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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2013 17:35:52 GMT
5 episodes into Series C and it's all good so far. Phil lies!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Apr 28, 2013 17:55:06 GMT
5 episodes into Series C and it's all good so far. Phil lies! -Ralph Well, Phil hated the space chess episode too! |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2013 18:48:13 GMT
6 episodes down. Ok, Series C is a far cry from the glories of Series A and has completely given up on the original premise of the show but it's a fun space adventure yarn so far.
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on Apr 28, 2013 19:18:02 GMT
6 episodes down. Ok, Series C is a far cry from the glories of Series A and has completely given up on the original premise of the show but it's a fun space adventure yarn so far. -Ralph The only episode I really disliked in series 3 was Harvest of Kairos. Everyone seemed totally mischaracterised, and it felt like it was an early season script shoehorned into that season with only the names of the characters changed. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2013 19:59:25 GMT
That's one of the many reasons I disliked Kairos!
Why does Servalan just go gooy for the first Me Alpha Male that shows his chest to her? She should have had him shot! Apart from that aspect you can swan Javrek & Tarrent for Travis & Blake easily.
Yet another episode with Federation troops on the Liberator (3 out of 6) when they'd not managed it in the previous 2 years
What were Avon & Vila doing mineral hunting on that planet? An explanation would have helped..... You get a possible one in the next episode but that doesn't help here! That lump of rock is a McGuffin - it only exists to solve the plot at the end and thus the trip to the planet seems only justified in terms of providing the rock which Avon then get's obssessed with
Not enough Avon leading - a common theme in S3 He;s in charge not the curly haired idiot bully.
No mention of Blake and Jenna, they've been forgotton about very quickly
Then there's the underlying very bad attitude to women that's present in all of Ben Stead's scripts. This is somewhere in the middle of the three with the Planet of the Raping Guards being bar far the worst but it still leaves a very bad taste. If Dayna had handed Jarvek his backside on a plate at the end it would have been improved but even then it's still a big big mess.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2013 20:05:55 GMT
Volcano's just not quite right. Dawn of the Gods is a reheated Deliverance meant to set up a villian that never returns and aspects of it are flatly contradicted three episodes later. City's not bad, better than I remember. Baker's great, and Avon finally gives up and take's charge when Tarrent's latest idiot scheme goes tits. If they'd mentioned about needing the crystals for the lasers in the previous episode too that would A have explained the mineral hunting trip and B given some continuity between the episodes. remainder Spoilered for Ralph Children of Auron is very close to being very good. One character annoyed me and the flat out contradiction of part of Dawn of the Gods convinced me Boucher wasn't doing the script ediotr's job too well.
Rumours of Death is possibly the best episode of Blake's 7.
Sarcophagus is hippy sh!+ new age drivel, Ultraworld I'd have liked when I was 8, Moloch I've mentioned above but don't get me going on Moloch itself and Deathwatch is so boring I nearly fell asleep and yet still contains the best dialogue in the whole series.
And Terminal is seven shades of awesome.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 28, 2013 20:24:09 GMT
Such rage, young Phil.
If time allows should see another couple of eps this week.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Apr 28, 2013 20:44:03 GMT
Series C is the one that I have often heard described as "Amoral Star Trek". In that it basically becomes about a bunch of folk in a cool spaceship zooming around looking for personal benefit. It makes a certain amount of sense, given that Blake has gone and few of the survivors of the crew are really committed revolutionaries. If Blake had still been about Series C would have been the ideal time to be really sticking the boot into the Federation, but with him gone the balance of the crew are more of the "thank god they have other things to worry about than us" persuasion.
(I'd always read the Avon/Tarrant thing as Avon deciding "I'll let the testosterone soaked idiot make a fool of himself, and hope he manages to get himself killed. He's not worth the effort of worrying about")
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2013 20:58:35 GMT
There's a distinct Star Trek KO feel in places yes. (I'd always read the Avon/Tarrant thing as Avon deciding "I'll let the testosterone soaked idiot make a fool of himself, and hope he manages to get himself killed. He's not worth the effort of worrying about") I see where you're coming from there, and there is an element of that. I also think that Avon has been a bit distracted and he's got not one but two little projects on th go off screen which eventually reach their fruition in Rumours of Death & Terminal. The thing is....
