Oh, he's all shiny and new looking, and totally rocking that puff. I agree he looks young. I'll pretend this is from his original days as a rebel leader before the mindwipe. :D
It's from Cygnus Alpha (this one (http://www.framecaplib.com/b7lib/html/chars/images/cygnusal/alone/cygnus029.htm?subj=2)) so he's about as young as he gets.
It reminds me that we were all so young back then. It also reminds me that he was my first crush in B7 but that was before I started liking the characters rather than just their looks.
You went for Blake? So did quarryquest. Most people seemed to have a crush on Avon, but for me it was Vila I loved--as an avuncular figure when I was a kid, and this century as a sweet and vulnerable guy who isn't as old as I'd once thought.
Oh yes his innocent tortured good looks grabbed me on a visceral level in the first few episodes but as the characters evolved I got into Vila and Avon, in a way they are much more honest than Blake. Blake was much more interested in the big picture than the indiviual, not an easy man to live with.
in a way they are much more honest than Blake. Blake was much more interested in the big picture than the indiviual,
But if no-one ever gave a damn about people they didn't know personally, the world would be an even more horrible place than it already is. Avon and Vila may be honest about their self-centredness, but that doesn't make being self-centred a good thing. I don't like Blake much, but he seems to be one of the few people in the Federation able to imagine the sufferings of people he isn't personally connected to.
The picture is lovely, vilakins! I am in awe of your talent. It's beyond me how anyone can take a screencap and turn it into something that has their own signature all over it.
I liked Blake a lot at the beginning. He cared even about the Decimas. But by the end of S2, he was willing to sacrifice untold people for his cause, and if it's not for people, what's it worth? Then I missed him so much in S3; the crew lost its direction without him.
But by the end of S2, he was willing to sacrifice untold people for his cause, and if it's not for people, what's it worth?
I don't think the equation is that simple, though. He was still acting for people - the problem was that he had become willing to sacrifice innocents who hadn't signed up for the cause in order to benefit a greater number of people in the long run. There is no question that he was portrayed as being obsessed, and that the audience was encouraged to question whether he was going too far, but it still wasn't a simple issue. After all, the Allies had adopted a strategy of round-the-clock bombing of German cities in order to win a Just War only thirty years before the programme was made - that mass slaughter of innocents was seen as acceptable because it defeated an evil enemy. Blake, it seems, would have agreed with the Allied High Command. And perhaps - perhaps - they were right, if the alternative was losing the war.
I don't think there are any easy answers, and I think blindly following a Blake in that situation would be a terrible abdication of moral responsibility, but it's possible to look at the situation critically, and with full awareness of the costs, and still decide that Blake was right (or wrong - it's an extremely complex moral issue, unlike, say, the decision to defend humanity against the Andromedans).
I consider the bombing of civilians to be reprehensible, no matter who did it. In my plane-mad childhood, I used to think I'd happily be a fighter pilot but have nothing to do with Bomber Command.
I wonder if it's a lack of imagination. I can put myself in the place of the victim, and can't watch the news because of that. Maybe if Blake could see the people concerned, he couldn't bring himself to kill them (you could certainly argue that killing combatants Travis and Servalan would be very useful to the cause) and will put his life in danger to help victims (the Decimas, the System slave). Yet destroying the weather and control systems of the Federation only hurts the faceless mob.
I think that quick sketches generally are freer and more lively. You have to be comfortable with your subject before they're also really successful- for instance, I can quick sketch horses, but have to tediously plot over people, and it's the reverse for you, I think.
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But if no-one ever gave a damn about people they didn't know personally, the world would be an even more horrible place than it already is. Avon and Vila may be honest about their self-centredness, but that doesn't make being self-centred a good thing. I don't like Blake much, but he seems to be one of the few people in the Federation able to imagine the sufferings of people he isn't personally connected to.
The picture is lovely,
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I liked Blake a lot at the beginning. He cared even about the Decimas. But by the end of S2, he was willing to sacrifice untold people for his cause, and if it's not for people, what's it worth? Then I missed him so much in S3; the crew lost its direction without him.
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I don't think the equation is that simple, though. He was still acting for people - the problem was that he had become willing to sacrifice innocents who hadn't signed up for the cause in order to benefit a greater number of people in the long run. There is no question that he was portrayed as being obsessed, and that the audience was encouraged to question whether he was going too far, but it still wasn't a simple issue. After all, the Allies had adopted a strategy of round-the-clock bombing of German cities in order to win a Just War only thirty years before the programme was made - that mass slaughter of innocents was seen as acceptable because it defeated an evil enemy. Blake, it seems, would have agreed with the Allied High Command. And perhaps - perhaps - they were right, if the alternative was losing the war.
I don't think there are any easy answers, and I think blindly following a Blake in that situation would be a terrible abdication of moral responsibility, but it's possible to look at the situation critically, and with full awareness of the costs, and still decide that Blake was right (or wrong - it's an extremely complex moral issue, unlike, say, the decision to defend humanity against the Andromedans).
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I wonder if it's a lack of imagination. I can put myself in the place of the victim, and can't watch the news because of that. Maybe if Blake could see the people concerned, he couldn't bring himself to kill them (you could certainly argue that killing combatants Travis and Servalan would be very useful to the cause) and will put his life in danger to help victims (the Decimas, the System slave). Yet destroying the weather and control systems of the Federation only hurts the faceless mob.
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It's strange: I think my quick drawings have more life, or perhaps it's the colouring being more casual.
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