----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 6:59 AM Subject: FW: [B7L] Derelicts (and longish minor ramble)
Mel wrote: <I recently bought Derelicts. It certainly is a challenge, but well worth the effort. Bryn Lantry's singular style is wonderfully distinctive, and
I'm
looking forward to reading other examples of her work in the future.>
She's one of my favourite B7 writers, and does *the* best GP Blake I have come across.
<I'm still catching up, after many years in the wilderness away from B7. I watched the series on its first run as a teenager and loved it, but fell
by
the wayside some years later, though I bought the videos when they came out.>
<grin> I simply went away and sulked for - oh not long, 17-18 years? -
about
*that* ending ... lovely to see you.
<One thing which has struck me, the difference in attitudes towards the characters between then and now. Re-reading early Horizon and other
fanclub
newsletters was an interesting experience. The current perceptions of Avon certainly seem very different,>
Oooh, tell more. Are we worse Meegats than they were? :-)
Not exactly, but he was considered more of a supercool rational man (which of course he still is) without some of the slightly more off the wall aspects of his character which have come to the fore in more recent years. Personally, I think his actions in the practical sense are nearly always rational, but his re-actions often aren't. distrusting the people he was closest too, even if not emotionally, seems slightly irrational to me - however much he might protest the opposite, he needed people around him he could rely on. And regarding my years in the wilderness, I must make a heretical confession - it was mostly because I fell in love with Jeremy Brett's splendid Sherlock Holmes. I must have a thing about emotionally repressed blokes, I think. Mel
<but also that of characters like Anna Grant and Jarvik, neither of whom were so hammered back then as they seem to be now.>
I rather like Jarvik, but purely for the entertainment value - *because* he's so wonderfully appallingly obnoxious; I always cheer when he gets it :-)
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