News Chris Boucher has passed away

[diankra]

Ha. Ahahaha. [Mirthless] Oboy.

It would be great to just turn on those localised anti-grav devices, wouldn't it?

Clearly, I've missed a whole chapter of Chris Boucher's life story here...

Guess so.. In 92 told me how to rig an election. Very credible.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Since he only appeared in the animated serial, The Infinite Quest (although he did a number of Big Finish audio plays), I figured it was best to post the news here for the Blake's 7 fans of the forum:

Stephen Greif (aka the first Travis) passed away this past week and Big Finish once again alerted me of this sad news.

 

[Marc]

Since he only appeared in animated serial, The Infinite Quest, although he did a number of Big Finish audio plays), I figured it was best to post the news here for the Blake's 7 fans of the forum:

Stephen Greif (aka the first Travis) passed away this past week and Big Finish once again alerted me of this sad news.

Big Finish have just released another Worlds of B7 box set which was recorded in May this year so I guess that will be his final performance.

I always felt his was the better of the two Travis's though - there was something more cold and calculating about him. Travis Mk2 was more a sneering lose canon.

 

[Qonundrum]

Big Finish have just released another Worlds of B7 box set which was recorded in May this year so I guess that will be his final performance.

I always felt his was the better of the two Travis's though - there was something more cold and calculating about him. Travis Mk2 was more a sneering lose canon.

Travis1 was getting a bit repetitive with "the Travis strategy" failing on him (again). Travis2 definitely goes the logical route and has Travis becoming unhinged thanks to Blake's victories, and I like to think Avon zapping his hand was the final impetus behind that tonal shift... Boucher plays him decently, if not over the top at times, but it's distinctively other than the quiet menace Stephen excelled at. Add in the other directions that series 2 was going, and Travis wouldn't have been the same either way.

 

[Starkers]

Greif was the best Travis, but Croucher got the best Travis episode, and I'd agree, Travis getting increasingly more unhinged does make sense, sure Greif could have played that, just more subtlety

 

[Qonundrum]

Greif was the best Travis, but Croucher got the best Travis episode, and I'd agree, Travis getting increasingly more unhinged does make sense, sure Greif could have played that, just more subtlety

That would have been interesting. The manic approach requires a deft hand. Showing something as bonkers as becoming unhinged while maintaining a subtle and calm veneer would be harder. It's time for a series 2 rewatch, imagining how Greif might have played it. Especially early on, I recall enough of "Weapon" and Travis killing clone-Blake and it's easy enough to fathom Greif doing it better. But he's not completely unhinged at that point...