From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V00 #224 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: <blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se> archive/volume00/224 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 00 : Issue 224 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it n [ Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk> ] Re: [B7L] Which ship in Harvest? (wa [ "Dana Shilling" <dshilling@worldnet ] Re: [B7L] Pressure Point [ "Dana Shilling" <dshilling@worldnet ] Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it n [ "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> ] Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it n [ "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.co ] [B7L] Twould have improved it no end [ "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> ] Re: [B7L] Twould have improved it no [ Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk> ] Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it n [ Jacqueline Thijsen <inquisitioner@w ] [B7L] New book by Camille Bacon-Smit [ "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.con ] Re: [B7L] New book by Camille Bacon- [ "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.con ] [B7L] See how in haiku 'Blake's 7' i [ "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.con ] Re: [B7L] See how in haiku 'Blake's [ "Christine+Steve" <cgorman@idirect. ] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:49:08 GMT From: Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it no end ... Message-Id: <200008071749.SAA05310@smtp.uk2net.com> Sally: > > Harvest of Kairos - Avon, Tarrant or Jarvik - I don't care which - has > > screaming arachnophobia. > Betty: > Jarvik! Please, Jarvik! And of course I have to cast my vote for this option too. (With a ten-minute montage a la Carrie of the whole crew standing round laughing at him, and Servalan's voice ringing in his ears: "They're all going to laugh at you! They're all going to laugh at you!" But ideally minus the telekinesis...) Thanks for this Sally, it has brightened my horrible Yorkshire weather. Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net NEWS - CHEAPEST DEDICATED SERVERS IN THE WORLD - 29/month UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:32:53 -0400 From: "Dana Shilling" <dshilling@worldnet.att.net> To: "b7" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: Re: [B7L] Which ship in Harvest? (was Orbit) Message-ID: <00cf01c000b0$3e600c60$39ae4e0c@dshilling> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ika said: > > Although otoh the doughnut probably doesn't move. Or does it? I believe I've seen it rotate in several episodes. Perhaps "did the doughnut move for you?" joins "what a bolthole" as a specialized B7 idiom. -(Y) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:34:34 -0400 From: "Dana Shilling" <dshilling@worldnet.att.net> To: "b7" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: Re: [B7L] Pressure Point Message-ID: <00d001c000b0$442392c0$39ae4e0c@dshilling> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ika responding to Ellyne: > > Hey, do Judith's Avon dolls come with accessories? Coming With Accessories was the whole problem with Avon's original embezzlement scheme, and he's capable of learning from experience. -(Y) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 22:41:14 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it no end ... Message-ID: <20000807.224116.-88543.1.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Don't know if these are improvements, but the ending would be different. Any episode before Rumors: One of the crew is looking through the society/gossip section of the paper and just happens to show Avon an article with a picture of Counselor Chesku and his wife. Aftermath: Just as all the others are about to run for the life pods, Avon remembers where the emergency oxygen is stored. Aftermath: Just as they're about to set out in the lifepods, Vilas asks why they can't just get in the lifepods, turn on the pods' life support, and wait for the rest of the ship to repair itself without actually leaving. Any episode: Servalan's stilletto heels catch on the hem of her dress. She trips and breaks her neck. Star One: Just as he is about to shoot Blake, Travis' batteries burn out. Blake: Just as he's about to shoot Blake, Avon's bullets run out. Warlord: Zeeona is suspicious about the way her father wants to ship her out. She checks the equipment, defuses the device without killing herself, and uses all this as blackmail to make her father quietly resign and leave her in charge. She and Tarrant are last seen choosing china patterns. Orbit: Orac alerts Avon and Vila to the energy/mass problem at the beginning of their flight, also correctly deducing that Egrorian must have had Pindar load a heavy weight paperweight onto the ship. Realizing PIndar wouldn't drag the weight any farther than he had to, Vila and Avon quickly find it and dump it. Spacefall: The prison uprising works. Dawn of the Gods: The Thaarn offers Cally galactic domination. She takes it. The Way Back: During Blake's highly publicized, live and on the air trial, his lawyer is handed all the proof he needs that Blake was framed (courtesy of a guy named Fox Mulder LXI). The Federation is overthrown in a popular uprising. The Way Back: Instead of following Blake and his two friends to the secret meeting, security arrests the friends and informs Blake they were part of the Freedom Party that killed his family on a terrorist action on the planet they had moved to. Blake goes on a vendetta to hunt the rest of the rebels in the galaxy down. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:20:53 EST From: "J MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it no end ... Message-ID: <F19ISPim9OciPXkmCJi00000569@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> >Star One: Just as he is about to shoot Blake, Travis' batteries burn out. I know you're referring just to his arm, but there's an image - Blake as the Duracell rabbit, with Travis having the inferior brand of battery. Hm, not sure it's safe to suggest the latter... Regards Joanne ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 23:17:15 -0600 From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Twould have improved it no end... Message-ID: <20000807.231716.