From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V00 #172 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume00/172 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 172 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] Re:Rumours of Death [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] Jello talk Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] Computer controlled combat Re: [B7L] Jello talk [B7L] blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Jello talk Re: [B7L]Sarcophagus (was RoD (was Animals)) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) [B7L] blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] Gauda Prime Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Re: [B7L] Re: Liberator crew size Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Re: [B7L] shields up Re: [B7L] Paul Darrow in "Murder Must Advertise" Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Re: [B7L] crew Re: [B7L] crew Re: Mary Sue-icide (was [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168) Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) [B7L] crew Re: [B7L] crew Re: [B7L] crew Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Re: [B7L] crew [B7L] crew Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) the final moments of dr plaxton Re: [B7L] Re: Travis and Blake (was Travis) Re: [B7L] Statuary (was RoD (was Animals)) Re: [B7L] crew [B7L] FC and B7L: Thanks to Zelda & Jarvik people RE: [B7L] crew ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 08:58:06 +0100 From: "Nyder" To: , "Ellynne G." Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) Message-ID: <000501bfdc72$673d0d20$0bc828c3@stx.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Ellynne G. To: Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 6:03 AM Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Animals (Was Josette Simon) > banished for illegal experiments or did he leave on his own? It would lend a nice sense of balance if he *was* banished, as it raises the question of how is he any better than the Lost whom Cally despised... > manipulation would be more firmly established as an Auron speciality I wrote an article on genetic manipulation and the Auronar once, but I've yet to find any place to publish it in... > _want_ them returned? And does she still love Justin (was that his > name?) or would she be considering settling down with one of the very few > of her own people left, one she certainly does care for, in what seems to > be a safe harbor at last because she realizes it may be the best offer > she's going to get? There is also the question of her loneliness while on the Liberator. As Gan said in "Shadow," it must get a bit rough for her spending all her time with non-telepaths. Could it be that the enforced silence, as it were, of six years with the Liberator crew has finally gotten too much to bear? > And, if she didn't love him in the first place, what should we make of > Justin's demand that Servalan _make_ her love him? Would this be the > moment when we realized how depraved he really is? Hm. This could be an interestingly complex episode. I'm starting to come round a bit, Una... > If the aversion therapy was designed specifically for Aurons (say, this > scenario has Justin as an exiled/defecting Auron scientist. What are the > story implications if _he_ sold this to the Federation [which goes a long > way toward explaining why it wouldn't work on him]?), Or he could, even, be a non-telepathic Auronar. Remember, he's a fair bit older than Cally, and it seems like telepaths are a lot rarer before the genetic manipulation programme really gets going (which, if we assume Zelda and Cally to be among the first, would mean people their age and younger). > Then there's the ending. I'd love to see Cally's reunion with the crew > after this, especially Avon. I'd love to see Avon's reaction *throughout*-- might finally answer the question of whether the two of them *did* have a relationship. Fiona Fiona Moore http://redrival.com/nyder/indexx.html Resist the Host or your Oneness will be Absorbed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:56:44 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Message-ID: <20000622225644.20850.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: mistral@ptinet.net (doing her ill wind impersonation, I think) >and then Sally beat me to all the good stuff in the wardrobe room. >It's not easy to find fuchsia leather catsuits, you know I wonder why? >especially >with matching black-and-fuchsia boots and gloves. Though I think >I'd have personally left off the black-and-silver headdress. You've been hanging out with Pat P again, haven't you? Which one of you held the tape measure for that cabaret costume she wanted to put Avon into? Regards Joanne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:14:38 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Message-ID: <20000622231438.67832.