From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V00 #2 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume00/2 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 2 Today's Topics: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 [B7L] Take A Pew [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Re: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Re: [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Re: [B7L] KBTC starts the New Year right!!!! Re: [B7L] KBTC starts the New Year right!!!! Fw: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Re: [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 [B7L] web site [B7L] calling Hellen the Bulgarian [B7L] cultural icon Re: [B7L] French and Saunders ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 16:37:55 PST From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-ID: <20000103003755.91667.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Thank you, Lisa, I have just gone and had a happy half-hour playing with the figures. First off. ***51,000????*** I'm stunned...let's see, that means on any given day of the year, there were (um, divide this, carry the nought) over 140 pictures of Avon alone being copied...80 of Blake and 41 of Vila. Mmmm, I did wonder why my mouse got so tired some days :-) Orac topped the per-image list? Orac??? For God's sake, don't anyone *tell* the self-important rat in a box... The single shots - interesting that one of *Soolin* came top of the people (after two of Liberator). And I'm a little surprised which was the most popular Avon shot (not that I'm complaining, but with Shadow *and* Warlord in there...) The Avon-Blake picture is my favourite of them on your whole page :-) It's a gorgeous picture (as long as you firmly forget that at that moment they're talking about cactii ) All your work on the pictures is *deeply* appreciated. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 19:10:49 -0600 From: Lisa Williams To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000102185547.00b41a80@mail.dallas.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sally Manton wrote: >First off. ***51,000????*** I'm stunned... Yeah, it's a bit scary, and the rate has been increasing. About half of those were racked up during the last quarter of the year. >let's see, that means on any given day of the year, there were (um, divide >this, carry the nought) over 140 pictures of Avon alone >being copied...80 of Blake and 41 of Vila. And 54 of Servalan. I suppose we can blame Calle for a lot of those. >Orac topped the per-image list? Orac??? For God's sake, >don't anyone *tell* the self-important rat in a box... Subjects with only a few images available, like Orac and Scorpio, tend to be a bit over-represented in the downloads-per-image rankings compared to those which may actually be more popular but have many more images to choose from. (The Liberator seems to be genuinely very popular, though, since it ranked high on both the total downloads and per-image lists, and was in seven of the top 20 images.) Orac only has six images indexed, so it's very easy for someone to get all of them. As opposed to Avon, for instance, where you'd really have to work at it (but obviously a lot of people did.) >The single shots - interesting that one of *Soolin* came top of the people >(after two of Liberator). It's a good picture of her, though, and she's one who doesn't have many images available yet, so a single good shot is likely to earn a high rating. (Of course, the one of her getting killed also made the top 20; I'm not sure what that signifies.) > And I'm a little surprised which was the most popular Avon shot (not > that I'm complaining, but with Shadow *and* Warlord in there...) Yes, I was a bit surprised by that, too. Of course, "Blake" had a head start; it was already in the library at the beginning of the year, while "Shadow" was added in March and "Warlord" in June. >All your work on the pictures is *deeply* appreciated. Thanks. This is probably a good time to mention that I'm working on "Death-Watch" at the moment. - Lisa -- _____________________________________________________________ Lisa Williams: lcw@dallas.net or lwilliams@raytheon.com Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://lcw.simplenet.com/ From Eroica With Love: http://eroica.simplenet.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 01:33:41 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-ID: <056101bf558a$9a78f790$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lisa Williams wrote: > Sally Manton wrote: > > >First off. ***51,000????*** I'm stunned... > > Yeah, it's a bit scary, and the rate has been increasing. About half of > those were racked up during the last quarter of the year. That'll be people designing their Xmas cards, no doubt. Una ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 18:40:58 PST From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-ID: <20000103024058.37146.