Sally wrote:
Here's another little exercise, if anyone's interested, in two parts:
Ooh, these are good ones.
If you could change just three things about the series - with no restrictions on cast, budget, scripting etc - what would they be? (Obviously, *my* first would be "don't let Blake go.")
1. Have the programme scheduled for a post 9pm slot so that it could be really hard-hitting and not pussy-foot around so much.
2. Have Chris Boucher and Bob Holmes write the entire thing so that it's entirely character and plot-driven, and give them the time to craft whole seasons of rock hard story arc. Perhaps, Mary-Sue style, pull in a handful of talented fan writers who, of course, know best of all what B7 should be like.
3. Shoot it all so it's really grey and grim and metal and bloody. That's what it's like in my head. B7, I mean, not just in my head in general.
If you could change just three episodes, which are they and how would you do it?
1. 'Rumours of Death': really make that interrogation scene *shit* evil. Have someone who can act playing Anna Grant.
2. 'Aftermath': this is pretty much my version of 'don't let Blake go', Sally. I would want this to be the start of an arc in which we see the story of the revolution on Earth as the Federation is collapsing.
3. Well, all the changes I really want to do are covered by my vision for the series as outlined above, but if I had to change a third episode, I'd take out the 'but you're so beautiful when you're angry line' from 'Sarcophagus'. Or I'd change 'The Web': I'd burn all copies of it and then jump up and down on the still smouldering ashes.
Una