From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #180 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/180 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 99 : Issue 180 Today's Topics: [B7L] Re: Even more casting [B7L] Re Buffy as B7 cast list Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx (was graphics genius wanted) Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting [B7L] re: casting, cont. [B7L] CGI Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx [B7L] Which brings us back to the movie...(was Re: B7 and Lexx) [B7L] Re: Even more casting [B7L] Re: actors for the movie Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Re: [B7L] CGI RE: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Re: [B7L] graphics genius wanted Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Re: [B7L] Even more casting Re: [B7L] oh my god, he killed blake! Re: Ultraworld AU fic (was Re: [B7L] Re: actors for The Movie) Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Re: [B7L] CGI Re: [B7L] CGI ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:06:59 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <37546788.C9FC74B2@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tegan said: "I kept trying to throw Xena/Hercules characters in there." Well how about Buffy. Sarah Michelle Gellar as Jenna Alyson Hannigan (Willow) as Cally Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles) as Blake David Boreanz (Angel) as Avon Seth Green (Oz) as Vila Juliet Landau (Drusilla) as Servalan James Marsters (Spike) as Travis Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia) as Soolin -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "What is it with you and holes?" Xena to Gabrielle, Paradise Found ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:24:16 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: Lysator Subject: [B7L] Re Buffy as B7 cast list Message-ID: <37546B9F.761775EF@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After posting my Buffy as B7 cast suggestions, I turned of my 'puter and went to bed. No sooner had I turned off the light than I realised I'd missed out the irritating Nicholas Brendon who plays Xander. Instantly Tarrant flashed into my mind. So, I'm back at the keyboard to share this with you all. -- cheers Steve Rogerson http://homepages.poptel.org.uk/steve.rogerson "What is it with you and holes?" Xena to Gabrielle, Paradise Found ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:53:18 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <3754F0FD.9D9B6AE@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Steve Rogerson wrote: > Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles) as Blake > David Boreanz (Angel) as Avon > Ergg. I suggest a change here, IMHO. Head would make a lovely *Avon*, but Boreanaz is not strong enough to play opposite him either way. Make Boreanaz Travis, Marsters Blake. Or make Marsters Vila (he does a delicious whiny drunk), and Seth Green Blake. Love the idea of Alyson Hannigan as Cally, though, particularly the Cally of 'Time Squad'. Just IMHO, Mistral -- "And for my next trick, I shall swallow my other foot."--Vila ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 03:58:39 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <37550E5E.BF2CD1D5@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Christine Lacey wrote: > I think I'd leave Anthony Stewart Head as Giles - it works for me, but I agree > with you about Boreanz. I'd go for a straight swap and have Boreanz as Travis > and James Marsters as Avon. Yes, I can see that working. Something else that might be fun is Boreanaz = Blake, Marsters = Avon, Anthony Stewart Head = Travis (balances Blake and Avon a little better and gives everybody's favourite librarian a chance to play menacing, which he does *awfully* well.) > BTW loved Steve's idea of Nicholas Brendan (Xander) as Tarrant :) Inspired, that. Also, I can totally see Charisma Carpenter as Soolin. Grins, Mistral -- "And for my next trick, I shall swallow my other foot."--Vila ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:34:37 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <19990602193437.B1945@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 01:53:18AM -0700, mistral@ptinet.net wrote: > > > Steve Rogerson wrote: > > > Anthony Stewart Head (Rupert Giles) as Blake > > David Boreanz (Angel) as Avon > > > > Ergg. I suggest a change here, IMHO. Head would make a lovely > *Avon*, Ah, yes. People with long memories would remember me rabbiting on about Oliver Sampson (of VR.5, played by Anthony Stewart Head) and Avon, and how similar those characters were. Those who have only seen ASH as Giles wouldn't know, but he can certainly play Tall, Dark and Broody. Not to mention mysterious and sarcastic. (So why on earth did I forget to add him to my list of vulnerable + dangerous?) > but Boreanaz is not strong enough to play opposite him > either way. Interesting observation. > Make Boreanaz Travis, Marsters Blake. Or make > Marsters Vila (he does a delicious whiny drunk), and Seth Green > Blake. Love the idea of Alyson Hannigan as Cally, though, > particularly the Cally of 'Time Squad'. Yep, Willow