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Lisa wrote: Now *that* should make the Tarrant Nostra happy :-) I do remember you got us all to vote for what we'd like to see...any hints on what else made the cut? Or is that a Deep Dark secret till unveiling time? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 18:58:10 -0800 From: Pat Patera To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Message-ID: <38701042.D7878244@netzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sally Manton wrote: (and wrote and wrote...) Oh! What a wonderful welcome to find this in my first post after re-subbing to this list. (Yeah, I was off whoring about with a Buffy list, but have mended my ways and returned to 'the path' - erm, found The Way Back.) None of those Buffophiles had any sense of humor. Something B7 fans *must* have to appreciate this doomed, depressing saga. > At the beginning of the first year: > > Blake: ... I will > even make friends with this Avon (can't be *that* hard...) > Cally - I will have companions for my death. > Cally: I will not be Taken Over by Aliens. Avon: ... And I will I will I will end up with this ship > (but not the crew, please God not the crew). ROLF! ... and things just get funnier. > Jenna: I will win the who's-the-gaudiest-dresser contest with > Avon, What a great idea for a Bizarro type story. > and I *will* ensure that my red leather and high heels > are sexier than his. Or a slash story. (for the *other* list, of course) But where are the New Year's resolutions for Servalan? For Travis? How about: Travis: 1st year: "I will kill Blake." Travis: 2nd year: "I will kill Blake or die trying." OK, not funny. Sally, you are far better at this than I. :-( Servie: 1st year: "I will be the next Federation President." I will have Ray. Servie: 2nd year: "I will win the spiked heels 10K cross-country run." I will have Ray and Avon. Servie: 3rd year: "I will not be president of a ruined empire." I will have Ray and Avon and Tarrant. Servie: 4th year: "I will out-do Avon in the Goth costume contest." I will have Ray and Avon and Tarrant and hell, why not? Vila. And Orac? Does Orac make resolutions? Pondering Pat P.S. Sally, what are the other lists you posted to? Avon_one list and rallying call? __________________________________________ NetZero - Defenders of the Free World Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:22:15 -0600 From: Lisa Williams To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000102211517.00b7c9d0@mail.dallas.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sally Manton wrote: >Now *that* should make the Tarrant Nostra happy :-) I thought so. >I do remember you got us all to vote for what we'd like to >see...any hints on what else made the cut? I'll tell you if you promise not to breathe down my neck about getting them done -- the amount of free time I have to work on these things varies, and I know that January is going to be a real bitch of a month at work, so they won't be coming out at record speed. (Got some stuff I'm trying to get done for my other website, too.) However, the five winning episodes, which will be the next ones added to the library and will complete the 13 I'm going to include on my first CD-ROM release (once I get the other shows filled out as well) are: Killer Rumours of Death Sarcophagus Death-Watch Gold I don't know yet what order I'll do them in, though I may do "Rumours" second just to get it out of the way. (It's one of my least favorite episodes, so I'm going to have to brace myself to do captures for it.) - Lisa -- _____________________________________________________________ Lisa Williams: lcw@dallas.net or lwilliams@raytheon.com Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://lcw.simplenet.com/ From Eroica With Love: http://eroica.simplenet.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:26:32 -0600 From: Lisa Williams To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000102212543.00b605e0@mail.dallas.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Una McCormack wrote: >That'll be people designing their Xmas cards, no doubt. Yes, nothing like a picture of Avon to symbolize the season of peace and joy and good will... - Lisa -- _____________________________________________________________ Lisa Williams: lcw@dallas.net or lwilliams@raytheon.com Lisa's Video Frame Capture Library: http://lcw.simplenet.com/ From Eroica With Love: http://eroica.simplenet.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 22:03:08 -0800 From: Susie Wright To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 Message-ID: <38703B9B.3E6BCD84@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Everyone, New Year's Greetings all around.... Good news - Amazon emailed me with notice that "A History & Critical Analysis of Blake's 7..." is finally (it was supposed to come in November) on its way to my sunny doorstep. So... it must be published and out there in the world ready to be purchased by fellow B7 fans everywhere. What a lovely way to start off a new year. :) To the KBTC viewers... enjoy! I only get San Francisco and San Mateo's PBS stations and they never run any of the good stuff. Oddly, our cable doesn't have San Jose or Sacramento's PBS stations which do run the good stuff as evidenced in my TV Guide listings. Grrrrr..... It's an unfair world. "Can you get it?" indeed. Cheers, Susie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 01:29:05 PST From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-ID: <20000103092905.66670.