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

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Surprise!Crack is the best - especially when it is silly and stupid like this. I wanna hug this post!! It has made my day SO. MUCH. BETTER. Eeeee!!

*SQUISH*

OMG, that picture is just SO MUCH WIN!! *CACKLES*

[aralias.livejournal.com]

GAMBIT IS THE BEST OMG.

i dont know how much i have to add, except that robert holmes writes some amazing dialogue, and i also want avon and vila to steal things forever.

and the wighat is great.

in fact, everything is great! i love this episode and how perfect and silly and brilliant it is.

(just rolling into your journal...)

[thisbluespirit]

And I was just thinking that I so had to link you to aralias's marvellous Vila-and-Avon fic, but she beat me to it. You should read it. It's still my favourite B7 she's done so far. (I'm a heretic who only ships Blake/Avon in a sort of probably non-romantic, I-don't-even-know-what-this-is way).

You should definitely also now read Vila's Emails for series two, though!! :-D

From hereon, the show is completely rubbish. (According to some people. I dispute that, but see what you think. ;-D)

Also, this is the point where I warn you about Ben Steed: Ben Steed is nearly upon you! I don't know whether it's better to know or not know, but I think better to know. Basically, there is a writer who did 2 S3 episodes and 1 S4 (and that is ALL! This is a thing to be grateful for) who is not really the worst B7 writer, but... he's incredibly misogynist. So much so that some people can even enjoy some of them as a parody. It is worth being warned for, so when you see his name in the credits, you know what you're getting. There are compensations, except possibly not really in Power.

Anyway, ♥ Also, the guy in the outrageous wig is John Leeson and this is the second time you've seen him in B7, if you hadn't already worked that out. Gambit is indeed pure crack and also, as you will already have noticed, Robert Holmes loves writing Avon and Vila.

Next-up - the Space War! (You will like the Space War, I promise. All five minutes of it. ;-D)