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Post by trollte on Jul 12, 2004 11:59:46 GMT
I've had the first series on DVD for a while, but I started watching it this weekend, and it is so fantastic. I do have very fond memories of this cos when it was first on telly I was allowed to stay up late especially to watch it.
Favourite things so far: 1. I love the way that none of the characters like each other 2. Avon is sexy and that's inappropriate. In fact I shall add him to the inappropriate lust thread 3. Their beakers are actually polystyrene cups with a bit of silver tape round them 4. Villa's "toolbox" is actually a cool box! Genius. 5. Travis's eyepatch has a hole in it, and you can see his eye blinking through it 6. Cally managing to beat the crap out of a bloke by pushing him into a pile of crates 7. Travis's entrance which focused on his leather-clad arse 8. Servalan non-specific 9. Someone being foamed to death 10. Animation for special effects
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Post by QuincyMD on Jul 12, 2004 14:57:11 GMT
The first season is easily the weakest of the four. By the end of the run Terry Nation was turning in 30 minute scripts and these were then being padded out by Script Editor Chris Boucher, the most obvious example of this being Bounty.
Great things about Season 1:
1: Johnny Briggs dad as a heartless git. 2: BLESSED. 3: Seek-Locate-Destroy (despite the crap ending) 4: No Orac 5: Sally Knyvette's complete inability to emote. 6: Michael Keating as Vila 7: Jack Rolfe!! 8: The Way Back : the hero is framed as a peadophile. 9: That shot of the Liberator going past the lightbulb that is repeated about 75 times. 10: The cliffhanger, which although you can solve it within 10 seconds of seeing it is probably the first example of a TV series having a cliffhanger ending.
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Post by zaffra on Jul 19, 2004 16:52:42 GMT
Servalan was ace, she was wicked and sexy, yet older than your Mum.
In the forth coming movie she will be played by Sigouney Weaver*
* I made this up
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Post by Ben on Oct 12, 2006 19:37:07 GMT
Jenna and Cally were the Agnetha and Frida of BBC science-fiction, and that white leather sofa on the "Liberator flight deck" looks like something out of Abigail's Party.
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Post by Ben on Nov 18, 2006 22:16:46 GMT
Currently rewatching selected episodes of B7 on DVD. Why hasn't Jacqueline Pearce been made a Dame for her services to cult TV? Ah, fuck it, here it is... "MAXIMUM POWER!"
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Post by Ben on Nov 29, 2006 20:21:33 GMT
Blake's 7 will be the subject of an episode of a new documentary series called "The Cult Of... ", which has featured a number of SF shows from the 60's and 70's. Covered so far: Adam Adamant Lives!, Doomwatch, Star Cops.
I'm hoping that Jacqueline Pearce will be there to give her best anecdotes: "I learnt that I had been a masturbatory fantasy to an entire generation of young men."
Keep checking the BBC4 listings for it.
Oh, and I recently heard a story about someone who met Gareth Thomas in a bookshop and shouted "Blake!" Gareth then grumbled: "I've been an actor for 35 years, and all people remember me for is that piece of shit."
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Post by QuincyMD on Dec 1, 2006 14:48:29 GMT
The Cult of Star Cops is/was bizarre.
It's such a terrible show that I'm surprised that anyone would admit to watching it, even one of the contributers to the show admitted he hadn't watched it on transmission and had only watched the DVD so he could contribute to the show.
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Post by Ben on Dec 3, 2006 19:58:24 GMT
The Cult of Star Cops is/was bizarre. It's such a terrible show that I'm surprised that anyone would admit to watching it, even one of the contributers to the show admitted he hadn't watched it on transmission and had only watched the DVD so he could contribute to the show. Indeed. Chris Boucher's such a miserable sod, isn't he?
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Post by QuincyMD on Dec 4, 2006 12:01:56 GMT
I don't think Chris is totally miserable, he comes across well on the commentaries he's done for B7. Well Ok he comes across as someone who is very critical of his own work.
Star Cops was his big chance to be a show runner, like Terry Nation on Series 1 of B7, but the fact it sucked eggs big style almost killed his career and I have to admit that from my (very limited) memories of Star Cops I agreed with the Producer rather than Chris.
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Post by Ben on Dec 10, 2006 14:26:40 GMT
I don't think Chris is totally miserable, he comes across well on the commentaries he's done for B7. Well Ok he comes across as someone who is very critical of his own work. Those B7 commentaries are the dullest I've ever heard. When Jacqueline Pearce comes out with a regular statement of "I don't remember anything about it, darling!" and is still the most charismatic commentator, you know you're in trouble. I have to turn off the commentary for one episode when Jan "Cally" Chappell came out with an absolute humdinger: "We're talking too much. We should stop and listen to the dialogue." She's rather missed the point of a commentary track, hasn't she? That producer of course, by the look of him, is a walking advert for the virtues of moisturiser.
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Post by QuincyMD on Dec 12, 2006 9:52:20 GMT
Mike Keating is good fun on the commentaries, David Maloney comes across as the most miserable man ever, Chris Boucher cant get a word in edgeways BUT
the commentary on "Assassin" is genius, can an actress have ever had her part assassinated in such a way?
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Post by QuincyMD on Dec 12, 2006 10:59:03 GMT
NEW BLAKES7 HAS BEEN MADE!!!!!
3 60 minute Audio Dramas were recorded last week with Derek Riddell as Blake, Colin Salmon as Avon and Daniella Nardini as Servalan.
WHOOOOAAAAAAAHHHH!
Is Blakes 7 following the Doctor Who route back to TV?
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Post by zaffra on Dec 12, 2006 15:29:57 GMT
Daniella Nardini would make a kick ass Servalan.
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Post by Ben on Dec 13, 2006 10:36:34 GMT
Blake's 7 will be the subject of an episode of a new documentary series called "The Cult Of... ", which has featured a number of SF shows from the 60's and 70's. Covered so far: Adam Adamant Lives!, Doomwatch, Star Cops.
I'm hoping that Jacqueline Pearce will be there to give her best anecdotes: "I learnt that I had been a masturbatory fantasy to an entire generation of young men."
And indeed she was. She'll be telling that admittedly fantastic anecdote at the old folks' home over tea and rusks.
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Post by latoyajunkie on Feb 6, 2007 18:44:35 GMT
I happend upon a Radio 4 broadcast last December (I know it's for old people...) , and it was about the locations they used. And there was this woman who regularly hung around her local quarry and indeed got married there because it was the location of various planets on the show. She said something like "I know it has been many different alien planets, but it'll always be Alpha Major to me, oh yes!" You only get that kind of lunacy from sci-fi freaks! Love 'em
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Post by Ben on Mar 5, 2007 21:09:34 GMT
Check out www.jacquelinepearce.com for an insight into this fascinating lady. She's retired now - going off to Africa to live on a nature reserve. Good luck to her. God bless you, Jacqueline. Altogether now... MAXIMUM POWER!
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Post by latoyajunkie on Mar 13, 2007 10:27:37 GMT
Her site is great! Thanks for the link.
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Post by QuincyMD on Apr 24, 2008 14:05:06 GMT
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