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Josette
by Harriet Monkhouse 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Anyone listening to BBC Radio 4 *now* (2.15 on Wednesday afternoon) - Josette's in a play. Don't know what it's about yet. -- Harriet "There is a place for all at the rendezvous of victory." - Aime Cesaire

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Zine lending libraries
by Mac4781＠aol.com 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

I didn't have time to volunteer when this subject was initially discussed. Fans mentioned that they were trying to organize B7 zine lending libraries in Australia and New Zealand. And Susan Beth suggested it would be nice to have someone shop for the libraries at MediaWest. There are frequently some good bargains in used zines at MediaWest. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I plan to attend MediaWest and would be willing to shop for B7 lending libraries. The con is at the end of May. Since May is going to be a busy month for me, I'd need shopping lists and spending instructions by the end of April. Feel free to contact me earlier if lending library organizers have any questions. Carol

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Re: [B7L] DVDs
by Mac4781＠aol.com 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Wildean wrote: > Does anyone know if Horizon still exist? I don't expect them to send out > information every seven minutes, but they've certainly been subtle in their > activities for a few months now. Yes, they still exist. Their newsflash service is active. I receive those regularly, including three bulletins in the last couple of days. And they have a temporary new site for news (until a new permanent site can be constructed): www.blessedbe.co.uk/horizon/index.htm Their newsflash service is open to all B7 fans. You don't have to be a member of Horizon. To join, send a message to Susie at carnell7(a)aol.com and ask her to subscribe you. One of the recent newsflashes reported that Gareth will be on BBC 4 in "Rob Roy." On Sunday, I think. I didn't keep the post. The information is probably available at the above website. If you can't find it there, yell and I'll dig the post out of "Old Mail." Carol > > As far as the DVDs are concerned, the last I heard about them was that they > were > due out last Easter as an HMV exclusive release and then ... nothing. > > Wildean > >

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Character ages
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

I've just been having a discussion with a couple of friends about how old the B7 characters are. Are they much the same age as the actors who played them? And if so, just how old were the cast at the time? I have no idea. My guesses for the characters at the point we first see them: Blake 35 Jenna 26 Vila 28 (ignore his hairline) Gan 35 Avon 40 Cally 25 Dayna 18 Tarrant 25 Soolin 22 Just a guess. I'd like to know: 1) how old were the cast at the time 2) how do my guesses compare to other people's 3) Is there a list of generally accepted ages somewhere, considered as canon? 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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RE: [B7L] RE: DVDs
by Roberts, Patricia ＠ CSE 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

> Nico wrote... > >I just heard that a recent Horizon news bulletin reported > that the B7 DVDs are due out this year. > > Leia wrote in response to Nico: > > Now that might just persuade me to finally fork out for a DVD > player... > > Leia > Me too! A multi-standard one since I live in the States. Pat

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DVDs
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

I just heard that a recent Horizon news bulletin reported that the B7 DVDs are due out this year. I went to their site but couldn't find anything more recent than a year-old rumour. Does anyone know anything? 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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Re: Character ages
by Kai V Karmanheimo 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Hello Though of course Steven Pacey was almost fifteen years younger than Tarrant as originally written for season three, it has never bothered me. Compared to various Hollywood productions demanding the audience to believe that two people with six-year age difference are father and daughter or that teenagers really are like these people who look like they could already have teenage children of their own, it takes very little suspension of disbelief to think that Steven Pacey of 1979-81 vintage is suppose to be over 30. As for the mental side, I don't see why a man in his mid-thirties couldn't have a Flash Gordon complex just like a man in his early-twenties. If you need an in-series excuse, plastic surgery could really be viable, as a means of repairing job-related damage; in case of Space Command officer, anything from enemy fire to having the ship's coffee maker explode in your face (any shipyard putting together ships that can't fly without wobbling through a bit of time-distort turbulence is unlikely to maintain very high standards of safety and functionality with the non-essential systems) or being told by your commanding officer to "just go check what those leathery, egg-like things in that ship wreck are, I'm sure there's no danger..." Not everyone considers battle scars to be a batch of honour or an individualist fashion statement, and when it's time to reconstruct the face, well, of course what the doctor uses is the old archive image taken from when you were just a wet-eared wanna-be star killer. This explanation of course doesn't count for Deeta, but since I've rationalising this far, why not consider them brothers in this respect as well. Imagine Deeta, a handgun to cleaned and a way too many intoxicants to remember about basic things like checking whether the gun is loaded before you start messing it with clumsy fingers. Then imagine a lot of screaming, some embarrassing questions like "where's my nose" and then a call to the nearest plastic surgeon to get your mug to look like the official fan portrait again of the champion of Teal, and since the pictures retouched anyway, could you just snip a bit here and tighten things a bit here and... Kai

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Fwd: [B7L] The Wrong Lie?
by Pherber＠aol.com 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Oops - meant this for the list - sorry Sally! N

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[Fwd: [B7L] Another puzzle]
by Jen McGee 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Dang, I responded directly to Nico rather than the list, so Nico's going to get two copies as I forward on to the list. Sorry. JM > Nicola Mody-Nikoloff wrote: > > > Besides being puzzled about Belkov's crystals and his fate, here's an > > exchange in Volcano which leaves me as much in the dark as it did Vila: > > I agree, I was puzzled too. I took the exchange to mean that Avon decided not to risk the Liberator or their lives on one weak signal, > but didn't tell the others because he knew they would disagree (well, Cally would). > > However, there's a sort of weird, meaningful nonverbal undertone to the conversation that I took to mean the two were discussing > something deeper than Tarrant and Dayna's whereabouts. I decided it was meant to obliquely reference the fact that Blake and Jenna are > still missing and Cally is questioning Avon's willingness to actually find them. I don't really have any evidence for the theory > except that they sure seem to be discussing something important, and that's the only topic that comes to mind. > > Jen McGee

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RE: [B7L] Character ages
by Nicola Mody-Nikoloff 18 Jan '02

18 Jan '02

Jen wrote: > I know my husband, desperate to make the "first command was > 15 years ago" > statement fit with the fact that darnit, he just can't be > 32--he doesn't look it > or particularly act it, has considered writing a "Star Wars > I" scenario somehow > in which a 6-year-old Del Tarrant manages to blunder into/win > an honorary > lieutenantship in an emergency situation. Oh no, a 6-year-old brat even more annoying Wesley Crusher! Or Tarrant had plastic surgery to go with his perfect teeth and perm. ;-) > I personally have a hell of a time accepting that > first-season Vila is younger > than I am, even if Keating was at the time. But that's just > a personal quirk of > mine--even as I get older, I have a hard time accepting that > leading characters can be younger than I am. Well, I'm 30 and I guessed Vila as 28 to start with, ignoring his hair and going by his face and his (at first) bouncy playful nature. I think I'll leave him there as otherwise I'll have to forego a "But I *am* in my prime, well one of them - 31!" joke in the e-mails. > And I agree Dayna comes across as younger than 21 or so, but > an extremely sheltered life will do that. I thought she was younger too. I've been told Josette Simon was. Pity they didn't bring out more of Dayna's ignorance of the world, but maybe her tutors taught her well. Let's not mention that perv Justin though... 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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