vilakins: Krantor offering a plate of pataki cakes (B7 pusher)
Nico ([personal profile] vilakins) wrote2005-03-06 05:09 pm
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GIP

[livejournal.com profile] 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.

Largo pusher

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.

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[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-03-06 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2005-03-06 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, damn:) History buff Blake, now I love him even *more*8-)...

[identity profile] snowgrouse.livejournal.com 2005-03-06 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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:)...

[identity profile] vilakins.livejournal.com 2005-03-06 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
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...
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