Finally watched all of Blakes 7
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Yes, there are some moments in B7 that are very groan-worthy, mostly because of the effects, but Avon has got to be one of the most fascinating characters EVER in all of scifi TV.
And, yes, that is one of the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping finales I have ever seen. It really is hard to top that final shot (no pun intended
).
It really is a shame that Paul Darrow didn't get more exposure after B7. He was truly brilliant as Avon.
Cally: My people have a saying: A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.
Avon: Life expectancy must be very short among your people.
Avon, speaking about the planet: We've come at the worst time of course - the northern hemisphere is just entering its winter cycle. They call it the Long Cold. It's something of an understatement. It lasts the equivalent of 8 ½ Earth years.
Blake: Does it support any intelligent life?
Avon: Does the Liberator?
Vila: I'm entitled to my opinion.
Avon: It is your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating.
And, yes, that is one of the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping finales I have ever seen. It really is hard to top that final shot (no pun intended
).It really is a shame that Paul Darrow didn't get more exposure after B7. He was truly brilliant as Avon.
Cally: My people have a saying: A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.
Avon: Life expectancy must be very short among your people.
Avon, speaking about the planet: We've come at the worst time of course - the northern hemisphere is just entering its winter cycle. They call it the Long Cold. It's something of an understatement. It lasts the equivalent of 8 ½ Earth years.
Blake: Does it support any intelligent life?
Avon: Does the Liberator?
Vila: I'm entitled to my opinion.
Avon: It is your assumption that we are entitled to it as well that is irritating.
Some of it is hard, and (especially season one) very dated, but there's a lot of good stuff in there. The dialogue is very bitchy and the humour comes from that. The fourth season isn't everyones cup of tea, so towards the end it might get a little hard to watch, although the final 3 should have you glued.
A friend of mine who rides the pink agenda pretty hard was telling me that Avon was standing akmibo over Blakes body when the federation dogsoldiers surrounded them so that when they finally shot him, that he could fall on and die on top of the man he loved.
There was a radio story that came out in the 90s and paul in the behind the scenes was talking about his choices for his final scene and he didn't mirror my friends reasonings in the slightest.
There was a radio story that came out in the 90s and paul in the behind the scenes was talking about his choices for his final scene and he didn't mirror my friends reasonings in the slightest.
Blake's 7 was a great series it did dark and depressing sci-fi on TV way before nuBSG. The issues I had with season 4 were the tendency for more stand alone episodes like the rebels seek out a mad scientist only for the mad scientist to end up killed by the end of the episode and their breakthrough lost, with the exception of the photon drive. I'm not sure I liked the Scorpio that much I feel the beat up freighter that goes really fast kinda done to death I realize at the time it wasn't as cliche. Too bad the Liberator couldn't rebuild herself or maybe she can? Spin-off potential there with or without Avon and the crew.
It wasn't a lone ship. Sure in this quarter of the galaxy, but the civilization that built that ship was alive and well, with possibly hundreds more like her and fabricating next generation and brainstorming next next generation.
I tried to get through this recently and gave up somewhere at the end of season 1. I actually found the show to be rather tedious if I had to choose a word. Does it get better in the later seasons or is it roughly the same throughout? I've had enough distance to maybe start to slowly try to digest the rest but I was curious what to expect.
The look is very drab, the characters aren't really that dynamic IMO, and the plots struck me as really kind of just point A to point B, if that makes any sense, there just wasn't a lot of, I don't know, zing. Also, it seems like there's a lot of dead time in there where not much is going on.
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At the end of 'Redemption' I took it as the System was destroyed due to Orac's interference.
Or did I misread your post?
don't suppose you can remember any details of what his options where?
I'm not sure if I can recommend you to keep watching it the show changes a little season to season and is very much about the characters. I consider it the proto Farscape, Firefly, NuBSG etc.Mr. Adventure said:
I'm not sure of the status of the System after Redemption but I know for sure Orac was able to take out the Liberator duplicate but I'm not sure if the whole civilization would collapse even it is dependent on just one computer there was a slave underclass could survive it.Candlelight said:
Oh, gag.
What was most interesting about the Avon and Blake dynamic was that Avon, the ultimate cynic, actually wanted to believe, wanted to be an idealist like Blake, but also hated him for it. It's one of the things that made the character of Avon so interesting and complex. He was cold, logical, opportunistic, but also fighting the Federation and putting his life on the line for the rebel's cause.
I seem to remember some old interview with Paul Darrow where he said, "Inside every cynic is an idealist wanting to get out."
I'm really hitting on the negatives, I do find the premise to be interesting, the whole rebel terrorists vs Orwellian establishment and all. I think I might have tried to digest too much at once, it's easy to do that with series that weren't meant to be watched in batches, I'm going to try to take it in eventually in but in well-spaced small bites.
"Ever Silver Lining has a cloud" - Kerr Avon
"What about Dr. Langstrom?" - Dana (After Dr. Langstrom was vaporized in the engine room in an attempt to save the rest of the ship)
"Who" - Kerr Avon
Avon had some really good one liners. Well him and Villa had awesome onscreen antagonistic chemistry.
"What about Dr. Langstrom?" - Dana (After Dr. Langstrom was vaporized in the engine room in an attempt to save the rest of the ship)
"Who" - Kerr Avon
Avon had some really good one liners. Well him and Villa had awesome onscreen antagonistic chemistry.
The first Alta was screaming destruct just as the Liberator escaped, which to me implied the space station at least was gonna blow. Whether that was directly controlling all three planets or not was left unclear.
It might have allowed the three planets to break away from their control. I always thought of the Alta as pre-cursors to the Borg.
Maybe for once the federation troopers show some brains and realised that if they all opened fire they'll also kill each other.
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