On Mon, 24 Sep 2001 21:21:46 +0100 "Alison Page" alison@alisonpage.demon.co.uk writes:

This is a very interesting chain of thought, Natasa.

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Paul Darrow mentions in an interview that he was told by the writers, 'We think now that

Blake's

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gone you ought to be a little more moral', which he obviously

refused.

LOL

Actually, I thought he was, in some ways. But then, I saw Avon as seeing Blake as embodying certain principles he consciously refuted while wanting to believe in them on another. Hence, with Blake present, he was always willing to argue against them but, without Blake, he actually felt a need _not_ to.

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B7 obviously toys with the 'uncertainty principle', probably not because of any conscious interaction with deconstructionism, but

simply

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because they both reflect our age.

I sometimes wonder to what extent the formal convolutions of B7, the kind of thing you mention in this post, were thought through at all, by anyone. It's not just reflecting the age, I don't think, because you wouldn't find it in any other show of the time. But I'm not suggesting anybody put it there on purpose either.

The thing about B7 is that there are so many things that I'm sure no one consciously put in (and, some would argue, that aren't present outside of the minds of some of the viewers), yet they're _there_. Maybe it's because some things feel right to writers, actors, whoever, even when they aren't _consciously_ created. I'm still thinking over Natasa's post, and it's got a very right feel to it.

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