Jacqui wrote: <So what would the character's 'theme tunes' be if they had them?>
Well, Tarrant's would *have* to be "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines" (can't you just *see* him falling in love with one of those WW1 planes????)
Vila - "With a Little Bit of Luck" from My Fair Lady, or "You Gotta Pick a Pocket or Two" from Oliver
Avon - "Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (I DO!!!)"
Servalan - "When (not If) I Rule The World ..."
Jenna and Cally - "These Boots Were Made For Walk - Tripping."
Blake and Avon - "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (but more importantly Nimrod, by Elgar :-))
Travis has already been given Tom Lehrer's "We'll All Go Together When We Go."
Soolin? - "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun (So Just Shoot Him.")
----Original Message Follows---- From: jacquispeel@netscape.net To: blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se Subject: RE: [B7L] Re: democracy Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 06:15:03 -0400
Helen Krummenacker avona@jps.net wrote:
Does anyone remember if there is any mention of democratic elections within the federation
itself?
- Iain
I don't think there is, but one thing that makes me think there is some pretense of elections is that Blake's first work was with the Freedom Party. Doesn't the word 'party' politically imply that there is room political participation among 'the people' and some form, however rigged, of election?
There is a saying to the effect that any State with the word 'Democratic' in its official country title usually isn't. Is Blake trying to create not necessarily a more 'democratic' state/Federation but one which is more responsive/less hostile to the people it governs - two different things.
Jacqui
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