From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #151 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/151 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 98 : Issue 151 Today's Topics: [B7L] UK Gold June Re: [B7L]Lost In Space [B7L] Bujold Avatars RE: [B7L]Lost In Space Re: [B7L] Overheard on rec.arts.drwho Re: [B7L] Voice's was Re: alternative to typing. [B7L] Re: Gunfighter Spice [B7L] Holy ponytails, Batman! [B7L] The Rise & Fall of Roj Blake and the Spiders from Gauda Prime RE: [B7L]Lost In Space ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 23:21:48 EDT From: ShelaB7@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] UK Gold June Message-ID: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >> Julie Horner wrote: I wasn't a fan at that point but I had heard of the series through my husband. << COOL!!! A fellow fan who who followed her husband into the fandom!!! I thought *I* was the only one. My husband and several of his co-workers (mostly women, hmmm) have been fans of B7 for over a year now. A few months ago I decided to see what all the excitement was about so watched a few episodes with them. My life hasn't been the same since. Shela ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:08:38 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L]Lost In Space Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed 27 May, Julie Horner wrote: > Does anybody know for sure which day the B7 Lost in Space > will be going out? I believe it will be the last in the series. Thus 12 June is the most likely date. I make the probable order to be Star Trek this week, X-files next week, then Blake's 7. > > I am on my hols for the first two weeks in June so if it > is on during that time I will need to set the video, but > as I am already setting it to record the UK Gold B7 on > Sunday mornings I am worried my tape will run out of space. It only lasts 15 min, so you're probably okay. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 20:13:24 +1000 From: Tim Richards & Narrelle Harris To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Bujold Avatars Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980528201324.007bed40@wire.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I've been meaning to post to the list for a little while about this. I met Lois McMaster Bujold at the end of April at a convention in Perth and asked her about B7 avatars in her Vorkosigan books. Actually, when I approached her I said: "There's been some discussion on a mailing list about B7 avatars in your work... is there any truth to it?" And she gave me a secret little Mona-Lisa-smile and admitted the following: Ivan Vorpatril is not now nor has he ever been any relation to Tarrant. On the other hand, Duv Galeni was certainly inspired in part by Paul Darrow. She told me that Duv is very much his own person now, but if it was ever a film, Darrow would play the part. There is also a woman leader of some mercenaries who is short and has short cropped black hair who was inspired by Blake's 7... she's the one who's name and book I can't recall. Darn. Now I'll have to read all the books again! :-) Narrelle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tim Richards and Narrelle Harris parallax@wire.net.au http://www.wire.net.au/~parallax "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 13:07:42 +-200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen To: Lysator List Subject: RE: [B7L]Lost In Space Message-Id: <01BD8A39.9CE898A0@cmg71700449> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Judith Proctor [SMTP:Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 1998 11:09 PM To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L]Lost In Space On Wed 27 May, Julie Horner wrote: > Does anybody know for sure which day the B7 Lost in Space > will be going out? I believe it will be the last in the series. Thus 12 June is the most likely date. I make the probable order to be Star Trek this week, X-files next week, then Blake's 7. [Jacqueline Thijsen] Star Trek was last week, so there must be something else this week or B7 will be earlier ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:46:14 +0930 From: "Ophelia" To: "Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Overheard on rec.arts.drwho Message-ID: <01bd8982$63504280$LocalHost@waltersmith> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Dating = The overthrow of the repressive Federation > Sex = Sabotage of an installation resembling a gas works Oh, goddess. Someone's been spying on my love life again. I must fix those vertical blinds. XXX Lindley ---- Mistress Ophelia Frump. opheliaf@geocities.com "I should hate to be eaten by something stupid." The Knockwurst 'Allo 'Allo Pages: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2511/allo.