"Sally" == Sally Manton smanton@hotmail.com writes:
[a] three things about Blake's 7 as a series that make it special for them, and different from other shows?
1) It's quite uniquely bleak. As someone said here long ago, the protagonists really have their high point in episode three or so; after that it's steadily downhill until they all die due to bad luck and misunderstandings in a miserable hole on an unimportant planet.
I think the one B7 episode that in itself mirrors the entire series is "Pressure Point": after much effort and many trials everybody loses.
2) The baddies. Servalan is beautiful, smart and very nasty, and unlike almost every other villain she does *better* than the heroes in the long run.
3) Entertaining characters and much fun dialogue.