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[probably-enjoying-this]

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[tormvnd]

unrelated but blake’s 7 could do absolute numbers on here if you all weren’t afraid of bad special effects

[bertilakslady]

Gat the blu-rays, yo — updated SFX & VFX!

[mxtheo3]

Big Fish’s Spoils just give me Gauda Prime Trauma part 2 — even more so

[tormvnd]

unrelated but blake’s 7 could do absolute numbers on here if you all weren’t afraid of bad special effects

[mxtheo3]

Nothing more satisfying than watching Tarrant’s unacquainted love for a man who already have his heart pinning for someone

[elizabethzi]

She's iconic and you can't tell me nothing😩💓

[elizabethzi]

We love our pink-haired girls💅🏻💗

[elizabethzi]

[cosmicconverse]

"no im coming back" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[starsfromuncle]

Blake's 7 (re)watch #8

Project Avalon

The Aged P and I both thought Travis looked ridiculous in that furry coat and also wondered what the point of being a traitor is especially when we find out what these guys go through like you're a member of a race being used for slave labour and you're...going to betray the person trying to save you from from being used as slave labour??? The fuck??? It just makes no sense and also why do these people never work out that they're never gonna get rewarded for it because why would you? Once you've handed over the information you're expendable and lo and behold that's exactly what happens.

Meanwhile Avon delivers another hilarious line up on the ship.

Blake: Does it support any intelligent life?:

Avon: Does the Liberator?

Blake: *exchanges an exasperated look with Jenna*

Everyone's so used to him though, like I loved the moment last episode where they all just booked it the moment Vila and Avon started arguing (not even being subtle about it either, just noping straight out of there) and here there's just no response at all...which is probably what would happen and is actually the best way to deal with it, you can't spend all your time in snark-to-snark combat, you've got things to be doing.

(Avon and Cally's reactions to Vila taking his time getting dressed is hilarious, Cally's bored, Avon's tilting his head in bemusement and they're just so unimpressed it's hilarious and they just beam him down the instant he's done. Love them.)

(Also noticed Avon was typing left-handed earlier like first Jenna and now him why do I not pick up on this before?? Cos this is like the fifth or sixth time it's happened, I will not notice this aspect about a character until like my third or fourth watch of something)

But of course the most interesting person in this episode is Avalon herself, and I do wonder if she's at least partially inspired by Leia, like the spiel she gives Travis was essentially this show's equivalent of 'the more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers', she's helped out a whole bunch of resistance movements and yet we never see her again. Like she doesn't get to do much in this episode (like even Leia got to take charge of her own rescue) and despite her being a really compelling character there's just nothing done with her, I don't know if she appears in any of the audios but that's not really the point, she deserved to be in the show.

But it's mostly a good one, gotta love the tension between Travis and Servalan, always, she is so terrifying and looking as fabulous as always while she's doing this and Travis's plan is perfectly evil like using a bioweapon to get the Liberator is ingenious - though he does make a point in that he could've dealt with Blake already if the Federation weren't insisting on having it for themselves like again, half of their problems are of their own making, of course it's a reason to keep the Liberator around in-universe but it is kinda funny.

And nearly works but then Blake's suspicious of their 'escape' -something that apparently didn't occur to Travis, unless he figured that by the time he worked that out it'd be too late (seeing Avon handle a weapon is always cool, btw, he clearly knows what he's doing) - except then everyone's suspicious of the wrong person just because 'well, that's definitely Avalon' despite the fact they all know??? The Federation can brainwash people???? Like you cannot discount her simple because she's been recognised.

Aged P once again compares Travis to Captain Ahab as his plan falls apart and he becomes ever more determined to destroy Blake and we all know how that ends, but does have a couple questions regarding this one like 1) why did Chevran not voice his suspicions and 2) how come Zen didn't recognise there was an android on board, because surely that would've given off a different reading to a human? These are two good questions but honestly I don't know, especially not for the second one.

Unless it's Zen's programming again like that does seem to cause issues.

[georgethem]

it’s kind of funny that in star trek’s ai episode the ai was drawing a huge amount of power from the ship and turns evil pretty much immediately, but in blake’s 7 one of the main characters is ai and orac somehow never drains power or causes any problems 😭 star trek is much more optimistic overall, but it’s more “human optimist” and b7 is more “tech optimist”

[probably-enjoying-this]

I love the awe of computers that comes from B7 and that era in general. But I think B7 also shows tech as potentially dangerous in many different episodes. Orac isn’t always on the crew’s side either, he’s unpredictable and sometimes gets them into danger for its own ends, like when he has Zen navigate into a black hole in Dawn of the Gods because he wants to study it.

[georgethem]

i felt like i was losing my mind bc i kept confusing different b7 episodes, thinking of the one where blake is shirtless in a mine. so i was watching it with my bf and i kept saying “i think this is the one where blake gets shirtless” and it kept NOT HAPPENING? and i was concerned that i sounded like a thirsty lunatic 😭

in my defense, i think there’s multiple episodes that involve mining or seem to be filmed in a quarry 😭

[georgethem]

genuinely believe that of the things that made paul darrow’s performance as avon so compelling is that on some level he genuinely feels like a badass as avon and through the magic of acting, we also believe that avon is badass

[ilyarozanovspoutylips]

I just found out Michael Keating (who played Vila on Blake’s 7) died. Vila was my favourite character, and even though I didn’t realise it at the time he and Avon were my first ship.

Thank you, Michael, from the very bottom of my heart. You were a joy to watch.

(Also Cally was my first crush, but that’s neither here nor there. Plus she and Servalan were extremely hot together: my second ship.)

[oxideblack]

[cosmicconverse]

what show do i watch this summer

house

x files

red dwarf

blakes 7

Voting ended onJun 5

other than doctor who ofc

[cosmicconverse]

blakes 7 it is :]]

[iriko]

Happy birthday, the most empathic telepath!