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:40:07 +0930 From: "Ophelia" To: "B7 Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Voice's was Re: alternative to typing. Message-ID: <01bd8981$892dab60$LocalHost@waltersmith> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Forsyth: >I agree. Ensor had not yet had time to fit it all together securely and >insert Orac into his proper body, ready to be unleased upon the Federation. >The ultimate symbol of evil incarnate in the physical realm - a 6-foot >fuzzy purple dinosaur. Aaaaaaaaaargh! What a mercy they *did* loose Orac in "Blake"! Although, personally, Orac in the body of Elmo would give me worse nightmares. The Antichrist has arrived, and he's on Sesame Street! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:35:39 +0930 From: "Ophelia" To: "B7 list" Subject: [B7L] Re: Gunfighter Spice Message-ID: <01bd8980$e9300720$LocalHost@waltersmith> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jenni: >> Whether they know it or not, all wimmin >> who wear pony-tails on top of their heads >> honour the Goddess. Specially if they're >> faintly fictional-looking blondes. > >I honour and worship the Goddess Soolin, then. Obviously you're a womyn of taste and style... (any other rites I should >perform in the meantime, oh High Priestess?) All worshippers in the temple are welcome, whatever their style of worship. If you're feeling particularly devout, thinking up nasty threats for people who fail to show proper adulation towards the Blonde One (or her Amazonian Acolyte, Dayna - or her Divine Hairstylist, Vila), qualifies you for membership of the Dark Forces of the Golden Goddess. >See, I would have said that Sporty was a High Priestess of the Golden >Goddess, not a Godess in her own right. It's a polytheistic cult, see. There's lots of goddesses, but only one of them is The Goddess. If I ever finish my other projects, I'll have to put up a website explaining the inticracies of the Temple of Soolin. > Maybe I just don't know her well >enough... Obviously . My own ideal of beauty >> runs more towards the Betty Grable, Elle >> McFeast and Kate Ceberano side of >> things - both Soolin & Sporty are too thin. > >Sporty is way too thin, but Soolin's nice and curvy, surely? On a direct comparison basis, definitely. Ceratinly, next to Sporty or Cally, she's almost voluptuous. (Next to Sporty or Cally, *most* of us are voluptuous...) However, Soolin's not quite in the Mae West league yet. Maybe with an uplift bra she'd approach it. From below. I aspire to >Soolin-hood (And anyone who saw me at Deliverance All right, then, rub it in. will know *that's* not >gonna happen! But a girl can dream! Perhaps if the Goddess decides I can >grow 5 inches taller that would be a start). Petition her nicely. I wouldn't mind Soolin-hood myself. >> vitality and love of life, while Soolin is >> basically a lounger. Not in the same >> class of loungers as Servalan, but she >> has the right combination of seemingly >> not giving a bugger while having her >> energy coiled up inside. > >Lounging is cool. I wish I could lounge as well as Soolin, never mind >Servalan. It just indicates such a self control, I think, that they can >maintain such impenetrable calm under the most trying circumstances. The goddesses have depths! And it is soooo sexy. I think I first became addicted to'Allo 'Allo when I noticed how beautifully Lt. Gruber lounged. But there is something to be said for rigid energy, too, in terms of sex appeal - Avon, Travis or Herr Flick. No Spice Girls have that rigid energy. VIla and I both loll about, but I think we're being lethargic rather than being true loungers . >No,No,No, Soolin's trouser suits look great. Tracksuits are baggy, >shapeless things. The Goddess never wore anything that wasn't tight in the >right places! Or that didn't show off her perfect Aryan colouring. (Dayna was equally good at showing off her rich brown skin, although I wonder why on earth she possessed that purple thing