From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V00 #169 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume00/169 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 00 : Issue 169 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] Model of Avon and possibly Blake Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Re: [B7L] Model of Avon and possibly Blake [B7L] signing in Barking Re: [B7L] shooting question Re: Digest format [was[B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #166] Re: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith [B7L] Request for pictures of Jarvik and Zelda Fwd: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith Fwd: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Fwd: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] shooting question Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Re: [B7L] shooting question Re: [B7L] Jelly Rebellion Re: [B7L] Travis Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Re: [B7L] Request for pictures of Jarvik and Zelda [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) [B7L] Re: Animals [B7L] Animals Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) [B7L] Re: Model of Avon and possibly Blake Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Fwd: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:15:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Wendy S. Penberriss" To: Mat Shayde , smanton@hotmail.com, Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Model of Avon and possibly Blake Message-ID: <20000620181542.2865.qmail@web5205.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Mat Shayde wrote: > Sorry to be a complete nuisance (no change there!) > but could you re-post the > link so I could look at the Avon model? I > unfortunately (and accidently) > deleted the message before I had the chance to > follow it. An Avon model?!? You've got my full attention. Wendy (hormonally yours) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:17:25 -0700 (PDT) From: "Wendy S. Penberriss" To: Jurgen van de Sanden , blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: <20000620181725.25814.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I dunno-- there are other episodes which show Dayna as more than just a killer (watch Ultraworld: she shows a wicked sense of humour), and, though it was nice to see her in love for a change, it did kind of surprise me to see her going all moral over animal experiments -- not what I expected from her, not because she's a killer but because it doesn't strike me as the sort of thing she thinks much about. I heard somewhere that the episode was originally written for Cally, not Dayna. Any thoughts on how it might have been different if it had been played that way? Wendy __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 07:52:22 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] Model of Avon and possibly Blake Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Mon 19 Jun, Mat Shayde wrote: > Sorry to be a complete nuisance (no change there!) but could you re-post the > link so I could look at the Avon model? I unfortunately (and accidently) > deleted the message before I had the chance to follow it. It's linked from the top page of http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 JUdith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:36:00 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: [B7L] signing in Barking Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Gareth says that the signing session at Tenth Planet (very close to Barking tube station) on 1st July is now 1pm to 4pm rather than 12pm - 3pm, as that allows him to get there and back in one day. (He lives in Scotland.) Does anyone fancy meeting up for a while either before/during/after the session? (Not with Gareth, I don't think he'll have the time free if he's doing that much travelling.) |Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:51:14 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] shooting question Message-ID: <20000620115114.Q32679@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Christine+Steve quotation: > Yep, its a very strange design to have the force wall controls down > in the pit. Maybe the designers of the ship thought the crew would > always use Zen to activate them rather than pressing the button > themselves. Well, in Duel, Avon was able to activate it and deactivate it several times from his command chair. -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur arguments and ad-hominem personal attacks LinuxCabal.Org - Co-location facilities and meeting space Pigdog.Org - The Online Handbook for Bad People of the Future You are not entitled to your opinions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 11:56:28 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: Re: Digest format [was[B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #166] Message-ID: <20000620115628.R32679@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Calle Dybedahl quotation: > Just to make sure, I compared one digest from back then and one from > now, and they *are* built the same. So it pretty much has to be a > mailreader issue. There seems to be a lot of that going around lately. -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur arguments and ad-hominem personal attacks LinuxCabal.Org - Co-location facilities and meeting space Pigdog.Org - The Online Handbook for Bad People