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> >Neil revealed: > I am actually quite partial to a peanut butter/lemon- > >and-lime marmalade sandwich. >Have you tried marmite on chocolate cake? So in how many months' time does the happy event take place? Regards Joanne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:33:16 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Jell-O/ jelly rebellion Message-ID: <20000621103316.P32679@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Tigerm1019@aol.com quotation: > I recommend the cherry flavor. Orange is also pretty good, with > shredded pineapple in it. Tom Lehrer, the famous satirist and songwriter, invented what's known as the "Jell-O shot". He was conscripted into the army during the fifties, and wanted to bring booze to an army christmas party. He knew there'd be a security officer looking at what everybody brought in, so he made up some orange jell-o using vodka instead of water. It's clandestine and you can't really taste the booze for all the high-fructose corn syrup. -- 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:43:58 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <3952B2CE.79F2@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After writing up a synopsis for a *good* revision of Animals, Ellynne said: > > Drat, I do _not_ have time to work on a fanfic right now. We will be coming over with penguins, to make sure you make time for it. You have been warned. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:56:04 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <3952B5A3.460C@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > And you'll admit publically that Ralph Fiennes is > the only reasonable choice to play Avon in the six jillion dollar > big-screen B7 remake? NO, SHE WON'T!!! (He sucked as Steed, I will not watch him suck as Avon) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:49:33 EST From: "Jessica Taylor" To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re:Rumours of Death Message-ID: <20000623014933.69460.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: Helen Krummenacker >To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se >Subject: [B7L] Re:Rumours of Death >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:56:26 -0700 Helen wrote: >Anyhow, for me the thing that I loved absolute best about the episode >was the troopers tending the moniters. They made me think a bit of when >we see the rebels more relaxed moments. Vila-esque, really. That was >such a change from the faceless killer troopers. It's the most human >moment we ever see among the 'enemy'. They use a similar device in a lot of Babylon 5 episodes, about once a season the perspective would change and we'd see events occuring from the other point of view. It's something I love about both shows this ability to show the enemy as being human and not just a drone in the wrong uniform. Jessica " It's like I always say, you can get more with a two-by-four and a kind word than you can with just a kind word" (Babylon 5) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:05:12 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <3952B7C8.5148@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > It's a strange thing, though, how none of the > original crew seemed to be in any hurry to come with us. The sweet darlings > must have wanted to make sure that we all got away. I wondered what > happened afterwards to make them tell us that they didn't want us back. > Maybe they were taken over by Andromedans. > > Jacqueline What about the rest of us? Who came as Deeta Tarrant? Who did Anna Grant? Who tried to do Soolin and got mistaken for a mutoid? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:57:41 EST From: "Jessica Taylor" To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Jello talk Message-ID: <20000623015741.46685.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "J MacQueen" >To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se >Subject: Re: [B7L] Jello talk >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:48:12 EST > > > > >>From: "Ellynne G." >>Ellynne (who has no intention of attending the Olympics and being caught >>in the crossfire, thank you very much). > >Ow, spare a thought for those in Sydney, Ellynne! > >Regards >Joanne You've certainly got my deepest symathies, Joanne. Jessica (Thanking God that she lives in Melbourne) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:59:59 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <20000622185959.B22446@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Helen Krummenacker quotation: > What about the rest of us? Who came as Deeta Tarrant? Who did Anna > Grant? Who tried to do Soolin and got mistaken for a mutoid? I always wondered if Anna Grant was descended from Jo Grant. After all, Jo was an agent of UNIT. -- 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: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:18:51 -0400 From: "Dana Shilling" To: "b7" Subject: Re: [B7L] Computer controlled combat Message-ID: <00d501bfdcb4$04d73560$9ab74e0c@dshilling> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gnog said: >What computer would risk the odds of flying straight at the >obvious trap. One that spent a lot of time hanging around Blake? -(Y) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:54:19 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Jello talk Message-ID: <20000622.205133.-32009.2.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:48:12 EST "J MacQueen" writes: > > > > >From: "Ellynne G." > >Ellynne (who has no intention of attending the Olympics and being > caught > >in the crossfire, thank you very much). > > Ow, spare a thought for those in Sydney, Ellynne! > Well, so long as you _promise_ there's no chance of Blake and Travis showing up for a Jell-O bake-off.... Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:52:47 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Message-ID: <20000622.205133.-32009.1.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:10:25 +0200 Jacqueline Thijsen I wondered what > happened afterwards to make them tell us that they didn't want us > back. > Maybe they were taken over by Andromedans. > Oh, the dear souls just didn't want us to endanger our lives. Really heroic of them. But it's too big a sacrifice. We should really stop by again some time. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:15:23 -0400 From: "Dana Shilling" To: "b7" Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <00d401bfdcb3$fe8eeea0$9ab74e0c@dshilling> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nyder said: >So I guess I don't fall into either camp-- worth > watching every so often, but if I started making up a top-ten list it would > be well below Trial, Gambit, Blake.... mind you, it'd probably be above > Sarcophagus. Backpacks! That's saying a lot too. -(Y) (....who thinks Ultraworld is much, much worse than either Sarcophagus or Animals) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:49:51 +0100 From: "Nyder" To: , "Ika" Subject: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <000001bfdba6$a7f0e660$10c628c3@stx.ox.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: Ika To: Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 9:54 PM Subject: Fwd: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) > And has anyone noticed she has a statue of a nude lady on her desk? No... I'll have to watch it a bit more carefully next time... (Just fyi: I think it's one of the better *stories,* but it's never exactly been one of my *favourites*... at the risk of winding up at the wrong end of a fatwah, I'll say that Avon is not really my favourite character on the show, and so an Avon-centric story like RoD doesn't hold my interest that well. But Servalan is *very* watchable in it.) Fiona Fiona Moore http://redrival.com/nyder/indexx.html Resist the Host or your Oneness will be Absorbed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:06:32 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Jello talk Message-ID: <20000623040632.74643.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Ellynne G." > > Ow, spare a thought for those in Sydney, Ellynne! >Well, so long as you _promise_ there's no chance of Blake and Travis >showing up for a Jell-O bake-off.... We could scare them off by threatening to put zinc on their noses and dressing them up in surf lifesavers' uniforms. Though that would mean Speedos rather than boardshorts... Picture it... Regards Joanne (Jello? More like Tim Tams, hopefully!) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:07:54 EST From: "Jessica Taylor" To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L]Sarcophagus (was RoD (was Animals)) Message-ID: <20000623040754.29616.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Dana Shilling" >To: "b7" >Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:15:23 -0400 Dana asked: >(....who thinks Ultraworld is much, much worse than either >Sarcophagus or Animals) What was wrong with Sarcophagus? I keep wondering if I'm missing something but I really enjoyed that episode. I admit it was a little implausible but it made sense and the scene with Vila doing magic tricks must make up for any other shortcomings (the a/c stuff was cute too). Jessica ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 14:09:52 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <20000623040952.25435.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Nyder" > > well be the first step towards ending the holy Travis war... >Sorry... just picturing Brian Croucher in eyepatch, leathers, wings and >halo... It's the pursuit ship-shaped harp that gets me... Regards Joanne (remembering that he's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy) ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:40:51 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <20000622.223519.-32009.3.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 18:59:59 -0700 Nick Moffitt writes: > begin Helen Krummenacker quotation: > > What about the rest of us? Who came as Deeta Tarrant? Who did Anna > > Grant? Who tried to do Soolin and got mistaken for a mutoid? > > I always wondered if Anna Grant was descended from Jo Grant. > After all, Jo was an agent of UNIT. > Build's about right. Hair color's about right. The Doctor was a time traveler, allowing for Jo's kids to wind up almost anywhere. Or her siblings. Or parents. So, was Jo Anna's younger sister lost in the 20th century? Giving slightly new meaning to the rather obnoxious brainy type she married (Avon, after extensive plastic surgery after just barely surviving GP, winds up in the past. To his own considerable surprise, he finds himself missing having a bunch of eccentric personalities to hang out with and winds up at a 70's commune [albeit one devoted to eccentric geniuses who he probably still talks down to]....) Or was Jo Avon and Anna's daughter? I'm having nightmares. