"Dana Shilling" dshilling@worldnet.att.net wrote:

The straightforward way of setting up the series would have been to have Blake arrested in the course of Freedom Party activities, then mind-wiped, fitted up, and shipped to Cygnus Alpha. Instead, we have the whole (and rather anti-heroic) business of the SECOND arrest, at a time when Blake was pretty much minding his own business and conforming.

The Blake we see in all his other episodes is a strong person who dominates the situation, so TWB not only has a very different atmosphere from the rest of the series (it's more like the last episode of The Prisoner than the first of B7) but presents Blake as a hapless victim rather than the flawed hero I suspect he was supposed to be.

-(Y)

And 'what if' the series had been written with episode 'Blake' to start with? I know it wasn't planned to end it that way at the beginning, but it might have been 'interesting.'

Jacqui

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