship having an 'organic' feel (even though there is more than one way to interpret that remark) and Zen being a 'brain' and 'dying' and the remarks about the ship treating the crew like germs.
Mistral
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