of the Future You are not entitled to your opinions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 12:00:15 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith Message-ID: <20000620120015.S32679@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Ellynne G. quotation: > > "No-one can break into my computer." > > Hey, I had a computer like that. Too obsolete to be compatible with > anything. Instead of a password, you had to know exactly how to > toggle the switch, wack it on the side, and push in the cord to get > it turn on. 100% security. >cough< Security through obscurity is no security at all. Now, if the cord were snipped, now THAT would be 100%! -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur arguments and ad-hominem personal attacks LinuxCabal.Org - Co-location facilities and meeting space Pigdog.Org - The Online Handbook for Bad People of the Future You are not entitled to your opinions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jun 20 20:41:29 BST 2000 From: Ika To: freedom-city@blakes-7.org Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Request for pictures of Jarvik and Zelda Message-Id: <200006201947.UAA29428@ns4.uk2net.com> I've left everything till the last minute, as usual... I have to hand in a paper on Blake's 7 in the next few days (what do you mean, this isn't a proper course?) and I wanted pics of all the characters I referred to, but I can't find any clickable pictures of Jarvik and Zelda anywhere on the Web/Net (still don't know the difference). (I know Zelda just looks like Cally in a hood, but I want to prove this to any non-fans!) If anyone knows where I can find one, or has a jpeg of either or both characters, I'd be very grateful if you could mail it to me. Thanks very much! Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jun 20 20:47:19 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fwd: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith Message-Id: <200006201952.UAA29689@ns4.uk2net.com> Dana: > I spend much of today having my computer repaired--the on/off switch broke > off, which is one thing it HADN'T occurred to me to worry about! Watching > Redemption last night, I certainly identified when Jenna called Blake over > to her console when the controls stopped responding, and she snapped "I've > DONE all that already!" when Blake tried to fix it. > > Throughout the series, there are innumerable takeovers of computer systems > and ordinary malfunctions--but everyone seems to place absolute faith in the > blasted things nevertheless--especially the teleport bracelets, which seem > to malfunction as often as they actually work properly (in addition to being > very vulnerable to removal by bad guys). Yeah (why they didn't wear them round ankles or somewhere is beyond me.) OTOH -is it unquestioning faith or is it just inevitable? In the old days people worried about whether the sun was going to rise, and spent lots of time doing rituals to make sure the cycle of seasons didn't malfunction, and after one bad harvest they didn't say "Oh, sod it, we'll just get a takeaway" - and I'm guessing you didn't give up on your computer when the switch broke and buy a typewriter-and-abacus set (snazzy deskwear this season). It's a kind of provisional absolute faith, because if you're going to be able to cope the computers/teleport bracelets had *better* work, even though you know perfectly well they might not. I've confused myself now, I'm going. Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jun 20 20:54:34 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fwd: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <200006202000.VAA29923@ns4.uk2net.com> Margaret wrote: > Marian wrote: > > > >Lisa Williams wrote: > >(I'm having a hard enough time gritting my teeth and doing captures for > >"Rumours", which is one of my least favorite episodes but which was a clear > >front-runner in the votes so I'm going to do it and get it over with.) > > > >So I'm not the only one who dislikes that episode? [Although I do like the > >opening scene - I love to see My Hero suffer a bit :-) ] > > > > If it wasn't for Tarrant's performance, nothing could convince me to > watch Rumours again. He's so entertaining. :) Although, I will grant > that Servalan is interesting here too. > > To me, Avon always felt... *wrong* in Rumours. Too many things didn't > seem to add up. > > Margaret. I have to have my twopennyworth here: Rumours of Death was the episode that in the course of fifty minutes, bare months ago, converted me from a long-term scoffer and mocker at my two best mates into a raving, slavering, unable-to- communicate-with-non-fans, fan. I love it. (And not a day passes in my household without one of us saying to the other: "Have you [x]'d your way to the wall of an underground room?" - in my case, usually 'played Tomb Raider your way to the wall...') Worth it for "It's an old wall, Avon, it waits" alone. And Servalan's frock. And has anyone noticed she has a statue of a nude lady on her desk? Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Tue Jun 20 20:54:50 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fwd: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <200006202000.VAA29931@ns4.uk2net.com> Margaret wrote: > Marian wrote: > > > >Lisa Williams wrote: > >(I'm having a hard enough time gritting my teeth and doing captures for > >"Rumours", which is one of my least favorite episodes but which was a clear > >front-runner in the votes so I'm going to do it and get it over with.) > > > >So I'm not the only one who dislikes that episode? [Although I do like the > >opening scene - I love to see My Hero suffer a bit :-) ] > > > > If it wasn't for Tarrant's performance, nothing could convince me to > watch Rumours again. He's so entertaining. :) Although, I will grant > that Servalan is interesting here too. > > To me, Avon always felt... *wrong* in Rumours. Too many things didn't > seem to add up. > > Margaret. I have to have my twopennyworth here: Rumours of Death was the episode that in the course of fifty minutes, bare months ago, converted me from a long-term scoffer and mocker at my two best mates into a raving, slavering, unable-to- communicate-with-non-fans, fan. I love it. (And not a day passes in my household without one of us saying to the other: "Have you [x]'d your way to the wall of an underground room?" - in my case, usually 'played Tomb Raider your way to the wall...') Worth it for "It's an old wall, Avon, it waits" alone. And Servalan's frock. And has anyone noticed she has a statue of a nude lady on her desk? Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:00:49 -0400 From: "Christine+Steve" To: "B7 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [B7L] shooting question Message-ID: <001e01bfdaf2$50129880$fe139ad8@cgorman> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nick added about the force wall : >Well, in Duel, Avon was able to activate it and deactivate it >several times from his command chair. It was probably dependent on the director of that particular episode. If they wanted it to look more dramatic, someone had to dart across the set to the pit. Without being able to view my UK tapes here in Canada, I can't tell which directors preferred which approach. Steve Dobson. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:54:59 +0200 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Message-ID: In message <56AE25C909CED311BEA70000D11AD11E36BE31@l3c-xchg- cse.mail.cse.l-3com.com>, Roberts, Patricia @ CSE writes >Jell-O is a form of dessert, a gelatin favored confection, comes in many >flavors, cherry, orange, lime, grape. You can mold the Jell-O (its made >with a dry mix and plain old water). It's not jelly. > The key phrase there was "For those of us who don't speak American English":-) That which you have described is indeed jelly, as far as the rest of us are concerned. Some of us can also obtain it in concentrate blocks, which are quite interesting to eat without going to the bother of mixing with hot water. -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:10:40 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: B7 Mailing List Subject: Re: [B7L] shooting question Message-ID: <20000620141040.Y32679@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Christine+Steve quotation: > It was probably dependent on the director of that particular > episode. If they wanted it to look more dramatic, someone had to > dart across the set to the pit. Without being able to view my UK > tapes here in Canada, I can't tell which directors preferred which > approach. True. In early episodes, whoever was in the uppermost chair behind the flight console was able to handle communication stuff. In one episode, avon had to dart to the pit to turn on the communication again. Perhaps they just constantly reconfigured the flight deck. -- CrackMonkey.Org - Non-sequitur arguments and ad-hominem personal attacks LinuxCabal.Org - Co-location facilities and meeting space Pigdog.Org - The Online Handbook for Bad People of the Future You are not entitled to your opinions. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:19:07 +0100 From: "Nyder" To: "Susan Moore" , Subject: Re: [B7L] Jelly Rebellion Message-ID: <000101bfdafe$0acb30a0$4ec828c3@stx.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Moore To: Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [B7L] Jelly Rebellion > Mistral wrote: > > Blake: I'll stick to the jam tart, thanks. Sorry, Avon, but that was a > > terrible aspic. > > And how long have you been planning this pun? Excellent work!! > I once referred to the Doctor Who story "Genesis of the Daleks" as "Ravon: A Terrible Prospect," but nobody got it. Fiona Fiona Moore http://redrival.com/nyder/indexx.html Resist the Host or your Oneness will be Absorbed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:33:51 +0100 From: "Nyder" To: , "Penny Dreadful" Subject: Re: [B7L] Travis Message-ID: <000001bfdafe$0a1bb6c0$4ec828c3@stx.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Penny Dreadful To: Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 4:30 AM Subject: Re: [B7L] Travis > >Happy? > > I feel all tingly. Ahhh, if only everyone were as easy to satisfy... Fiona Fiona Moore http://redrival.com/nyder/indexx.html Resist the Host or your Oneness will be Absorbed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:20:59 +0100 From: "Nyder" To: "Neil Faulkner" , "b7" Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Message-ID: <000201bfdafe$0b83d240$4ec828c3@stx.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Neil Faulkner To: b7 Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) > I am actually quite partial to a peanut butter/lemon-and-lime marmalade > sandwich. Ick. Fiona Fiona Moore http://redrival.com/nyder/indexx.html Resist the Host or your Oneness will be Absorbed ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:29:12 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: freedom-city@blakes-7.org Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Request for pictures of Jarvik and Zelda Message-ID: <20000620212912.75872.