From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #238 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/238 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 238 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] Holidays/presents Re: [B7L] Possible Federation Ender.... [B7L] Complete Set of B7 for Sale Re: [B7L] Plague [B7L] News from the TV times Re: [B7L] News from the TV times Re: [B7L] News from the TV times ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:41:03 -0700 From: Pat Patera To: B7 Lysator Subject: Re: [B7L] Holidays/presents Message-ID: <37A6106F.C1AFC84E@netzero.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sally Manton wrote: > Back to pressies for our Loved Ones... > > Blake ... Avon with laryngitis for a fortnight. hahahahaha Blake - A 6-month membership at "24 Hour Fitness" > Avon ... Blake with laryngitis for a fortnight. hehehehehe Avon - A pick proof door lock. Jenna - A subscription to "Texas Big Hair" Vila - The Complete Magician (magic kit) Cally - A "grow your own" chia pig (telepathic) Gan - A bottle of those "smart drugs" the yuppies now take Tarrant - A new pair of rollerblades. (can ya just see him careening up & down the Liberator corridors?) Soolin - A new outfit: blue, not grey. > Dayna - what she would *want* is easy. Servalan's head on a pike hohohohoho > Travis - what *he* would want is even easier. Blake's head on a pike gigglegigglegiggle Travis - A real jewel for his glove to replace that plastic Cracker Jack toy Servalan - A subscription to Vogue. or seminar registration for the Dale Carnegie course: How to Make Friends and Influence People Santa Claws 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: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:24:23 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Possible Federation Ender.... Message-ID: <19990729.042425.10262.0.Rilliara@juno.com> On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 12:51:35 PDT "Hellen Paskaleva" writes: . It would cause no harm to it, therefore, to replace the > >phrase "contamination affects everyone who's been into deep space" >(unprecise quote) with "contamination affects everyone" Good point. >That’s >much more probable, because, on the one hand, we see at the very end >of the >episode *everybody* dying, But they'd all been in deep space to get to the base. It wasn't a colony world with a locally born population. and on the other hand, can’t imagine *why* >aliens >would restrict their attempt to destroy the humanity only to those >lonely >travelers into deep space. If they wanted to get rid of the competition but had reservations about genocide? The writers were thinking of bringing them back and wanted to leave some possibility of sympathy for the aliens? > >LOL! Well, I can fåål an edge in your voice…, no, not exactly, … in >your..., >hmm, keyboard? Please, do not take my words personally. I were >*not* >intended to irritate anyone. Really. Neither irritated nor offended. I just have fun trying to come up with excuses for the most outrageous plot weaknesses (you should hear my explanations for Gilligan's Island). Ellynne ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:00:11 +0100 (BST) From: "P.J.E. Kail" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Complete Set of B7 for Sale Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi I have a complete set of BBC videos for sale. £50 and P&P What a bargin! *********************** Dr P J E Kail Faculty of Philosophy Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge University Tel (01223) 335094 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:23:21 +0100 From: "Deborah Day" To: "blakes7" Subject: Re: [B7L] Plague Message-ID: <003901beddaa$fa8128e0$0883bc3e@oemcomputer> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ellynne G wrote >What were the aliens trying to do with the plague? > >They sent it to an obscure outpost, one where the disease might have died >out without living hosts by the time any ships arrived. > >The derelict ship they used wasn't signaling and would have been ignored >if Bellfriar hadn't been bored. > >The trigger on the corpse is unclear, but the plan for infection depended >not only on the scientist in question having minimal precautions against >infection, it depended on highly trained (if bored, then surprised) >guards disobeying orders, breaking quarantine, and having no precautions >of their own against infection. Was the dead guy supposed to be watching >and waiting for his moment? My guess is that the aliens weren't trying for the outpost and that is why the ship was not signalling and was only picked up by chance by a bored Dr. Bellfriar. I think that the ship was maybe heading for somewhere more important, such as a major trading post or even Earth or Space Command, where the virus could have done maximum damage to humanity. As for the trigger on the corpse, anything can be postulated but really it boils down to moving the plot along! Aliens which are truly alien would not think like us and it would be impossible to guess their reasons. Perhaps they were expecting for the corpse to be picked up by somebody who did not have all the isolation gear and so things would have been different in the way the corpse behnaved. Who knows. Why the crew were not affected, again probably just gets put down to moving the plot along. To have had them die off would have been an abrupt end to the series and there are often inconsistencies in Blake's 7. Maybe they were affected but could construct the antidote in time using the information available. Debbie Day. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 18:40:48 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] News from the TV times Message-ID: More gossip about the film, this time from sff.tv.blakes7 ------- Forwarded message follows ------- In article <37a6ca0e.123990@usenet.force9.net>, Jackie writes >Newsgroups: sff.tv.blakes7 > >Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star in a revival of >the si-fi programme Blakes 7, this had been spurred on by the success >of the two recent radio plays, re uniting many of the cast. hope fully >there will be two new made for television movies. >The pair if all goes well would play rebels who join the survivors of >the old team. >Paul Darrow and Micheal Keating are both due to revive there rolls as >Avon and Villa. >Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible >villain. >According to the TV times if these films are a success there could be >a new series on the way. > >Jackie -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:12:17 +0100 From: "Julie Horner" To: "Lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] News from the TV times Message-ID: <000801beddec$7cb04620$4e5195c1@orac> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----Original Message----- From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se >More gossip about the film, this time from sff.tv.blakes7 > >>Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star >> in a revival of the si-fi programme Blakes 7, Can't put faces to these names - does anyone know what else they have been in? >>The pair if all goes well would play rebels who join the >>survivors of the old team. Paul Darrow and Micheal >>Keating are both due to revive there rolls as Avon and Villa. Oh yes, yes, yes! This is the first I have heard that Vila would be in too. Please let it be true. >>Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible >>villain. Oh I haven't watched this for quite a while. Is she the one who used to be Kim Tate? >>According to the TV times if these films are a success there could >>be a new series on the way. Oh my, my! But why are we hearing this from the TV Times I wonder, not the Radio Times? Are the BBC not interested? Julie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:23:43 +0100 From: "Angua" To: Subject: Re: [B7L] News from the TV times Message-ID: <010801bede07$4fc68460$d76b989e@demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Julie wrote : > >>Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star > >> in a revival of the si-fi programme Blakes 7, > > Can't put faces to these names - does anyone know what > else they have been in? Coronation Street - Tracy is a hairdresser and Adam was the replacement Nick Tyldesley. Can't say the prospect of these two being in anything B7-related fills me with joy - I find Rickett in particular to be about as wooden as, well, a wooden thing. > >>Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible > >>villain. > > Oh I haven't watched this for quite a while. Is she the > one who used to be Kim Tate? Now she would make a good villain, she had some wonderful scenes before she left Emmerdale. Louise (who has decided she knows waaay too much about soaps than can be healthy ...) http://starriders.net - Babylon 5, Blake's 7, SF cult tv and movies, free graphics, and more -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #238 **************************************