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!
Loved Blakes7, what a fantastic show! Vila was awesome. Loved his character from start to finish. Never liked Blake he got on my nerves, Avon was all right but his character changed over time and became less likeable. The ending blew my mind though
You have summed up my exact feelings, Remora! I can't edit my original post now though. I love Vila. Now HE is the anti hero to end all anti heroes isn't he. The exact antithesis of the hero. And would always make you laugh and steal anything you wanted.
Yes, Blake was annoying, not likely to draw me into following his leadership. I thought Avon was great at first but he went downhill and ended up just a run of the mill psychopath. The only thing I liked about him was how handsome Paul Darrow was.
The ending...I think it was a cop out. They could at least have blown some Federation thing up as their last act if they had to die.
I'd love to see a remake of this with Blake in all the episodes.
I reckon I would like it, I like good space operas
I can't stand those telenovelas happening on earth our times, what my 3 sisters used to watch using TV standing next to my PC monitor !!!!!, so I had to endure it too, those brazilian production, A HORROR
btw there is a chain of scifi books, amazing spaceopera, involving dead coming back to life by taking over boddies of the living, something every sentient race has to go through on its own or perish, required to join Galactic CouncilI, humans could not understand what those blasted aliens are talking about by forestalling their application to join Galactic Council, apparently it cannot be triggered prematurely by a member of that race, some preordained rule at the bottom of all creation blah,blah:P oh, important bit, there are Space Pirates, main character is like them claiming he is not, Joshua Calvert is a Casonova in fact, and 2nd richest woman in all the planets is in love with him, his style is a woman in every port, like every good and self respecting sailor by heart should do LOL
I read it first time 25 years ago, there was no attempt to make into TV Series or movie yet
by Peter F. Hamilton: The Reality Disfunction, Neutronium Alchemist, The Naked God, a trilogy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reality_Dysfunction
it's no1 on my list of scifi to recommend, I am sad to say but The Expanse comes 2nd, among those modern writings
I absorb it all, like a sponge :P
few years later I try it again in a different language
Yes, I suppose because I'm an editor I tend to see flaws in all story plots. This show could have been done so much better IMO. I thought the ending was a real anticlimax, it just said to me: there's no point rebelling, you might as well give up and just obey all the rules.
Chris Boucher may well have written all Avon's dialogue...but actors can say dialogue however they like. Paul Darrow could have made any lines seem crazy, depending on how he said them. Like he shouted a lot of lines in series 4 and often went into crazy laughter. Which he didn't do in series 1-3, when he played Avon as pretty calm and controlled.
I just wish we could have had BLAKE'S 7 with the actual Blake in it for the whole series. SUCH a missed opportunity. What was the point of having Avon leading the gang? It wasn't Avon's 7. Just imagine having Blake and Avon fighting it out for 5 series! *drool* They should have recast Blake when Gareth Thomas left.
It was Michael Keating's daughter as far as I know. Surely if it were Michael himself, he'd have wanted more episodes to be a hero.
I got really fed up and bored with Avon tbh and I'm more a fan of Vila now. There are so many Avons in life, Vila's a bit more unusual. They should have explored Vila's background. I can't edit my original post though
I think there are so many rumours and different opinions of this show and the actors have said so many contradictory things about it, that who did what has got a bit lost in the mists of time.
I expect Paul Darrow resisted attempts to soften Avon because Paul was such a nice guy, I think he was a bit of a dork (and I mean that affectionately) and Avon was his alter ego, he could do terrible things as Avon that he wouldn't do in real life. Most actors are like that- the nice ones play villains, the difficult ones play heroes.
I don't think we can expect to remember everything so I wouldn't worry about memory too much. This is why people have diaries and to-do lists and journals. The present make be more important than the past.
I do seem to have verbatim recall for a remarkable.number of lines from Blake's 7 given that it was broadcast 40 years ago, and I think with years of practice I'm also pretty good at following plots. However, recently I've taken to making notes of character names so I can refer to them later.
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