From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #252 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: <blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se> archive/volume99/252 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 252 Today's Topics: [B7L] Syndeton Experiment Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. [B7L] RB, call home... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:12:27 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk> To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se> cc: Freedom City <freedom-city@blakes-7.org> Subject: [B7L] Syndeton Experiment Message-ID: <Marcel-1.46-0821161227-b49Rr9i@blakes-7.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Figures for tape sales The Sevenfold Crown sold 6,000 copies in the first month and 12,000 total in 12 months (a BBC record). The Syndeton Experiment sold 3,500 copies in the first six months. Stephanie Fox of the BBC Radio Collection was quoted as saying that there were no plans in the pipeline for any further Blake's 7 radio plays. 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) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 01:43:30 EDT From: AdamWho@aol.com To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] No adult subject matter!?!, among other things. Message-ID: <9be230e9.24f0e802@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 99-08-17 13:09:45 EDT, julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk writes: << The alt.fan.blakes-7 newsgroup was recently booster newgrouped, and is now more widely available, although distribution still isn't wonderful (can you AOLers get it yet?). >> No. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 02:46:59 PDT From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] RB, call home... Message-ID: <19990822094704.84409.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed A question...why do people think that Blake never contacts the Liberator after the Andromedan War? I've been trying to work this out in my own mind, and have yet to come up with a satisfactory answer. Yes, the obvious answer is that he wants to leave the ship to Avon, and thinks Avon really wants *him* out of his life. But I can't accept this. No way IMO does Blake really believe that Avon hates or even dislikes him (well, not for more than twenty minutes, and that because he's very tired and stressed). He's known for a looonnngg time - since Time Squad - that he can rely on Avon's loyalty, which comes straight from unacknowledged care; since Pressure Point and that empty room that Avon cares a hell of a lot; and since Hostage that Avon will actually put Blake's safety ahead of his own. With his insight into the man, he can't have really thought Avon wanted to be rid of him, certainly not after he had a good long (and thoroughly deserved <g>) rest after Star One and could think about it clearly. Perhaps he thinks that Avon *needs* to be apart from him, but then what about the others? Surely he knows Cally and Vila would like a reassurance, even if just to say "I'm fine, I've got something new going, don't worry about me." I've come up with a few possibilities - 1] Blake did too send a message or two, but it got lost (it's a big and at this point fairly chaotic galaxy, after all...) and he gave up. 2] He was injured, remember. Yes, he told Zen he was all right (but then he would, wouldn't he?) but he could have been further hurt on landing wherever he did. By the time he recovers enough to think about his ex-crew, it's been so long that he believes it to be pointless(he doesn't know they've been searching). 3] He knew that Avon didn't honestly want to be rid of him, but also that Avon honestly *believed* that he did, and wouldn't rethink his position until he'd tried out the freedom he said he wanted. And therefore Blake decided that if - *if* - any contact was to be made, it would have to come from Avon first. And could accept that that might never happen. 4] He wants shot of it - and them - all. No way. Avon may have driven him up the wall at times, and Vila could be a pain, but he would (and probably did) miss them afterwards. He had a warm, brotherly relationship with Cally, and, despite Vila's carping and complaints, clearly enjoyed his wit and humour. As for Avon - they do *like* each other, they always have (notwithstanding that they sometimes drive each other crazy <g>) and there's enough evidence that he enjoyed Avon's stimulating if hard-to-keep-up-with company most of the time (even when the man was dribving him wild). 5] He just thinks they've (as Vila put it) 'done their share for freedom and all that'. He may not have believed that Avon *wanted* to be free, but could have taken that stab to heart enough to decide that they *ought* to be free...of him *and* his cause, which he can't give up. He may have just thought they'd be better off without him, but that if they knew where he was, they wouldn't leave him (as evidenced by Trial - Jenna and Vila, at least, thought about it, but in the end they wanted him back). Even so, that wouldn't have precluded a message. Blake may be arrogant, but he isn't conceited enough to believe that if he told them they were free, they'd *insist* on sticking around. Any better ideas? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #252 **************************************