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blakes7-d Digest Volume 99 : Issue 345
Today's Topics:
[B7L] Ominous Passage
[B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
RE: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
Re: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
[B7L] Horizon news
Re: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:07:11 +0000 (GMT)
From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: [B7L] Ominous Passage
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'Ominous Passage', part 4 of the 'Soldiers of Love' series is far and away the
funniest so far. Parts of this one had me laughing out loud.
What's it got? Well, a host of new characters including the cast of Jake
Avara's new SF show - A show that is a happy parody of B7 with a crew attempting
to restore the right of the galaxy to wear fashion clothing. The ship's
computer (which responds to its crew in a kind of Gregorian chant and is played
by Gareth) tells them that the ship is called 'Vibrator'.
'Oh' says Jenny, 'It got it from something I was thinking.'
The usual characters are on fine form. I just love Turnidus and Yztabub.
Hywel, the gushingly camp Welshman is a scream. I was creasing myself listening
to him. Why has no one cast Gareth in a commedy part before?
Virtually the entire cast are doubling, tripling or even quadrupling on parts,
but such is the variety of accents and filters used that I actually only noticed
this at one point when one of the minor charactes sounded like Gamak (and it
wasn't confusing in context).
Interestingly enough, there's one slightly dark strand. Teddy, the only
character I don't really care for, is developing a rather nasty menacing streak.
This episode is taking off virtually everything. There's a mickey take of 'the
Phamtom Menace' (with Panakol Floorwalker's mother done in a wonderful
mom-and-apple-pie American accent by Jan Chappell), a nod to Star Wars and a
blatent rip-off of Dr Who. Think of sink-plungers...
There's also my favourite song in the series so far. 'I am a pilot of the space
patrol'. That had me laughing. The tune seems awfully familiar. It may be
based on Gilbert and Sullivan.
There are so many good bits - the spider in the swamp, the conversations between
Gamak, Jake and Hywel, and so much more. I can easily forgive the 'Uranus' joke
coming up twice in one scene and the rather boring bit of music tacked on after
the closing credit music.
Heck, forget that Gareth Thomas, Michael Keating, Jan Chappell and Nicholas
Courteny are in it. This one stands strong on its own merits. The B-movie
atmosphere is gloriously there - you can virtually see the wobbly sets. It's
camp, it's corney, I *love* it.
Judith
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:21:15 PST
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
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Subject: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
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After a night of babysitting small people with sitcom
tendencies, you find yourself at 3 in the morning
sleepily wondering who would be more fun on the Liberator...
Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
Mrs Cunningham (Happy Days)
Niles (Frazier)
Von Smallhousen or Monsieur Le Clerc (Allo Allo)
Mr Bean
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 08:36:23 +0100
From: Jacqueline Thijsen <jacqueline.thijsen@cmg.nl>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: RE: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
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> After a night of babysitting small people with sitcom
> tendencies, you find yourself at 3 in the morning
> sleepily wondering who would be more fun on the Liberator...
>
> Mrs Cunningham (Happy Days)
Definitely. Can't you just see her trying to mother Avon? Or telling the
crew to wear something warm when they go to blow something up? (after all,
those holes cause a *terrible* draft).
Jacqueline
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:53:44 +1100
From: Kathryn Andersen <kat@welkin.apana.org.au>
To: "Blake's 7 list" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
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On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:21:15PM -0800, Sally Manton wrote:
>
> After a night of babysitting small people with sitcom
> tendencies, you find yourself at 3 in the morning
> sleepily wondering who would be more fun on the Liberator...
>
> Ned Flanders (The Simpsons)
> Mrs Cunningham (Happy Days)
> Niles (Frazier)
> Von Smallhousen or Monsieur Le Clerc (Allo Allo)
> Mr Bean
Actually, I think this is probably an indication that you've been
watching too many sitcoms.... (-8
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:08:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Horizon news
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GARETH THOMAS will be playing Sir Toby Belch in a production of 'Twelfth
Night' at the Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh (near Edinburgh) from 27 January to
12 February 2000. Box office No. is 0131 665 2240.
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Sounds good to me. I'll be seeing if I can make it up there (I need to
negotiate with my nearest and dearest). Anyone else interested?
Judith
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Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:27:12 PST
From: "Sally Manton" <smanton@hotmail.com>
To: kat@welkin.apana.org.au, blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] You know you've seen too much B7 when...
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After I wrote:
<After a night of babysitting small people with sitcom
tendencies, you find yourself at 3 in the morning sleepily
wondering who would be more fun on the Liberator...
Kathryn answered:
<Actually, I think this is probably an indication that you've
been watching too many sitcoms.... (-8 >
Not so much watching as being exposed to...well, it was better
than Baywatch re-runs or the 97th time they watched Babe or
Pocohontas or...
So what appalling stuff did Our Heroes watch on TV? (After
Blake and Avon stopped fighting over the remote, that is).
Having seen a jaw-dropping program on Communist musicals (you
know, boy-meets-tractor, girl-meets-factory-floor, and they
burst into song) I can't help wondering what the Federation
dishes up in that line (boy-meets-pursuit-ship?)
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