Anna wrote:
"I think that B7 still stands on its own merits, in competition with SF series made today. It's a character-driven show, and (as I was thinking only the other day while watching 'Enterprise') Really Shiney FX don't provide character."
Agreed, and yet it can't be denied that most of the characters *aren't* deeply written. Apart from Blake, Avon and Vila, most of Our Heroes have repeatedly been called underwritten or poorly developed on this very Lyst: Cally and Jenna start full of promise, but that promise wafts away over time. Tarrant is pole-axed as a character by the dichtomy between the character as written and the actor as cast, and also by the writer's habit of using him as a bobbing block. Gan is nice but ... limited (pun intended). Dayna has more background and less personality than the rest, except for Soolin who for a good half of her time on the series is a cipher with no authorial key.
Yet with all of this, it's still the characters that draw us in ... they underwriting *works*, it creates tensions and ambiguities and contradictions that I think are smoothed out in more expansively written characters on other shows. Like the contradiction between what Avon says and what he does - something that in many other shows would be made a plot or dialogue point, but in this show is just *there*.
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