Kathryn wrote: <But to take the other appendage... another reason *I* like Blake's 7 is that they keep on fighting, even though it *is* a hopeless cause, even though they don't have any great chance of winning.>
It's that obstinate, almost bloody-minded but quite wonderful refusal to give *up* hope, even when everything's so hope*less*, that I love. Sure, this springs from the same source as his bull-headedness (even Avon will accept the brick wall of reality if he runs into it hard enough. Blake simply looks for another way to go through brick walls), but that refusal to give up believing in what might be a fruitless, impossible, doomed-to-faulure but nevertheless *necessary* attempt is very important to me, gives the whole thing heart amongst the cynicism (so I'm sentimental, so sue me).
<I don't think I could stand unrelieved hopeless doom, where nobody's idealistic or noble at all.>
Me too. If it were just "The Dirty Dozen Find a Super Intergalactic Getaway Car and Go Off On a Crime Spree to Beat All" it might be fun :-) but I doubt it would have stuck in my mind all these years.
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