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed You can find one of Jarvik (looking immaculately smug and macho) in the Sevencyclopedia at http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7/SevenCyc/J.html There wasn't one of Zelda on the Z page yet, though there might be *somewhere* in the whole work, I'm still working my way through them. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:38:02 -0500 From: "Gerald Rocan" To: Subject: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Message-ID: <00c301bfdaff$cf9000e0$30826c18@winsun1.mb.wave.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Isobel said: >Thanks very much Lisa and Judith, thats just what I was after! (I don't think jello/y would be very good to make one out of though.. too wibbly!)< You might try reducing the water by at least half. When my kids were little, I tried the recipe on the Jell-O box for 'Jell-O Jigglers'. The result was a much firmer gelatin that could be cut into shapes with cookie cutters. With a little effort, you might be able to come up with a moondisc shape. As for Mistral's Jelly Rebellion, I think that was a hoot! Very creative and caused a few giggles over here in Canada! -Sue ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:08:14 +0100 From: "Isobel Gordon" To: Subject: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <001701bfdb00$fab96440$03ef07c3@gillyworld> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:54 PM, Ika wrote: > Worth it for "It's an old wall, Avon, it waits" alone. > > And Servalan's frock. I definitely agree, and the whole chained up thing. > And has anyone noticed she has a statue of a nude lady on her desk? Not noticed that, what like, an arty classical-esque nude? :-) Izzy ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:52:00 EST From: "Jessica Taylor" To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Message-ID: <20000620215201.13251.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Neil Faulkner" >To: "b7" >Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) >Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:50:40 +0100 > >Una wrote: > > So a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is actually marginally less >revolting > > sounding than you might think. Then Neil responded: >I am actually quite partial to a peanut butter/lemon-and-lime marmalade >sandwich. Peanut butter and Crab-apple jelly is nice too. Jessica ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:27:19 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]Jell-O (was: Moondiscs) Message-Id: <4.1.20000620161934.009a0970@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:52 AM 6/21/00 -0500, Jessica Taylor wrote: >Then Neil responded: >>I am actually quite partial to a peanut butter/lemon-and-lime marmalade >>sandwich. > >Peanut butter and Crab-apple jelly is nice too. The only important factor in whether or not a peanut butter and anything sandwich is disgusting is whether it's real peanut butter or that vile sweet whipped homogenized stuff. Skippy and its ilk. ObB7: Mmm, peanut butter and Shadow sandwiches! They're dreamy! -- For A Dread Time, Call Penny: http://members.tripod.com/~Penny_Dreadful/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:50:32 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Animals Message-ID: <394FF533.8DDAEEE8@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Iain wrote: >On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, Una McCormack wrote: > >> Lisa Williams wrote: >> >> > For the record, "Animals" did get *two* votes last time. >> >> What?!? That absolutely beggars belief! >> > >Come on, Rogerson, own up. Not guilty, I think. I don't remember voting at all, but I probably would vote for Animals if I did. Remind me next time it comes up and I'll vote. As I've said before, I love Animals because of David Boyce's excellent character acting. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson Redemption: The Blake's 7 and Babylon 5 convention 23-25 February 2001, Ashford, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:01:27 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Animals Message-Id: <4.1.20000620170037.0092e9c0@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I gotta say I thought it was better than "Stardrive". ______________________________ "No rules, no naps, no shoes!" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:32:12 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: <20000621023212.29406.