Hi,

I'm new on Lysator, though I've been a fan of Blakes 7 for a long time, and I think both of these are really interesting ideas. Do you suppose it could have been Orac who caused the change? I mean, at the end of series one he shows the disaster happening to the Liberator/its sister ship, but do you suppose it could really have been the Liberator? And Orac changed the future so that it was its sister ship? Orac says he has infinite knowledge and that the destruction of the ship is an immutable fact, and if he had infinite knowledge he'd know how to cause a reality shift!

Jenny

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Fiona wrote on Travis:

For instance, to try a couple of different

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ways of "playing the game" (to use your terminology :) ), one can try and explain it by suggesting that, during his retraining between the series, Travis' brain was removed from his head and placed in the head of another man (who was then given similar injuries-- they were meant to be the same but there was a medical error :) ); his speech centres were altered to

give

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him an East End accent, and a leafletting campaign was conducted

throughout

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the galaxy to say "Travis now looks like this; when you meet him, don't

say

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anything about the change, it might hurt his feelings" :).

Another explanation, however, might be to note the other changes that

happen

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throughout the following seasons that contradict season 1--Cally's backstory, for instance, or Venn Glynd being played by a different actor

and

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suddenly having become a prosecutor at Blake's trial--and argue that, to adapt an explanation frequently used in comic books, something happened

to

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the fabric of reality, so that the entire universe changed for the characters, and Travis had *always* been played by Brian Croucher, Venn Glynd was in fact the prosecutor at Blake's trial, etc., for the

characters.

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As observers, though, we *would* in fact see the change--so it jars on

us.

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But the characters don't notice it at all.

Hey, that could explain "The Sevenfold Crown" and "The Syndeton Experiment"-- they're how the B7 universe would have looked if the change _hadn't_ taken place after Series 1...

Thank God the change took place, then!

Shane

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