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 21:53:56 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Gauda Prime Message-ID: <20000622.223519.-32009.4.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 22 Jun 2000 12:57:35 -0700 "Bob Vinisky" writes: > > Avon escaped! > [snip] > He went undercover in Argentina, I know this isn't where you were going with it, but I immediately thought of The Boys from Brazil. Suddenly, I saw Avon planting infant clones of Blake all over the planet.... Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:02:08 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Message-ID: <20000622.223519.-32009.5.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:43:04 -0400 Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> writes: > Neil revealed: > > I am actually quite partial to a peanut butter/lemon- > >and-lime marmalade sandwich. > > Have you tried marmite on chocolate cake? > It suddenly hit me that Gan was sercretly a member of Men at Work and the subject of the line in "Land Down Under" about the 6'4'' guy with the vegemite sandwich. I suppose he wrote the song "Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive" about Vila and Avon. "Who Can It Be Now?" the song about the guy who believes all sorts of weird things are out to get him, was about Blake (it's not paranoia if they're really out to get you). Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:50:03 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Liberator crew size Message-ID: <20000622.205133.-32009.0.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:30:52 +0000 Murray writes: > Of course, this begs the question as to why Avon, if he > was such > a genius, didn't adapt the system to cope with a fully human crew. > I think the answers right there in what you wrote. Think about how Avon feels about adapting to cope with anything he'd describe as "fully human." He probably spent a lot of time hoping they'd get tired of jumping up to hit the buttons and go findd themselves another ship. But he may have made some changes he didn't tell them about, explaining why he _didn't_ jump up to hit the button in one episode. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:09:30 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-Id: <4.1.20000622203204.00966930@mail.powersurfr.com> Message-Id: <4.1.20000622203204.00966930@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 05:56 PM 6/22/00 -0700, Helen Krummenacker wrote: >(He sucked as Steed, I will not watch him suck as Avon) Ah, if only this were the other list. But it ain't. -- "How real do you feel, Mrs. Peel?" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:36:14 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-Id: <4.1.20000622231816.00930b70@mail.powersurfr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 08:05 AM 6/22/00 +0100, Neil Faulkner wrote: >I like RoD >for the politics, the script (with its witty one-liners and the way it's a >classic example of Boucheresque plotstrand convergence), the battle scene, >the critique of revenge and obsession. Yeah. Exactly. --Penny (hoping that agreeing with Neil just this once won't undermine my hard-won Frivolous Pervert credentials) ______________________________ "No rules, no naps, no shoes!" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:38:51 EST From: "J MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Message-ID: <20000623053851.76492.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Ellynne G." >It suddenly hit me that Gan was secretly a member of Men at Work and the >subject of the line in "Down Under" about the 6'4'' guy with the >vegemite sandwich. And the line he helped to write, "I met a strange lady, she made me nervous", was about Cally, I take it? Regards Joanne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:01:46 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #170 Message-ID: <20000623130146.A1079@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 06:59:59PM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote: > I always wondered if Anna Grant was descended from Jo Grant. > After all, Jo was an agent of UNIT. Only if Jo kept her name when she married that Professor. -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen / \ | http://www.foobox.net/~kat \_.--.*/ | http://jove.prohosting.com/~rubykat v | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 23:25:54 +0200 From: Steve Kilbane To: lyst@whitecrow.demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [B7L] shields up Message-Id: <200006222225.XAA17386@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Perhaps they don't _really_ need to be told, but human self-preservation > being what it is, the flight crew simply don't 100% trust the automatics to > detect the incoming threat & react accordingly. Well, *that's* not realistic, then. Human trust in machines being what it is, they'd assume it anyway. After all, there's an ep based on the Liberator being uncontrollable once *all* computer control goes off-line. But yes, you're right - Avon wouldn't trust someone else's system. I'd be surprised he didn't rig his own system to do that, if it wouldn't be such a damper on dramatic tension. steve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:04:50 +0200 From: "Marian de Haan" To: "Lysator List" Subject: Re: [B7L] Paul Darrow in "Murder Must Advertise" Message-ID: <008601bfdce9$b4ceb6c0$40ee72c3@marian-de-haan.multiweb.