Blake's 7 02x11 Gambit

[clocketpatch]

I... what did I just watch?!?!

WHUT. No, really, whut. There is an elderly lady in a burlesque outfit talking about chess in a bad French accent. I'm fairly certain I just saw the guy who plays all of the Ompa Lumpas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, there's another man with the most insane wig-hat-idek I have ever seen, and SERVALAN IS WEARING RED.



…!?!?

Space Vegas + Versailles

WELCOME TO FREEDOM CITY EVERYONE!

I really want Servalan's red dress. It's gorgeous. I'd never be able to pull it off, ever, and it looks very uncomfortable and impractical, but still... I have dress envy.

The characters in story are questioning the ridiculous wig. Brb, dying.

Meanwhile, on board the Liberator…

Avon and Vila are scheming and playing tricks on Orac. I am actually in tears from how much I am laughing. Avon gives Vila, "a warm feeling, right in the money belt." Trying to rip off a major casino (in space) with the help of a sarcastic super computer in mini mode and a two hour deadline… gah, no way THIS can POSSIBLY go wrong.

Oh, and did I mention that the Casino is decorated with Christmas tinsel? That's how you know it's festive and full of bling. :D

I don't really know what my feelings are towards down-on-his-luck neck beard!Travis. He's come a long way from his immaculate sex shop leather suit, that's for sure… I do like his new hat.

Lol, whut, is this random guy playing Live Chess? Against Deep Roy?(And it IS Deep Roy, I just looked it up. This could not get more cracky if it TRIED)

(And yes, LIVE CHESS! Just like in A Good Man Goes to War. I… My words… the background music… the retro digital chess board… all of it… WHAT AM I WATCHING RIGHT NOW?!?)

Vila and Avon are the most hilarious thing ever. I just want to watch them attempt dismally stupid hoaxes all day.

Ah, and now Vila has been drugged and coerced into playing Live Chess. And Avon is encouraging this.

Comedy Vila and Avon is the best thing ever. I want more of this.

AND SCENE!

Since I'm getting near the end of the season I feel like the next two episode are probably going to be really depressing and full of people randomly dying and awful cliff-hangers and all of that... which I will watch with anticipation and enjoyment, but I really enjoyed this crack. It was just so much crack. :D

ETA: I just watched the finale, and yup. Check. Check. Double check on the cliff-hanger. But I loved this bit of dialogue:

Vila: "Avon, this is stupid!"
Avon: "And since when has that ever stopped us?"

Ahhh!! Time to mainline series 3 me thinks.

Comments

[clocketpatch]

Hmmm... I am two episodes away from Kairos now according to the handy-dandy episode order thingy I made after realizing that my source wasn't listing them in order at all (and lucky I did, because I nearly watched the final finale after only two stories O.o), and having heard so much about Bed Steed I am now morbidly curious and thinking to myself, "Anything with Avon and Vila in it can't be *that* bad"

Except, I know that I'm wrong about this and I'm probably going to be face!palming a lot in two episodes aren't I?

I think I'm going to be a non-shipping heretic as well. For several reasons, but mostly because I think the pair of them are just too damaged to even realize that's an option. Especially Blake. (I can't ship him with Jenna either; I know that she's supposed to be the love interest, but... just not getting anything there. Nadda. Zilch.)

I'm vaguely starting to Avon/Dayna, but again... I doubt it will actually work out. (I was killing myself laughing during Aftermath because the Avon/Dayna and Avon/Servalan meme prompts were practically writing themselves.)

[thisbluespirit]

(I was killing myself laughing during Aftermath because the Avon/Dayna and Avon/Servalan meme prompts were practically writing themselves.

From this point on, the cracky fanfic is completely all there on the screen. I wrote an Avon/Servalan fic for Yuletide and the realisation slowly dawned on me that there was literally nothing I could do with them that would be more cracky than things that actually happened. And, er, it's not limited to those two. Wait till you get to Ultraworld... ;-D

And you were talking about Avon/Dayna and that sounds weird to me now (because I think Avon actually does get how young she is in more ways than one) but I remember I kind of did at that point too. (Avon/Everyone never fails!)

Ben Steed is... Well, I am resolved never to look him up on IMVD because I hope these were the only things he ever wrote before they took his typewriter away, but I fear that can't be true. Anyway, you can indeed make your own mind shortly. (Rest assured there is at least some extreme crack at a couple of points in the episode. It helps.)

Anyway, I can now use my Dayna icon without being at all spoilery! :-)

[clocketpatch]

Well, I already knew she'd been showing up from your intro post. You're right about her being young, and now that I think about it, Avon only made come hither eyes at her right when they first met... and given that he'd just fallen out of a spaceship and was semi-conscious at the time I think that can be forgiven.


I think I can Avon/Everyone in a casual way, but he's got so many shields up that I cannot imagine him (at this point in the series anyway) willingly opening up to any kind of healthy serious relationship. I can see dysfunction in spades, but.. yeah...

(which all makes me want to smuch snuggle him more for some reason. Damn you Avon!)

[thisbluespirit]

I think I can Avon/Everyone in a casual way, but he's got so many shields up that I cannot imagine him (at this point in the series anyway) willingly opening up to any kind of healthy serious relationship. I can see dysfunction in spades, but.. yeah...

*nods* I only have one even slightly serious ship in B7, mostly I'm intrigued by the idea of random, possibly just one-off pairings and the way everybody interacts in general. I think the universe is kind of against them, really. (The one ship I can probably mention by now, which is Dayna/Tarrant.)