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clocketpatch) wrote2013-12-16 01:30 am
clocketpatch) wrote2013-12-16 01:30 am
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This seemed very deep at lunchtime
Before proceeding, I should mention that I usually spend half of lunchtime reading with the balance being spent in a nap when reading becomes too tiresome. Half the time I end up dreaming about what I was reading and it all gets jumbled strangely...
Anyway. Current lunch book is Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. I reached the end of the intro over lunch and the last paragraph struck me as being a far more eloquent expression of all of those feelings I've been having about Blake's 7, which I attempted to meta on a few weeks back in a very confused fashion. Excerpt:
"...the hardness is balanced by an assurance that all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain. thus the tales are both pitiless and terrorless - suffused with the joy of a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centred, battling egos that are born and die in time."
It was talking about myths and tragedies in a general sense, but it was such a sudden, "Yes, that is why all of the endless bleakness is okay! Because the characters endure and go on fighting, and others will go on fighting after them, and it isn't a celebration of bleakness: it is a celebration of the lives which continue on despite it."
End note 1: my lunch books aren't usually this pretentious. The last one was Kill the Dead by Tannith Lee. There will probably be a post on that one as well at some point and its ridiculous cover art (it's Paul Darrow being groped by ghosts. I did a spit-take on taking it out of the package because oh. my. god. This exists.)
End note 2: I will make a non-Blake's 7 post at some point in the future. Christmas is coming and I am very excited to see more of Capaldi's eyebrows/sad to see Matty Boy stepping down. Here is a hilarious video about Eleven having to regenerate. Enjoy:
Anyway. Current lunch book is Joseph Campbell's Hero With a Thousand Faces. I reached the end of the intro over lunch and the last paragraph struck me as being a far more eloquent expression of all of those feelings I've been having about Blake's 7, which I attempted to meta on a few weeks back in a very confused fashion. Excerpt:
"...the hardness is balanced by an assurance that all that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain. thus the tales are both pitiless and terrorless - suffused with the joy of a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centred, battling egos that are born and die in time."
It was talking about myths and tragedies in a general sense, but it was such a sudden, "Yes, that is why all of the endless bleakness is okay! Because the characters endure and go on fighting, and others will go on fighting after them, and it isn't a celebration of bleakness: it is a celebration of the lives which continue on despite it."
End note 1: my lunch books aren't usually this pretentious. The last one was Kill the Dead by Tannith Lee. There will probably be a post on that one as well at some point and its ridiculous cover art (it's Paul Darrow being groped by ghosts. I did a spit-take on taking it out of the package because oh. my. god. This exists.)
End note 2: I will make a non-Blake's 7 post at some point in the future. Christmas is coming and I am very excited to see more of Capaldi's eyebrows/sad to see Matty Boy stepping down. Here is a hilarious video about Eleven having to regenerate. Enjoy:
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I'm not ready.
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Aw. So true. And I think sums up also what I was trying to say about whole sections of 1970s TV being like this - life is bleak, but it goes on, and so do we, and that's the thing. In B7 you fight for freedom and hope even though you don't particularly want to and you're not even sure what the words mean any more... (In the other stuff, you hang on to your nice hot
faketea and try to survive.):-)
I'm very jealous that you've got Kill the Dead! Though I am proud to be the one who introduced you to the show that not only gave you itself and all that that entails, but Kaldor City and Kill The Dead as well.
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Enemy at the Door is what I want to find next, but it's a tricky one. I'm going to prowl youtube and dubious internet corners, because it isn't on itunes. *sulks*
I found Kill the Dead on Abebooks for under two dollars, so it became my birthday present to myself. Definitely a good present too, given how much joy I've gotten out of the cover alone, and the fact that it has lots of paragraphs like this:
Paul Dro was a remarkable looking man. Not as young, maybe, as he had been ten years before, but with an extraordinary handsomeness that had laid a velvety somber bloom across a concert of strong features. Lips and nose, cheekbones and jaw were those of some legendary emmperor on a coin. His eyes were..." it goes on like that for the rest of the page and onto the next one. lmao.
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KILL THE DEAD. Okay, I am laughing so hard at that quote.
I'm not surprised Enemy at the Door is hard to find. It was once up on YT for about two seconds before somebody removed it, other than that there is a clip of ASH in it, the theme tune, and an official clip where they went out of their way to find a dull scene to share. As I've said before, it's very like much other UK TV of the time but it is very, very well written and rewatching proves how carefully done all the characterisation is. (Which makes me all the more annoyed that they never got to the end - where it stops, these people have yet to face the truly awful stuff that happened in 1944/45.) Episode 1 is very slow, but it's not after that. (And once you get to the end, Ep1 is great to rewatch, for the contrast.) Anyway, I hope you do find it & I hope you do find it interesting. (There are a couple of episodes that are seriously quite disturbing to watch, even without showing anything, especially in S1.)