Speaking as someone who saw the series on its first run, back when I was only a teenager, I sometimes feel sad when I watch B7, because so much time has passed. Here I sit, forty-one, older than Avon was at Gauda Prime, and I can't help thinking of all those who have gone before us, like Paul Daneman (Bellfriar), Ronald Lacey (Tynus), and so many others. What will our fandom be like in ten years time, or twenty? Will anyone still be interested? Will I be? We who were there at the beginning were very lucky, I think. I just wish I hadn't drifted away for so long, and missed so much. Blake's 7 is a part of the youth that has slipped away from me without me really noticing. In the same year as it began I was listening to The Jam's 'Setting Sons', and leaving school, and now I'm a factory worker, most likely till the day I retire. I wonder how the younger, newer fans will feel in twenty years time. Part of me loves B7 because it was part of my youth. I didn't have to make excuses for the dodgy sets and less-than-special effects - I had grown up watching 'Doctor Who', and it was just the normal thing. Newer fans must have tougher time of it, used to the glories of Babylon 5, Farscape and ST:TNG. They have to work a great deal harder to suspend their disbelief, something which we pretty much took for granted.
Mel
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At 02:45 09/02/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Part of me loves B7 because it was part of my youth. I didn't have to
make
excuses for the dodgy sets and less-than-special effects - I had grown up watching 'Doctor Who', and it was just the normal thing. Newer fans must have tougher time of it, used to the glories of Babylon 5, Farscape and ST:TNG. They have to work a great deal harder to suspend their disbelief, something which we pretty much took for granted.
I saw B7 for the first time in 1998, having been just too young to see it the first time around. I started watching it, oddly enough, because there was an informal "So, did you see Babylon 5 last night?" discussion group that happened during morning coffee at work. Someone mentioned that there was an old BBC series that was just as good, and lent me her tapes.
Perhaps years of Doctor Who inured me to dodgy sets, but I think that B7 still stands on its own merits, in competition with SF series made today. It's a character-driven show, and (as I was thinking only the other day while watching 'Enterprise') Really Shiney FX don't provide character.
Mel
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Anna Simpson wrote:
At 02:45 09/02/2002 +0000, Mel wrote:
Part of me loves B7 because it was part of my youth. I didn't have to
make
excuses for the dodgy sets and less-than-special effects - I had grown up watching 'Doctor Who', and it was just the normal thing. Newer fans must have tougher time of it, used to the glories of Babylon 5, Farscape and ST:TNG. They have to work a great deal harder to suspend their disbelief, something which we pretty much took for granted.
I saw B7 for the first time in 1998, having been just too young to see it the first time around. I started watching it, oddly enough, because there was an informal "So, did you see Babylon 5 last night?" discussion group that happened during morning coffee at work. Someone mentioned that there was an old BBC series that was just as good, and lent me her tapes.
I became a fan only last year when I saw reruns on TV here. I had seen it as a child, but was too young to understand it and remembered very little--mostly them all being shot at the end, which so upset me I almost didn't watch last year. Others dismissed it, saying that the sets wobbled, but that aspect didn't concern me--I finally decided to watch because someone sent me the URL to a site with witty quotes, mostly from Avon and Vila.
I was captivated by the characters and the dialogue, though some of the worst SFX do still make me cringe. Up till then, Babylon 5 had been my favourite SF series, and I really hadn't thought a show of B7's age could be anywhere near as good. I was wrong. And now I'm writing fan fiction, something I never thought I'd do. ;-)
Nico
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