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Wendy wrote: Slightly more coherent, for a start? And Penny wrote: *Everything* was better than Stardrive, include the lost episodes ... "Attack of the Killer Discounts" in which the Liberator crew found out that the crystals the ship ran on could *actually* be bought for three credits each at Cheap-n-Cheerful outlets all over the galaxy, and - well - went and bought some; "A Clean Ship is a Angsty Ship" where the ex-Liberator crew have to learn to deal with a non-self-cleaning environment, and Avon is desperately torn between two brands of studs cleaner; "Not-Quite-DeathtrapWorld" in which Blake's crew go to a three-day rebel meet on a nice, neutral, quite civilised planet, and take in some shopping, sight-seeing and a whole lot of paperwork for The Cause; "Plague" in which our Brave and Long-Suffering Heroes all catch Cassiona-turkey flu and come out in itchy blotches, Avon loses his voice for four days (this was a very *quiet* episode), and Orac has to play nurse to the whole lot of them; "Softly, Please Softly" in which Dayna, having become bored with the lyre, takes up the tuba instead; and "Pressure Points" where Our Heroines, having dealt fearlessly with phibians, monster spiders, Goths, Visigoths, Andromedans, headless (and two-headed) androids, warg-stranglers *and* strangled (and very annoyed) wargs, then break the heels of their stilettos and simultaneously go to pieces (I was especially moved by the scene where Gan gallantly offers Jenna and Cally his boots - they can each fit both feet in one.) PS - I don't much care for Stardrive, can you tell? ;-) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:34:57 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <20000621023457.55104.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed After Marian wrote: Lisa answered: There's stuff about it I like (the Beautiful Suffering and angst and the way he looks so good while suffering and angsting; Greenlee and Forres; Shrinker works a treat for me and the scene where they're all taunting him, nasty but very real) but all in all it doesn't work as well for me as I would like. I am sincerely unimpressed by the Love of Avon's Life once we meet her, so find myself more inclined to thump him for being so silly than empathise in his Great Romance. Mind you, one has to give Paul Darrow points for *carrying* the Great Romance story all on his lonesome, when [a] the two of them have all of five minutes screen-time together, and [b] they have - purely IMHO - no chemistry at all when they do meet. The crew interaction is all right, but hardly top-class considering what they have to work with (and I actively hate the bit where they're being so patronising towards My Darling.) Servalan is more interesting as prisoner than she ever was as President. I do wish that, in 4th season, they'd actually made her more desperate and scrambling and hopeless, trying to claw back her power and failing disastrously, rather than being given a McGuffin to facilitate her slow, steady (and sometimes rather smug) rise. Servalan as has-been-and-will-never-be-again had much more possibilities ... JMHO. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:13:07 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: <20000621031307.79658.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Sally Manton" >"Pressure Points" where Our Heroines, having dealt fearlessly with >phibians, monster spiders, Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths and Vandals too, I presume? Regards Joanne (prepared to prod Sally if this piece of history looks like coming to a .) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:26:52 EDT From: JEB31538@cs.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Model of Avon and possibly Blake Message-ID: <31.6b72948.26819e0c@cs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: "Mat Shayde" > Sorry to be a complete nuisance (no change there!) but could you re-post the > > link so I could look at the Avon model? I unfortunately (and accidently) > deleted the message before I had the chance to follow it. http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Go to Judith Proctor's site and scroll down. You'll find the Avon model mention eventually. As of now, the Avon model is a reality and can be bought. The Blake model in being done now, but isn't ready to be ordered. If you are interested in Blake and/or if you have a third model that you would like to see come out, PLEASE INFORM Judith Proctor whom you are interested in and she will relay the information to the proper source. It's very important that everyone who is interested in the models speaks up now and lets the model maker know the extent of the interest. Judith will relay the data. Joyce ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:09:33 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <4.1.20000620224842.00947ad0@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:34 PM 6/20/00 -0700, Sally Manton wrote: >After Marian wrote: > >Lisa answered: > When the Other List (the list of evil and chaos) was reviewing "Rumours of Death" (hereafter known as RoD) I was astounded at the amount of negativity and/or ambivalence expressed toward it, given that: (a) it's a vehicle for Avon (b) I am part of the miniscule and oppressed minority who are not Mad for Avon (c) RoD is (up until that point I would have said "nevertheless") one of my favourite episodes. Now I wonder -- is RoD more popular among those who are *not* Mad for Avon than among those who are? Is it only popular among sappy sentimental souls like me (er, no offense Ika)? Una? U-u-una... --Penny (Insert Humorous Emoticons As Necessary) -- "It's still me, Mulder." ------------------------------ Date: 21 Jun 2000 07:37:16 +0200 From: Calle Dybedahl To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <86u2en61df.fsf@tezcatlipoca.algonet.