Fannish new year's wishes

[vilakins]

I recently rediscovered these and I might start doing them again. From the fannish5:

What are the top five things you would like to have happen in 2007, in any fandom?

OK, for Blake's 7:

1. B7E goes belly-up and sinks without trace.
   
2. Someone who likes Blake's 7 for its own sake buys the rights.
   
3. We get some excellent radio plays (maybe even the hoped-for fifth season) with Paul Darrow, Michael Keating, Steven Pacey, and Jacqueline Pearce playing Avon, Vila, Tarrant, and Servalan.
   
4. A well-written new series with a new young crew and occasional guest appearances by Paul Darrow and Michael Keating as an older Avon and Vila (Terry Nation did want those two to survive) and maybe also Jacqueline Pearce as a still beautiful Servalan. Not too much of her though; they overplayed that card in S4.
   
5. Said new series to have cool new SFX but to have its real strengths in characterisation and witty intelligent dialogue. Oh and a bit of hope would be nice.

Comments

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see a sort of new-old series that integrated some of the old footage with new material about what was going on on Earth, and on the dozens of planets where Avalon fomented rebellions.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That would be interesting. DS9 did that well with their return to the TOS tribble episode; they interleaved the action and had their characters walking right past the old ones.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I rented the first season of Jonathan Creek on DVD--it would be the ultimate violation of the Curl Rule if the Rebellion recruited Jonathan and Blair Sandburg.

[kerravonsen]

LOL!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

For the combination of curly heads we're talking about, I'd throw the rule away completely. Oh dear, the eye candy...

[peladonww.livejournal.com]

So why did Lj decide to log me out? Grrr.
Anyway what I said was....

Nice idea, and new CGI techs should make it possible to mix it with the now digitised old material, if expensive.

Of course developing CGI raises other possibilities too......
But I'm not sure who I would trust with them.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I suppose anyone who really loves a series has to say "Death Before Dishonor" if re-animation becomes a possibility. It's as if every announcement comes with it's own Monkey's Paw so we can huddle, terrified, and tell it to GO AWAY.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Re-animation Dr Frankenstein " Give my creation life!"

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Yup--"how's that work out for you, Doc?"