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Patricia Roberts wrote: >For fans of Paul Darrow, this Lord Peter Wimsey series is now available from The Video Collection here in the States. Does anyone know if this series is available in Europe? Marian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:17:53 +0200 From: "Marian de Haan" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <009101bfdceb$8c90fa40$40ee72c3@marian-de-haan.multiweb.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wendy S. Penberriss wrote: >The bit where they're taunting Shrinker I liked for showing up >another difference between Cally and the rest of the >crew-- you'd think, having been tortured herself, >she'd be even less lenient with him than the others. The Cally of S1 would have executed him herself. Cally's moral stance here is one of the things that makes me dislike the episode. Marian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:37:46 +0200 From: "Marian de Haan" To: "Lysator List" Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <009601bfdcee$513f66e0$40ee72c3@marian-de-haan.multiweb.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith asked: >Of all the people whom they met on their travels, who would you most like to have joined the crew? Lurena from Star One. [Yes, you may groan but I like the character :-)] She must be a skilled technician to be of use on Star One and she doesn't scream when she finds those bodies. >I'd nominate Levett from Mission to Destiny - brains and cool and not fazed by Avon. She would be my second choice. My third choice would be Chevner from Project Avalon, purely because of his rugged good looks. :-) >Though Sinofer might have been interesting - a ghost on board would have been different (though I think Sinofer was bound to her native planet). I fear the writers would see her as an even more likely candidate for alien takeovers than Cally. But I'd have love to see Giroc join them, that would have put some explosives into the crew dynamics. Marian ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:58:43 -0700 From: Nick Moffitt To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <20000623015843.B25142@zork.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii begin Marian de Haan quotation: > Lurena from Star One. [Yes, you may groan but I like the character > :-)] She must be a skilled technician to be of use on Star One and > she doesn't scream when she finds those bodies. We just got through watching The Keeper and Star One. Remember that Lurena was conditioned. That's why she didn't scream. She was notable in that she faked out the andromedaans by opening the exit door and then running back inside. -- 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: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:58:51 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Mary Sue-icide (was [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168) Message-ID: <20000623105851.42653.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Mistral wrote: Then ruined them all trying to take off the awful padded petals (sewing is not my forte - then again, we don't see any of Our Heroes whip out the needles and thread. *Would* there be needles and thread on the Liberator anyway? They'd surely need a repair kit or thirty after each mission.) < It's not easy to find fuchsia leather catsuits, you know, especially with matching black-and-fuchsia boots and gloves. Though I think I'd have personally left off the black-and-silver headdress.> But ... but ... it was the only thing that actually fit me ... Gan's and Blake's clothes go *round* me, but are about two feet too long. And I don't care for Gan's macrame vests or Blake's watermelon sleeves (which reach my knees). ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 03:59:50 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) Message-ID: <20000623105950.72490.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Harriet wrote: And that's so *difficult, isn't it, Harriet? Ummm ... yes. Though I think we agree on how wonderful Kasabi is, don't we? I do love Jenna and Soolin, and of the guests love Levett, Rashel, and Giroc, and like Maja (TWB), Sinofar (Duel), Chenie (Gambit), Vena (Headhunter) and Verlis (Assassin - and I've probably forgotten some, sorry). Come on Harriet, there must be *someone* there you like. And while 'like' may not quite be the right word, I think the best villain in the entire series is Alta Morag (the 'banality of evil', indeed. She gives me the creeps, for all the right reasons). Anna *could* be worse. She could have been Piri-ish. I could *never* take Avon Suffering (no matter how Beautifully) for Piri ... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:00:57 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <20000623110057.49496.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Judith asked: Ummm ... must we stick to people Our Heroes actually met long enough to extend the invitation? 