Blakes7 January 2001

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Re: Blakes7 digest, Vol 1 #8 - 17 msgs
by David A McIntee 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

> From: "Una McCormack" <una(a)q-research.connectfree.co.uk> > To: <blakes7(a)lists.lysator.liu.se> > Subject: Re: [B7L] Another fanfic > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:54:45 -0000 > > Ellynne wrote: > > > Just been thinking in passing of the ST:DS9 ep with the quote from "Avon > > of the 7" > > Does anyone know which episode this is in? I remember it from a Jean Lorrah > TNG novel, but haven't seen all of DS9 yet, so don't know which episode it > is. It's not- it's in the first spin-off novel, The Siege, by Peter David.

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Re: [B7L] filk
by Sally Manton 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

Judith wrote: <If you don't give me permission to put that on the web site, I shall force you to sing it as a duet at Redemption!> Oh please please please please do ... and tape it. Pretty? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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PBS
by Judith Proctor 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

B7 is currently being broadcast in Indianna - WYIN and in Washington - KSPS and KBTC Times are on the Hermit web site along with the times for UK Gold. 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.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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Lysator's New Look
by JEB31538＠cs.com 29 Jan '01

29 Jan '01

I find all the extra needless repetition of the same nine lines in the header of every message in the digest to be very distracting. These are the lines I am talking about: > List-Help: <mailto:blakes7-request@lysator.liu.se?subject=help> > List-Post: <mailto:blakes7@lysator.liu.se> > List-Subscribe: <http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/blakes7>, > <mailto:blakes7-request@lysator.liu.se?subject=subscribe> > List-Id: About the old british Science Fiction TV-series. <blakes7.lysator. > liu.se> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/listinfo/blakes7>, > <mailto:blakes7-request@lysator.liu.se?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://lists.lysator.liu.se/mailman/private/blakes7/> Yes, I know. This now means my message will have the extra lines in it twice when I get my digest. But I wanted to make it clear which lines I was talking about. These extra lines repeated with every message make the digest look ugly to me, plus for my painful arthritic hands it causes me to make many extra key movements that I normally wouldn't have to make. For instance, in a digest of 20 messages, I have to make twenty extra "page down" hits in order to read the entire digest. These nine lines fill my entire Email view screen. To the the truth, I haven't even been able to read the last two digests simply because I am so visually distracted by all the extra information which is totally needless to be repeated in a digest. I read the titles of the posts and start hitting "page down" to read the posts and then about half way through simply give up in frustration. If there is a way to trim all that needless repetition in the digest version, I would sincerely appreciate it. Maybe there's some computing trick that can be used so that in the digests each header ends with "Precedence: bulk." I think trimming this needless repetition in the digests would be a great benefit to us digest people. Joyce Bowen

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Roleplaying Blake's 7
by Helen Krummenacker 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

Had an odd dream last night where I was playing a live action RPG set in Blake's 7 universe. Mine was a Sam-Vimes-ish character... once idealistic part of Federation civilian police, seen one too many casees of obvious curruption and had one too many clashes with totalitarian MPs, lwft the Federation. A cluster of other feugees from the Federation were travelling together with me... and all of us had information on our characters that was not available to the others. I remember specifically a tall, muscular, non-cummincativechap with a criminal background (think Travis 1 as a pirate to picture him). There was also a short, young girl who had sugggested our destination, a place where she hoped to get us help from a friend's father. The father was a nobleman on an independent planet. We arrived, the friend was crying; then in walked the father, escorting Servalan. Fairly obvious to assume the planet was about to fall under Federation power. There was a bit of civilized snarling between us, then I woke up. Thought I'd share this in case it might give anyone ideas for a scenario. Seems like the

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Re: [B7L] Re: Countdown
by Sally Manton 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

