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RE: [B7L] Character Change & Development - mostly Vila
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

> -----Original Message----- > From: Sally Manton [mailto:smanton@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, 25 October 2001 22:53 > To: blakes7(a)lists.lysator.liu.se > Subject: FW: [B7L] Character Change & Development - mostly Vila > > Can't say I recall how many times Vila got hit on the head. > Anyone done an actual head-count? Up to the end of season 3, 11 times. He gets clobbered quite regularly in seasons 1 and 2. Not that it seems to affect him much! At this point, he's very resilient. > Vila changes too - he's definitely sourer and finds it harder > to maintain > even *some* joi de vivre in late S3/S4 - but it has more to > do with the general nastiness that tends to focus more on him. Yes - he's lost Cally, the last person who'd shown him any sympathy, and Avon has become much colder and withdrawn (poss. due to the loss of Cally and the Liberator). Avon's now quite ruthless, using Vila and Dayna as bait etc. His put-downs are now real insults rather than banter (even when Vila's near to death in 'Sand') and the others enjoy joining in. Actually, I think Vila is one of the most tragic characters in the series - basically such a nice, likeable, guy, but eventually abused to the point of misery, loneliness, and possible alcoholism. I find his death harder to take because he deserved more out of life to start with. So I console myself by writing him happy PGP endings. :-) Nico *** This e-mail is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. ***

