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TV guide
by Alison Page 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Someone on a Farscape list has shared the front cover of a magazine called 'TV Guide - Ultimate cable' for this week. It seems to have a special on 'SF's sexiest guys'. Tagline 'Meet the heavenly hunks who battle evil aliens and demons - and look great at the same time!' I think it must be American because they call autumn 'fall'. Anybody seen inside this mag? Do the B7 gang get a mention? Alison ********************************************************************** This email and any … [View More]

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The view from the top
by Andrew Williams 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Okay, so why is it that if Space Command is a rotating space station (or series of stations, as has been suggested), the view out of Servalan's window is always static? Andrew. - - - - "In the Iran-Iraq war, Iran has issued a statement accusing Iraq over Irans' denial of Iraqs' allegation that Iran has lied about Iraqi planes attacking Irani positions on Iraqi territory occupied by Iran. Experts on both sides are studying the statement." - Max Headroom - - - -

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Crusades of Blake: some thoughts (not nearly as long)
by Sally Manton 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

I enjoyed this a lot, Natasa (of course, talking about Fearless Leader is so difficult for me as well :-)) A lot of it's so much better than frivolous moi could manage, but just a few words about: < In 'Fellow Feeling', Blake replies to Vila that the injustice done to him is in a way universal. He draws an analogy between altering historical records and erasing the memories of one's personal past. He recalls, for instance, a group of Federation officials present at Servalan's … [View More]inauguration, who later became undesirables and were erased from the vistapes showing this event. 'They took the records and wiped out whole lives, Vila... like they wiped out whole lives in my mind, even my own. They changed you - they erased me... Are you so surprised I want to save others from that?' Mind manipulation, on a larger scale, parallels the Federation's manipulation of truth and history.> Thank you sooo much - this last sentence *does* express what I was trying to put into that little scene :-) I have to admit, that bit of the story (which, for everyone else, is basically a shameless hurt-comfort born of my enthusiasm for what VftP *isn't*) was inspired by a book I'd just bought about how repressive regimes 'edited' non-persons out of the public eye, with heaps of fascinating photos showing the care with these people were cut or airbrushed out of official existence - it got grimly farcical in some cases (30s-40s Russia, in particular) where more and more ex-comrades were deleted until there were more ex's than comrades and heroic attempts were made to fill the spaces (because the PWBs still wanted the photos of the *not*-yet-exs). I can so clearly see the Federation doing things like this - in fact, the attempt to turn Blake into a non-person *is* there, if very sketchily handled (mind you, having broadcast his unknowing recantation far and wide, they were in trouble from the start :-)) and there is also the indication that the same was tried with Servalan in S4 ... perhaps that links into the reason no one recognised her. Maybe people really did *make* themselves forget her to order, erase the ex-President from their consciousness as she was erased from public records (as people in Nazi Germany learned to believe - to *genuinely* believe - to order). But they had to tear Blake's brain apart to make him do it. And on someone else's story (we all love our own babies best, I know) :-) <Blake's not a survivor, Vila surmises in the same story. 'Avon and I are survivors. We just keep on going. Blake's exactly the sort to up and die and leave everyone else with too much to think about.'> I did *love* that last sentence from the moment I read it - the bit about leaving everyone with too much to think about *did* strike me as both perfect Blake and perfect Vila. But would people agree that Blake *isn't* a survivor? When you look at the bald facts of the matter, he keeps managing to come back after repeated mental and physical savaging that defy imagination. Maybe parts of his soul get tattered in the process (I do think there's a clear increase in the stress and exhaustion you can feel in him after VftP, and - given that and his injury at Travis's hand - am of the opinion that after Star One he may have have suffered a complete physical and spiritual collapse for a while). Then pulled himself back together *yet again* and kept going ... all the way to Gauda Prime. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp [View Less]

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Orac and pronouns
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

This is going back a few days, but Ensor uses 'he' of Orac in the eponymous episode, as does Avon in the same episode. I suppose it could also be argued that it is a 'human tendency' to refer to 'that using a male/female' voice by the appropriate gender. (nb. if eponym is for 'named after/derived from' a person, toponym for a place, what is the word for 'things', ideas etc: eg the word 'bolshie' derives from 'Bolshevik') __________________________________________________________________ … [View More]

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Re: Location, Location, Location
by Betty Ragan 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Dana wrote: > Blake's easy sense of command, for instance, could > stem from being raised as a privileged older son Personally, I'm almost convinced that he was the youngest child in his family. I've read some (rather interesting) research on birth order and personality, and, statistically speaking, you're apparently much more likely to find the kinds of rebellious tendencies Blake evinces in youngest siblings than in oldest or middle ones. Apparently, leaders of revolutions are much … [View More]

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Re: [B7L] The view from the top
by Sally Manton 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Andrew W asked: <Okay, so why is it that if Space Command is a rotating space station (or series of stations, as has been suggested), the view out of Servalan's window is always static?> Ummm ... Servie actually suffers from space-sickness, so the windows are actually just trompe-l'oeil? Didn't think so ... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

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Not quite a crossover
by Mistral 15 Aug '01

15 Aug '01

Since it's a bit slow . . . Some of you might like to know that James Marsters (Spike on _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_) is going to do a guest appearance (that supposedly may turn into a recurring role if they can work out the shooting schedule) on _Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda_ this coming season. I suppose it's as close to an on-screen Buffy/B7 crossover as we're ever likely to get. Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" -… [View More]

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RE: RE: [B7L] Location, Location, Location
by jacquispeel＠netscape.net 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

"Rhonda L. Stroud" <rstroud(a)qwest.net> wrote: > Dana Shilling >> The series doesn't give us a lot of information >> about many aspects of daily life, including civil >> law. If we assume a property system something >> like Elizabethan England, though--a system >> dominated by elder sons, with an obsessive concern >> about "legitimacy"--it could explain a lot. >Keeping in mind what Ellynne said earlier--that American's don't write >giants … [View More]

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new CDs and signing session
by Judith Proctor 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

The second CD in the Dalek Empire series is now available. My stock arrived this morning. I enjoyed Gareth Thomas's performance in the first one and hope to listen to the second one tonight. There will be four CDs in the series when it is complete. Gareth's character is one of the leads. We're also now stocking the full range of Big Finish Dr Who adventures, both the ones with B7 cast members in and those without. (I'm listening to them myself now. I've just finished 'The Fires of Vulcan'… [View More]

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Location, Location, Location
by Dana Shilling 14 Aug '01

14 Aug '01

The series doesn't give us a lot of information about many aspects of daily life, including civil law. If we assume a property system something like Elizabethan England, though--a system dominated by elder sons, with an obsessive concern about "legitimacy"--it could explain a lot. Blake's easy sense of command, for instance, could stem from being raised as a privileged older son (we know that he had a brother and sister--or at least thought he did; the whole thing could be a fabrication … [View More]

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