Annie wrote:
In a message dated 3/1/01 12:23:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, julia.jones@jajones.demon.co.uk writes:
<< There are lots of things like this scattered through the cultures concerned (and a fair few of the obvious ones date from the different experiences of the World Wars). To me, the culture depicted in B7 is descended from the one on the east side of the pond... >>
But what specific incidents in the Blakes 7 *universe* (not in the production values or the actor's accents) dictate or even show the audience that the people in B7 are all meant to be descended from a British society?
'But *apart* from the roads, the water supply, the working bureaucracy - what have the Romans ever done for us?'
Leaving aside the fact that I don't believe you can dissociate the production environment from the effect of the finished product, how about the premise? Ika pointed this out to me over the weekend, so thanks to her, but I can't think of another country whose public service broadcasting corporation would produce a programme about resistance against an arguably illegitimate goverment when the government of that self-same country is in the middle of a heightened version of such a struggle (late 70s were a bad time in Northern Ireland).
In the society we see in B7, there doesn't seem to be any remembrance of World War II or of "our" world at all.
Apart from the portrayal of a facist regime? Terry Nation puts this into pretty much all his scripts for 'Dr Who' too.
Una