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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 00 : Issue 291

Today's Topics:
  Re: Re [B7L] Fantasy, SF and all tha  [ "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com ]
  Re: [B7L] Christmas presents          [ "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com ]
  Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts   [ Tavia Chalcraft <tavia@btinternet.c ]
  [B7L] Cambridge theatre trip          [ Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@comp ]
  Re: [B7L] Christmas presents          [ Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@comp ]
  Hello + 3 questions                   [ "Gavin Murphy" <gmurphy2001@hotmail ]
  [B7L] Logic of Empire                 [ Jacqui Speel <jacquispeel@netscape. ]
  Re: [B7L] Christmas presents          [ "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.co ]
  [B7L] A Family Affair                 [ Tavia Chalcraft <tavia@btinternet.c ]
  Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts   [ "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> ]
  Re: [B7L] Question about a serial st  [ Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.com ]
  Re: [B7L] Hello + 3 questions         [ "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.con ]
  Re: [B7L] Logic of Empire             [ "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.con ]
  Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts   [ "Marian de Haan" <maya@multiweb.nl> ]
  [B7L] I'm also chasing a story ...    [ "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com ]

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:12:32 GMT
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
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Joanne suggested:
<Argh. Vicar of Dibley cross-over, anyone?>

Actually, Geraldine would be rather wonderful, methinks, but what was the 
name of the dear little old lady with the creative cooking instincts?  
*That's* who I want.  On Scorpio.


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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 10:13:17 GMT
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Christmas presents
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Tavia wrote:
<The interesting adventure would be to try and give Avon something... >

Actually <grin> that wasn't nearly so hard, I ended up with an idea for 
something from every one of the 1st season crew and *several* from Blake 
and/or Vila (note to self.  Need to think up a Christmas burble again this 
year.  There's something about the Far-Too-Festive Season and Our Heroes 
that goes *so well* together in my mind ...)




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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:29:19 +0100
From: Tavia Chalcraft <tavia@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts about Rescue 
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Ellynne wrote lots of interesting stuff about Dorian and Avon, which I've 
partially snipped...

>I always thought there was a deliberate, disturbing message ... their
>similiarities seem to be getting lined up.  Dorian is extremely
>intelligent and the selfish survivor out for himself Avon claims to be.
>He's quickly established as gifted with computers ...
>and is hard at work on a teleport
>system.  Then there's the way Dorian enjoys playing games with Avon,
>giving him the puzzle pieces and watching him put them together.  What's
>also interesting is Avon's basic understanding of Dorian, the way he
>doesn't trust him and refuses (unlike his usualy style) to get drawn into
>Dorian's brain games.  His attitude seems to be, 'I already know
>everything about you I need to.'
>
>True, he's right, but it also suggests something else, that Avon
>understands Dorian because of underlying similarities.

I've always loved that bit of Rescue, and felt that the episode deserved a 
less icky ending. I always wondered what would have happened if Dorian had 
joined the 4th season crew rather than Soolin -- there would certainly be 
an interesting power struggle for control of Scorpio, and Orac.

IMO, Dorian shows an explicit, shall we say 'interest' in Avon, and 
certainly seems to me at one stage to be suggesting parallels between 
himself and Avon, almost trying to recruit Avon to his way of life. I find 
Avon's reaction interesting since it seems to be plain disgust...

>but maybe this
>was an attempt to foreshadow Avon's decline and growing ruthlessness over
>S4.  Any thoughts?

... which makes me think that this isn't quite what's going on.

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:56:18 -0400
From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Cambridge theatre trip
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Nicola asked:
>would you like to see Stephen Pacey's play, =

>"A Family Affair" at the Cambridge Arts Theatre?

I kept thinking this sounded familiar, and then, having rewatched episode=

three of Xena season four on Saturday - Steven as Gabby's grandson, the
Destroyer?

Harriet

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:56:28 -0400
From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Christmas presents
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Alison told me:
>'The Sisters of perpetual indulgence'

Yes, them!  I'd love it if they survived to reach Freedom City.

Joanne failed in her attempt:
> will not mention the somewhat dubious idea that =

>popped into her head of  Jarriere in a nun's habit - oh.

Now you've gone and done it!  How did you know the sisters, by the way?

Kathryn told me:
>Gift vouchers.

Ah, gift tokens is what I'd call them.  "Certificate" was suggesting to m=
e
"I bought you a present, honest, but I lost it somewhere."

