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

[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...