as Cally is good. And Buffy as Jenna - kick some ass! But I don't think Seth Green fits in anywhere. He's definitely not a Vila! And he isn't intense enough to be a Blake. In fact, I don't think there's anyone from the Buffy cast who could be a Blake. -- _--_|\ | 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: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:05:53 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx (was graphics genius wanted) Message-ID: <19990602200553.C1945@welkin.apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 03:33:14PM -0700, J MacQueen wrote: > --- Alison Page wrote: > > that reminds me - I've just read a > > scanned copy of some > > Canadian TV guide which describes Lexx as 'Blakes > > Seven written in Heroin > > withdrawal' - which is an amazingly precise > > description) > > It's an intriguing description, not that I can vouch > for its accuracy - not without pay TV, anyway. Well, I *have* seen it, and the description is still intriguing... because I can't really imagine what Heroin withdrawal would be like... My *personal* description of Lexx was that it was "like _The Fifth Element_ only darker, and with an M rating". 11/10 for style, IMHO. At least, the original 4-part mini-series was; the actual follow-up series I don't like as much. Probably due to (a) less scope for interesting plot (b) lack of story arc (c) more emphasis on the "adult" (they've visited brothels at least twice so far!) and (d) a major character replacement (I don't like the new Xev as much as the old Zev). As for its B7-ishness, I guess that would count in the following ways: - dark humour - the occassional dark twist - a crew of misfits with the best ship in space, which they stole (Kathryn immediately realizes that HHGG fits that too.) - they're on the run from an evil government (in the mini-series) (in the series, it's more like Season 3 -- nobody's really chasing them, and they don't really have a goal) - one of the characters (Stanley Tweedle) is a lecherous coward (but Vila has much more appeal, IMHO, at least being a lecherous coward isn't the only thing Vila is) - one of the characters (Kai) is Tall, Dark, Handsome, Taciturn, Dangerous, and always ends up rescuing everybody else after they went off and did the foolish things. - one of the characters is a beautiful woman who theoretically can kick ass, but gradually dwindles into just being a babe. However, with a bit of compare and contrast... Vila, as I said, is more appealing than Stanley Tweedle. Kai is just as appealing (IMHO) as Avon, but his motivations are completely different. Indeed, he spends half his time, lately, saying "I have no motivation to..." His other common refrain is that he has no future. Zev is feisty, but with no skills except sex appeal. 790's only resemblance to Orac is that he's mechanical, mouthy, and had to be carried everywhere. > A bit > like B7 itself - none of the free-to-air stations want > a piece of it. If it comes to that, Neverwhere hasn't > been screened by one of the local networks either. > It seems my taste in television programmes > isn't quite commercial enough. Indeed. We're all too intelligent. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Buttercup: You mock my pain! Masked Man: Life is pain! Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something. (The Princess Bride) -- _--_|\ | 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: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:20:51 -0700 From: mistral@ptinet.net To: B7 List Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <37552FB2.4C2882D2@ptinet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Kathryn Andersen wrote: > Those who have only seen > ASH as Giles wouldn't know, but he can certainly play Tall, Dark and > Broody. Not to mention mysterious and sarcastic. > (So why on earth did I forget to add him to my list of vulnerable + > dangerous?) I have been wondering that ;) > But I don't think Seth Green fits in anywhere. He's definitely not a > Vila! And he isn't intense enough to be a Blake. In fact, I don't > think there's anyone from the Buffy cast who could be a Blake. If we were seriously casting a movie, yes, you're absolutely right. In the interests of using Buffy cast, however, Seth Green at least does both idealistic and stubborn quite well. Grins, Mistral -- "And for my next trick, I shall swallow my other foot."--Vila ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 06:30:45 -0700 From: "Ann Basart" To: "Blake's7" Subject: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Message-Id: <199906021330.GAA16484@oberon.dnai.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As long as we're having a dream cast, how about Ralph Feinnes as Avon? --Ann abasart@dnai.