On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:52:53 +0100 (BST) =?iso-8859-1?q?Stephen=20Date?= stephend999@yahoo.co.uk writes:
--- Sally wrote:
Other Script Editors:
Terry Nation: Would have kept Blake as a much less ambiguous hero. The Andromedans would have travelled around in shiny pepperpots (Mark 3 travel machines) and said "exterminate" a lot.
Hey, how about the Federation guards in black masks saying that? It would have given them a lot more dialogue.
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Tanith Lee: Much more sexual tension among the Liberator crew. Mystical villain(ess) of the week would have taken over from the mad scientists.
And perhaps more of a resolution to the Avon and Cally issue . . . ?
I think I could have liked that.
Others:
Tim Burton: A lot more opportunities for characters to wear black (except the villains, who might have felt more drawn to pastels). Would have been . . . interesting to see what he would have done with Lee's scripts (good or bad I'm still deciding).
Whoever did Ladyhawke: Watch Vila become the hero. _Much_ longer final fight scene between Travis and Blake. Not sure if Avon is the knight, the monk, or the evil bishop.
Rod Serling: The Andromedan invasion was fake. It is revealed at the end of Blake that they're killing off everyone by inspiring paranoia.
Hitchcock: Whoa. Talk about a match made in heaven. This would _really_ have made Orbit worth watching. Egrorian would no longer have been camp, ditto Pindar. As for Avon trying to kill Vila . . . oh, my.
Shakespeare: Get rid of Hitchcock. Let's see. We have to steal heavily from Winter's Tale. GP is partway through the series (with Avon's Bard writing for him, a few extra years are guaranteed). For those unfamiliar with it, Winter's Tale's first half ends with a feeling of gloom like Othello or Lear. The next half is when things turn around (and the bad guy whose intense distrust got everyone killed is one of the turn arounds). Even the tragically dead get better. And it's CONVINCING!!!
Whoever did Wizard of Oz: Bad news - very short Federation guards singing in squeeky voices ("Follow the Liberator, follow the Liberator. Follow, follow, follow, follow the Liberator"). I do not even want to contemplate Avon singing "If I only had a brain" or the Scarecrow's wardrobe (OTOH, Tarrant singing about his lack of courage has a certain appeal, and Dayna could be Toto [the only character who gets to attack the witch _on purpose_]). Good news - someone drops a house on Servalan.
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