The Way Back

[clocketpatch]

I've decided to use my day off to start watching Blake's 7. I'm not entirely certain what I was expecting but I was not expecting a dystopia this intense. I know that the scriptwriter being Terry Nation probably should have tipped me off but...

Everyone keeps dying! Everyone! I think, "Okay, these will be the main supporting..." BAM DEAD! "Okay, but this nice lawyer and his wife will surely..." BAM DEAD! "But surely Blake is going to escape/take over the prisoner transport/something before the end of the episode...?" BAM! Okay, not dead, but that was not the most hopeful of series premier endings.

And yet... I am wanting to watch more and see what happens.

Also, Vila had best not be BAM!-Deaded anytime soon, because I want him to be regular (he was still alive at the end, so I feel that means he must be, also, I vaguely recall him being on lost_spook's Blake's 7 sum-up sheet). But yes, I like him. He's fun, and that little bit of humour was badly needed right then.

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[thisbluespirit]

Also: Everyone keeps dying! Everyone! I think, "Okay, these will be the main supporting..." BAM DEAD! "Okay, but this nice lawyer and his wife will surely..." BAM DEAD! "But surely Blake is going to escape/take over the prisoner transport/something before the end of the episode...?" BAM! Okay, not dead, but that was not the most hopeful of series premier endings.

And yet... I am wanting to watch more and see what happens.


This is making me LOL so hard, because. And because B7. And reasons.

[clocketpatch]

Everyone's gonna die not-very-heroically in the last episode, aren't they? I'm only two eppies in and I feel like this is the sort of show that would be fine with pulling something like that. Also, I've heard that inspired Joss Whedon (I think I heard this from you) and he kills everyone

(don't spoil me though! I am doing my best to not accidentally be spoiled!)