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Post by The Doctor on Jan 24, 2013 21:20:20 GMT
And it dropped into my inbox today. www.bigfinish.com/news/v/blake-s-7-warship-releasedMust make some time for it. Picked up one of the novels a while ago. Not had time to read it! Actually tried to pick up the TV show DVD's recently and found it was out of print. Oh well! -Ralph |
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Post by legios on Jan 24, 2013 21:39:35 GMT
I completely forgot to preorder Warship. I must rectify my error in due course. Although, when I will get through my "to listen to" pile enough to hear it is another question!
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Post by blueshift on Jan 24, 2013 21:53:50 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 24, 2013 23:16:18 GMT
Something to look at when gainful employment is secured.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 25, 2013 7:46:28 GMT
I had it pre-ordered and on download so was £8 IIRC. Comes with a second 'disc': a making of featurette. -Ralph |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2013 13:27:44 GMT
isn't Paul Darrow supposed to be making a new one? audio I think? unless it's the one you've just recently mentioned
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jan 26, 2013 13:35:40 GMT
At one point he was involved with the rights holders for a new venture, but apparently there was a lot of difficulties in dealing with them and it stalled.
he is doing one with Big Finish though, picking up from the end of the show with pretty much everyone bar Avon dead.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2013 0:13:30 GMT
To correct Andy slightly, he is doing B7 audios for Big Finish. He is in the full-cast audio 'Warship'. Whether there are any more full-cast episodes depends on how that sells. They usually do more standard audiobooks (two voices telling a story), of which he has done a few. He has written a novel about Avon after the end of the TV show. This is being released in print, ebook and audiobook versions later this year.
BF also publish Blake's 7 novels. I started one of them ('The Forgotten') today. Under the weather a bit so my concentration is off but from what I have read it feels like it has fallen through a time-loop from 1980!
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2013 0:14:37 GMT
Thanks for the link re: DVD's Mr Blueshift. I may avail myself of that come the next day of pay for there are still s2-3 eps I have not seen yet, and none of s4!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 10:35:32 GMT
it's a pity that SKY fell short of releasing that new tv series.....i'd've liked to have seen how it turned out! probably crap no doubt.....but who knows......now we'll never know + no foreseeable plans to bring a tv show of it back.
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 27, 2013 10:45:38 GMT
True, but at least it is now being continued in audio and novel formats.
There was also previously an entirely different audio series which was a complete reboot with a different cast. It airs on BBC Radio 4 from time to time. Could never get into it, personally. Colin Salmon was a dull Avon, for starters.
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Post by blueshift on Jan 27, 2013 10:49:48 GMT
it's a pity that SKY fell short of releasing that new tv series.....i'd've liked to have seen how it turned out! probably crap no doubt.....but who knows......now we'll never know + no foreseeable plans to bring a tv show of it back. Oh, has that fallen through now? Probably for the best, I can't imagine anyone getting it right without the temptation to meddle in a good formula. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 11:51:22 GMT
it's a pity that SKY fell short of releasing that new tv series.....i'd've liked to have seen how it turned out! probably crap no doubt.....but who knows......now we'll never know + no foreseeable plans to bring a tv show of it back. Oh, has that fallen through now? Probably for the best, I can't imagine anyone getting it right without the temptation to meddle in a good formula. aye it's fallen through for a while now! btw did you manage to shift that Guardian Robot Omega that you have? didn't even know that you had one of those. years ago I used to have Grandstands Omegatron. |
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Post by blueshift on Jan 27, 2013 11:58:05 GMT
btw did you manage to shift that Guardian Robot Omega that you have? didn't even know that you had one of those. I sold it on ebay two weeks ago but the chap who bought it hasn't paid!! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2013 12:03:02 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2013 16:12:27 GMT
Well yes now that the dvd's are cheap they will be acquired over the next few paydays. In the meantime, I may have noticed that all or least most of it is on *coughyoutubecough*.
Watching series 1. Still great stuff!
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2013 16:15:38 GMT
BF also publish Blake's 7 novels. I started one of them ('The Forgotten') today. Under the weather a bit so my concentration is off but from what I have read it feels like it has fallen through a time-loop from 1980! -Ralph I quite enjoyed it. I would hope future books use the novel format somewhat more ambitiously but as a Target style homage (it really does feel like a novelisation of a missing episode) it was quite decent and a worthwhile read. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2013 17:17:44 GMT
Season 1 is two different television shows. Noticeable change in tone after the Brian Blessed episode.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 11, 2013 17:24:32 GMT
More like three different shows. It wibbles into sub-par Star Trek territory for a few eps before wheeling on Travis and Servelan and properly getting into the Evil Federation Stuff, which is where the true greatness lies.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 11, 2013 17:31:25 GMT
I do love the first few episodes, such a dark premise. Would love to have seen it stay closer to that.
