The Way Back to Blake's 7

[vilakins]

A few people here are rewatching Blake's 7, and some of them are doing so because of kerravonsen's excellent idea of reviving the moribund B7 mailing list 'The Lyst' by watching and discussing an episode a week. Several Lyst members including me have jumped at the chance. I've been rather slack myself and have in the last couple of years only broken my DVDs out to check the occasional scene for a story. I really need to get back into it again, and an ep a week (with one definite exception in my case, still unwatched in its entirety) is very doable.

We begin this week with 'The Way Back' and start discussion on Monday the 10th. If anyone's interested in joining us on the Lyst, here's the sign-up and FAQ page. Note though that the posting address is wrong is completely valid, but the new one is blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se.

[Edit] The address on that page works fine, as does the new one I gave. I got confused with another mailing list whose old address no longer works.

Comments

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Yesterday I convinced my Mum to rewatch the series with me. I don't think she realises it'll take a year -- I haven't mentioned that bit yet.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-D It'll be just like watching a series on TV! We've got TWB on the play list here tonight.

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

In a kind of not-quite synchronicity, I'm rewatching them. I've reached up to Duel though, so I'll have to wait for everyone to catch up in, er, 5 weeks!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool, you can join in the discussions! Are you on the Lyst? I might post my thoughts on each ep here too, but as kerravonsen said, a mailing list is a better way of carrying on a week-long discussion. On LJ if you're off the current flist page, you're history. :-)

[satan-pingu.livejournal.com]

I have just joined! It's turning into a very B7 week---the new audio series fell through the post yesterday!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Hm. I watch them quite a lot (though my one exception is not the same as yours! I wonder if everyone has one exception?) and the idea of discussion is cool. But as I recall, there were issues you weren't meant to discuss on the Lyst; if someone genuinely thought such and such a scene was slashy, and said so, war would break out, no?

[azdak.livejournal.com]

Please do post your thoughts here as well - they'll be interesting to read even if they don't turn into a fully-fledged week-long discussion.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna try and get involved... it's been a while since I had a good B7 diatribe :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I look forward to seeing the snarky sparks fly!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I might join in, even though I've been a lurker on the Lyst for so long that I imagine everyone's forgotten me by now. :) But it'll depend on whether or not I get the time to re-watch the episode... which is by no means certain.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Just one little tiny episode, Ms Creosote! Just one sliver of B7.

Greg watched it too. It's a damned good piece of writing and almost standalone as an SF story. Terry Nation is so underrated by the Boucher fans.

[kalinda001.livejournal.com]

I'll try to join in. Can't guarantee I'll be able to watch all the eps.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yay; we'll be glad to have you, and I'll be interested in what you have to say.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I've signed up. I can't watch as I packed the tapes away in the loft and they'll be difficult to retrieve.

I can reread the Trevor Hoyle books though. :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They're considerably different in places (I have them too) but I daresay you'll remember quite a bit of the eps anyway.

[gair.livejournal.com]

Ee, I've been thinking of re-watching lately. And I think I'm subbed nomail to the Lyst already... All I have to do is convince gerald to join me (for verily we are joined at the remote), and we'll be away!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! This is going to be very good!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Due to time - or rather the lack of it, I'm going to have to bow out!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The ep watching only takes a 50 minutes, but yeah, the discussions might eat up more.

[norda.livejournal.com]

We're planning a rewatch starting in October, on Saturday nights with whoever shows up!

Thank you for The Lyst link.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That sounds fun too!

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Much against my better judgement I'll sign up, just not guaranteeing being a regular member!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what e-mail you have, but I find GMail excellent for mailing lists. It puts conversation threads together, so you can always ignore one that doesn't interest you (but then they often go interestingly off-topic). You also don't get an unmanageably long inbox. :-)

[nautile26.livejournal.com]

I've signed up. I actually watch the episodes fairly regularly - beats the boredom when ironing. I haven't watched then in sequence for a long time though.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yay, welcome! It'll be fun discussing them while they're still fresh in my mind.