Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm enjoying re-watching Blake's 7 so much that I decided to start a discussion about it. Who else wants to join in?
I can't remember most of the episodes because I was about 9 when I watched them, so it's like something new, but it is such a good series. High time for a remake.
Me and my friends used to play Blake's 7 in the playground. I was always Cally. We were all girls so some played male roles.
Avon is such a great character! I love his constant arguing with Blake and I realise now why I liked Avon. Apart from the fact he's a handsome man, he is actually a more attractive character than Blake. All Blake does is shout and get angry. It's very tiring. They should have shown a softer side to him. At least Avon is a bit funny sometimes. And they should have just got another actor to play him when Gareth Thomas left. It was a bit stupid having Blake's 7 without Blake.
Also I'd forgotten about Travis in his head-to-toe black leather costume. Well! And I like his hatred of Blake too, the way he is always trying to kill Blake, but Blake avoids killing him in order to score moral points.
A much better series than I remember, at first I didn't want to watch it because it was one of the last series I watched with my dad before he died. But re-watching it is actually making me happy. I can imagine my dad chuckling at some of the silly scenes.
If anyone wants to discuss this series with me, please do!
Finally watched the pointless ending of Blake's 7. Honestly, what was the point of that? We watched the characters go through 52 episodes and all ended up dead. What a waste of time. They could at least have died blowing up a Federation base or something.
At least I finally realised that Avon is a psychopath and stopped liking him, he just got boring. I decided that Vila is my favourite character, he's more relatable and always messing up, like normal people.
But I suppose it was all a bit of fun, if pointless...
I was in my youth when I saw that ending when it was shown for the first time, live on television.
I was in shock for years.
Eventually I understood it.
The moral of the story is, that eventually their luck ran out and they got slaughtered.