'Cause that rules out the absolutely *rivetting* possibilities of Kasabi (Pressure Point), Rashel (Weapon) Deeta Tarrant (Deathwatch) and three-guesses-who-and-the-first-two-don't-count ... Lovett (Mission to Destiny), Gambrill (Killer), Chenie (Gambit) and Nebrox (Assassin) are good possibilities. The computer Gambit from Games has possibilities. And highly implausible but lots of fun to imagine would be any of the following dubiously trustworthy lot ... Bercol and/or Rontane (SLD, Trial), Tynus (Killer - Avon's friend trying to stab Avon's Fearless Leader in the back. Yum), or Klegg (Powerplay). ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:17:50 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <20000623111750.31311.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I forgot Dr Bellfriar!!! How could I forget Dr Bellfriar??? He's got terrific chemistry with Blake, would be fascinating to watch with Avon and Jenna, and great medical unit or not, they could really have used a doctor. The fact that Dr Bellfriar is both gorgeous and likeable, with buckets of charm, a terrific sense of the ridiculous, and as neat a way with words as My Darlings, has absolutely nothing to do with it. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:08:00 -0400 From: "Christine+Steve" To: "B7 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <00cd01bfdd0b$c0d92be0$01149ad8@cgorman> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Judith asked: > to have joined the crew?> > I liked Docholli, from Gambit. He was also on the run from the Federation, looking for a place to hide and the crew only really had Cally doing first aid. I bet they could have used a decent medic from time to time. A likeable guy, experienced with the Federation, probably could have been very useful. Steve Dobson. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:12:45 -0400 From: "Christine+Steve" To: "B7 Mailing List" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V00 #168 Message-ID: <010e01bfdd0c$6948fbc0$01149ad8@cgorman> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jacqueline Thijsen wrote : > But still, I think all would have gone well if Neil hadn't taken it upon > himself to take Blake apart and start telling him, in great detail, exactly > what he was doing wrong and how the revolution could be run far more > efficiently. And Steve, did you really have to ask Cally if you could see > how much hair she had under that dress? Umm.. .it was part of a scientific experiment I was doing on Aliens... honest! Steve Dobson. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 05:19:51 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Peter=20Borg?= To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <20000623121951.12756.qmail@web1603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- Sally Manton wrote: > Judith asked: > most like > to have joined the crew?> > > Ummm ... must we stick to people Our Heroes actually met long > enough to > extend the invitation? How about Travis? Post Trial of course. This may seem way of base, but after being rejected by the Federation for being what they made him, he became even more of a fruit-loop than previously and decided to destroy humanity. Maybe there was a point at which Blake & co could have persuaded him that they were on the same side - destruction of the federation being their ideal - especially in light of their conversation at the close of Gambit. Peter. ===== -- Peter Borg personal@peter-b.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:50:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "rita d'orac" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <382267258.961764651566.JavaMail.root@web431-mc.mail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith asked: I think Carnell would have been a yummy addition to the crew. rita d'orac "No good deed goes unpunished" ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:09:57 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: Re: [B7L] Interesting food (not jelly or Jell-O) Message-ID: <395361A4.B11CF2E8@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ellynne wrote: > It suddenly hit me that Gan was sercretly a member of Men at Work and the > subject of the line in "Land Down Under" about the 6'4'' guy with the > vegemite sandwich. > > I suppose he wrote the song "Dr. Heckle and Mr. Jive" about Vila and > Avon. Ouch. And I was absolutely, positively certain that nothing would ever induce me to play my Men at Work album again. Thanks, Ellynne ;-P Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" --Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 21:01:04 +1000 From: "Roger the Shrubber" To: "blake's seven" Subject: the final moments of dr plaxton Message-Id: <200006231531.BAA26779@vasquez.zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve wrote Oh me too, I think its a pretty good episode . Great final scene with Avon virtually ordering the death of the scientist woman to save the ship. *** I first saw this episode _after_ having read the Trevor Hoyle novelisation and was disappointed with what I saw on the screen. In the book, Mr Hoyle did a good job of describing the Space rats as a bunch of _repulsive_ , smelly toughs, but what I saw on the screen just seemed like a bunch of neatly dressed & neatly made-up Shakespearean actors pretending to be tough. They just didn't feel right, basically not scary & psychotic enough. Another part that was a tad different from the novel was the moments leading up to Plaxton's death, when connecting up the wires. In the novel the only real delay in 45 minutes