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clocketpatch ([personal profile] clocketpatch) wrote2013-09-30 03:03 pm

The Way Back

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 [livejournal.com profile] 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.
thisbluespirit: (b7 - Vila)

[personal profile] thisbluespirit 2013-10-01 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
My B7 icons are nearly all made by [livejournal.com profile] sallymn, who makes the most beautiful icons ever - and a lot of B7 ones. (There is also [livejournal.com profile] b7icons, too.)

:-)