From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V99 #277 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume99/277 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 99 : Issue 277 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent [B7L] after B7? Re [B7L] Pressure Point - the zine [B7L] Mornington Crescent [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V99 #276 [B7L] Re Dawn of the Gods ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:34:26 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <000301bf0653$f826ae40$391fac3e@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Judith wrote: >It came to me in a flash of inspiration last night while I was struggling with >back pain to try and write up my con notes. > >I just have to play a Gan sacrifice. This allows me to move into Earth orbit >and thus - > >"I've done it!" I've won. Well done. Except we're not playing that silly game any more. Instead we're playing ... er ... I know - Hide and Seek. Right, I'll count to a hundred. One. Two. Three... Go on, off you go. ... Ninety Eight. Ninety Nine. One Hundred. COOOMMMMIIIINNNGGGG! Well then, what have we got? That's Judith behind the standard lamp ... Una in the magazine rack ... Steve Rogerson under the ashtray ... and that looks like Iain disguised as a ... hang on, my mistake, it -is- a bearskin rug ... and if I'm not mistaken that's ... Oh. Sorry, ma'am... Oh, a -hunting I shall go ... Neil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:12:53 +0100 From: "Una McCormack" To: "lysator" Subject: Re: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Message-ID: <005401bf0664$cdd33350$0d01a8c0@hedge> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Neil wrote: > Well then, what have we got? That's Judith behind the standard lamp ... Una > in the magazine rack ... Are you calling me fat? Una ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:31:51 +0100 (BST) From: Judith Proctor To: Lysator List Subject: [B7L] after B7? Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII I've been watching Crusade, and it was an ok show, but I've just got to the episode that JMS originally intended to be the first one (the one where they are wearing the new uniforms) and there's a change. The whole show suddenly has a darker feel. There's something I cannot put my finger on that feels like Blake's 7. Whatever it is, it wasn't there in the earlier episodes. What's more, the shots of Excalibur suddenly have me shouting 'Liberator' where they never did before (though the ship isn't any different as far as I can tell). For the first, time I started consciously counting the crew. Gideon the captain has started showing the obsessive side of his nature - he's a man with a cause that he believes in totally. Nothing is allowed to stand in the way of that and nothing can distract him. At present, he's hanging onto his morality, but now I am wondering at what point the desperate need to succeed (billions of lives hang on the success of his mission) will cause him to do things that he currently regards as unacceptable. He has a team of individuals - many of whom are not military personnel and are not guaranteed to follow orders without an argument. There's a highly talented thief. A telepath who skills seem rather under-utilised. A doctor. (well, something had to be different) A technomage and an archeologist - they seem to have shared out aspects of Avon's personality between them. One loves being cryptic and the other loves money. They both get some good dialogue, especially the technomage (played by a British actor). Both are extremely intelligent. There were six main charcters. I felt cheated. Until the end of the episode when Gideon opens a cabinet and in it there is a talking box of lights. I shouted 'Orac!' and was happy. The next episode was an absolute cracker - why is it always the good shows that get cancelled? And why did the network muck JMS around forcing him to add on the lamer earlier episodes when we could have had stuff of the quality of the later ones? Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.nas.com/~lknight ) Redemption '01 23-25 Feb 2001 http://www.smof.com/redemption/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 19:29:49 +0100 From: "Neil Faulkner" To: "lysator" Subject: Re [B7L] Pressure Point - the zine Message-ID: <000a01bf06be$9c18ff20$08408cd4@default> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yep, it's finally here. Ish. I now have a large boxful of PP zines in my bedroom, sitting proudly on top of all the other junk after the printers kindly put in all the pages they missed first time around. 72pp of A4, with the following stories: Becoming, by Jenni-Alison (S1) Diary of a Rebel Somebody, by Chris Blenkarn (S1, humour) Destroying the Evidence, by Helen Brunton (S1, humour) Flattery, by Marian Mendez (S1, more humour) Drug-Induced Tranquility (S1 again, but not humour) Traitor to the Cause, by Susan Cutter (S2) Haunted, by Nickey Barnard (S3/4?, Blake/ocm) Dupe, by Marian Mendez (PGP, S4 crew w/Blake) Blake appears in just about every story, so Rojophiles might like the zine. Cost works at 4.10 pounds, but I'm calling it 4 (because it's easier to remember) PLUS postage. In other words: UK: 4.70 (2nd Class) Europe: 5.40 USA: 6.50 Aus: 6.70 Judith Proctor has kindly agreed to handle overseas orders for me, so in future I will try to be nice to her. UK cheques/POs payable to Mr N Faulkner. Trib copies will be mailed out this weekend, hopefully. Thank you for listening Neil Faulkner Wellesley 6 First Avenue Cliftonville Margate Kent CT9 2LG United Kingdom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 20:10:33 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Cc: lysator Subject: [B7L] Mornington Crescent Message-ID: In message <000301bf0653$f826ae40$391fac3e@default>, Neil Faulkner writes >COOOMMMMIIIINNNGGGG! So's Brad! -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:42:48 -0700 From: Helen Krummenacker To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re: blakes7-d Digest V99 #276 Message-ID: <37EC52C8.505A@jps.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ellyne-- What about the 'boring scenes' factor in Dawn of the Gods? For me, the absolute worst part of the ep was watching Cally lying in the center of the room, saying "Who are you?" etc. I actually liked the amusing wardrobe. But then, I like the amusing outfits in 'Gambit'. --Avona. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 04:47:51 PDT From: "Sally Manton" To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re Dawn of the Gods Message-ID: <19990925114751.11122.qmail@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Ellyne writes: Did I miss anything?> Only that apart from the game at the beginning (which is fairly entertaining) and the three (only three!) lines that I do like: TARRANT: One day, Avon, I may have to kill you. AVON: [smiles - a lovely, lethal smile it is too] It has been tried. Vila, wake up. VILA: I'm in hell - and it's full of Avons. What's the good news? - It's impeccably, unerringly, consistently *dull*. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V99 Issue #277 **************************************