Blake's 7 back
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079...
Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
voyds9 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079...
Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
I daresay they'll sort the quality of the set out this time...Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
I loved it too, bought all the videos when they were released for the second time, and even watched a few of them. Like a lot of series from that time, the general "look" is very dated even before you see the set moving so it makes it quite difficult to watch.
Fingers crossed it gets further than previous attempts, and somehow makes it onto terrestrial TV as well.
Fingers crossed it gets further than previous attempts, and somehow makes it onto terrestrial TV as well.
BBC website said:
According to FremantleMedia, the new series will be set in 2136
I love the way they say that as though it's waaaaaaaaay off in the future. Looking at how space exploitation and exploration has evolved in the last fifty years, I can't see it in 125 years being the every day life these series make it out to be. 
the Liberator was destroyed at the end of the (Blakeless apart from a cunning trap hallucination) 3RD series
The 1st series ended with the prediction of the Liberators destruction by the newly acquired Orac computer. The 2nd series ended with the Liberator holding the fort against the invasion of the andromedian aliens whilst the federation got to Star one where the invasion was to occur. The 3rd series ended with the crew trapped on Terminal after Servalan tricked Avon into thinking Blake was a prisoner there, on it's way the Liberator flew through an enzyme cloud that despite its appearance to be non harmful actually contained nasty enzyme particles that proceeded to eat away at the Liberator's hull, Servalan captured the ship engaged "maximum power" in her thearatical style and it all disintegrated.
Series 4 ended with the destruction of their new ship crashing onto a planet the eventual re emergence of Blake pretending to be a federation agent and Avon killing him because he believed Blake's "selling out" and had done it to trap Avon, then the federation troopers arrived and killed everybody though there was ambiguity about Avon until after the end credits
The alien invasion at the end of series 2 was originally going to be the Daleks and the series was due to end at series 2 but was reprieved then series 3 was going to be the end and after a bittersweet ending the continuity announcer said there would be anew series because the BBC controller liked it upon seeing it that is according to the legend etc
The 1st series ended with the prediction of the Liberators destruction by the newly acquired Orac computer. The 2nd series ended with the Liberator holding the fort against the invasion of the andromedian aliens whilst the federation got to Star one where the invasion was to occur. The 3rd series ended with the crew trapped on Terminal after Servalan tricked Avon into thinking Blake was a prisoner there, on it's way the Liberator flew through an enzyme cloud that despite its appearance to be non harmful actually contained nasty enzyme particles that proceeded to eat away at the Liberator's hull, Servalan captured the ship engaged "maximum power" in her thearatical style and it all disintegrated.
Series 4 ended with the destruction of their new ship crashing onto a planet the eventual re emergence of Blake pretending to be a federation agent and Avon killing him because he believed Blake's "selling out" and had done it to trap Avon, then the federation troopers arrived and killed everybody though there was ambiguity about Avon until after the end credits
The alien invasion at the end of series 2 was originally going to be the Daleks and the series was due to end at series 2 but was reprieved then series 3 was going to be the end and after a bittersweet ending the continuity announcer said there would be anew series because the BBC controller liked it upon seeing it that is according to the legend etc
Zad said:
I fear that this will go the same way as the US version of Life On Mars, but with crap CGI, a teenage Servalan in a bikini and a plot that ends happily ever after. The only connection with the original will be the name, some characters and occasional plot elements.
I wouldn't be averse to a different ending. The ending to "Blake" was just crap.V8mate said:
voyds9 said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22079...
Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
I daresay they'll sort the quality of the set out this time...Brings back childhood memories, cardboard sets, bad acting and massive plot holes, can't wait for the new one.
daveydave7 said:
the Liberator was destroyed at the end of the (Blakeless apart from a cunning trap hallucination) 3RD series
The 1st series ended with the prediction of the Liberators destruction by the newly acquired Orac computer. The 2nd series ended with the Liberator holding the fort against the invasion of the andromedian aliens whilst the federation got to Star one where the invasion was to occur. The 3rd series ended with the crew trapped on Terminal after Servalan tricked Avon into thinking Blake was a prisoner there, on it's way the Liberator flew through an enzyme cloud that despite its appearance to be non harmful actually contained nasty enzyme particles that proceeded to eat away at the Liberator's hull, Servalan captured the ship engaged "maximum power" in her thearatical style and it all disintegrated.
Series 4 ended with the destruction of their new ship crashing onto a planet the eventual re emergence of Blake pretending to be a federation agent and Avon killing him because he believed Blake's "selling out" and had done it to trap Avon, then the federation troopers arrived and killed everybody though there was ambiguity about Avon until after the end credits
The alien invasion at the end of series 2 was originally going to be the Daleks and the series was due to end at series 2 but was reprieved then series 3 was going to be the end and after a bittersweet ending the continuity announcer said there would be anew series because the BBC controller liked it upon seeing it that is according to the legend etc
I spent many years thinking B7 ended with the "maximum power" moment and the destruction of the Liberator. (Was too busy with exams or something for the next couple of years. )The 1st series ended with the prediction of the Liberators destruction by the newly acquired Orac computer. The 2nd series ended with the Liberator holding the fort against the invasion of the andromedian aliens whilst the federation got to Star one where the invasion was to occur. The 3rd series ended with the crew trapped on Terminal after Servalan tricked Avon into thinking Blake was a prisoner there, on it's way the Liberator flew through an enzyme cloud that despite its appearance to be non harmful actually contained nasty enzyme particles that proceeded to eat away at the Liberator's hull, Servalan captured the ship engaged "maximum power" in her thearatical style and it all disintegrated.
Series 4 ended with the destruction of their new ship crashing onto a planet the eventual re emergence of Blake pretending to be a federation agent and Avon killing him because he believed Blake's "selling out" and had done it to trap Avon, then the federation troopers arrived and killed everybody though there was ambiguity about Avon until after the end credits
The alien invasion at the end of series 2 was originally going to be the Daleks and the series was due to end at series 2 but was reprieved then series 3 was going to be the end and after a bittersweet ending the continuity announcer said there would be anew series because the BBC controller liked it upon seeing it that is according to the legend etc
When I got to watch series 4, the world had moved on and dystopian Sci-fi was out of fashion. Killing everyone was a bold step.
Now we live in the era of 'franchise' entertainment, so the writers will have to set everything up for a long running series. I don't expect much from it, but I could be wrong.
I was obsessed with Blake's 7 as a child. Utterly obsessed. My mother used to tell with horror the story of me being unable to stop crying for over a week when Gan was killed. She couldn't send me to school, I was completely inconsolable. And no, I wasn't putting it on. Still makes me well up now thinking about it, and I'm 43.
At school, me and a bunch of mates used to use the climbing frame as a "Liberator", to the exclusion of all the other children. I always had to be Blake, otherwise I wouldn't play. Still remember to this day who it was that always played Avon, Gan and Vila. Obviously no girls joined in so we had to imagine Jenna and Cally.
Bloody hell. I'd forgotten about all that, and this thread has brought it all back in technicolour.
Hope the new series is good. I'll think twice about letting my 8 year old son watching it though, don't want him turning in to the same blubbering geek mess I was.
At school, me and a bunch of mates used to use the climbing frame as a "Liberator", to the exclusion of all the other children. I always had to be Blake, otherwise I wouldn't play. Still remember to this day who it was that always played Avon, Gan and Vila. Obviously no girls joined in so we had to imagine Jenna and Cally.
Bloody hell. I'd forgotten about all that, and this thread has brought it all back in technicolour.
Hope the new series is good. I'll think twice about letting my 8 year old son watching it though, don't want him turning in to the same blubbering geek mess I was.
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