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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 99 : Issue 119

Today's Topics:
	 [B7L] After Star One
	 RE: [B7L] Illustration for Flat Robin 35
	 [B7L] 
	 [B7L]After Star One
	 [B7L] Upcoming Fanzines at Ashton Press
	 Re: [B7L]After Star One
	 [B7L] B7L re fans and the media
	 Re: [B7L] After Star One
	 Re: [B7L] B7L re fans and the media
	 Re: [B7L] After Star One
	 [B7L] Kubrick and B7

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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 00:36:40 -0700
From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] After Star One
Message-ID: <19990327.003646.12542.3.Rilliara@juno.com>

Before Star One, there seemed to be a solid, widespread rebel movement. 
Afterwards, nothing (not counting the people Anna conned into helping her
own bid for power).  Why was this? 

A lot of Federation planets seemed to have broken away after the war, but
there was never much talk of them helping the others still under
Federation rule.  The only idea I've been able to come up with is that
support for Blake was about a mile wide and an inch deep.  The Federation
seems to have been formed after some big wars they mention, and its
initial excuse for existance probably was to protect humanity.  It may
have even been a valid claim, like lords in the Dark Ages who could be a
real pain but were a lot better than the viking raiders they were
hopefully protecting their people from.  As the Federation became more
oppresive and powerful, the dangers it had existed to protect its people
from were seen as diminishing.  Support for reform and outright revolt
grew.  Then along came the Galactic War and the near extiction of the
human race.  Suddenly, all these people (who didn't have a big tradition
of rights of the common man to begin with) began rethinking the
profit/loss relationship of overthrowing the Federation.  

Also, Servalan had seized power and overthrown the government people were
used to, replacing it with one where (I'm guessing) dictatorship was more
obvious.  She destroyed the traditional seperation between the military
and the civil government, either destroyed the council or openly replaced
it with her own people, destroying any illusion of power or real
authority it may have had.  After that, it would have been easy for those
seeking to get back into power (or seize it, as Anna attempted) to use
Servalan as both a focus for discontent and as a scapegoat for earlier
wrongs.

Any thoughts?
Ellynne

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:34:44 +0200
From: Jacqueline Thijsen <jacqueline.thijsen@cmg.nl>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: RE: [B7L] Illustration for Flat Robin 35
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The final proof that one picture says more than a thousand words.

Jacqueline

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:57:28 +0100
From: "Julie Horner" <julie.horner@lincolnsoftware.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
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Iain said:

>In England I do at least try to make an effort to slow down and
lengthen
>my vowels. It is my contention that people from different countries
have
>different speeds in their linguistic processors.

Yes!!

When I first left home for University (and I only moved across the
Pennines) the thing that struck me most about the way people
from other parts of the country spoke was in fact the speed, not
the accent. With some friends from the South I could find myself
bouncing up and down with impatience and trying not to finish
their sentences for them.

I have made no conscious effort to change my accent,
though I know it has changed. But I have deliberately tried to
slow my speech down. Not because I think it
sounds *better* but because it gives me more time to think
what I am going to say!


Julie Horner
Software Engineer
Lincoln Software
Tel: +44 (0) 1625 616722
Fax: +44(0) 1625 616780
E-mail: julie.horner@lincolnsoftware.com
Web: http://www.lincolnsoftware.com

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 13:59:38 +0100
From: "Julie Horner" <julie.horner@lincolnsoftware.com>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L]After Star One
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Ellynne said:

>Before Star One, there seemed to be a solid, widespread rebel movement.
>Afterwards, nothing (not counting the people Anna conned into helping
her
>own bid for power). Why was this?

Didn't Pylene 50 have a lot to do with it?

Julie Horner
Software Engineer
Lincoln Software
Tel: +44 (0) 1625 616722
Fax: +44(0) 1625 616780
E-mail: julie.horner@lincolnsoftware.com
Web: http://www.lincolnsoftware.com

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:19:53 EST
From: Bizarro7@aol.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Upcoming Fanzines at Ashton Press
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Hey ho, everybody.

For those who like the wacky humor at the Ashton Press site, we've got a new
toon for you in honor of "Tax Days."

We've also got links to some Chronicles reports and the new Unofficial Richard
Ridings Fan Site. Don't forget if you're interested in photos from Chronicles
to check out our own photo pages. I'm going to be placing the reprint orders
soon now and the deadline for getting your order in for this group is April
15th!