Following Terminal, when he's really ballsed up that's when you'd expect them to turn on him but that's when he really becomes the leader, and the rebel against the Federation
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Post by The Doctor on May 1, 2013 19:46:43 GMT
Series C completed. I really enjoyed it! Only bits of Sarcophagus (decent idea but a bit pretentious) and Terminal (takes a long time to go nowhere, only enough story for 25 mins) let the side down but they were still fun to watch overall.
Far better than Series B if nowhere near as good as Series A. I must now...power on.
MAXIMUM POWER!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on May 1, 2013 21:02:51 GMT
Did Series D get a budget increase? The first episode felt positively lush by Blake's 7 standards! It even had Genuinely Good model footage!
-Ralph
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Post by blueshift on May 2, 2013 7:04:46 GMT
Did Series D get a budget increase? The first episode felt positively lush by Blake's 7 standards! It even had Genuinely Good model footage! -Ralph Is that the one with the Sea Devil? |
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Post by The Doctor on May 2, 2013 7:14:45 GMT
Was the monster in a sea devil costume? I couldn't tell, but then I was watching a ropey off-air copy in youtube vision. But free, so I'm not complaining! I still plan to get the dvd's but literally every time this year I've saved up for them they've been out of stock!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 2, 2013 7:52:51 GMT
It was a Sea Devil and it did turn into Bruno Tonioli.
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Post by legios on May 2, 2013 21:19:31 GMT
To my knowledge Series D did not get an budget increase. They did get more Matt Irvine I believe though - a result of the rapid uncancellation as I recall - which may account for the better model work.
I have a great liking for Series D. It made a strong impression on me as a youngster, and as an adult I like some of the sensibility of it. It manages to change Avon's role in events without actually changing him as a character - it feels like it grows naturally out of the situation.
I also have a great love for Scorpio - she isn't a beautiful space-going work of art like Liberator, but there is something endearing about her dumpy, clunky, utility.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 6, 2013 7:05:41 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 9, 2013 10:39:13 GMT
m'learned colleagues have dug me out a complete list of the repeat dates for Blake's 7. here they are for the episodes we've seen so far. |
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Post by The Doctor on May 10, 2013 19:26:29 GMT
I first saw Blake's 7 in the series A repeat of the space year 2000 which brought my joy, I was such a hyper and happy boy!
That was when I saw the proper Travis, for Servalan he was a rather good 'have is'!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 11, 2013 12:20:11 GMT
How goes the s4athon Burns?
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Post by The Doctor on May 11, 2013 16:43:29 GMT
Four episodes in, this season is not for the bin!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 11, 2013 18:18:33 GMT
And then comes Animals......
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 13, 2013 12:53:57 GMT
"I'm finished. Staying with you requires a degree of stupidity of which I no longer feel capable" blakesevendays.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/a10-breakdown.htmlThis week we're watching A10 Breakdown AKA "The one where Gan's limiter finally goes wrong" AKA "one of the ones where Tel puts the two ideas he couldn't make stretch to a full episode together". |
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Post by The Doctor on May 13, 2013 20:34:29 GMT
Julian Glover makes that episode!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 13, 2013 20:44:22 GMT
criminally underused in it. You book Julian Glover and he doesn't show up till the second half?  ? Just like Kevin Stoney both times he appears! |
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Post by The Doctor on May 13, 2013 20:50:27 GMT
True, but at least Glover gets a decent part in the bit of the episode he is in.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 13, 2013 21:22:20 GMT
Oh yeah he's tops when onscreen
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2013 6:29:01 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2013 12:41:06 GMT
The series D watch continues apace. Generally good fun, though I found Games strangely unengaging. Still ok though. Generally puzzled why the last year has such a poor reputation. It's a lot better than series B and C and almost as much fun as series A.
'Sands' up next.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 20, 2013 12:46:17 GMT
AKA The Better Tanith Lee episode
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Post by The Doctor on May 20, 2013 12:58:12 GMT
Oh no. Not Tanith Lee.
-Ralph
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