GIP

[vilakins]

altariel1's recent post asking for recommendations of five episodes to show someone who hasn't seen Blake's 7 reminded me that I've been wanting a B7 pusher icon. So now I have one: Krantor and his pataki cakes.

I also made a Largo one cos I watched 'Shadow' this week and remembered all over again why I like it so much. If anyone wants, take.



Oh, and if anyone wants to know what my picks were, here they are:

1. The Way Back - for an intro to Blake and the Federation and how far it will go.
   
2. Shadow - for how far Blake will go (deal with the Terra Nostra, kill the moondiscs which enabled Cally to save the ship); also an excellent episode for Cally
   
3. Killer - for the human side to the Federation (Bellfriar and Gambrill), some nice Avon-Vila interaction, and a chiller of an ending
   
4. Gambit - for the sheer fun of it
   
5. City at the Edge of the World - for an insight into what makes Vila tick, OTT Bayban, and a clever plot.

Comments

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the Largo one. I'm tempted to snurch it after all. :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Go ahead! Though you'll have to dump an icon. I'm dreading getting to 50.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, make up your mind, because if you don't, I will.

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Go ahead. I love it, but I know I wouldn't use it nearly often enough. :)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Your generosity knows no bounds. :) And I have no B7 icons, so you will get to see it lots.

::genuflects in the direction of vilakins and huggles new icon::

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can make you some more if you have anything particular in mind. :-)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Alas, I know that's an offer too good to refuse, but of course I can't think of anything.

::beats head against wall:: Ack!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hey, no hurry! When you think of something, just let me know. :-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'd love to do a series of icons with that phrase on, over Dr Who and B7 monsters, etc.

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

Those are amazingly appropriate. The Krantor is extra-yummy.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! The cakes didn't really show in the pic so I had to draw them in. I'm not sure I got the colour right, but it looks OK.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hee! Excellent!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love Krantor's black and white outfit, if not his makeup.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Fantastic icons, both of them!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Love the Largo icon - but then I'm rather fond of the slimy creep myself.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed watching 'Shadow' again for my Blakathon story. It's an excellent ep with very good characters. I forgot we actually got to see Petey: on the clarity of DVD he looks older than I'd imagined.

[matildabj.livejournal.com]

Nice icons! I'm interested you chose Killer. I quite like it too, except that the deeply silly costumes make me wince every time I see them.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The Michelin men and the cockroach capes are pretty bad, but it's such a good ep. I only remember isolated scenes from my first viewing of B7 but one thing that stands out is the shiver that went down my spine at the end. Bellfriar forgetting how to write really frightened me, and I was just as affected when I saw it again a few years ago. It has a great plot and excellent characters if you ignore the costumes which are in any case redeemed by Vila's trousers. [pause to get breath back] I think the headbands are colour-coded for department and rank.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

It is a lovely ep for the OCs and Avon and Vila, but god, Holmes writes Blake as such a *prat*. Ok, well, half condescending prat and half The Doctor, but anyway. I just skip the Liberator bits in Killer ("hello, I'm Roj Blake and I lecture my highly skilled pilot about spaceships") and head straight towards the Avon-Vila *fun*:). Holmes writes *brilliant* horror. I'm with you on the Bellfriar forgetting to write bit... eep. Shiver.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of it is Holmes couldn't write women. Cally's hardly in it, Jenna's so worried about Blake, and the base is all male. Sigh. I explain the lecturing in my novelisation of 'Killer' as Jenna not knowing about ancient spaceships because it's hardly relevent, and Blake being a history buff.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, damn:) History buff Blake, now I love him even *more*8-)...

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I don't think it's just the women--Blake is being a condescending prat in general, and even lecturing Bellfriar on viruses (not that Bellfriar hasn't been a virologist for twenty years or anything). He's been written as the Doctor because he knows everything, damn it:)...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He gets the plague blanket reference wrong though, which I rather like as it shows he either doesn't remember it properly or history has changed in the telling which does happen.

He's wrong about the aircon too: the virus is transmitted by touch which is why Avon and Vila don't catch it.

Must do some work...

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Also, I prefer your Largo icon to my B7Pusher one, as you can actually see the ball of Shadow, unlike in mine... and the pataki cakes! HEE!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You had a Largo one? Oops, sorry, I didn't realise. I drew the ball of Shadow in because it didn't show up properly; I had to draw the pataki cakes too (far too lazy to make my own screencaps).

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Bloody hell, you *drew* them? I never noticed!

And I love your Largo one, mine was shite:). It was this:



The screencap was good, with the evil grin and all, but as usual, I went completely overboard with the shiiiiiiiiiiiny filters. Meh.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry I didn't realise you had one, though the Shadow ball shows up OK there; it just needs to be brighter. You made the image a lot clearer than I did.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

There's no need to be sorry! At all! It's a different take on the same theme, that's all.

I usually make images ridiculously clear and sharp and then ruin them with filters...