Harriet

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:37:17 GMT
From: "Gavin Murphy" <gmurphy2001@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Hello + 3 questions
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Hello,

This is my first post, after one of my self initiated British Sci-Fi rest 
periods I have recently started to watch all 52 Blakes episodes from the 
start. What is making this nice is that my Girlfriend has never seen them , 
or any british Sci-fi to speak of and she is loving it.

Anyway I have been a fan of British Sci-Fi for about 14 years, and for what 
it is worth I live in Oregon,USA.

A couple of questions for the list.

1. Is it cool to "trade" videos on this list??

2. I love  Dr.Who/Blakes 7 I am craving some other related british sci fi-so 
this leads me to these questions--->

What do you think about Terry Nations SURVIVORS?? I have heard that it is an 
accquired taste and that it is not that good? Is it really that bad??

I am ready to start getting some of the Bill Baggs/Independent Dr. Who 
"Offshoot" videos, if you had to tell a hardcore "darker" 70's Who & Blakes 
7 fan to pick one of the offshoot videos to start with which one would you 
go with and why??


Any help would be appreciated!

Gavin


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Date: 18 Oct 00 13:47:18 PDT
From: Jacqui Speel <jacquispeel@netscape.net>
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Subject: [B7L] Logic of Empire
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Having recently heard this production I 'see' a problem with the logic of=
 the
final argument. I use the above verb after due consideration (others who =
have
heard it will understand what I am getting at: like The Mousetrap (play) =
it
would be incosiderate to reveal the ending)
Do others who have heard it have any comments?

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:05:13 EST
From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Christmas presents
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>From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com>
>Now you've gone and done it!

Does that mean I have to write another Jarriere filk to a Beatles tune? I 
remember the circumstances where I had to do that last year rather vividly.

>How did you know the sisters, by the way?

Oh, there's a Sydney chapter. They tend to appear at the Mardi Gras, or on 
the news if the Rev Fred Nile has been particularly virulent about 
homosexuals, transvestites, etc - anyone he deems abnormal. This is 
beginning to sound like topic migration from the spinlist, so I'll stop 
here.

Regards
Joanne



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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:42:44 +0100
From: Tavia Chalcraft <tavia@btinternet.com>
To: 'Lysator mailing list' <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>,
	'Freedom City mailing list' <freedom-city@blakes-7.org>
Subject: [B7L] A Family Affair
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Just got back from 'A Family Affair', I think the second night, so I might 
well have been the first Blake's Seven fan to see it. I know lots of people 
will be going to see it, so I'll try not to spoil it for you....

The play has been translated from the French and, if one believes the 
programme notes, the dialogue concomitantly rewritten to fit to an English 
audience's expectations -- interestingly the translator/director considered 
(but I don't think did in the end) toning down the language of the daughter 
to prevent her swearing so much. The translator/director commented that one 
could have translated the scenario from French to English, or even north 
London Turkish Cypriot, but that because the family felt so French, and the 
setting so archetypically French, that would have risked missing the point. 
I tend to agree, but the result was a slightly uneasy mixture of English 
(or Scottish!) accents, jarred by the occasional French reference and the 
very French cafe bar setting. I'd say the play was 'typical' French farce, 
and about half the actors were playing it for farce while the other half 
were playing it seriously, which perhaps didn't work all that well. 
Unfortunately French farce with English accents inevitably reminds one of 
'Allo 'Allo ..., especially with Rik Mayall taking the lead role, Henri, 
the disconsolate bar owner. Generally he carried it off well, but sometimes 
to my mind at least let it slip too far into rather physical comedy (too 
much gesticulation), where pathos might have been more appropriate. Steven 
Pacey's role, as Henri's spoilt younger brother Philippe, didn't really 
challenge him. Suffice to say that Philippe is not a particularly pleasant 
character... The set was excellent, simply but effectively setting up the 
archetypal French bar -- but where was the espresso machine ???

Anyway, in summary, enjoyable but not hugely profound.

Tavia
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 22:04:47 -0600
From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts about Rescue
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On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:29:19 +0100 Tavia Chalcraft <tavia@btinternet.com>
writes:
> IMO, Dorian shows an explicit, shall we say 'interest' in Avon, and 
> certainly seems to me at one stage to be suggesting parallels 
> between 
> himself and Avon, almost trying to recruit Avon to his way of life. 
> I find 
> Avon's reaction interesting since it seems to be plain disgust...
>
This is an interesting thought.  OTOH, Dorian seems to have had an
obvious need for Avon as part of his gestalt.  But, going up to five from
one, maybe he thought he could spare one.  Of course, there's also the
question about how much of a link Dorian had to the intellect of his
victims.  As the creature in the cellar, Avon may have had to put up with
psychically experiencing whatever Dorian wanted to do and maybe Dorian
would have still been able to pick his brain afterwards for ways to
improve Orac.

