On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Dana Shilling wrote:
Maybe Blake not only had to die in the last episode but had to die at the hands of his [well, let's not start that again] rather than the Federation out of a similar "Crime does not pay" impulse.
I don't think so. Rather, I think the ending came out of Chris Boucher's cynical take on the conventions of heroic drama.
Iain