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blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 238
Today's Topics:
Re: [B7L] Holidays/presents
Re: [B7L] Possible Federation Ender....
[B7L] Complete Set of B7 for Sale
Re: [B7L] Plague
[B7L] News from the TV times
Re: [B7L] News from the TV times
Re: [B7L] News from the TV times
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 14:41:03 -0700
From: Pat Patera <patpatera@netzero.net>
To: B7 Lysator <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Holidays/presents
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Sally Manton wrote:
> Back to pressies for our Loved Ones...
>
> Blake ... Avon with laryngitis for a fortnight.
hahahahaha
Blake - A 6-month membership at "24 Hour Fitness"
> Avon ... Blake with laryngitis for a fortnight.
hehehehehe
Avon - A pick proof door lock.
Jenna - A subscription to "Texas Big Hair"
Vila - The Complete Magician (magic kit)
Cally - A "grow your own" chia pig (telepathic)
Gan - A bottle of those "smart drugs" the yuppies now take
Tarrant - A new pair of rollerblades.
(can ya just see him careening up & down the Liberator corridors?)
Soolin - A new outfit: blue, not grey.
> Dayna - what she would *want* is easy. Servalan's head on a pike
hohohohoho
> Travis - what *he* would want is even easier. Blake's head on a pike
gigglegigglegiggle
Travis - A real jewel for his glove to replace that plastic Cracker Jack
toy
Servalan - A subscription to Vogue.
or seminar registration for the Dale Carnegie course: How to Make
Friends and Influence People
Santa Claws Pat
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 04:24:23 -0600
From: "Ellynne G." <rilliara@juno.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] Possible Federation Ender....
Message-ID: <19990729.042425.10262.0.Rilliara@juno.com>
On Mon, 02 Aug 1999 12:51:35 PDT "Hellen Paskaleva"
<hellen_pas@hotmail.com> writes:
. It would cause no harm to it, therefore, to replace the
>
>phrase "contamination affects everyone who's been into deep space"
>(unprecise quote) with "contamination affects everyone"
Good point.
>That�s
>much more probable, because, on the one hand, we see at the very end
>of the
>episode *everybody* dying,
But they'd all been in deep space to get to the base. It wasn't a colony
world with a locally born population.
and on the other hand, can�t imagine *why*
>aliens
>would restrict their attempt to destroy the humanity only to those
>lonely
>travelers into deep space.
If they wanted to get rid of the competition but had reservations about
genocide? The writers were thinking of bringing them back and wanted to
leave some possibility of sympathy for the aliens?
>
>LOL! Well, I can f��l an edge in your voice�, no, not exactly, � in
>your...,
>hmm, keyboard? <g> Please, do not take my words personally. I were
>*not*
>intended to irritate anyone. Really.
Neither irritated nor offended. I just have fun trying to come up with
excuses for the most outrageous plot weaknesses (you should hear my
explanations for Gilligan's Island).
Ellynne
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:00:11 +0100 (BST)
From: "P.J.E. Kail" <pjek100@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Complete Set of B7 for Sale
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Hi
I have a complete set of BBC videos for sale. �50 and P&P
What a bargin!
***********************
Dr P J E Kail
Faculty of Philosophy
Sidgwick Avenue
Cambridge University
Tel (01223) 335094
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:23:21 +0100
From: "Deborah Day" <d.day@ukgateway.net>
To: "blakes7" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] Plague
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Ellynne G wrote
>What were the aliens trying to do with the plague?
>
>They sent it to an obscure outpost, one where the disease might have died
>out without living hosts by the time any ships arrived.
>
>The derelict ship they used wasn't signaling and would have been ignored
>if Bellfriar hadn't been bored.
>
>The trigger on the corpse is unclear, but the plan for infection depended
>not only on the scientist in question having minimal precautions against
>infection, it depended on highly trained (if bored, then surprised)
>guards disobeying orders, breaking quarantine, and having no precautions
>of their own against infection. Was the dead guy supposed to be watching
>and waiting for his moment?
My guess is that the aliens weren't trying for the outpost and that is why
the ship was not signalling and was only picked up by chance by a bored Dr.
Bellfriar. I think that the ship was maybe heading for somewhere more
important, such as a major trading post or even Earth or Space Command,
where the virus could have done maximum damage to humanity.
As for the trigger on the corpse, anything can be postulated but really it
boils down to moving the plot along! Aliens which are truly alien would not
think like us and it would be impossible to guess their reasons. Perhaps
they were expecting for the corpse to be picked up by somebody who did not
have all the isolation gear and so things would have been different in the
way the corpse behnaved. Who knows.
Why the crew were not affected, again probably just gets put down to moving
the plot along. To have had them die off would have been an abrupt end to
the series and there are often inconsistencies in Blake's 7. Maybe they
were affected but could construct the antidote in time using the information
available.
Debbie Day.
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 18:40:48 +0100
From: Julia Jones <julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] News from the TV times
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More gossip about the film, this time from sff.tv.blakes7
------- Forwarded message follows -------
In article <37a6ca0e.123990@usenet.force9.net>, Jackie
<homefarm@bigfoot.com> writes
>Newsgroups: sff.tv.blakes7
>
>Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star in a revival of
>the si-fi programme Blakes 7, this had been spurred on by the success
>of the two recent radio plays, re uniting many of the cast. hope fully
>there will be two new made for television movies.
>The pair if all goes well would play rebels who join the survivors of
>the old team.
>Paul Darrow and Micheal Keating are both due to revive there rolls as
>Avon and Villa.
>Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible
>villain.
>According to the TV times if these films are a success there could be
>a new series on the way.
>
>Jackie
--
Julia Jones
"Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!"
The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon.
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Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:12:17 +0100
From: "Julie Horner" <jihorner@dial.pipex.com>
To: "Lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] News from the TV times
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From: Julia Jones <julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
>More gossip about the film, this time from sff.tv.blakes7
>
>>Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star
>> in a revival of the si-fi programme Blakes 7,
Can't put faces to these names - does anyone know what
else they have been in?
>>The pair if all goes well would play rebels who join the
>>survivors of the old team. Paul Darrow and Micheal
>>Keating are both due to revive there rolls as Avon and Villa.
Oh yes, yes, yes! This is the first I have heard that Vila would
be in too. Please let it be true.
>>Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible
>>villain.
Oh I haven't watched this for quite a while. Is she the
one who used to be Kim Tate?
>>According to the TV times if these films are a success there could >>be a
new series on the way.
Oh my, my! But why are we hearing this from the TV Times
I wonder, not the Radio Times? Are the BBC not interested?
Julie
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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 00:23:43 +0100
From: "Angua" <angua@viper244.demon.co.uk>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] News from the TV times
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Julie wrote :
> >>Tracy Shaw and Adam Rickett are being lined up to star
> >> in a revival of the si-fi programme Blakes 7,
>
> Can't put faces to these names - does anyone know what
> else they have been in?
Coronation Street - Tracy is a hairdresser and Adam was the replacement Nick
Tyldesley. Can't say the prospect of these two being in anything B7-related
fills me with joy - I find Rickett in particular to be about as wooden as,
well, a wooden thing.
> >>Claire King late of Emmerdale has been hinted at as a possible
> >>villain.
>
> Oh I haven't watched this for quite a while. Is she the
> one who used to be Kim Tate?
Now she would make a good villain, she had some wonderful scenes before she
left Emmerdale.
Louise (who has decided she knows waaay too much about soaps than can be
healthy ...)
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