Servalan borrowed. It was very pretty, but not an outfit for *either* of their colourings.) Still, her outfits have a drab, utalitarian quality that spells "tracksuit" to me. I'd like to see her in one of Servalan's satin, sequin or fur creations, only in pale pink, lavender, blue or silver, to suit her colouring. Sporty at least shows a lot of upper body, even if she does >wear tracksuit bottoms, but I'll give you that her dress sense isn't that >great. Her dress sense *is* improving. She's stopped wearing those awful huge brown windcheaters she used to appear in. Her makeup is improving, too. She's one of the few people that black lipstick actually suits. >> And, probably most importantly, >> I feel each is rather neglected in >> fandom. I tend to graviate towards >> people I feel are not being given >> enough attention. > >I saw a pic publicising the Spicies Vid, and Sporty looks so uncomfortable >and grumpy. The others however, look like they're having a cat-fight. Poor >Sporty. She isn't self-assured enough to be a Goddess. She has no self-confidence, except when she forgets herself - talking really fast about a Cause, or performing. Then she really attains divinity. >But Soolin wears her toughness on the outside like armour, whereas Baby >Spice wears her softness like cotton candy on the outside. I *love* those imagesd! But - I love those >smug smiles Soolin gives as people underestimate her because of her looks That's what I meant, really - that she looks a lot less dangerous than she is. (Yep, her smugness is *adorable,*) >and she can scare them with her gunfighter skills. I do wonder whether >she's soft on the inside at all. No. Wounded, perhaps, but too much in control to soften. I'm not sure she is, except for Warlord, >and who knows what's going on there? A bit of pure rebelliousness, mixed, I think, with anger at the sexism of treating a smart, highly qualified woman as a naughty child. >>Soolin wouldn't bother with such childish games as Spicegirl hood. (Sorry, >I know you like them, but it does seem a bit juvenile to me) I can't see her squealing and jumping around, no. However, some of my favourite Soolin moments are the ones where she gets all girlie and giggly with Dayna. They show that, very rarely, even the tough mercenary can let her gaurd down - but only with someone she doesn't see as a threat, ie a younger, rather innocent womyn. I've always thought, btw, that Avon's reference to "mercenaries" in "Blake" would have been more appropriately directed towards Soolin than Tarrant. Tarrant may have *worked* as a mercenary, but he doesn't really have the "I don't give my loyalty - I sell my skills" ethic down like Soolin does. I think Sporty >doesn't deserve to be a Spicie because she's smarter than they are. Mind >you, can't beat it for a money earner! Ginger's the smart one. Sporty's sweet, talented, but: "Our new movie's a parody. I'm not sure what that means, but I think it's sort of like making fun or something." >> And both Soolin and Baby believe in >> violent revenge for sexual harassment... > >Do they? Don't know anything about that. Soolin: Sticking your gun into someone's face for an innocent pat is delightfully excessive... Baby: She's rumoured to be a terror for slapping and pinching in return for unwanted touches. Actually, this supports my case for Helga as a Soolin avatar. She doesn't allow anyone under the rank of a general, excluding Herr Flick of course, to sleaze on her. Examples: "Are you going to offer me a good time?" "Vould you like to go to the Russian Front?" "How about going to the movies for a bit of slap and tickle in the back row, eh?" "Why wait?" >> Servalan, btw, is definitely a Ginger >> Spice. Two ultra-feminine vamps >> with their eyes on world domination... > >ROFL. I think Servalan has a better chance - Razor sharp brain and no >morals at all, with the military training to do it. Ginger, on the other >hand will have to settle for dominating people's imaginations. And lots of their money. >> (Oh. And Sporty has really lovely >> hazel eyes.) > >Agreed, she has lovely hazel eyes. And nice hair, and she's very fit. >Nicest one of the lot of them. Goood girl! >Jenni > >P.S. A work colleague called the Spice Girls fat slags last week. I mean, >*fat*? Oh, my cousin's first response to them was, "look at the wobbly things on those girls." Not that he was exactly Hugh Grant himself, mind