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

[azdak.livejournal.com]

As far as I'm concerned, the more of the original cast they can squeeze in the better, but I'd like it if they weren't just guest appearances, but the point of the series - for example if the new generation of rebels is, say trying to find the supposedly mythical Orac and follows a trail of rumours and claimed sightings that gradually works its way through everyone who survived GP and lets us see how each of them has adapted to the aftermath and whether they're still actively rebelling or have reached an uneasy compromise or have given up totally/gone into hiding/are still tenaciously hunting Servalan. Whatever. And I'd like to see lots of flashbacks, and also have the original crew argue with each other and be utterly stroppy with the newbies. I have no special requests for who should have survived, but I think it would cool if each of the original cast got to be the main character in one episode, even if it was only in flashback.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That's a brilliant idea! I'd prefer that to the new crew doing basically the same thing,

[peladonww.livejournal.com]

Oh yes! That sounds good too.