The idea of Dorian as a crew member, even if he'd had to join and the
cave had been destroyed, doesn't quite work for me mainly because he
makes Servalan look like a moral paragon.  Still, it would have been
interesting until someone shot him.

Ellynne
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:54:57 +0100 (BST)
From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.com>
To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Question about a serial story
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On Sun 15 Oct, B7Morrigan@aol.com wrote:
> I am hoping with the wealth of knowledge out there, someone can help me track 
> down a story.  
> 
> I've been happily immersed in a box full of "Gambits" for the last week or so 
> (when not overwhelmed by RL).  I read a story called "Day of the Bounty 
> Hunter" that appears serially in the Gambit zines.   I read part 1 in Gambit 
> 10; part 2 in Gambit 12; part 3 in Gambit 13.   Part 3 ends with "To be 
> continued but part 4 is not in Gambit 14.
> 
> I did a search using the author's name (S.R. Mowatt) on Judith's site but I 
> didn't get any matches, leading me to believe that the info isn't indexed 
> that way.


Did you try a search under 'Mowatt'?

I haven't tried it myself, but I don't think the site search engine remembers
single letters like S and R, so it might not have recognised what you were
looking for.

I don't think the series was completed in Gambit, unfortunately.

Judith

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:24:38 +0100
From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Hello + 3 questions
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Gavin wrote:

> This is my first post, after one of my self initiated British Sci-Fi rest
> periods I have recently started to watch all 52 Blakes episodes from the
> start.

Hi Gavin, welcome aboard!


> What is making this nice is that my Girlfriend has never seen them ,
> or any british Sci-fi to speak of and she is loving it.

That's great: my other half can't stand B7 (except for Gambit, Orbit, and
Vila).


> What do you think about Terry Nations SURVIVORS?? I have heard that it is
an
> accquired taste and that it is not that good? Is it really that bad??

Not at all: 'Survivors' is still really powerful viewing. There are some
episodes that will stick in your mind for a long time, particularly from
the first season, like the first episode, 'The Fourth Horseman', and 'Law
and Order'. I think the second and third seasons are not as good (they turn
into 'The Good Life' with candles), but there are still some great odd
episodes, particularly 'The Last Laugh', which is one of the most of the
most powerful episodes of anything I've ever seen. Ian McCulloch, who plays
Greg in 'Survivors' is in my list of Acting Gods (his guest appearance in
'Colditz' is just amazing).

Hmm, B7 content to this post. OK: B7 takes place in the aftermath of a
disaster a long time ago. Maybe it wasn't atomic wars, and it was the
plague from 'Survivors'.


Una

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:26:40 +0100
From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [B7L] Logic of Empire
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Jacqui wrote:

> Having recently heard this production I 'see' a problem with the logic of
the
final argument. I use the above verb after due consideration (others who
have
heard it will understand what I am getting at: like The Mousetrap (play) it
would be incosiderate to reveal the ending) Do others who have heard it
have any comments?

I get what you mean and understand the problem you're suggesting. I
personally think that LoE has a *fantastic* ending, which exploits the
medium it's using brilliantly. I guess I found the end so breath-taking I
was prepared to overlook any potential problems.


Una

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Date:   Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:09:02 +0200
From: "Marian de Haan" <maya@multiweb.nl>
To: "'Lysator mailing list'" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Some more random thoughts about Rescue 
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Tavia wrote:
>IMO, Dorian shows an explicit, shall we say 'interest' in Avon, and
certainly seems to me at one stage to be suggesting parallels between
himself and Avon, almost trying to recruit Avon to his way of life. I find
Avon's reaction interesting since it seems to be plain disgust...<

A nice example of Avon being not the callous bastard he likes to pretend to
be :-)

Marian

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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:43:33 GMT
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] I'm also chasing a story ...
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... and I did try to find it on your search engine, Judith <g>

Does anyone know where Helen Parkinson's 'A Second Chance' was published?  I 
believe it's the story that 'By Unfrequented Ways' (which I have recently 
read and *adore*) is the sequel to, and I would love to find a copy (if 
anyone has one they would like to seel, please contact me :-) or if they 
just know where it was publsihed so I know where to start searching, I would 
be eternally grateful.
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