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Ghostwatch
by Judith Proctor 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Remember, if you can't watch Ghostwatch live this weekend, you can still get Paul's diary of the events by going to the UK Horizons page http://www.ukhorizons.tv/ghostwatch/ and clicking on the bit that allows you to register for updates (it's not at all obvious on the site that this is the bit for Paul's diary, but I'm told that it is so). I wouldn't stay subscribed to it for more than the weekend though, as you'll get any other stuff UK Horizons think you might want as well as the Ghostwatch stuff. (I notice BBC America also have Ghostwatch on their website) Judith PS. I'm off-list as usual due to the typing pain. If you need to contact me, please do so off-list. PPS. We're working on a major update of the Hermit website at the moment. Various problems in the last couple of months (redundancy, a death in the family, etc.) have led to several sections getting out of date. Richard's currently got the free time, so he's making inroads into the backlog. It'll take time as we've got a lot of stuff to add/correct, but I'll try and let you know when anything particularly interesting goes up. PPS. Here's the latest bulletin from the movie people. If you've already seen it, apologies for the duplication. A personal message from Paul Darrow: Terry Nation's "BLAKE'S SEVEN"... The new and eagerly anticipated TV Movie and possible series. The Saga goes on and on, and on, and on. Do not despair. Everything comes to he/she who waits. (cf. John Milton, poet.) To travel hopefully is better than to arrive. (cf. R L Stevenson, novelist.) Almost there. (cf. Andy Williams, vocalist.) Seriously though, folks ... (cf. Hughie Green. Hughie Green?) Everything in on track - (I've been told to say this) - for the realization of our dreams. The nightmare of procedures regarding the 'setting up' of the project are at an end. We are on red alert. Well ... amber. All that remains is to 'make the deal' with one of a number of interested investors and all of a sudden we'll gallop apace. Question is ... with whom shall we climb into bed? I'll rephrase that. With which TV distribution company will the interests of the new... newish ... 'Blake's Seven' be best served? That's the stage we're at. It's now up to the sharp traders. What do 'they' want from 'us'? What will we get from them? We'll find out sooner rather than later and we'll keep you informed. Meanwhile, Andrew Mark Sewell - all three of him - slaves away on your behalf. (And mine - I need the money.) Simon Moorhead has joined our production team in place of Brian Lighthill. (Brian is now 'a consultant'. Nice one, Brian.) And for me ... I struggle on in the hope that Avon will not be on his death bed when the cameras start rolling. Meanwhile, Sewell, Moorhead and Darrow are involved with "Ghostwatch 2001" brought to you by BBC Worldwide on UK Horizons, BBC Prime, the Web, the Net, BBC America... anything that isn't terrestrial. Which is apt in a way because ... the programmes deal with the 'Unknown' - ghosts, spectres, ectoplasm, hallucination and just maybe, an experience of a lifetime. Or dead time - depending on your point of view. Kind of like setting up "Blake's Seven" the TV Movie/Series. All around Halloween, the BBC and Net stations referred to will be broadcasting a series of programmes about the paranormal. Not least among these "Ghostwatch 2001". There are vignettes concerning certain ghosts to be found, perhaps, in a place that is world famous for entertaining them. If torturing and beheading can be called entertainment. I mean... The Tower of London ... where we have been privileged to film, in the dead - (sorry) - of night. Not just any night(s), but... Halloween. Trick or treat? Find out by watching with us on Ghostwatch 2001. You'll definitely see me - "Watch the Avon you're likely to see in the new, Blake's Seven. Watch him age before your eyes if a real ghost appears. What am I talking about? Watch him run. In addition - "Feast your eyes on Ms Claudia Christian, star of 'Babylon Five'. If a real ghost appears watch him run." (In which direction, I leave to your imagination.) Whatever happens, and something might, you'll want to be there. You don't really believe there are ghosts? Neither do I. On Ghostwatch 2001 we'll be proved to be right. Want a bet? Just remember ... you might not see a ghost, but how can you be sure that a ghost isn't seeing you? UK Horizons - http://www.ukhorizons.tv/ghostwatch/ BBC Prime - http://www.bbcprime.com/ghostwatch/ BBC America - http://www.bbcamerica.com/ghostwatch/ **************************************************************************************************** A message from Claudia Christian: Attention all Blake's 7 fans! I, Claudia Christian, am here to announce that Paul Darrow is an absolutely incredible man and I am thrilled to be co-hosting Ghostwatch Live at the Tower of London with his eminence. Furthermore, I implore you to join us this weekend! UK Horizons - http://www.ukhorizons.tv/ghostwatch/ BBC Prime - http://www.bbcprime.com/ghostwatch/ BBC America - http://www.bbcamerica.com/ghostwatch/ **************************************************************************************************** Copyright (C) 2001, Blake's 7 Enterprises. All rights reserved. Please do NOT reprint or host on your website without explicit permission. However, if you found the official Blake's 7 newsletter helpful, we grant you permission, and strongly encourage you, to e-mail it in full to your fellow aficionado's. Thank you. -- 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 '03 21-23 Feb 2003 http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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Re: [B7L] Sand and the Girl Next Door
by Angria＠t-online.de 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Harriet wrote: > > I just wish she'd played the final line "I didn't kill you, Tarrant. > Yet." differently - I want it to be the moment when she snaps back into > her normal, ruthless self, but she does it with a sob. Granted. Though the hissing sound the tears made on the sand were a nice comment. <g> >> But that's part of what I like about it, I think. The charming, > smiling, hollow, unable-to-feel monster who so successfully suppresses > her very conventional Achilles heel. Ditto that. Granted, the "even monsters were in love once" idea has been quite often used by now, but if it's done well, why not? Also, there's a slight parallel to Avon and the Anna Grant matter. The love-from-the-past, which caused our cynic to act like a crazed romantic, is a very conventional Achilles heel, too. It makes neither character less ruthless in every day life, but it adds, imho at least, some interesting background. Come to think of it - if Avon had been on the planet (leaving aside the "they'd killed each other by now" problem), would Servalan have tried to keep up the armour somewhat longer (her seeing him emotionally weak over Anna or Blake is one thing, him seeing her another)? And the supposed unworthiness of > Don Keller as the object of her devotion is more or less irrelevant. > It's not what he was that matters, it's what, for a brief while at a key > stage of her life, she thought he might be. Again, same with Anna and Avon. I like the Rushdie quote - from which book is it? Tanja

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Re: [B7L] Sand and the Girl Next Door
by Angria＠t-online.de 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

"Iain Coleman" <ijc(a)bas.ac.uk> wrote: > > > On 26 Oct 2001, Tanja Kinkel wrote: I didn't! It was Sally Manton! > > > > > If Servie's Catwoman (though truly, Dayna would look better in the costume), > > Heresy! Not comitted by me. See above. See also my other mail. Dayna is definitely Batgirl material, whereas Servalan would be great as Catwoman. Tanja