This is also a last call for submissions to the following zines: Revelations
#2 (Highlander adult, straight or slash, any pairing(s)) and Southern Comfort
10.5 and 11.5 (looks like a double issue... Blakes 7 adult, straight or slash,
any pairings)). Both zines are filling up fast (well, Southern Comfort has
already spilled over into a second issue!) but my readers are greedy and would
love to see more, more, more! I'm working on doing the edits and pulling those
particular zines together right now but will accept submissions for the next
few weeks. This is also a heads-up that I'd like to pull So SPeaks the Hero #2
together soon now, as well. If you're thinking of submitting, please send
something in or get in touch with me! Submission guidelines are linked
directly from the Ashton Press main site.

http://members.aol.com/ashton7/ashton.htm

To go directly to the Chronicles pictures:

http://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/chronicles.htm (4 Horsemen and general con
pics)
http://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/page2.htm (Stan, Val and Marcus)
http://members.aol.com/pelkiepet/page3.htm (Peter as well as some just for fun
pics)

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 08:32:09 EST
From: Tigerm1019@aol.com
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
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In a message dated 99-03-30 08:05:00 EST, Julie wrote:

<< >Before Star One, there seemed to be a solid, widespread rebel movement.
 >Afterwards, nothing (not counting the people Anna conned into helping
 her
 >own bid for power). Why was this?
 
 Didn't Pylene 50 have a lot to do with it? >>

It did in the fourth season, but that doesn't explain the third.

Tiger M

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 09:18:17 +0100
From: "Debra Collard" <Debra@whisson1.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "B7L" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] B7L re fans and the media
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>However, it may be precisely because women tend to be more social that
they're more likely to organize get togethers with large groups that
share a common interest with them.

I have also noticed that when my 'Sci fi' female friend and I start talking
about sci fi in a mixed group men will often join in and admit that they are
fans. This often comes as a surprise to other males in the group even those
they see on a regular basis-so what exactly is it then that men talk about
when they are on their own?

Debra

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:14:39 +0100
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] After Star One
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Ellynne wrote:
>Before Star One, there seemed to be a solid, widespread rebel movement.
>Afterwards, nothing (not counting the people Anna conned into helping her
>own bid for power).  Why was this?

How do you rebel against the Federation when there is no Federation to rebel
against?  The chaos implicitly wrought by the destruction of Star One would
have given many planets more than enough to cope with, and the ensuing
balkanisation of the former Federation would lead to most worlds looking
inward to their own concerns.

Were the people Anna 'conned' really rebels in the pre-War sense of the
term, or were they just Terran parochialists out to claim Earth and its
remaining territories for themselves?

I'm personanally not so sure that the pre-War rebel movement was all that
solid, even if it was widespread.  A lot of people had cause to resist the
Federation, but only the Federation's existence might have stood to unite
them - a common cause engendered by a common enemy.  Remove the common enemy
and the cause no longer remains common.

This is in part reflected in the real world, since the radical spirit of the
80s seems to have disappeared, coincidentally or otherwise, with the
collapse of Communism and the perceived demise of the Bomb. What was once a
mutually supportive protest movement (CND, animal rights, radical feminism
etc) seems to have splintered into tunnel-visioned single-issue campaign
groups that have lost touch with the 'big picture' that once united them.
Come back, Cold War, all is forgiven?

Neil

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 15:59:27 +0100
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] B7L re fans and the media
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Debra wrote:
>so what exactly is it then that men talk about
>when they are on their own?

Top 5 subjects for discussion in the works canteen:
1) Football
2) Golf
3) Cars
4) The ineptitude of one's fellow workers
5) All Management Are Bastards

Nope, sex doesn't make it.

Neil



Neil

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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:46:57 -0700
From: Penny Dreadful <egomoo@mail.geocities.com>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] After Star One
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Neil sez:

>...the radical spirit of the
>80s seems to have disappeared, coincidentally or otherwise, with the
>collapse of Communism and the perceived demise of the Bomb. What was once a
>mutually supportive protest movement (CND, animal rights, radical feminism
>etc) seems to have splintered into tunnel-visioned single-issue campaign
>groups that have lost touch with the 'big picture' that once united them.
>Come back, Cold War, all is forgiven?

And here I always blamed the internet. Tune In, Log On, Drop Out. Well, all
the
Hippies mourned the theoretical end of the hypothetical Vietnam War as the
end of the 
radical spirit of the sixties, but eventually something else came along.
Humanity seems 
to need about ten years to forget how stupid it looked, then it's back on
the bandwagon.

On Topic: Ahem. No doubt disaffected youth all over the galaxy had posters
of Blake 
a la Che on their walls long after his demise.

--Penny "Rainbow Aquarius Lovechild" Dreadful

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 11:18:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Una McCormack <umm10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: Lysator <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Kubrick and B7
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Jacqueline and I have been talking about whether or not it's the story or
the idea that counts in a text (be it fanfic, novels, films, whatever).

I read a story in the paper this week by Barry Norman (UK film critic of
great regard) reminiscing about Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick had rung Norman
up to thank him for a review of 'Full Metal Jacket', and Norman asked what
Kubrick was working on next. 'I don't know,' said Kubrick. 'What do you
suggest?' Norman was flabbergasted - 'Surely you must have plenty of
ideas!!' Kubrick was horrified: 'You don't make a film from ideas! You
make it from a story!'

What I found particularly annoying about this story is that Barry didn't
take the chance to say, 'Well, there's this brilliant 1970s BBC drama with
a space ship and some outlaws...'! I wonder what it would have been
like...


Una

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