Stephen Date wrote:

I always think that Killer is a Dr Who script that got put in the wrong in

tray. Curly haired Bloke with all the answers swans into a futuristic environment menaced by human corpses animated by sinister alien invaders.<

That would explain Blake knowing more about viruses than Bellfriar, reputedly the greatest living authority on them :-) (I always found that extremely silly.)

I think that Holmes was interested in the Duel of the memorable grotesques<

He can write excellent scenes between two characters but his dialogue suffers as soon as the action calls for more.

I like Egrorian and Pindar.<

I hate them. Egrorian's OTT performance prevents me from taking Orbit episode serious.

Ah you have neglected Tarrant and Dayna in Traitor. But come to think of

it Traitor is the story of Space Major Hunda and his gallant band of rebels fighting a doomed struggle against Servalan and a one eyed baddie. Tarrant and Dayna are, if not ciphers, almost incidental to the plot.<

Exactly. The focus is on the guest characters. One of the things I dislike about Holmes's B7 plots is that he seems to give more attention to the guest characters than to the regulars.

Ben Steed: Wake up and smell the testosterone, Dayna would have been the

only woman to do anything in 52 episodes.<

But not once would she have been allowed to win from a man :-)

Jarvik would have been the new Travis.<

<shudder>

Roger Parkes: Blake's 7 fans would not mention the dialogue as one of the

high points of the show.<

Nor the plots.

Marian