you. And writing versions of "Ginger is a fucking fat-arsed slut" is one of the main activities of the boys on alt.flame.spice-girls The sad - or worrying - thing is, if you compare them to the current wave of painfully thin female pop singers the American countries are currently sending out, they *are* big. The standard is getting bonier and bonier. Even pretty little Gillian Andersen is looking rather haggardly slender. And I saw Dannii, who always was the chubbier Minogue, in "Grease" the other week. She was looking positively gaunt. He maintains that Ginger at least is fat, so what hope does that >leave for the rest of us? We just have to reserve ourselves for the boys and grrrls who drool over Servalan and Soolin rather than Cally. - XXX Lindley Ophelia - ophelia@picknowl.com.au "The girl has beauty, virtue, wit, Grace, humour, wisdom, charity and pluck." LONDON CALLING - a list to discuss Britcoms and knockwurst. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2511/knockwurst.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 00:37:40 +0930 From: "Ophelia" To: "B7 Lysator" Subject: [B7L] Holy ponytails, Batman! Message-ID: <01bd8981$31818440$LocalHost@waltersmith> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tom Forsyth wrote, long long ago, and quoting a humble cleric in an obscure cult: >> Whether they know it or not, all wimmin >> who wear pony-tails on top of their heads >> honour the Goddess. Specially if they're >> faintly fictional-looking blondes. > >What about men who wear it like this? Hmm. There are no gods in the temple. However, VIla is an honourary demi-goddess, by virtue of *his* connection to the Holy Golden Ponytail. (He's Soolin's nominated hair-dresser, by virtue of his clever hands and fear of her big gun.) You can be an honourary Holy Maiden, if you like, Tom... ('Sides, any male brave enough to wear such a girlie hairstyle deserves to be honoured.) >> Besides, it's a seriously cute hairstyle, >> and both Soolin and Sporty look >> divine. (Appropriately enough, as they're >> goddesses.) > >It also keeps it out of your eyes while remaining dangly and swishy against >the back of the neck. Paticularly nice on hot days, as it creates a little breeze down teh back of your shirt. >> >Or is it their superbly toned >> >bodies, > >Why thank you. I do my best. I'm sure you do... love Lindley, feeling a little light-headed from the strain of actually doing some work on her thesis. XXX Ophelia. ophelia@picknowl.com.au http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2511/knockwurst.html "Is there anything you would especially like, mein Fuhrer?" "Yes! Knockwurst sausages! Lots of them!" ('Allo 'Allo, once more proving that the only way to success, fame and power is a deep affection for knockwurst.) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 01:11:07 +0930 From: "Ophelia" To: Subject: [B7L] The Rise & Fall of Roj Blake and the Spiders from Gauda Prime Message-ID: <01bd8a4f$08122be0$5c4c18cb@waltersmith> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Helen K: >Ophelia was of the opinion the B7 crew would listen to David Bowie... >with that in mind, what would their favorite songs be? I'm not doing favourite songs as much as matching songs to personalities/life stories, in this post. >Blake: "Heroes" (naturally) Hmm. I'd have " "heroes" " (see, I can punctuate Bowie titles! Who said a liberal arts education was a waste of time?) as a them song for the show in general, but especially the 4th season. It has the same sense of impending doom and kamikaze defiance mingled with grief.. ("just for one day." For Blake I'd have something lighter. Probably "Black Tie/White Noise" - not Bowie's best song (it was the duet with LL Cool J) but it has that "Yeah, we can beat injustice and oppression" feel to it. And I liked John Werry's suggestions: <> ROFL! Although I can't see Blake moving like a tiger on vaseline... >Avon: "Putting Out Fire (with Gasoline)" The phrase "You wouldn't >believe what I've been through" seems so appropriate. And he complains >about being part of a rebellion, but once the leader is gone, picks up >the standard. Ohhhh, that is perfect. It's so intense - it *is* him. And I loved John's suggestions too, especially "Aladdin Sane" and "The Man Who Sold the World." Let's face it, Avon IS Bowie. My own choice: For Avon, and especially in regard to his relationship with Anna, I'd