30 Days of Blake's 7 - day 5

[vilakins]

Day 5: Favourite male character

You know the answer to this one: Vila of course!

My favourites in other series have usually been aliens or androids (Spock, Data, Vir, G'Kar, pretty much the whole cast of Farscape), so Vila seemed to be an outlier, but it occurred to me recently that I go for characters who don't fit the norm, like Sheldon Cooper, Wash and Kaylee from Firefly, and Jett Reno. If they're male, then they're not typically so.

Vila stands out in Blake's 7 for being nervous, often openly scared, kind, non-violent, and very funny with it, someone who defies the B7 universe by being himself. He's also the only character who drove me to write for him, because he deserved a lot better than he got.

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Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

Vila? What? I never thought you'd like him! What a surprise!😅

I love aliens and androids too. Although I like Worf from TNG, he and Jadzia were amazing together.

As we said, I think Vila was meant to be cowardly and slimy, but sensibly Michael Keating made him appealing, kind and amusing.

[executrix]

I was going to say that Kaylee seems to me about the most normal person imaginable, but then I realized that in the Serenity environment she doesn't fit. I wonder about Wash, though? He seems kind of middle-of-the-road in Serenity terms.