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Penny" == Penny Dreadful writes: > Now I wonder -- is RoD more popular among those who are *not* Mad for Avon > than among those who are? Is it only popular among sappy sentimental souls > like me (er, no offense Ika)? Una? U-u-una... Well, I like it and I'm nowhere close to being an Avon-fanatic. I mean, it's got a bondage-scene with Servalan. How can you possibly go wrong with that? :-) -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se "Our five main weapons are Invincible Ignorance, Not Invented Here, FUD, derision, wild-eyed ranting, ad hominem attacks, straw men, and, and...oh bugger." -- Joe Bednorz, A.S.R ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:54:22 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <20000621055422.90729.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Perplexed Penny asked: Oh, I'm sentimental enough (but possibly not *romantically* inclined enough) - just watch me watching Zen's death or the end of 'Blake'. And while I don't think *anyone* here would dispute my credentials as Mad for and about Avon, but I know there are other Avon-lovers who simply *adore* this one. Could one factor be what reaction we have to Anna/Sula? I mean, if you think she's wonderful (as you are fully entitled to do), then yes, it's a full-blown romantic tragedy. If OTOH you are Sally, and (in a blatant display of unmitigated not-taking-to-someone) think she has the soul of a loathsome spotted toad and a voice like fingernails on a blackboard, you are more inclined to wonder what the hell got into the Beloved Idiot to waste all that time and effort and emotion on her. Which does sort of put a crimp in the romance and the sentiment. Now had it been someone like Levett (MoD)... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:02:48 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] Unquestioning Faith Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue 20 Jun, Ellynne G. wrote: > > "It must be right: the computer says so." > > Yes, reminds me of the story of some scientists who did an experiment > giving kids faulty calculators and telling them to do a problem both with > and without the calculator, then pick the answer they thought was right. > The faulty calculator's was usually chosen even when the kids had figured > the correct answer by themselves. This may partially relate to conformity as well as to lack of confidence in their own math ability. People tend to do what other people do and it may apply to machines as well. I'd be interested to see what result the experiment got if another pupil was consulted instead of the calculator. I'd give moderate odds that they'd agree with the other child whether right or wrong. (not all the time, but a good chunk of it, and if two other children both claimed the same wrong answer then the odds of conformity become higher.) Judith (who hasn't yet had time to forget all the stuff she crammed for her psychology exam last week.) -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 20:04:56 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Tue 20 Jun, Wendy S. Penberriss wrote: > I dunno-- there are other episodes which show Dayna as > more than just a killer (watch Ultraworld: she shows a > wicked sense of humour), and, though it was nice to > see her in love for a change, it did kind of surprise > me to see her going all moral over animal experiments > -- not what I expected from her, not because she's a > killer but because it doesn't strike me as the sort of > thing she thinks much about. > > I heard somewhere that the episode was originally > written for Cally, not Dayna. Any thoughts on how it > might have been different if it had been played that > way? I think Cally's telepathy would have made more sense in the scene where Dayna goes out to see if she can gain Og's trust. After all, she has just shot at the animals! Telepathy would have been contact in a way that Og would find easy to understand. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 16:48:29 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <20000621064829.69890.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Sally Manton" >If OTOH you are Sally, and (in a blatant >display of unmitigated not-taking-to-someone) think she has the soul of a >loathsome spotted toad Say what you really feel, Sally! >and a voice like fingernails on a blackboard, Actually, the actress tends to "trill" like a canary, or so it seems to me... >Now had it been someone like Levett (MoD)... Yes, I can see that, but not for very long. More likely than Soolin, however... Regards Joanne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:43:42 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <4.1.20000621014148.00945f10@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:37 AM 6/21/00 +0200, Calle Dybedahl wrote: >it's got a bondage-scene with Servalan. How can you possibly go >wrong with that? :-) The man's got a point. -- "It's still me, Mulder." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 02:03:07 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <4.1.20000621014410.009637b0@mail.powersurfr.com> Message-Id: <4.1.20000621014410.009637b0@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:54 PM 6/20/00 -0700, Sally Manton wrote: >Could one factor be what reaction we have to Anna/Sula? I am totally neutral on the character/portrayal of Anna, I swear. Mind you I figure if Avon chose to throw his life away for her, *he* must have seen something in her. Still...shrug. I find it impossible to articulate what it *is* about said episode I find so utterly enthralling. -- For A Dread Time, Call Penny: http://members.tripod.com/~Penny_Dreadful/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 100 09:58:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jeroen J. Kwast" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Message-Id: <200006210758.e5L7wd432526@pampus.gns.getronics.