Stephen said: They are indeed crucial to Nation's ending. The Federation is in tatters. Servalan is dead. Blake is dead. The Liberator has been destroyed. Jenna is mia. And in the long run it has all been for nothing. In the end it has all been for nothing as we are all going to evolve into links. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
Oh, is that what they were about? I know I've seen the episode several times, and Servalan did state it clearly, but it seemed rather out of place in the whole story to me. I suppose I didn't feel the connection because, I never thought of it as anything other than just a badly conceived science experiment that showed one possiblity out of innumerable ones.
--- Helen wrote: > Stephen said:
Oh, is that what they were about? I know I've seen the episode several times, and Servalan did state it clearly, but it seemed rather out of place in the whole story to me. I suppose I didn't feel the connection because, I never thought of it as anything other than just a badly conceived science experiment that showed one possiblity out of innumerable ones.
In real life you'd have been quite right of course ! But I think that the metaphysical assumption behind Blake's 7 are that life is short, futile and essentially meaningless. In a perverse way that's part of it's charm, especially when compared to the somewhat Panglossian world view of, for example, TNG.
Stephen.
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