Stephen wrote: <I don't know. His stint at Dr Who was IMO the best in the programmes history. On the other hand I don't know if the Gothic feel he gave the programme would have translated well across to Blake's 7.>
<grin> I agree that he was wonderful with Dr Who, I *was* musing just about his possible role on Blakes 7 only. And it wasn't meant as criticism of him as a writer, since IMO he's one of the best they had. [Something I forgot to mention in the other post was that he was good at memorable settings (Fosferon, Freedom City, Helotrix) as well as his good guest characters.]
<I always think that Killer is a Dr Who script that got put in the wrong in tray. Curly haired Bloke with all the answers swans into a futuristic environment menaced by human corpses animated by sinister alien invaders.>
And we then have enormous fun trying to work out a sensible reason *why* Blake has the answers (something that is never a problem with the Doctor) and why Jenna [a] doesn't know squat about ancient spacecraft and [b] sits and demurely listens to his lecture mode (me, I think she just loves the sound of his voice, she did the same in SLD, which Holmes didn't write).
<I put the fact that Jenna becomes exposition fodder, losing her status as an expert on Space Flight, is because Holmes confused her with Sarah Jenna, er Jane, Smith.>
<grin> Sarah Jane on the Liberator is a fun idea ...
<I think that Holmes was interested in the Duel of the memorable grotesques - I think he always managed to write Servalan well, which contrasts with his treatment of the female regulars.>
Have to disagree - oh, she's better than the rest of the females, but I find her too much the Macchiavellian Pantomime Dame, *especially* in Gambit. Entertaining, but a looong way from the original, elegantly monstrous creature in S1.
<In the alternate universe where Holmes took the job I don't think we'd have got anything as good as the ending to season 2. No Star One, no Jenna betraying Blake, no Avon agreeing to hold off the bad guys until the bad guys arrive, no speeches about wading in blood.>
<whimper> and no resonance, since IMO he would make damn sure Blake and Avon exchanged no more than 100 words in the whole two years. Ergo, no 'Terminal' and no 'Blake' as we know them.
<Tarrant and Dayna are, if not ciphers, almost incidental to the plot.>
Agreed.
<If Holmes had been allowed to create the show from scratch I think we'd have got something brilliant - not B7 but brilliant nonetheless.>
True. If it had been his show. But were he stuck with Terry Nations characters, whom I rather like meself ...
<If Holmes had taken over in the way Boucher did in S2 we'd have got Avon and Vila pulling of scams and getting into scrapes which is fun but not the same.>
And is what fanfic is for :-)
<It's a shame that Holmes didn't contribute in S3 as the nature of that season would have allowed for the sort of thing he liked to add in a way that S2 didn't.>
Actually, you're right, that would have given S3 an enormous kick.
Loved your Other Script Editors, BTW ...
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