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, Anyone know how to make some Jelly/O here in Holland? (Ingredients) I never tasted it /made it or saw someone else eat it except on TV! Jeroen ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:24:18 CEST From: "Jurgen van de Sanden" To: penberriss@yahoo.com, blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: <20000621082419.89343.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Wendy, You're right that there are other episodes which show Dayna as more than just a killer. An interesting line in 'Animals' was "They were never toys. Even less so no". It seemed that Dayna, after all she had been through as a member of the Liberator/Scorpio crew, had come to realise that you don't just kill for the fun of it. In other words, she had become more mature. Yes, it was surprising that Dayna went all moral about the genetic experiments, although other episodes show that she does have morals. It's interesting that Dayna seems to be the one who objects most to Avon's indirect killing of Dr Plaxton. Perhaps Dayna objected so much to Justin's work, because she thought Justin was some kind of hero who couldn't do anything wrong? She soon found out that he too had his faults and is obviously very irritated by this discovery. Isn't it like that when you are in love? You create an ideal image of your loved one and don't want to see the bad points. Then there's also the possibility that Dayna was influenced by Cally's moralising. Still, it's most likely that the rather strange charactisation is the result of the fact that the episode was originally written for Cally. But once again I have to say that Josette is excellent as Dayna. She really manages to make the episode believable to me. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:07:50 +0100 (BST) From: Iain Coleman To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Penny Dreadful wrote: > > Now I wonder -- is RoD more popular among those who are *not* Mad for Avon > than among those who are? Is it only popular among sappy sentimental souls > like me (er, no offense Ika)? Una? U-u-una... Well, I like it, and I'm not Mad for Avon. Nor am I often described as sentimental. Iain ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:28:44 +0200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000621111715.00a80440@pop3.wish.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 09:58 21-6-00, Jeroen J. Kwast wrote: >Anyone know how to make some Jelly/O here in Holland? (Ingredients) I >never tasted it /made it or saw someone else eat it except on TV! I've seen it being sold in some supermarkets under that very name. It's a small rectangular package, and can be found among the instant pudding powders. Try some of the really big supermarkets, they're more likely to have it in stock than the small corner stores. I wouldn't recommend it for the taste, though. It's pretty much what you'd get if you mixed lemonade or fruit juice with gelatine. Jacqueline ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 100 14:15:48 +0200 (CEST) From: "Jeroen J. Kwast" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Message-Id: <200006211215.e5LCFpg30620@pampus.gns.getronics.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, > > I've seen it being sold in some supermarkets under that very name. It's a > small rectangular package, and can be found among the instant pudding > powders. Try some of the really big supermarkets, they're more likely to > have it in stock than the small corner stores. I wouldn't recommend it for > the taste, though. It's pretty much what you'd get if you mixed lemonade or > fruit juice with gelatine. > > Jacqueline > Thanx, I'll look for it tonight. I'm sure the flavor is ok. I always wanted to wobble the plate with some yello on it! :) If nothing else I could make some moondisks ! ;) Jeroen ------------------------------ Date: Wed Jun 21 13:34:34 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Fwd: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <200006211239.NAA04939@ns4.uk2net.com> > To: > From: "Isobel Gordon" > Subject: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:08:14 +0100 > On Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:54 PM, Ika wrote: > > > Worth it for "It's an old wall, Avon, it waits" alone. > > > > And Servalan's frock. > > I definitely agree, and the whole chained up thing. Oh yes. And the *intensity* of the acting in the Avon/Servalan scene... feel those egos crackle. > > > And has anyone noticed she has a statue of a nude lady on her desk? > > Not noticed that, what like, > an arty classical-esque nude? :-) > > Izzy Yes - an arty one. She may actually have some kind of drapery on, but I haven't looked too closely because I like her better if she's a nude. (Implications: well, Egrorian and Pindar have a nude statue of a boy - I think it's a replica of Michaelangelo's David - in their cupboard. So far these are the only two nude statues I have noticed in Blake's 7, but since I saw the David replica I've been keeping an eye out for them) Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V00 Issue #169 **************************************