Yet another attempt to reboot Blake 7 is underway

[Candleicious Ghost]

Lexx was fun ..

If they reboot B7 this time can the heroes win I want the Federation dead, people's heads on pikes, dead dammit

 

[Starkers]

Lexx was fun ..

If they reboot B7 this time can the heroes win I want the Federation dead, people's heads on pikes, dead dammit

That's not Blakes 7 though

Although that'd be a great way to subvert the original B7, which I think you'd have to do with the franchise.

And there are ways for the heroes to win, without winning. Actually a realistic ending could be that the rebels win, in so far as they destroy the Federation, but there's no unified free galaxy in the aftermath, instead there's chaos. Which in effect was what you had in the aftermath of the galactic war in Series C. I mean much as I do actually like Series D (mostly) The ending of Series C might be the best the rebels could hope for. The Federation has been decimated, and with Servalan dead I could see the remains of the Federation fragmenting. Liberator is destroyed and whilst our heroes are alive, they're potentially marooned on a dangerous planet. On the one hand it doesn't have the downer ending of Series D, but conversely it isn't the end of Return of the Jedi either

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

That's not Blakes 7 though

Although that'd be a great way to subvert the original B7, which I think you'd have to do with the franchise.

And there are ways for the heroes to win, without winning. Actually a realistic ending could be that the rebels win, in so far as they destroy the Federation, but there's no unified free galaxy in the aftermath, instead there's chaos. Which in effect was what you had in the aftermath of the galactic war in Series C. I mean much as I do actually like Series D (mostly) The ending of Series C might be the best the rebels could hope for. The Federation has been decimated, and with Servalan dead I could see the remains of the Federation fragmenting. Liberator is destroyed and whilst our heroes are alive, they're potentially marooned on a dangerous planet. On the one hand it doesn't have the downer ending of Series D, but conversely it isn't the end of Return of the Jedi either

I like this

 

[Starkers]

I like this

Can't take any credit, it's how the show was originally meant to end

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Can't take any credit, it's how the show was originally meant to end

Oh OK

Mind you the depressing ending with what happens to Blake feels very British

 

[Anwar]

Can't take any credit, it's how the show was originally meant to end

Oh OK

Mind you the depressing ending with what happens to Blake feels very British

Quite frankly, there are times where it seems like the ending to Series B was was the original ending.

Blake and Avon acknowledge they're friends and trust each other after everything, the Federation may or may not be destroyed, the the Liberator crew have no choice but to work WITH the Federation against an Alien Invasion they may not defeat.....

...."FIRE!"

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Quite frankly, there are times where it seems like the ending to Series B was was the original ending.

Blake and Avon acknowledge they're friends and trust each other after everything, the Federation may or may not be destroyed, the the Liberator crew have no choice but to work WITH the Federation against an Alien Invasion they may not defeat.....

...."FIRE!"

Series A was the only one I ever watched in full, saw random bits and pieces of the rest when it was on TV but that's about it. Not really a show I want to buy in full

 

[Captaindemotion]

Can't take any credit, it's how the show was originally meant to end

While it may not have become as iconic as the ending we got, it would certainly have aged well, when you consider how, in recent years. we have seen dictatorships overthrown and the countries then fall into anarchy and civil war.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It does make you wonder how the show would have ended had Terry Nation stayed onboard as producer/writer.

According to Vere Lorrimer when he flew out to see Terry before production was due to start on the fourth season, and he and head writer/script editor Chris Boucher had decided to kill everyone in the final episode, Terry wanted a more upbeat ending; leaving the door open for further adventures.

 

[Christopher]

It does make you wonder how the show would have ended had Terry Nation stayed onboard as producer/writer.

I think it would've been mediocre, since Chris Boucher was a much better writer.

According to Vere Lorrimer when he flew out to see Terry before production was due to start on the fourth season, and he and head writer/script editor Chris Boucher had decided to kill everyone in the final episode, Terry wanted a more upbeat ending; leaving the door open for further adventures.