of work was dropping a tool, apart from that she was working steadily. So in the book she was primarily killed by Avon's decision, in the TV show I recall the doc staring at the pursuit ships, wasting valuable time, thereby giving the viewer a rationalisation not to blame Avon 100% for her death "Well gee, she's sitting staring at the ships when she could be connecting, I guess she's contributing to her own demise ...." It felt a bit like the Nikita series - they always have the target make some kind of threatening move so that Nikita is justified in pulling the trigger, again a rationale for the viewer "Well she HAD to ...", whereas in the movie Bridget just blew them away like a cold-hearted bitch. Darren r A sense of superiority to the sufferer is a component of the human experience of compassion. ----------------------------------------- Life, liberty and the pursuit of property are the fundamental natural rights and the social contract is made to protect these rights. ----------------------------------------- Panic Disorder http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2634/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri Jun 23 16:53:54 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Travis and Blake (was Travis) Message-Id: <200006231558.QAA04051@ns4.uk2net.com> > Ika wrote about the similarities between Blake and Travis: > >(Plus the "ouch" moment - thinking of the end of > > Series 4 - when the old bloke asks where Blake's > >eyepatch is....) Harriet: > There are some interesting similarities between the scene in Star One where > Travis is shot and the scene in Blake where Blake is shot. [snip details] Thanks for this, Harriet. I've been thinking about the Blake/Travis thing lately (saw Star One recently and was really struck by the weirdness of Blake acting Travis... another similarity between the two episodes?) - Someone (sorry, can't remember who) said a while ago that Travis found it difficult to cope with perceiving how alike he and Blake were - I think this works vice versa as well, of course, as Blake is preparing for his own "final act" in Star One. Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Fri Jun 23 16:57:31 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Statuary (was RoD (was Animals)) Message-Id: <200006231602.RAA04132@ns4.uk2net.com> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ika > To: > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 2:34 PM > Subject: Fwd: Re: Re: [B7L] RoD (was Animals) > > > > 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) > Fiona: > Good heavens. Now *I'm* going to start doing the same... though a > Michaelangelo nude struck me as, erm, more of a Krantor and Toise sort of > thing... > > Fiona It certainly made me rethink my opinions of Egrorian and his "golden-haired stripling"... Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Fri Jun 23 17:03:37 BST 2000 From: Ika To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] crew Message-Id: <200006231608.RAA04247@ns4.uk2net.com> Nick: > > This, of course, makes the whole "why doesn't Blake invite > > more people on to his crew?" bit the more ridiculous. Sadly, we all > > know that the budget for the show did not allow for any more regular > > cast members. > Judith: > Well, he did invite one or two people who declined. > > Of all the people whom they met on their travels, who would you most like to > have joined the crew? > > I'd nominate Levett from Mission to Destiny - brains and cool and not fazed by > Avon. > > Though Sinofer might have been interesting - a ghost on board would have been > different (though I think Sinofer was bound to her native planet). > Definitely Levett - I think Jenna would have been pleased to have her around, as well. If Kasabi hadn't died, though, she would have sorted them out and won the revolution in three episodes flat. (Hmmm... does this mean I do or I don't want her on board? Hard to say.) In the end I'm going to have to go for Major Thania (Trial) - the only character they meet who could make the weekly on-board who-has-the-best-boots competition more interesting. Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Fri Jun 23 17:27:49 BST 2000 From: Ika To: freedom-city@blakes-7.org Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] FC and B7L: Thanks to Zelda & Jarvik people Message-Id: <200006231632.RAA04513@ns4.uk2net.com> Thanks a lot to everyone who helped out with pictures/suggestions of Jarvik and Zelda (especially my Lord, Emma) - my handout now looks far cooler than anyone else's and it won't really matter what I say because the audience can always just look at the lovely shiny pictures. Hooray! Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 18:16:55 +-100 From: Louise Rutter To: "'B7 Lysator'" Subject: RE: [B7L] crew Message-ID: <01BFDD3F.5E6022A0@host62-7-1-196.btinternet.com> Ika wrote: >If Kasabi hadn't died, though, she would have sorted them out and won >the revolution in three episodes flat. Have to disagree with that. This was the lady who didn't spot a woman dressed in white standing on top of a hill, after all. And didn't bother to train her soldiers to look around while they crept....but I still love the character. Louise -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V00 Issue #172 **************************************