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:16:17 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: [B7L] CGI Message-ID: <010a01bead02$9fcffb20$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit What about if they could graphically enhance the old B7 film stock and impose really good graphic effects? It could be done, and no doubt it will get easier to do. Would that be heresy on a par with colorizing (sic) 'Casablanca'? or what? Alison ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 15:07:36 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx Message-ID: <010901bead02$9e3d2620$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit An excellent comparison Kathryn. I think I agree with everything you said there, except I like the second series rather more than you do. BTW I take 'Heroin Withdrawal' to mean dark, weird, uncomfortable and hallucinatory in a kind of yucky affectless way. Like Cronenburg or Trainspotting. What I like in both series is the idea of belonging to a group of complete weirdoes whom nobody else can understand but who are actually vastly superior to everyone they meet - so very similar to the experience of being on this list. Alison ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:14:38 -0600 From: Penny Dreadful To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: [B7L] Which brings us back to the movie...(was Re: B7 and Lexx) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990602111438.007a4380@mail.geocities.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 03:07 PM 6/2/99 +0100, Alison Page wrote: >BTW I take 'Heroin Withdrawal' to mean dark, weird, uncomfortable and >hallucinatory in a kind of yucky affectless way. Like Cronenburg or >Trainspotting. B7, The Movie: screenplay by Irvine Walsh, directed by David Cronenberg. *That* I would pay to see! (with Ralph Feinnes in the leather trousers, as Ann suggested.) --Penny "Ooh, I Feel All Tingly" Dreadful ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:14:41 -0400 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <199906021314_MC2-77E8-AB71@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Calle wound up his recasting from Xena/Hercules: >Don't really know who to pick for Dayna and Soolin, though. Shouldn't be a problem with all those Amazons swinging through the trees... How about: Dayna Danielle Cormack (Ephiny) - no special reason except that they're both fairly important and sympathetic characters. Soolin Vicky Pratt (Cyane, the Amazon Queen who does that combat undressing in Adventures in the Sin Trade). Harriet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:14:30 -0400 From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: [B7L] Re: actors for the movie Message-ID: <199906021314_MC2-77E8-AB6E@compuserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mistral gave an interesting account of what's she's looking for in re-casting, concluding: >I'd prefer to find an actor who can give a convincing rendition >of the Avon we're all used to, not redefine him into something >unrecognizable; and then hopefully each viewer would find in >the large-screen version the same things they found appealing >in the original portrayal. I think my attitude is probably born out of the conviction that there's no point hoping for a faithful recreation, because we'll never get one. So I'd rather do something that's a variation on the original and doesn't pretend to be anything else. And probably Alison is right, and I'd do better to go and look for something else "in the spirit of", like this Lexx. At the same time, I know a lot of people are hoping for something worthwhile out of this film, and I don't want them to be disappointed. Harriet ------------------------------ Date: 02 Jun 1999 19:27:05 +0200 From: Calle Dybedahl To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com> writes: > Dayna Danielle Cormack (Ephiny) - no special reason except that they're > both fairly important and sympathetic characters. *ponder* No, she looks too experienced. How about Willa O'Neill (Lila, Gabrielle's sister)? > Soolin Vicky Pratt (Cyane, the Amazon Queen who does that combat > undressing in Adventures in the Sin Trade). Oh yes, that's a nice one (both the suggestion and the combat undressing stunt). -- Calle Dybedahl, Vasav. 82, S-177 52 Jaerfaella,SWEDEN | calle@lysator.liu.se "...a festering realization that all you do is no more than the futile slapping of paint onto the rotting, decayed infrastructure of the Information Superhighway." -- Jinx_tigr ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 18:26:16 +0100 From: "Kevin Mahoney" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <007901b7f36c$0bcbc860$2b5295c1@MSNKevinPatrickMahoney> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I think Willem Dafoe would make a good Avon. He's got the slinkiness down to an art, can play either good or bad characters, and the most important thing is that he can carry off the leather. Kevin Mahoney http://www.geocities.com.SoHo/Nook/1082 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:44:14 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Message-ID: <005901bead1f$a08959e0$0c01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ann Basart wrote: > As long as we're having a dream cast, how about Ralph Feinnes as Avon? Am I the only person in the world who finds Ralph Fiennes deeply unattractive? The man is cold, passionless, frigid. Or was this the point you were making, Ann? ;) Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:40:10 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] CGI Message-ID: <005701bead1f$9fd80b40$0c01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alison wrote: > What about if they could graphically enhance the old B7 film stock and > impose really good graphic effects? It could be done, and no doubt it will > get easier to do. > > Would that be heresy on a par with colorizing (sic) 'Casablanca'? > > or what? Definitely 'what'. I think it'd be a laugh. Although part of the fun if B7 is the animations and the slow-fighting. And the flares. And the overwhelming sense of it being the 1970s. Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 19:15:02 +-100 From: Louise Rutter To: "'B7 Lysator'" , "'Kathryn Andersen'" Subject: RE: [B7L] Re: Even more casting Message-ID: <01BEAD2C.E561A2E0@tracy> >> Ergg. I suggest a change here, IMHO. Head would make a lovely >> *Avon*, >Ah, yes. People with long memories would remember me rabbiting on >about Oliver Sampson (of VR.5, played by Anthony Stewart Head) and >Avon, and how similar those characters were. Those who have only seen >ASH as Giles wouldn't know, but he can certainly play Tall, Dark and >Broody. Not to mention mysterious and sarcastic. >(So why on earth did I forget to add him to my list of vulnerable + >dangerous?) Can't help but add a "me too" here. I will never forgive the cancellation of VR5 just as it found what worked best within the format and got really _interesting_. Every now and then I have to bitch about that to somebody. And Giles as a character isn't a patch on Oliver. Oh, and I did like the earring, though normally I don't on men! Louise ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:34:23 PDT From: "Hellen Paskaleva" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] graphics genius wanted Message-ID: <19990602183423.48514.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; >Supersuds said - > > >Can anyone tell me what "Lexx" is? I'm in the states and do don't hear >about > >much new British Sci-Fi. > >Alison answered: ... >quick B7 conversion guide > >Lexx = The Liberator and Zen >Stanley Tweedle = Vila (without any doubt) >Kai = Avon (at a pinch, and with long hair) >790 = Orac on viagra >Zev / Xev = multipurpose babe I'm afraid ...And Thodin = Blake. BTW, Zev before the plastic surgery was mush more likable. Seems, that they removed her sense of humour together with the surplus fats. Hellen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:48:20 PDT From: "Hellen Paskaleva" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Message-ID: <19990602184820.3532.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; >Ann Basart wrote: > > As long as we're having a dream cast, how about Ralph Feinnes as Avon? > >Then Una said: >Am I the only person in the world who finds Ralph Fiennes deeply >unattractive? The man is cold, passionless, frigid... Which one of the brothers was he - that one from the "English patient" or the one from "Shakespeare in love". I don't like them both, though. You are absolutely right, Una. Hellen ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:55:02 -0700 From: Pat Patera To: B7 Lysator Subject: Re: [B7L] Even more casting Message-ID: <37557E06.6628FA4F@netzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Calle Dybedahl wrote: > Blake Michael Hurst (Iolaus) > Avon Kevin Smith (Ares) > Vila Robert Trebor (Salmoneus) > Jenna Alexandra Tydings (Aphrodite) > Cally Cory Everson (Atalanta) > Gan Kevin Sorbo (Hercules) > Servalan Reneé O'Connor (Gabrielle) > Travis 1 Lucy Lawless (Xena) > Travis 2 Hudson Leick (Callisto) > Tarrant Bruce Campbell (Autolycus) Oh, I love it! > Don't really know who to pick for Dayna and Soolin, though Try: Dayna (Jennifer Sky?) Emerys, Amazon warrior (the fiesty redhead in Endgame) Soolin (actress for?) Ephiny, Amazon warrior (the curly-haired blonde queen) But for Soolin, Aphrodite has her "snotty attitude" so if Gabrielle played Jenna, and evil Callisto played Servalan, then ... No, wait! The evil Amazon queen-become-god plays Servalan. The good Amazon queen plays Soolin. No, wait! Ares plays Travis 1 and Casear plays Travis 2. Xena plays Dayna while Gabby plays Soolin, No, wait! (Now I'm confused) This show has so many wonderful characters... re: > Travis 1: Xena, Travis 2: Callisto. This is a hilarious exaggeration of how much smaller second season Travis is, yet we are expected to believe it's the same man. It could only have been funnier had Travis 2 been a blond. (or a blonde woman???) Pat P P.S. I *love* this line up, as Xena ranks only second to B7 in my book. ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:48:05 -0700 From: Pat Patera To: B7 Lysator Subject: Re: [B7L] oh my god, he killed blake! Message-ID: <37556E55.89087F83@netzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Alison Page wrote: > If anyone wants to see my graphic version of a B7/southpark cross-over > (warning, poor in both taste and execution) then email me and I'll send it > to you. I converted it to a GIF so it's about 30K. Can't we peek at it on your web page? If not, I'll take a private gander. > If anyone wants to pop it on a site then let me know too. This sounds like a yard ornament for Penny Dreadful's Mad Poodle Farm :-D Pat ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:30:11 -0700 From: Pat Patera To: B7 Lysator Subject: Re: Ultraworld AU fic (was Re: [B7L] Re: actors for The Movie) Message-ID: <37556A23.4DABC60E@netzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mistral wrote: > > And while I'm on the subject of the relationship between the > > body and the personality, is it too much to hope that someone's > > written a good gen AU in which Cally and Avon's consciousnesses > > were reversed at Ultraworld? Does anyone know if such a story > > exists, and where I might find it? I'm glad Kathryn could dredge up the titles, but I quite like these stories, for they are usually funny. The part I recall from years back is Cally's crabby reaction over finding the terrible condition of her new body, with stiffness, aches and pains (that bad back, ya kno) and crossly lecturing Avon on taking care of his body. As we know, *only* Cally could get away with crossly lecturing Avon! :-) Far funnier, tho, would be a story wherin Avon and Vila get their brains swapped. Has anyone recast Ultraworld into this possibility? > Kathryn Andersen sez: (glad she's not a man) Yeah, but do you *really* want to be relegated to teleport duty all the time? emerging from long-time lurk mode, Pat P ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 20:24:35 +0100 From: "Alison Page" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Message-ID: <002901bead2d$b42e0140$ca8edec2@pre-installedco> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Una said - >Am I the only person in the world who finds Ralph Fiennes deeply >unattractive? The man is cold, passionless, frigid. Or was this the point >you were making, Ann? ;) I was pondering earlier why these cold characters are so attractive. It's certainly not a feature women generally praise in real-life men. 'Oooh my new boyfriend is so lacking in normal human warmth', 'You lucky thing!' I think it's that Avon -say- isn't only rather distant, he's also crucially *on your side* and shows it by regularly rescuing you from death. Or one imagines he would anyway. Alison ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:49:32 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: "Blake's 7 list" Subject: Re: [B7L] B7 and Lexx Message-ID: <5HSeFEAs6WV3Ewrt@jajones.demon.co.uk> In message <010901bead02$9e3d2620$ca8edec2@pre-installedco>, Alison Page writes >What I like in both series is the idea of belonging to a group of complete >weirdoes whom nobody else can understand but who are actually vastly >superior to everyone they meet - so very similar to the experience of being >on this list. It's very dangerous to say quotable things like that when I'm working on the next volume of _Tales from Space City_. -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 23:23:22 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] re: casting, cont. Message-ID: <004401bead46$9db0fad0$0c01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hellen asked: > Which one of the brothers was he - that one from the "English patient" or > the one from "Shakespeare in love". I don't like them both, though. You are > absolutely right, Una. He's 'The English Patient' Fiennes. The other one can act, but he has a funny chin. Una ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 18:41:07 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: Re: [B7L] CGI Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII On Wed 02 Jun, Alison Page wrote: > What about if they could graphically enhance the old B7 film stock and > impose really good graphic effects? It could be done, and no doubt it will > get easier to do. That's one of my dreams. I'd love it! The same ships, but real space battles. I'd also like to see the computer graphics improved. eg. when they are studying the layout of bases or looking at data on screens. I wouldn't touch the sets, wobbles or no wobbles, nor Scorpio's take-off sequence, but the rest I would *love* to see. 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) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 18:51:10 -0500 From: "Reuben Herfindahl" To: Judith Proctor CC: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] CGI Message-Id: <199906022351.SAA20699@athena.host4u.net> Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit I've been playing with a few second segment for a long time. Perhaps I'll post the unfinished effort later. Reuben ---------- >From: Judith Proctor >To: Lysator List >Subject: Re: [B7L] CGI >Date: Wed, Jun 2, 1999, 12:41 PM > >On Wed 02 Jun, Alison Page wrote: >> What about if they could graphically enhance the old B7 film stock and >> impose really good graphic effects? It could be done, and no doubt it will >> get easier to do. > >That's one of my dreams. I'd love it! The same ships, but real space battles. > >I'd also like to see the computer graphics improved. eg. when they are >studying the layout of bases or looking at data on screens. > >I wouldn't touch the sets, wobbles or no wobbles, nor Scorpio's take-off >sequence, but the rest I would *love* to see. > >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) -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #180 **************************************