Sally Manton wrote:
Here's another little exercise, if anyone's interested, in two parts:
If you could change just three things about the series - with no restrictions on cast, budget, scripting etc - what would they be? (Obviously, *my* first would be "don't let Blake go.")
Agreed here. My second and third would be: Let Servalan win a bit more often; better writing for the regular female characters (ties with - fire Ben Steed once he sends in his first draft, or better yet, never hire him in the first place).
If you could change just three episodes, which are they and how would you do it?
1) Voices of the Past: this should have been the episode to deal with Blake's guilt about having betrayed the Freedom Party through his public renounciation etc. Get rid of Travis-as-Mummy. Get rid of the stupid device. Get rid of the actress playing Le Grand. Let this be instead to manipulate Blake/luring him into trap by making him rescue an ex-Freedom Party member who makes him feel guilty as hell for having been broken by the Federation.
2) All Ben Steed episodes are begging for rewrite (see above), but to limit myself to just one: No Jarvik. No Tarzan of any kind. Let the episode be written by Tanith Lee instead.
3) Rescue: no Dayna behaving as damsel in distress. On-screen death for Cally, perhaps, though the single "Blake" was effective as well.
Tanja