Re what Lisa calls:
the whole interminable business.
(and I agree with most of what she said)
I have been thinking on this interminable business as I stared out my insomnia, and have come to the conclusion that it is not actually impossible for Fiona and me to discuss it (which is why I have said very little), because our mindsets are completely alien to one another. It is not merely a question of how we interpret the series, it is a question of how we think it can be interpreted. Fiona, as far as I can make out, believes that an objective viewing of Blake's 7 is not merely possible, but easily defined, and can be separated from interpretations built upon it. I can't even imagine such a possibility, and therefore perceive every account as interpretation influenced by the individual viewer. All the things which she sees as evidence mounting up to proof (eg comments of writers and actors, individual gay people, fans in general), I see as interesting pieces of information to sift through and accept as enriching my interpretation - or reject as not. That doesn't mean that anyone else should pick and choose the same pieces of information, because I regard all interpretations as subjective. Consequently, I am often baffled by attempts to "prove" an argument. I read such debates in order to sift through other people's ideas and see what I'd like to add to my account. But it begins to seem that in some cases it's impossible to discuss this, because such discussion keeps falling back on an appeal to common ground which doesn't appear to exist.
None of which will stop me defending a tribe-member in any Blues War - we'll merely have to work out some sort of code for emergency communication...