Children playing Blake's 7 games

[vilakins]

An excellent story on b7friday by carmen_lj reminded me of this. A while back, a friend sent me some quotes from children playing Blake's 7 games. She found it on a B7 mailing list where someone had posted them from some old B7 letterzines which a reader had written in to with selected quotes from her kids and their friends playing B7 games. They are so funny, and I can even imagine some of them being said by the real characters.

Children playing Blake's 7

Cally: Avon, Avon, the monsters are everywhere, the volcanoes are erupting, you'd better come and save the world.
Avon: I'll be there in a minute. I've just got to do a wee first.

Soolin: Geroff, Tarrant, or I'm telling your mum.

Vila: I'm not playing. Every time I speak, you all shout shut up, Vila, an' I never get a turn with the big gun.

Dayna: That's not fair. I killed you first.

Gan: Jenna, go and hold Blake's hand. You know he's scared of that dog.

Avon: Well I say we're not doing it, Tarrant, an' I'm older than you, so there.

Vila: Tarrant! You're not supposed to say that word.

Blake: I want to be Vila next time 'cos I'm really thirsty.

Dayna: I don't care where she hides her weapons, I'm not putting it there.

Jenna: Look, Tarrant, we already know you're the tallest, so just get off the shed roof.

Avon: Look, you wanted to be Servalan, so stop moaning about being shot.
Servalan: Yes, but I wouldn't have wanted the wedding dress if I'd known I had to die for it.

Soolin: Every time I shoot this gun, I drop it.

Vila: Someone shove a brick under the wheel of Jenna's chair otherwise she'll never manage to fly the ship.

Gan: Oh come on, you've got to let me have an idea sometimes.

Vila: I'm not going. Last time I climbed up there, Tarrant pushed me off.

Soolin: Tarrant, if you do that again, I'm going to knock your stupid head right off your stupid shoulders. I mean it.

Avon: We're a Mars bar short--somebody shove Vila out of the airlock.

Cally: I'm fed up with being rescued. When can I kill somebody?

Tarrant: No! It's not fair, I don't want to play any more, I'm going home, and I'm going to tell my mum.

Vila: I'm hungry. Blake, teleport me into the kitchen and I'll pinch some crisps.

Comments

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

Next week's b7friday challenge.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It did already occur to me!

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Heh! Yeah, that could be fun!

[kernezelda]

I especially like Vila's refusal to climb up again, since Tarrant pushed him off last time.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I cracked up at "We're short a Mars bar - somebody shove Vila out the airlock". :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They're short because he probably nicked it and ate it already. ;-)

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

But only for medicinal purposes. :)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Were there Dementors around?

OMG, I laughed so much I think I did myself an injury.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Poor Vila. He does seem to cop it, but he also gets all the drink.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Tarrant's mum does seem to be the ultimate court of appeal in this universe...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, Delia. Tough, strict, but fair, and very used to sorting out squabbles between two naughty boys.

[hobsonphile.livejournal.com]

O. M. G.

*falls down dead*

That should be next week's b7friday challenge! *g*

Also: This makes me wonder if anyone has ever listened in on kids playing B5. "I'm gonna kill you, G'Kar!" "Not if I kill you first!"

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

That should be next week's b7friday challenge!

It shall be done. :-D

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

Eeee! How cute! I always tried to play those sorts of games with my friends when I was little, but we never managed to play as the actual characters. We usually made up our own.

For example: Our version of Star Wars focused on a covert ops team way far away from the main action. We gathered intelligence and periodically blew things up. (We were also squirrels half the time, but only because it was more fun to be squirrels than to be people.)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I role-played characters from shows as well as my own. My favourite games were war, spies, and assorted science fiction (I was a tough little tomboy). The starship Enterprise was our tree-hut (more a platform really as it was never finished) and we used to beam down from it by jumping. We once got a hairy alien up there (our dog Peter) but he balked at going down again once he saw how high he was.

[kerravonsen]

ROTFL!
Especially:
Dayna: I don't care where she hides her weapons, I'm not putting it there.

Servalan: Yes, but I wouldn't have wanted the wedding dress if I'd known I had to die for it.

Gan: Oh come on, you've got to let me have an idea sometimes.

Avon: We're a Mars bar short--somebody shove Vila out of the airlock.

Cally: I'm fed up with being rescued. When can I kill somebody?


This one (Dayna: That's not fair. I killed you first.) reminds me of a sticker someone made once, which said "My name is Dayna Mellanby. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Dayna Montoya Mellanby! Pity she never got the chance.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

ROTFL! Aaaaahhaha!! My stomach hurts from laughing:D.

Saving this and linking to it ASAP. Hysterically funny. Especially Jenna holding Blake's hand and Soolin threatening Tarrant8-).

Those are wonderful!!

[lordavon.livejournal.com]

Too funny!!

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. I used to play B7 as a child, some of these sound very familiar...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It wasn't your mum who wrote in, was it? I bet you were Tarrant. ;-)

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Well. I was Avon during Seasons 1 & 2, then during season 3 I had a slightly different group of friends and so was Tarrant and my other friend was Avon. By the time season 4 came around we were done playing B7 and had started falling in love with them instead.