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Post by The Doctor on Dec 10, 2013 15:13:47 GMT
Top episode and the model footage is indeed superb. I was quite taken aback by it in context of what had come before.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 10, 2013 16:54:52 GMT
One of my faves. Love season 4. Well apart from Animals. Got some big issues with that.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 16, 2013 9:39:50 GMT
"You must be very clever." "That's what I keep telling everyone. They even believed me in CF One." "CF One?" "A sort of academy, when I was a boy. They chose me as technical advisor for the escape." "Escape? From an academy?" "Perhaps academy was the wrong word." This week we're watching Blake's 7 episode D2: Power blakesevendays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/d2-power.html |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 23, 2013 7:57:27 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2013 11:51:15 GMT
Yes, the scientist chap is a bit 'off'. I never felt Bob Holmes was a good fit for B7 though. None of his episodes really hit the mark for me.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 25, 2013 12:15:45 GMT
I like his series 4 scripts, especially Orbit. And, as I've outlined, Traitor serves an important purpose and does it well. It feels like a S1 script
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2013 13:55:05 GMT
I do agree that s4 feels more like s1. Probably why I favour those two series over the middle stuff.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 30, 2013 7:05:58 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 6, 2014 7:42:53 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2014 11:03:32 GMT
A Mavic Chen appearance makes anything good!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 6, 2014 12:46:42 GMT
Wasted in it.
Episode is grim
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 6, 2014 15:29:54 GMT
Even Crime Traveller would have been elevated if Mavic Chen had appeared in it.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jan 6, 2014 17:02:58 GMT
"Animals" is a pretty awful mess. If it is being lifted by the presence of Kevin Stoney then I dread to think where it would be without him...
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 13, 2014 7:15:59 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 20, 2014 7:08:35 GMT
"You can imagine how much it pains me to use the word 'infallible'." "Oh, come on. No-one's infallible." "Alright, then, he's not infallible. It's just that up till now he's never failed!" This week we're watching Blake's 7 episode D7 Assassin blakesevendays.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/d7-assassin.html |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jan 27, 2014 7:02:53 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 3, 2014 7:24:13 GMT
"Oh, Tarrant. I'm just the girl next door." "If you were the girl next door, I'd move." "Where would you move, Tarrant?" "Next door?" This week we're watching Blake's 7 episode D9 Sand. blakesevendays.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/d9-sand.htmlnot the curly haired idiot's finest hour |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 10, 2014 6:37:53 GMT
"Yes, they're clear all right. Aren't they, Avon. We've just risked our lives, for nothing." "Not for nothing, Tarrant. We risked our lives to make Servalan rich!" This week we're watching Blake's 7 episode D10 Gold blakesevendays.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/d10-gold.html |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 17, 2014 8:19:06 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 19, 2014 10:32:58 GMT
I've just read the Merchandise Guide Telos put out a year or so back. As a reference guide it's fine, but there's less info on the background to it all than I'd expect from a Telos book. I certainly learned a few things though. Most interesting is the idea that initially the BBC seemed to want to merchandise B7 quite heavily and had interest from a lot of parties, most of which seemed to fall through as the BBC were unable to provide reference material until too late in the day for items to be designed and made.
I'm intrigued by the idea that originally the famous Corgi Liberator was going to be joined by a larger scale version which incorporated Zen's voice, and that costumes were in pre-production before being shelved because of lack of reference to work from.
It all seems odd to me. B7, the first episodes especially, don't strike me as being a child friendly merchandise based show. The scale of the initial ideas mentioned in the book seem to outweigh anything Doctor Who had at the time, although Who did have the Denys Fisher toys. Makes me wonder what direction B7 would have taken if the BBC had got it right with the vendors to start with and it had taken off in the playgrounds. I think Star Wars opened their eyes. I'd no idea there even was a ping pong ball firing Federation blaster. I'd have loved one of those.
The book finishes with a collection of interviews with people like Trevor Hoyle and Tony Atwood, who clearly don't remember an awful lot. Most of those pages are interesting but irrelevant. There's a general retrospective piece interview with Chris Boucher too, in which he sadly casts off Star Cops with one dismissive line.
As a whole though it does show how poorly served B7 has been over the years in terms of official merchandise. If you take out the Marvel mag, the various model kits and the video releases, there's precious little left. My own pride and joy in this area is an unofficial piece. I have a friend who is an expert model maker and he did a limited run for the local group I used to be involved with of Liberator bracelets and handguns. The guns he really went to town with and produced spot on replicas that even light up. I think that, and a much cherished BBC 7" single of the theme, are about it for my B7 merch.
Just about worth the cover price, but only really interesting if you want to know for sure that you haven't really missed anything in not knowing how little B7 merch there is.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2014 21:37:46 GMT
Though in the last few years Big Finish have been punting out B7 books and audios, thus vastly increasing the amount of B7 stuff out there!
-ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 19, 2014 22:35:44 GMT
And rather marvellous their output is. The books I've read so far have almost had the tone right, but the audios get better and better. Warship near had me in tears hearing the crew together again, and the last Chronicle I bought was superb. The Armageddon Storm one. Great story.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 24, 2014 7:58:02 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 3, 2014 7:37:33 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 3, 2014 21:36:47 GMT
Congrats  always satisfying to complete a long run, unless you're heading on into audio territory now to keep going. Have you any plans for other full series runs? I thought I might watch along too to join in the discussion if you're starting a new one. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 4, 2014 11:44:38 GMT
I've got 3 ideas but I need some time to have a think about them. One is advanced as in I've got a few in the can already but I'm thinking next March/April for that that'd be a two ish year job
The other two would be from scratch jobs and require a BD drive to screen shot.
Plus there's the DW rewatch. I'm resigned to doing the whole of the first season again but already I'm finding myself happier with what I wrote.
I can't see myself doing a doaily one again, like the original run of Who was. Too tired.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 4, 2014 14:38:22 GMT
I still want to see you do DW from 2005 onwards, perhaps even as a monthy thing!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 31, 2014 20:10:00 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Mar 31, 2014 20:17:23 GMT
Oh wow! Why wasn't it, if they made it?
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 31, 2014 20:55:52 GMT
My recollection is the license holders at the time objected to them for some reason despite them being the work of Kevin Davies who's made some damm good stuff over the years.
You'd need to read up on the web as to precisely what happened but by the time the plug was pulled the first three had been completed.
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always satisfying to complete a long run, unless you're heading on into audio territory now to keep going. Have you any plans for other full series runs? I thought I might watch along too to join in the discussion if you're starting a new one. 
