OK, deal me in. Sorry, not in correct series order.

1. TWB: Blake spitting out the pond water-- it's not going to be Arcadia all the way, is it?

2. SpaceFall: the computer room showdown really is the whole show in two minutes. And the framing of the next scene--Avon downstage, Blake and Jenna upstage--shows who the series is about, dunnit?

3. Cygnus Alpha: Avon sticking little flags on the teleport.

4. Not sure which episode: Does it support intelligent life? Does the Liberator?

5. The Web: "We have no lives of our own! We are servants of the Web!" I feel like that a lot. They should have nicked some of the wound- regenerating liver though.

6. Deliverance: The model of the rocket doesn't match the stock footage of the rocket launch AT ALL.

7. Voice from the Past: Avon goes from tender concern for Blake to amateurishly chopping at his neck in about long enough to run an Olympic mile.

8. Horizon: Gotta hand it to Blake for managing to push Ro around when Blake is at shall we say a bit of a disadvantage.

9. Orac: BLAKE: I'm fed up wi' takin' orders [after he's taken about 1.25 for the whole series)

10. Trial: the way Travis' lounge shows EXACTLY what he thinks about the legitimacy of the whole kangaroo court

11. Gambit and Volcano, because My Client gets to have some canonical fun. Also, Gambit makes you realize that even though Avon and Vila NEVER disavow being crooks this is the only time they do anything dishonest for personal advantage

12. Avon's (and Vila's) ability to retain a sense of humor under extremely adverse conditions

13. The numerous times when Blake looks really nervous--he can be extremely brave without being quite conventional about it

14. The way Servalan gets about 14 syllables out of "Avon" whereas most people get between 1.2 and 2 syllables depending on how annoyed they are--and realizing after Star One that I was NEVER going to find out if Blake could get it down to one syllable

15. Rumors of Death--I'm convinced that the cave is actually 14 feet deep and half a mile from Brent Cross (come to think of it, it CAN'T be very deep or Avon couldn't teleport out of it). I keep waiting to hear Anna say "consider this a divorce," though

16. Terminal--IMO the best episode, but I can't stand to watch it, it's so sad. The Universe 8,234, My Client 2. But he can manage to laugh at the end.

17. The real B7 touch again: seeing Avon make a complete pig's ear out of rebelling after I spent two seasons waiting for him to get it sorted in a couple of weeks ("...and what do you suggest I do with my other hand?")

18. Rescue--the sock-puppet vagina dentata that threatens Tarrant and Dayna on an equal-opportunity basis. Paging Dr. Freud!

19. Moloch--OK, I know the episode is utterly wretched, but Grose is my favorite one-off character by a million percent. ("There seem to be a great many...accidents... around you" "Well, there's a war on, you know")

20. Blake--well, at least My Client manages to end the series on his feet and laughing at yet another cosmic joke. The real B7 touch is that they all would have died in about two minutes anyway even if Avon had gone all fluffy-bunny.

-(Y)