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed After I wrote: Lisa said: I promise (looking innocent with all my might - I took lessons from Avon & Vila at the end of Gambit). Oh joy oh joy oh joy... I shall compose my soul in patience. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 01:31:15 PST From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Take A Pew Message-ID: <20000103093115.96448.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed It's nice to see that among all the frivolities from people like - um, me - *someone* is still thinking deeply and meaningfully and taking it all with proper gravity...or something Gorgeous, Neil. Many thanks ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 01:56:52 PST From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Message-ID: <20000103095652.75971.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Pat P wrote: Thank you (and to everyone on the lists who said they liked it.) Doomed, depressing and often bloody funny in itself, let us not forget...and not just the scripts. I think the lunatic edge first appeared for me with the glorious addition of the Wardrobe Room, an insane idea purely there so that Our Heroes could do what no other SF crew did and dress up to the completely impractical nines to commit mayhem (were Avalon's and Kasabi's groups deliberately made to look like - well, rebels? - to offset our favourite peacocks-with- blasters). One of the things I adore about Blake's 7 *is* its sense of the ridiculous, a thread that runs alongside the doom and gloom and irony. A lot of shows have humour, but a sense of the ridiculous is much rarer, and to be treasured... Avon_one list is a small Avon-lover's list run by Pat Fenech and Christine Lacey; rallying call the list for organising the APA of same name. I'm rather fond of Dark and Dysfunctional *and* Fearless Leader, just in case anyone hasn't noticed. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:31:31 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Message-ID: <062401bf55de$2a39e080$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sally wrote: > I think the > lunatic edge first appeared for me with the glorious addition > of the Wardrobe Room, an insane idea purely there so that > Our Heroes could do what no other SF crew did and dress up > to the completely impractical nines to commit mayhem And what was weirdest about that room was when you got to the back there was a door that opened into Narnia. Una ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:25:03 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 Message-ID: <062201bf55de$2997d420$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Susie Wright wrote: > Good news - Amazon emailed me with notice that "A History & Critical Analysis of > Blake's 7..." is finally (it was supposed to come in November) on its way to my > sunny doorstep. So... it must be published and out there in the world ready to > be purchased by fellow B7 fans everywhere. What a lovely way to start off a new > year. :) Hurrah! And me with a birthday not two weeks away! Una ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:20:34 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Most Popular Images of 1999 Message-ID: <062001bf55de$290223d0$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lisa Williams wrote: > Una McCormack wrote: > > >That'll be people designing their Xmas cards, no doubt. > > Yes, nothing like a picture of Avon to symbolize the season of peace and > joy and good will... My thoughts exactly. Una ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 06:47:11 -0500 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: Re: [B7L] KBTC starts the New Year right!!!! Message-ID: <200001030647_MC2-9323-E6B3@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Una wrote: >Well, when you're done with the 'Moonbase 3' tapes, > I'm sure we can arrange a swap and you can take the > 'Star Cops' away with you... If I get desperate, I can borrow Robert's again. By the way, thanks for taping the new Doomwatch, which I saw yesterday. Judith wrote: >at least you can buy Chris Boucher's 'Star Cops' novel. I already have. Hurry with the sequel proofs, Una! Harriet ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 12:20:51 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] KBTC starts the New Year right!!!! Message-ID: <068f01bf55e5$d0bde1c0$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Harriet wrote: > taping the new Doomwatch, which I