political subtexts aside, I always thought Blake's fanatacism was a way to get rid of him i.e. - if he's not a total hero the audience wont mind Avon taking over. Now you mention it though although being born in 1978 I didn't see it originally, having grown up in the 80's in mainlland UK, I can see where this is coming from. I remember the Trek episode being banned and also know that the main train stations around the country also dont have bins. In a society where 'unattended bags will be removed', I can see there being a similarity. The only thing is though as the Federation is a fascist regime where murder, false accusations etc etc are common place, would a Blakeist regime mean that even the terrorism committed by him pales in comparison to the atrosities of the federation?
M. (posting while eating a couple of McVities Milk Chocolate biccies, all this talk of chocolate made me hungry).
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M said:
political subtexts aside, I always thought Blake's fanatacism was a way to get rid of him [...]The only thing is though as the Federation is a
fascist
regime where murder, false accusations etc etc are common place, would a Blakeist regime mean that even the terrorism committed by him pales in comparison to the atrosities of the federation?
Film historian Jeanine Basinger wrote a book whose thesis is that 1930s Hollywood movies spent about 85 minutes showing beautiful, glamorous women having exciting careers in gorgeous clothes. Then, in the last five minutes, in a sop to conventionality that (Basinger says) much of the audience simply ignored, the heroines would say something like, "Gosh, how silly of me! I'd rather wear a humble gingham apron and keep house in a small town in the Midwest!"
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.
-(Y)
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.
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