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Fwd: Re: [B7L] Sand and the Girl Next Door (frivolousness warning)
by Sally Manton 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Joanne wrote: <Oh no. I am not adding tights with undies worn over them to Tarrant's wardrobe, let alone to Avon's. No. No way.> Thank you, Joanne, I now have the mental picture of Tarrant in the Greatest American Hero outfit, and that AWFUl theme music going round and round and round ... <Regards Joanne (off to wash her brain out with soap)> Lend me it when you've finished. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Re: [B7L] Sand and the Girl Next Door
by Angria＠t-online.de 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Sally wrote: Batman as in lesser TV episodes (wasn't there a truly dreadful movie-length one?) I wouldn't know - saw one episode of said TV series, and stayed away from the rest. I did read some of the comics, though. If Servie's Catwoman (though truly, Dayna would look better in the costume), does that make Travis2 the Penguin? Nah. Two-Face, of course. Dayna seems to be more of a Batgirl candidate. Tanja

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Re: [B7L] Orbit and the choice of Vila, plus caves
by Natasa Tucev 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

Helen wrote: > >Re cave stories, I am an experienced caver, and I can assure you that >creepy-crawlies only live near the entry points of deep caves. >Creepy-crawlies need to eat too, and there usually isn't much food further >in (no sunlight=no plants=no things that eat plants=no higher level >predators). If you want to introduce some added tension in a cave story, >perhaps you could set the story in a multi-level cave system. It is >possible to get trapped underground by water if it rains unexpectedly while >you are underground, so you don't know it's happening. Getting out may >require going to a low point or crossing an underground river in order to >get to an exit. I know of a number of cavers who have been drowned trying to >cross an underground river in flood. The characters could thus be forced to >retreat to a higher part of the cave, and have to decide whether to wait, >hoping that the water level will fall, or to chance being swept away, etc. >Lots of opportunities for angst, heroics, and character death as well as >heart to heart chats :) Thank you for this inspiring description, Helen. Could you now be persuaded to write a story based on your experience? > >Other than that, deep caves are usually at around the average annual >temperature (say 9 degrees Celcius), and frequently, though not invariably, >wet and muddy. The water always feels icy, and is certainly cold enough to >make your legs go numb if you stay in it long enough without protective >gear. Not my preferred venue for a romantic tryst... 'Tastes cannot be discussed.' I actually know some people (though I'm not one of them) who go to the caves to celbrate New Year's Day. N.

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Re: [B7L] Top Ten Story Miscellany And Unrelated Babble (fwd)
by Jacqueline Thijsen 26 Oct '01

26 Oct '01

At 16:33 22-10-2001, Penny Dreadful wrote: >Hut hut! Surprise inspection! Front and centre! Look alive! Eek! <jumps up> present, sir. Or Ma'am. Or Neuter. >Sister >Jacqueline, you still keeping them FINALACT thumbscrews oiled? Absolutely. I also found time to design our very own FINALACT logo, but I haven't yet gotten around to making the Travis website I've been planning. I'm afraid you'll have to wait for that to see the logo. It's a beauty though, if I do say so meself. It's the letter T with two legs instead of one, connected at the bottom so that the T also looks a bit like a roman 2. Hope you like it. I haven't been keeping up my singing voice, but since that's used primarily for torture, that's a good thing. You did remember to feed the piranhas during my absence, didn't you? >I've been pondering a top ten but don't really think I've >read enough in the area to make any sort of meaningful list. I don't think I've read ten fanfic stories in all. However, I do think Morgan's Boy is really good. >All right, men, as you were... Phew. I was getting stiff, sitting at attention all the time. >-- >"I don't think they'd let someone like me carry a gun." Too bad. It could be so much fun... Jacqueline --- Hygiene is important to me, so I always have my brain washed at least once a week.

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Re: [B7L] Character Change & Development - mostly Avon
by J MacQueen 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

>From: Kathryn Andersen <kat(a)welkin.apana.org.au> >Well, I figure Avon decided to become leader after he gave up on anyone >else being able to do the job properly... (-8 <timidly> Miss, what constitutes being dumped on properly? Regards Joanne (it's one of those days already, I see...) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Fwd: Re: [B7L] Character Change & Development - mostly Avon
by Sally Manton 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

Dana wrote: <Just you try having a job where you get more concussions than tea breaks.> And just *whose* idea was it to become the Leader/Hero anyway? If he'd been watching, he'd have noticed that part of the canonical duties was getting regularly dumped on. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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