From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #229 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/229 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 229 Today's Topics: [B7L] Teeth, and sharp ones too! [B7L] Glad to Be Back! [B7L] Teeth, and sharp ones too! [B7L] Hopes for Narelle's book [B7L] Tarrant Nostra baiting [B7L] Acorn User Re: [B7L] Watching B7 Re: [B7L] Glad to Be Back! Re: [B7L] Glad to Be Back! [B7L] The Crucible ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 16:48:52 PDT From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Teeth, and sharp ones too! Message-ID: <19980903234853.19821.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hello. >'ere, that seems hardly fair. To the sharks ;) >ttfn, Nicola Nicola! Thank you very much! Regards (or maybe not ) Joanne It is far cheaper and just as rewarding to *pretend* you're utterly depraved. --Kaz Cooke, The Little Book of Crap. PS Can I help you yell at Avon? It might prove to be therapeutic. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 20:23:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "G. Robbins" To: B7 Main List Subject: [B7L] Glad to Be Back! Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Just wanted to say, I am back and I'm here to stay! That is, until the end of this school year. On the note of Blake's 7, however, my IPTV station is now rebroadcasting the entire series from beginning to end, so now I will get to see the eps I missed the first time! Yahoo! I'm up to Mission to Destiny which will be shown here midnight Friday....anybody got any tidbits on the good stuff to look for? -Grace Robbins http://www.graceland.edu/~robbins robbins@inet-ux.graceland.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:29:14 +1200 From: Nicola Collie To: B7-list Subject: [B7L] Teeth, and sharp ones too! Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" me, on punishment for Tarrant-baiters: >>'ere, that seems hardly fair. To the sharks ;) >>ttfn, Nicola Joanne: > Nicola! Thank you very much! You're welcome >PS Can I help you yell at Avon? It might prove to be therapeutic. Sure, you can take over when I run out of creative insults, and I'll do the same for you. Tag-team berating ;). Although you might want to leave once his "punishment" reaches Phase 2. P'raps Vila will be wanting a refill by then ;) ttfn, Nicola --- Nicola Collie mailto:nicola.collie@stonebow.otago.ac.nz "I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV." 61 sleeps! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 22:55:37 PDT From: "Joanne MacQueen" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Hopes for Narelle's book Message-ID: <19980904055538.23373.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Hello, especially to Narelle. Just something I forgot to mention earlier. Could I suggest that when whichever publishing company produces your book, Narelle, that you stand over them until they give you a decent cover for it? Hopefully you'll get some say in the matter . We all know the saying about not judging books by their covers, but I saw the George Turner prize winner in my local Dymocks branch yesterday, and its cover suggests air-headed nonsense. Having enjoyed the Phoenix series, I should hate to find its creator's first professional effort bound up in a terrible cover that has to be hidden away, however much I enjoyed the contents. Regards Joanne I was born modest - not all over, but in spots. --Mark Twain ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:00:42 EDT From: SuzanThoms@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Tarrant Nostra baiting Message-ID: Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit >>Harriet wrote: >>Oddly enough, this is the only episode (Powerplay) in which I like Tarrant. >>There's a pleasing moral ambiguity about him. I agree with this. I really liked Tarrant when I first saw him in "Powerplay." He was a good match for Avon and it was obvious Avon had a great deal of respect for him in this ep. But as the series progressed he lost that "hard edge" he displayed in the beginning and Avon no longer treated him as an equal. Tarrant's honesty, morality, and good-heartedness may be admirable qualites, but where within the hostile, violent B7 universe would those attributes be appeciated? Avon and Tarrant are my favorites because I DO like the way they work together (especially 4th season), but I can't help think it would have been a better pairing if Tarrant had kept that little bit of "sinister" he had in the beginning. It would have made "Sand" more entertaining (for me, anyway). I would have preferred Servalan not to have been quite so sure of her postion (she KNEW Tarrant wouldn't kill her). If the Tarrant from "Powerplay" had been with her she wouldn't have been quite so confident. >(He even looks OK in Federation black, rather than the coloured clothing he >adopted afterwards.) Tarrant in the black Fed uniform and Avon in the flight suit from "Warlord" -- these are my favorite looks for my two favorite guys. Second fave...Avon in black silk shirt in "Aftermath." He also looks great in the black outfit from "Voices from the Past"-- Carol McCoy wrote that Tarrant DID have salvage rights in "Aftermath" -- not so. As long as Avon was still in control of ZEN, the ship was still his. In fact, they wouldn't have been able to dock if Avon hadn't allowed it. There was no salvage to be had. However, I don't believe Tarrant ever wanted the ship. But if he had, he would have found it more difficult to take it away from Avon than Carol McCoy indicates. For one thing, despite everything, and when all is said and done, the crew would have supported Avon. Suzanne Proud Avon fan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 12:00:58 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List cc: Space City Subject: [B7L] Acorn User Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Liberator made it onto the front cover of the October issue of Acorn User and there's a four page Blake's 7 related article inside. It's essentially a spin off from 'Lost in Space'. The magazine's editor spotted my Acorn computer while watching the programme and asked if I was interested in writing an