Although Servalan's introduction does kick the series back into high gear.
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Post by legios on Feb 11, 2013 20:52:56 GMT
I've read about half of "The Forgotten" and quite enjoyed it. Need to purchase my own copy at some point. It did feel like it wanted to be a story that could have been an episode that wasn't filmed. On that level I thought it did a great job. The character beats were perfect - Travis was written note-perfect in what I read. Avon busying himself being sarcastic to all and sundry, and Avon and Cally's rubbish flirting was right on target as well.
I'd agree that S1 of she show does have three totally different versions going on - the first few episodes are about how a faceless bureucratic tyranny grinds up all those in its path like an inexorable machine, then there is the wandering about with space monsters version, and then we get the new version of the Federation as an Evil Empire with actual Evil Leaders who do space-plotting and space-vendettas (I really like the first Travis - he is absolutely brilliant, pitching the performance at exactly the level it really needs to be). All three versions of the show make comebacks to various degrees over the rest of the run, although perhaps it never quite reaches the wonderfully dystopian nihilism of the first couple of episodes.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 12, 2013 11:29:52 GMT
I hadn't seen season 1 since the Sat morning BBC2 repeats in the late 90's (I think that's when it aired) and so far it holds up very well and I am actually enjoying it more. It feels rather fresh compared to much modern telly (lots going on, well written bickering, overlapping stories rather than One Plot Per Season). Er, except for 'The Web'. Once the sad eyes of Deep Roy have stared at you, there is no escape. Have noticed a few things I hadn't when I first saw it:
-Jenna is very nice.
-Jenna gets the best outfits.
-Jenna has very nice hair, which can change between scenes.
-Jenna? Yes, I would.
-Cally? *sick in mouth*
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Post by legios on Feb 12, 2013 13:07:24 GMT
So... I'm going to hazard a guess that you don't entirely hate Jenna?
The Web is probably the weakest episode of the first couple of years, but otherwise I found the first season pretty watchable when I saw it again a couple of years ago. The character dynamic between the crew is one of the highlights, they don't entirely get on and they don't fall into unchanging cliques but rather drift back and forth depending on the issue at hand.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 12, 2013 13:24:43 GMT
I wanted to B7 when the DW blog finished.
Sadly I'm not sure I see that happening now.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 13, 2013 21:24:14 GMT
Two eps into season 2 which is when it gets into 'new stuff' for me, having only seen half a dozen of that season on vhs. 'Shadow' was a bit bonkers. Three entirely different types of episodes jammed together seemingly randomly! Still, nice to see 'new' stuff. I had seen 'Redemption' before, but had forgotten how rubbish the aliens who created the Librerator were. They were utterly pants! Maybe Big Finish can do something interesting with them. Cally is a show killer though: she saps energy from every scene in which she is given lines. I hope Jenna kills her.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 14, 2013 11:33:19 GMT
And another thing: Dudley Simpson's 'unique' musical style actually works well for Blake's 7. I've never cared for his atonal dirges which vaguely resemble tunes in Doctor Who. I've got used to it as aural wallpaper over the years but never liked it. Folk go on about Keffers, but at least he could bang out a proper tune from time to time.
Yet, Dudley's strange system of banging out random noises of possibly four notes at a time actually helps the weird mad dystopian mood that underlines Blake's 7. I actually think proper melodies wouldn't work as well! Strange!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2013 11:08:33 GMT
7 episodes into S2 and now getting into the bits of the show I have not seen, which is nice. It doesn't feel as solid as season 1 (Boucher's solo scripts veer madly between brilliance and incoherence) but still very very enjoyable. I will listen to Warhead when I get to the end. Meanwhile. I see this is down to a tenner for a week. Good. www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/the-liberator-chronicles-volume-1-662-Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 23, 2013 11:17:03 GMT
If I said I'd watched the first episode of Blake's 7 last night do you promise not to get too excited yet?
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2013 11:17:43 GMT
I promise.
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Post by blueshift on Feb 23, 2013 11:49:49 GMT
If I said I'd watched the first episode of Blake's 7 last night do you promise not to get too excited yet? Wait, does this imply Phil has not watched Blakes 7?! |
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