M said:
political subtexts aside, I always thought Blake's fanatacism was a way to get rid of him [...]The only thing is though as the Federation is a
fascist
regime where murder, false accusations etc etc are common place, would a Blakeist regime mean that even the terrorism committed by him pales in comparison to the atrosities of the federation?
Film historian Jeanine Basinger wrote a book whose thesis is that 1930s Hollywood movies spent about 85 minutes showing beautiful, glamorous women having exciting careers in gorgeous clothes. Then, in the last five minutes, in a sop to conventionality that (Basinger says) much of the audience simply ignored, the heroines would say something like, "Gosh, how silly of me! I'd rather wear a humble gingham apron and keep house in a small town in the Midwest!"
Maybe Blake not only had to die in the last episode but had to die at the hands of his [well, let's not start that again] rather than the Federation out of a similar "Crime does not pay" impulse.
-(Y)