also pick "Strangers When We Meet." [Blended sunrise/And it's a dying world] or... [All my violence, raging tears upon the sheets/ I'm resentful, for we're strangers when we meet/ Cold tight fingers tapping out your memories/] or... [Steely resolve is falling from me/ My poor soul, or bruised passivity/ All your regrets run roughshod over me/ I'm so glad, that we're strangers when we meet... ] >Gan: "Let's Dance"... It's so mainstream. :) I think you're underrating it. The lyrics are really quite nihilistic and depressing. "Let's Dance" is almost thematically identical, to " "heroes" ", but defiance of impedending doom and tragedy is replaced by hedonism and empty romance. To me, it's more Vila than Gan - dear little thief that he is, snatching pleasure from the very jaws of horror, soma bottle in hand. ["Let's dance/ For fear tonight is all..."] Alternatively, I'd save it for 4th season slash - A/V, V'T, A/T - the kind where they fall in love, are all filled with hope and joy, and then the writer finishes with a variant on "and then they all went to Gauda Prime and were killed." Gan's difficult - even when Bowie is most mainstream, he's not very mainstream :-P Somehow, I'm thinking of "Starman," although I'll have to mull over the connection. Or some of the plastic soul of the "Young Americans" album, perhaps. >Travis 2: "Scarey Monsters" >Jenna: "Ashes to Ashes" or "Major Tom" Very interesting choice, and it *sounds* right - go on, tell me. I'm guessing she could be Major Tom 'cos she's a pilot and was lost in space, but why "Ashes to Ashes"? >Dayna: "Glass Spider" (I think, being a motherless girl herself, she'd >be touched by the image of the baby spiders 'searching frantically for >their mother. But the Glass Spider would have long gone, knowing that >somehow, her babies would survive, on their own'.) I *love* that! That is *so* Dayna - and it never would have occured to me. >Suggestions on the others? > >I almost didn't think of this > >Soolin : "Ricochet" Perfect! Or even "Blue Jean" - I'm thinking of her "camouflage face & no money" "remember, they always let you down when you need them" "look out world, you know I've got mine." John: <> Definitely, especially before he hooked up with Blake & CO. I'd also suggest "Hello Spaceboy," just for the lines "Hello spaceboy/ You're sleepy now" <> You subscribe to the "Orac was trying to destroy them" theory, then? <> More of a sinister concept of dear old Zen than I have... <> ROFL. I can just imagine him muttering under his breath, "I'm the laughing gnome and you can't catch me..." <> The first two are excellent, and as for "Lady Stardust" - well, she *does* dress like a drag queen.. I'd add "The Voyeur of Utter Destruction (as Beauty)" Cally - John's choices: <<"Sorrow" "After all (Oh by Jingo)">> I have to admit, shame-faced, that I'm not sure what "Sorrow" is. If it's from "Pinups" or "Young Americans" I can be excused, because I very rarely listen to them. But "After All" is a perfect choice for our compassionate, tragic terrorist. My idea for Cally is probably "Loving the Alien." Not just because it's an irresistibly bad pun, but because I can see her "praying to an empty sky" while fighting for her cause regardless.. Tarrant - "Boys Keep Swinging." Who did we miss? - XXX Lindley Ophelia - ophelia@picknowl.com.au "The girl has beauty, virtue, wit, Grace, humour, wisdom, charity and pluck." LONDON CALLING - a list to discuss Britcoms and knockwurst. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2511/knockwurst.html ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 20:00:40 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: RE: [B7L]Lost In Space Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Thu 28 May, Jacqueline Thijsen wrote: > On Wed 27 May, Julie Horner wrote: > > Does anybody know for sure which day the B7 Lost in Space > > will be going out? > > I believe it will be the last in the series. Thus 12 June is the most likely > date. I make the probable order to be Star Trek this week, X-files next week, > then Blake's 7. > > [Jacqueline Thijsen] Star Trek was last week, so there must be something else this we > ek or B7 will be earlier Thunderbirds this week then. I missed last week, but I know Thunderbirds is one of the series. I'm rather looking forward to that one. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #151 **************************************