saw yesterday. Did you enjoy it? > Judith wrote: > >at least you can buy Chris Boucher's 'Star Cops' novel. > > I already have. Hurry with the sequel proofs, Una! Yessir. Una ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 15:32:15 -0000 From: "Una McCormack" To: "lysator" Subject: Fw: [B7L] New Years' Resolutions...Not? Message-ID: <072701bf55ff$b8a6e4f0$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sandra and I weren't sure if this just came to me or to the list in general, so I'm forwarding it - apologies if it pops up twice. Sandra Kisner wrote: > <<< "Una McCormack" > Sally wrote: > > > the of the Wardrobe Room, ... > > And what was weirdest about that room was when you got to the back there was a > door that opened into Narnia.>>> > > Just imagine poor Mr Tumnus meeting Avon... I imagine that that he and the Beavers would prefer Blake, who would duly start a Narnian Liberation Front. This would leave Avon free to snuggle up to proto-Servie Jadis and her 'Turkish Delight'. Una ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 18:08:07 +0000 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] History & Critical Analysis of B7 Message-ID: In message <38703B9B.3E6BCD84@home.com>, Susie Wright writes >To the KBTC viewers... enjoy! I only get San Francisco and San Mateo's >PBS stations and they never run any of the good stuff. Oddly, our >cable doesn't have San Jose or Sacramento's PBS stations which do run >the good stuff as evidenced in my TV Guide listings. They have the good stuff, but all too often horribly late at night - and other half won't buy a vcr... KTEH was running B7 last year, but after Dr Who - in other words about 1:30 am on Sunday nights. Not practical. -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:35:07 +0000 (GMT) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: [B7L] web site Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hi, Here's some web site statistics. Last year, http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 was visited by 22,000 people (well, all right, some of them probably account for quite a few visits) The most popular areas of the site were Fanzines, Sevencyclopaedia, News and the Gallery (which has a link to Lisa's wonderful picture collection as well as a few of our own). Not quite so popular, but still well-visited were the filks, convention area, Gareth Thomas page, the episode transcripts, essays and a few pictures of Jackie Pearce. Picture accesses over the whole site were at least 180,000 (this is a lower bound as not all pictures get counted on all occasions) The site currently has 1,397 pages, 1,910 images, 109 scripts and 100 other files. The total size is around 37 M. Judith PS. Thanks to Neil and Murray for the Sevencyclopaedia and to Sarah for so much of the zine information. Also thanks to Horizon for many of the news items. PPS. If you'd like to write an article about an aspect of Blake's 7 that interests you, we're always looking for new items for the site. -- 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.nas.com/~lknight ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:23:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: [B7L] calling Hellen the Bulgarian Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Hellen, Can you drop me a line? Sorry, but I don't have your address. 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.nas.com/~lknight ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 21:49:37 -0000 From: "Alison Page" To: "lysator" Subject: [B7L] cultural icon Message-ID: <000701bf5634$887acaa0$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Did anyone else on the list see the Harry Hill Christmas Special? At one point he had a row with the badgers (over the non-appearance of the badger parade) and the price of their continuing co-operation was to give them their own spin-off TV series. This was called 'badgers in space' (or some such name). However - this is where it gets relevant - the theme tune and logo of 'badgers in space' was none other than - yes! - Blakes Seven. I became terrifically over-excited at this point. Twenty years on it is still well enough recognised to be the punch line of a comedy sketch. Good Alison ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 00:40:33 EST From: Bizarro7@aol.com To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] French and Saunders Message-ID: <0.b6ffafd3.25a2e1d1@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 1/3/00 10:20:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, d.day@ukgateway.net writes: << A new Bizarro zine soon? >> Probably not, alas...there are many more Bizarro stories that were actually plotted out to be written, all the way to Gauda Prime and beyond, but we got sidetracked by numerous factors. Yeesh, haven't you people had enough punishment already? Leah Bizarro Highlander: Car toons by Leah Rosenthal -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V00 Issue #2 ************************************