My understanding is that it was intended as a cliffhanger; had there been a fifth series, they would have revealed that at least some of the characters had survived, depending on which actors chose to return. (And Paul Darrow's sequel novels established that at least Avon had survived.)

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I think it would've been mediocre, since Chris Boucher was a much better writer.

Which is interesting, because there is someone doing a rewatch of Terry Nation's "The Survivors" on YouTube, and several people have pointed out in the comments, that, after Terry left at the end of the first series, he wrote a novelization of where he would have taken things, and it pretty much ended with a "kill 'em all" and there's no hope of mankind recovering from the virus; which is kind of what we got with "Blake's 7".

 

[Marc]

According to Vere Lorrimer when he flew out to see Terry before production was due to start on the fourth season, and he and head writer/script editor Chris Boucher had decided to kill everyone in the final episode, Terry wanted a more upbeat ending; leaving the door open for further adventures.

but it's also been the long standing story/claim that if there was a Season 5 it would have been more heist styles stories along the lines of Gold and any of the cast who wanted to continue on would have surived the events of Gauda Prime.

 

[Starkers]

I think it would've been mediocre, since Chris Boucher was a much better writer.




My understanding is that it was intended as a cliffhanger; had there been a fifth series, they would have revealed that at least some of the characters had survived, depending on which actors chose to return. (And Paul Darrow's sequel novels established that at least Avon had survived.)

Which would have been Darrow, Keating and possibly Pearce. I don't believe any one else would have wanted to return.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Servelan, Captain of the Liberator, blowing up aliens, after the fall of the Terran Federation, becoming twice the folk hero Robin Hood, Blake ever was.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Servelan, Captain of the Liberator, blowing up aliens, after the fall of the Terran Federation, becoming twice the folk hero Robin Hood, Blake ever was.

And looking very fashionable while doing it

 

[DarrenTR1970]

That does bring up an interesting question. With both the Liberator and Scorpio destroyed, what would the hero ship have been?
They really can't go back to the 'super fast ship with a teleport' a third time.
They could use a Federation pursuit ship or really have to come up with something different.

 

[Marc]

They really can't go back to the 'super fast ship with a teleport' a third time.

Why not? Still had orac and he would have had all the teleport information and the designs for the star drive

Though maybe the parts for the teleport might have been hard to find (the crystals from the Scorpio version, and wasn't there some special liquid in the Liberator's?)

Which would have been Darrow, Keating and possibly Pearce. I don't believe any one else would have wanted to return.

yes that was my feeling as well but the writers would either need to retconn the events of Orbit or come up with new characters to be between the two of them.

 

[FredH]

(And Paul Darrow's sequel novels established that at least Avon had survived.)

They were, however, nigh-unbelievably awful.

 

[Marc]

They were, however, nigh-unbelievably awful.

that's an understatement.

They read like he'd been given a brief outline and told to go write a book, not from show he'd been in for 4 years.

The Terran Federation spans light years but it's controlled by squabling countries on earth?

You can't rule an interglacitc empire if you can't rule your home planet.

Did no one read his first B7 book before giving him a deal to write another 3?

 

[FredH]

that's an understatement.

They read like he'd been given a brief outline and told to go write a book, not from show he'd been in for 4 years.

The Terran Federation spans light years but it's controlled by squabling countries on earth?

You can't rule an interglacitc empire if you can't rule your home planet.

Did no one read his first B7 book before giving him a deal to write another 3?

I could even buy different parts of the homeworld controlling different parts of the galaxy, if they both had a technological and military standoff with each other — it’s just that there was never any sign of that in the original series. But I can’t buy, say, part of a habitable, Earthlike planet just drifting away from the rest of it for some reason. And though it’s not central to the narrative, its treatment of the remains of his friends is… unpleasant.

(And let us not forget that in his earlier B7 novel from some years before, Avon’s father was named Rogue Avon, because of course he was.)