Blakes7 May 2001

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Re: life and fiction (was McVeigh)
by Helen Krummenacker 12 May '01

12 May '01

I found myself wondering on similiar lines... Why do I find crimes of greed rather obnoxious in real life and wish Avon had gotten his millions of credits in his scam? I think it's because I focus on the 'so rich no one could touch us line'-- in my personal view, Avon was stealing to ensure his (and Anna's) safety from the Federation, rather than greed. How do other people react to Avon's attempt at embezzlement?

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Re: [B7L] Careers (was: Gan, marriage, et al)
by Marian de Haan 12 May '01

12 May '01

M asked: >If the B7 characters were in our reality, what jobs would they have? yes I know they were criminals, but saying they all had day jobs which were honest. < I can imagine Gan as a kind of paramedic - an ambulance man or something like that. Avon seems too much of an individualist to work comfortably under a boss. He'd probably be most comfortable when given difficult projects to work out on his own. I think he'd also be a success as an airplane-crash investigator or some similar profession. Vila would be in his element as an official visiting pubs to check that they don't use too small measurements or water down the wine. He'd insist on tasting the wine personally :-) Blake can only be a school teacher. The way he's laying down the law on Liberator - and gets his crew to obey him even when it's sheer folly - indicates a born teacher. A military career seems the most suitable for Tarrant. He comes over as someone who thrives under firm authority and needs clear lines of command. Jenna as free-lance pilot, hiring herself out for the more adventurous and dangerous jobs, is an obvious choice. I think she'd also make a decent investigative journalist - always asking "What's going on?" :-) Soolin would be a success as bodyguard. S1 Cally could be working for a sports school giving courses in Self-defence For Women. S2/3 Cally could be employed as a government complaints officer - being sympathetic to the complaining members of the public without ever trying to get their problems sorted out. This must be the influence of the episode "Animals": I keep seeing this mental picture of Dayna working in a zoo, tending to the more dangerous animals. Thanks, M. This is fun. Marian

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Re: Marriage and the Federation
by Tavia 12 May '01

12 May '01

The cycle time is getting very short here! We had this one not six weeks ago. As I recall when I read the transcripts, most of the obvious candidates turned out not to have been explicitly stated to be married. Perhaps someone with a brain operational could write a 7cyclopaedia entry ? Tavia

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Re: The Way Back
by Helen Krummenacker 12 May '01

12 May '01

First off Iain, I'd like to say I like your approach and commentary. Now for my response for one question > Blake asks Ravella why the administration would suppress us [with drugs]? > Is he blind. everyone we see looks drugged. Is part of the drugging (even > after 36 hours without drugs) stopping him from seeing this? > I would suggest that people see whatever they are used to seeing as 'normal'. When everyone is drugged and that's all you've seen, you would think that the undrugged people are possibly on dangerous stimulants; no one could normally be that unpredictable, jumpy, emotional and rapid in movement, could they? The gentle rhythms of daily life are normal, not these rebels. > Blake (and presumably others?) is being "looked after": constant observation > and following and faked tapes from his relatives (needing actors that look > just like his family). > Or the Federation has good computer graphics generators. Easier to do right than finding and coaching actors.

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Re: marriage and the Federation
by Helen Krummenacker 12 May '01

12 May '01

> M asked> The 'woman' thing, I was just wondering how many characters, are discribed > as being married? -real question, I cant think of any (are the two in Way > Back married?. > "Headhunter", the roboticist and his wife. "Rumours of Death", Counciller Cesku and Sula (Anna). I think the lawyer is married to the woman with him in The Way Back, but I'm not sure if I'm getting that from the show or the written summary (and I only watched it a couple of weeks ago!) In "Deliverance", the doctor's family will be sold into slavery for his 'desertion'-- I don't think they said 'wife and kids', but family. Marriage is specified rarely on the show. > I'm wondering if marriage is unusual or something higher grades do. > I thought perhaps so. Even in the examples above; scientist, lawyer, government official, and doctor-- the are in "professions", as we call those careers these days, which would suggest superior grade citizens.

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Re [B7L] Nasty nasty Gan
by Neil Faulkner 12 May '01

12 May '01

Assuming Gan is the onboard representative of the Peter Sutcliffe contingent, it adds a certain poignancy to his last words, methinks. Neil

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Re: careers
by Helen Krummenacker 12 May '01

12 May '01

> If the B7 characters were in our reality, what jobs would they have? yes I > know they were criminals, but saying they all had day jobs which were > honest. > Vila> "You want fries with that?" Seriously, I have trouble believing he would take a job. If he really wanted to, locksmith would be good. At least it would use his talents. Alternately, he'd choose something where he could try to hit on chicks. I guess I could see him getting fired a lot as a bartender. Avon: Comes up with perfectly wonderful computer systems that nobody buys because they aren't Windows compatible. Unix users love his products, but don't buy enough. Avon gets frustrated and comes up with a virus that takes out Bill Gates' computerized mansion. Blake: Green Party candidate. Jenna: Airplane pilot. Does the volunteer work flying doctors to Mexico and rural areas when she has the time. Cally: Psychic Hotline. No, actually, 911 line. She's never alone and people need her. She is very effecient as she can talk to the caller and dispatch the emergency response team with her mind. Gan: I don't know; what do homicidal maniacs do? jk I think he'd like working with his hands. Maybe a contracter (hoome building). Tarrant: Was a pilot, downsized from the military, pursuing acting career. Dayna: Works for Lockheed or some other military supplier. Maybe working on the lead-free bullets. Soolin: Cosmetics spokeswoman.

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Re: 'woman'
by Helen Krummenacker 12 May '01

12 May '01

Isn't it mysogynistic to claim the use of the word 'woman' indicates mysogyny?

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Re: sympathy ploy?
by Helen Krummenacker 11 May '01

11 May '01

> There will usually be a secondary reason BTW, but > although the reasons for that headache changes, the context will always be > the same. Gan is alone. Gan is alone with a woman. > One way to try to get attention. > >

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We can't *all* be geniuses ...
by Sally Manton 11 May '01

11 May '01

Dana wrote re Avon-in-the-bath: <He could have kept the gun on the bath tray, along with the loofah, the book, and the rubber duckie.> <grin> just remember, this is Dorian's bathroom. Heaven only knows what the book was (any suggestions? and remember which list we're on) and wouldn't it be a rubber Sludge Monster? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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