article. I hadn't expected to make the front cover though! I think Geoff Saul's beautiful Liberator art helped account for that. (It's unattributed in the article, but see the 'gallery' on my web page to see who drew it and who constructed the mesh) The unattributed pictures of Jenna and Servalan in the actual article are by Kathryn Andersen. (I sent him a load of pictures by various artists, but being a bloke, he passed over all the Avon and Blake pics and went for those of the women. I do wish he'd credited the artists - I took care to make sure he knew who had drawn things, but I guess magazines rarely credit art.) It was quite an interesting exercise getting as much Blake's 7 as possible into an article that had to focus mainly on my computers and how I used them in furtherence of fandom. I had an entertaining time picking out lots of favourite quotes from the series to use as sub headings. I wonder if we'll get any new list members as a result. 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, 3 Sep 1998 23:22:08 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Watching B7 Message-ID: In message <000e01bdd784$101f8d00$773363c3@smith99>, Heather Smith writes >Umm, I seem to recall that in the scene where Vila goes to help the others >in the basement, his longing look at the bottle of wine was cut. Think >there's more, but I can't remember the rest (it's getting late, and in a >Vilaish line, wine is clouding my mind slightly). Also the scene in the basement after Dorian dies. The original has a pan around from Dayna (who's leaning over the "monster") to the rest of the crew, and Soolin is standing behind them. She looks carefully at them while they're still distracted, and creeps up the stairs without anyone noticing. The official video has a cut from Dayna to the group with Soolin already missing - you lose that sense of Soolin sneaking away before they remember she's there, so it changes the character dynamics slightly, and doesn't tie in as well with the following episode. -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 19:39:08 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] Glad to Be Back! Message-ID: <19980904193908.38366@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 08:23:32PM -0500, G. Robbins wrote: > now I will get to see the eps I missed the first time! Yahoo! I'm up to > Mission to Destiny which will be shown here midnight Friday....anybody got > any tidbits on the good stuff to look for? Well, these are some of my favourite bits... Cally: Remember that Avon and I will be staying. We will regard ourselves as hostages against Blake's return. Avon: Well, thank you, Cally. What a clever idea. Cally (telepathing): Blake will return. Avon: You can bet your life on it. In fact, you've just bet both our lives on it. and Cally: We must help these people. Avon: Must we? Personally, I don't care if their whole planet turns into a mushroom. I shall stay because I don't like an unsolved mystery. (Blake's 7: Mission To Destiny [A7]) And basically I liked the mystery -- which means I hope you haven't read the script, cuz then you know who did it already. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shores of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tenhauser Gate. All these moments will be lost in time - like - tears - in rain. Time - to die." -- Roy Batty (Bladerunner) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen / \ | http://home.connexus.net.au/~kat \_.--.*/ | #include "standard/disclaimer.h" v | ------------| Melbourne -> Victoria -> Australia -> Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | -> Earth -> Sol -> Milky Way Galaxy -> Universe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 18:07:42 -0400 From: Ann Reckner To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Glad to Be Back! Message-ID: <35F064AC.9A01D73A@ivyproductions.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathryn Andersen wrote (re: Mission to Destiny): Well, these are some of my favourite bits... Cally: Remember that Avon and I will be staying. We will regard ourselves as hostages against Blake's return. Avon: Well, thank you, Cally. What a clever idea. Cally (telepathing): Blake will return. Avon: You can bet your life on it. In fact, you've just bet both our lives on it. ----------------------------------------------- As I recall, "Mission to Destiny" was one of the few eps that shows Cally telepathing. In later shows, the telepathy didn't appear very often (except for its apparent effect of making Cally highly susceptible to alien mind control). In addition to the scene that Kathryn mentioned, I love the bit in "Mission to Destiny" where Cally is half-incapacitated by the sleeping vapor and when Blake (I think?) shakes her by the shoulder to revive her, she telepaths a kind of moan, "Alone..." Ann R. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 20:23:32 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List cc: Space City Subject: [B7L] The Crucible Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Any more for The Crucible in Bromley on Saturday 19 Sept? So far we have Steve, Paula, Tom, Louise, Anne, Linda and me. As Steve and Paula had booked before I started collecting names, we're unlikely to get enough for a discount unless we get another 5, but I can book us tickets in a block of seats as long as we all go for the 17 pound tickets (which we all have so far) We'll be meeting up before the show but haven't quite decided where. Paula - do you know the name of the pub Anne suggested? She said it was Fuller's pub on the corner of High Street and Chruch Rd. Or do you know a better pub? I'm easy as long as you pick one with a low background noise level. I still have voice problems now and then, so I can't talk over a lot of noise. Anne reminds me that there is a pre-performance chat by members of the company (though you can't be sure which ones) on Wednesday which is free to people who have tickets for any performance. You have to request this when booking, so, while I'm collecting bookings, does anyone want me to request a ticket for the Wednesday chat (6.15 - 6.45)? 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 #229 **************************************