-3198599.0.rilliara@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > (With a > > ten-minute > > montage a la Carrie of the whole crew standing round laughing at > > him, and > > Servalan's voice ringing in his ears: "They're all going to laugh > at > > you! > > They're all going to laugh at you!" But ideally minus the > > telekinesis...) > Oh, I don't know, all the spiders locked in a burning building sounds all right to me. Then Jarvik would rush home to Servalan and there would be a high carnage fight neither survived. At the end, when Jarvik's hand popped out of the grave, Avon could just hit it with the rock. Ellynne ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:21:58 GMT From: Ika <blake@gaudaprime.co.uk> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Twould have improved it no end... Message-Id: <200008081321.OAA27216@smtp.uk2net.com> me: > > (With a ten-minute > > > montage a la Carrie of the whole crew standing round laughing at > > > him, and Servalan's voice ringing in his ears: "They're all going to > > >laugh at you! They're all going to laugh at you!" But ideally minus the > > > telekinesis...) > > Ellynne: > Oh, I don't know, all the spiders locked in a burning building sounds > all right to me. Then Jarvik would rush home to Servalan and there > would be a high carnage fight neither survived. > > At the end, when Jarvik's hand popped out of the grave, Avon could just > hit it with the rock. > Joyous laughter ringing through the terraces of Leeds here Ellynne, although this is leaving me with *extremely* strange mental images of Jarvik in a pink prom dress and Tarrant in an awful baby-blue tuxedo... Love, Ika ---------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using http://uk2.net NEWS - CHEAPEST DEDICATED SERVERS IN THE WORLD - 29/month UK's FREE Domains, FREE Dialup, FREE Webdesign, FREE email ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 14:23:46 +0200 From: Jacqueline Thijsen <inquisitioner@wish.net> To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] 'Twould have improved it no end ... Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000808142025.00a71ce0@pop3.wish.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 22:20 8-8-00, J MacQueen wrote: >>From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com> >>Star One: Just as he is about to shoot Blake, Travis' batteries burn out. > >I know you're referring just to his arm, but there's an image - Blake as >the Duracell rabbit, with Travis having the inferior brand of battery. > >Hm, not sure it's safe to suggest the latter... Well, since the image made me giggle, you're only put on probation. If you say something positive about Travis II within the next few weeks, you're off the hook. Jacqueline ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:04:14 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk> To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: [B7L] New book by Camille Bacon-Smith Message-ID: <063d01c00152$66a92100$0d01a8c0@codex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I thought people might be interested to know that there is a new book out by Camille Bacon-Smith (who wrote 'Enterprising Women' about media fandom). This is called 'Science Fiction Culture', and is about the broader science fiction community and its members. As it covers a very broad range of subjects, it feels a little piecemeal, but the sections on the history of fandom were very interesting, as was the chapter on the earliest women fans in the 1950 and early 60s. It's very US orientated, and I think those who read SF (which I don't, much) will get a lot out of it. Una ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:19:14 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk> To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: Re: [B7L] New book by Camille Bacon-Smith Message-ID: <065401c00154$726116e0$0d01a8c0@codex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reference might help: Bacon-Smith, C. (2000) 'Science Fiction Culture'. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (ISBN: 0 8122 1530 3) Una ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 17:58:23 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" <una@q-research.connectfree.co.uk> To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: [B7L] See how in haiku 'Blake's 7' is suddenly somehow less tacky Message-ID: <069001c00159$e2085d50$0d01a8c0@codex> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Absolutely ages ago, I started on a new plan for my website, which was to put all 52 episodes into haiku. These timeless poetic crystals were to be presented to you in flawless and beautiful HTML, so that you could all admire my genius. Alas, I'm crap at writing haiku. So, at the end of this message, are my feeble attempts at the first few episodes, and your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to supply me with the rest. There is an 'Art of Haiku Poetry' site at: http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/haiku.html which tells me that haiku is: 'a contemplative poetry that valorizes nature, color, season, contrasts and surprises. Usually it has 3 lines and 17 syllables distributed in 5, 7 and 5. It must register or indicate a moment, sensation, impression or drama of a specific fact of nature. It's almost like a photo of some specific moment of nature. More than inspiration, it need meditation, effort and perception to compose a real Haiku.' So there you go. I, for one, took the piss rather more. You may spot some ambivalence about season 1. Una -------------------------------------------------- The Way Back: Eat your dinner now And you will feel much better - But don't go outside. Space Fall: Dear Mrs Nova, There has been an incident - Involving your son... Cygnus Alpha: Big beard and big voice Are no match for gallant crew - Nothing else happens. Time Squad: Psycho stalkers loose! Meanwhile - down in the quarry - The crew is complete. The Web: Ing boring boring Boring boring boring bor Ing boring boring. Seek-Locate-Destroy: At last! The bad guys! And with silk frocks and leather, Whose side are you on? Mission to Destiny: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Ortega Express - by numbers. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:57:11 -0400 From: "Christine+Steve" <cgorman@idirect.com> To: "B7 Mailing List" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se> Subject: Re: [B7L] See how in haiku 'Blake's 7' is suddenly somehow less tacky Message-ID: <00ba01c00172$eac5b960$2e119ad8@cgorman> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Una wrote : > Alas, I'm crap at writing haiku. So, at the end of this message, are my > feeble attempts at the first few episodes, and your mission, should you > choose to accept it, is to supply me with the rest. Loved your "Space Fall". How about this for Headhunter : Shame, tall man looses head Run round outside, make a big zap Damm fool halfwits save mankind ....Ahhh, bugger, too many syllables! Stardrive : Land ship on rock? D'oh! Fun in the sand, nice buggy dude. Ooops. Burn, nice Doctor, burn. Ohh, I give up! Steve Dobson. -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V00 Issue #224 **************************************