Mine Own opinion ... it's emotional. He's rather good at over-reacting when one of his own is in danger (he might have read and agreed with all those tracts about 'a proper revolutionary mustn't care about his human tools' but he simply can't get it right <g>). After all, he fully intended - and told Cauder - that they were pulling out when the countdown reached fifty (though - to give weight to Sondra's theory - at that point, he does order Jenna to bring Avon and Grant up before himself and Vila). Actually, *that's* the point at which Vila should have said "well *I'll* go". Mine Further Opinion is that Blake freezes, and his only thought is that *he's* not going to leave Avon to die (this is Not Logical, since he's half a World Away. From his expression, Logic don't come into it). After all, Vila doesn't indicate he's going to call for pick-up *by himself*, does he? With Vila bleating "Blake!" Cauder yelling "Blake, go!" in one ear, what Vila appears (to what scant attention Blake can give him) to be about to do is pull them *both* out ... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Fw: [B7L] Editing
by Marian de Haan 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Marian de Haan <maya(a)multiweb.nl> Aan: unlisted-recipients:; <unlisted-recipients:;> CC: B7L <blakes7(a)lists.lysator.liu.se> Datum: vrijdag 26 januari 2001 20:28 Onderwerp: Re: [B7L] Editing >Julia Jones wrote: >>No, I wouldn't submit to an editor with that policy, either. Although >I'm starting to wonder about the one with the A and B avatars that I >submitted to a pro publisher nearly two years ago...< > >I've only got experience with Dutch commercial publishers who, if they're >not interested, are never ever going to reply. OTOH, if they *are* >interested they'll respond very quickly. The criterion seems to be that it >you haven't heard from them within a week, you can forget it. But as said, >that only applies to publishers here in the Netherlands (Holland). > >Maybe you could try telephone the publisher, Julia? Here that's the only >way to get a reply, as they don't respond to letters, faxes or email. > >Success! > >Marian > >

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Re: [B7L] Re: Countdown
by Marian de Haan 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

Natasa wrote: >Marian wrote: >>That seems unlikely as the countdown was still at fifty and didn't go that fast. But it would be an argument for letting Vila teleport up immediately, so he couldn't clog the system later. It seems to be a good argument for having Blake teleport up also, to leave the system free for Avon and Grant when they would need it :-)<< >from 'Why Blake Stayed on Albian', an essay by Sondra Sweigman: < quotation partly snipped> >By staying Blake ensured that the teleport would not be in use (transporting Vila and/or himself back to the ship) when Avon needed it. Since that "need" could have become very urgent indeed and it takes time to reconfigure the teleport coordinates,< Not if they could lock on to the bracelets. >Blake's decision was actually a highly pragmatic one. An argument has been made that the teleport coordinates don't need to be reconfigured for pick-up, only for put-down. While there are episodes which seem to support that contention, it was never explicitly stated on the show, and inconsistences of that sort are abundant in B7. Within the context of the episode COUNTDOWN itself, it seems clear that Blake stayed in order to give Avon and Grant first call on the teleport -- whether that involved time for resetting coordinates or simply the delay involved in making two sequential pick-ups.'< >This essay may be found on Judith's site. It's probably the best explanation I could think of.< Sorry, but it doesn't convince me. I maintain that the best way to prevent clogging up the teleport when it was needed in an emergency, was for Blake and Vila to teleport up *in time*. To me Blake's decision to stay seems a hollow gesture. That's his choice, but he shouldn't have forced Vila to stay. Just IMHO, of course. And I'm always happy to agree to disagree :-) Marian

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Re: [B7L] filk
by J MacQueen 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

>From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner(a)tesco.net> >Not that there's much scope for many errors in just four lines... Tell that to Jarvik...Piri...any Space Rat you like... Regards Joanne _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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RE:countdown
by M 28 Jan '01

28 Jan '01

I still think Blake stayed because he felt guilty about Avon being in danger. First off Avon's now with Grant who may blow his head off and second Blake had to let Avon go instead of him. Therefore his guilt is passed over to his wanting to stay - if he teleports up, he's abandoning Avon. Yet he cant teleport over to him, he'd have to get gear and would probably disturb him - not enough time. Here's where my problem lies, Blake is guilty, therefore he makes Vila stay. His idea seeming to be his men must follow his lead. As if Vila isnt an individual in his own right who deserves to make the choice. Whether this be the 'cause' or Alpha superiority, it still shows a side to Blake I dont like and I think leads on to his fanatacism. Whether the teleport should be free for Avon, I dont agree, if Avon hadnt stopped the bomb, Vila would still ahve died. Therefore it still says - Vila second place. M _______________________________________________________ Get 100% private, FREE email for life from Excite UK Visit http://inbox.excite.co.uk/

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