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blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 277
Today's Topics:
Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent
Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent
[B7L] after B7?
Re [B7L] Pressure Point - the zine
[B7L] Mornington Crescent
[B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V99 #276
[B7L] Re Dawn of the Gods
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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:34:26 +0100
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent
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Judith wrote:
>It came to me in a flash of inspiration last night while I was struggling
with
>back pain to try and write up my con notes.
>
>I just have to play a Gan sacrifice. This allows me to move into Earth
orbit
>and thus -
>
>"I've done it!" I've won.
Well done. Except we're not playing that silly game any more. Instead
we're playing ... er ... I know - Hide and Seek. Right, I'll count to a
hundred.
One. Two. Three...
Go on, off you go.
... Ninety Eight. Ninety Nine. One Hundred.
COOOMMMMIIIINNNGGGG!
Well then, what have we got? That's Judith behind the standard lamp ... Una
in the magazine rack ... Steve Rogerson under the ashtray ... and that looks
like Iain disguised as a ... hang on, my mistake, it -is- a bearskin rug ...
and if I'm not mistaken that's ... Oh. Sorry, ma'am...
Oh, a -hunting I shall go ...
Neil
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:12:53 +0100
From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent
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Neil wrote:
> Well then, what have we got? That's Judith behind the standard lamp ...
Una
> in the magazine rack ...
Are you calling me fat?
Una
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:31:51 +0100 (BST)
From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] after B7?
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I've been watching Crusade, and it was an ok show, but I've just got to the
episode that JMS originally intended to be the first one (the one where they are
wearing the new uniforms) and there's a change.
The whole show suddenly has a darker feel. There's something I cannot put my
finger on that feels like Blake's 7. Whatever it is, it wasn't there in the
earlier episodes. What's more, the shots of Excalibur suddenly have me shouting
'Liberator' where they never did before (though the ship isn't any different as
far as I can tell).
For the first, time I started consciously counting the crew.
Gideon the captain has started showing the obsessive side of his nature - he's a
man with a cause that he believes in totally. Nothing is allowed to stand in
the way of that and nothing can distract him. At present, he's hanging onto his
morality, but now I am wondering at what point the desperate need to succeed
(billions of lives hang on the success of his mission) will cause him to do
things that he currently regards as unacceptable. He has a team of individuals
- many of whom are not military personnel and are not guaranteed to follow
orders without an argument.
There's a highly talented thief.
A telepath who skills seem rather under-utilised.
A doctor. (well, something had to be different)
A technomage and an archeologist - they seem to have shared out aspects of
Avon's personality between them. One loves being cryptic and the other loves
money. They both get some good dialogue, especially the technomage (played by a
British actor). Both are extremely intelligent.
There were six main charcters. I felt cheated. Until the end of the episode
when Gideon opens a cabinet and in it there is a talking box of lights. I
shouted 'Orac!' and was happy.
The next episode was an absolute cracker - why is it always the good shows that
get cancelled? And why did the network muck JMS around forcing him to add on
the lamer earlier episodes when we could have had stuff of the quality of the
later ones?
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/
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:29:49 +0100
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re [B7L] Pressure Point - the zine
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Yep, it's finally here. Ish. I now have a large boxful of PP zines in my
bedroom, sitting proudly on top of all the other junk after the printers
kindly put in all the pages they missed first time around. 72pp of A4, with
the following stories:
Becoming, by Jenni-Alison (S1)
Diary of a Rebel Somebody, by Chris Blenkarn (S1, humour)
Destroying the Evidence, by Helen Brunton (S1, humour)
Flattery, by Marian Mendez (S1, more humour)
Drug-Induced Tranquility (S1 again, but not humour)
Traitor to the Cause, by Susan Cutter (S2)
Haunted, by Nickey Barnard (S3/4?, Blake/ocm)
Dupe, by Marian Mendez (PGP, S4 crew w/Blake)
Blake appears in just about every story, so Rojophiles might like the zine.
Cost works at 4.10 pounds, but I'm calling it 4 (because it's easier to
remember) PLUS postage. In other words:
UK: 4.70 (2nd Class)
Europe: 5.40
USA: 6.50
Aus: 6.70
Judith Proctor has kindly agreed to handle overseas orders for me, so in
future I will try to be nice to her. UK cheques/POs payable to Mr N
Faulkner.
Trib copies will be mailed out this weekend, hopefully.
Thank you for listening
Neil Faulkner
Wellesley
6 First Avenue
Cliftonville
Margate
Kent CT9 2LG
United Kingdom
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:10:33 +0100
From: Julia Jones <julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Cc: lysator <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Mornington Crescent
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In message <000301bf0653$f826ae40$391fac3e@default>, Neil Faulkner
<N.Faulkner@tesco.net> writes
>COOOMMMMIIIINNNGGGG!
So's Brad!
--
Julia Jones
"Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!"
The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon.
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:42:48 -0700
From: Helen Krummenacker <avona@jps.net>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V99 #276
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Ellyne--
What about the 'boring scenes' factor in Dawn of the Gods? For me, the
absolute worst part of the ep was watching Cally lying in the center of
the room, saying "Who are you?" etc.
I actually liked the amusing wardrobe. But then, I like the amusing
outfits in 'Gambit'.
--Avona.
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Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 04:47:51 PDT
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Re Dawn of the Gods
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Ellyne writes:
<Hmm, maybe someone (moi?) ought to write a defense of Dawn of
the Gods. Let me just make sure I have the gripes right...<snip>
Did I miss anything?>
Only that apart from the game at the beginning (which is fairly
entertaining) and the three (only three!) lines that I do like:
TARRANT: One day, Avon, I may have to kill you.
AVON: [smiles - a lovely, lethal smile it is too] It has been
tried. Vila, wake up.
VILA: I'm in hell - and it's full of Avons. What's the good news?
- It's impeccably, unerringly, consistently *dull*.
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