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

[gair.livejournal.com]

being a "freedom fighter" in the current political climate is not exactly a "good" thing

Well, but "freedom fighting" wasn't exactly a non-issue in late 70s/early 80s Britain (http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/chron/ch78.htm), was it? Bobby Sands died in 1981, the same year as Season 4 originally aired.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

It was not exactly the same as the "War on Terror" they are trying to talk up now either, it was viewed as Britains problem not an international threat.
The same year Bobby Sands died our heroes got axed too, coincidence??????? The fact they were comparing Thatcher and Servalan didn't help either. Blake was more of a socialist too.