From: blakes7-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: blakes7-d Digest V98 #246 X-Loop: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume98/246 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: blakes7-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain blakes7-d Digest Volume 98 : Issue 246 Today's Topics: Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash... [B7L] Re:Murdersville [B7L] Re: The answer to life... RE: [B7L] Teddy bear [B7L] The Crucible (this msg becomes waffling OT as it goes on) RE: [B7L] Teddy bear Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:20:20 +0100 From: Julia Jones To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash... Message-ID: In message <3.0.2.32.19980925201516.00696fa4@clara.net>, JMR writes >A SECOND B7 RADIO PLAY - THE SYNDETON EXPERIMENT: The second of the BBC's >Blake's Seven Radio plays will be broadcast at 3pm on BBC Radio 4, on >Saturday 19th December 98. It runs for 60 minutes and is again produced at >BBC Pebble Mill by Brian Lighthill, and written by Barry Letts. Noooo!!!! Look, I want the Doctor back just as much as anyone else does, but in his own show, not in a script making a very bad attempt at pretending to be B7. Why the hell can't we have a script written by someone who has some vague concept of what the show is about? Even Ben Stud displayed some evidence of having taken in an episode or two. Chris Boucher is still alive and kicking, even if Robert Holmes and Terry Nation are no longer available for script-writing, and I'd really quite like to have Blake in Blake's 7. The only saving grace is that the cast did such a wonderful job of making the plot semi-believable last time round, with any luck they can pull off the same trick twice. -- Julia Jones "Don't philosophise with me, you electronic moron!" The Turing test - as interpreted by Kerr Avon. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:15:39 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: [B7L] Re:Murdersville Message-ID: <360CE8F9.78C1A155@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dangermouse said: "Better still is the black and white episode A Sense Of History - which has a rather larger role for a young Jackie Pearce." which is on tape 5 of the M Appeal collection due out in the UK on 12 October. -- cheers Steve Rogerson Redemption 99: The Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell" Star Wars ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:16:10 +0100 From: Steve Rogerson To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se, Space City , Richard Norman , Anna Bowles , Chloe Smith , Gavin Rymill , Redemption Subject: [B7L] Re: The answer to life... Message-ID: <360CE918.4699AE4@mcr1.poptel.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I said re my birthday bash at Pages on Oct 11: "So, if any of you plan on coming, email me by Saturday October 3 (cos I'll email them the list on Oct 4)." Typical, the day after I post this, they email me and say they are making it a ticket only event. However, they will reserve me tickets if I let them know asap. So, if any of you are planning on coming, can you get back to me very quickly. -- cheers Steve Rogerson Redemption 99: The Blakes 7 and Babylon 5 convention 26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Ashford, Kent http://www.smof.com/redemption/ "Get in there you big furry oaf, I don't care what you smell" Star Wars ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 18:16:19 +0100 From: Anne Lane To: "'B7'" Subject: RE: [B7L] Teddy bear Message-ID: <01BDE982.C95A4AC0.aplane@tesco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Friday, September 25, 1998 10:10 PM, Judith wrote: > >> For those of us have never been to a B7 convention in our lives, could >> someone explain what the Avon's teddy bear joke is? > > They get to the line > > 'Be careful Avon, your sentiment is showing' > > Gareth slowly brings the teddy up into view and Paul collapses laughing. > > It's the best thing on the whole blooper tape and has given rise to a number > of > fan stories involving teddies. > Just saw the B5 episode that ends brilliantly with the Sheridan teddy floating in space - does anyone know whether JMS has heard the Avon's teddy story? Anne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 19:19:46 +0100 From: Anne Lane To: "'B7'" Subject: [B7L] The Crucible (this msg becomes waffling OT as it goes on) Message-ID: <01BDE982.CDB5B5A0.aplane@tesco.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A belated thank you to Judith for organising the trip to see The Crucible - it was a wonderful evening - lots of time talking with Gareth and an excellent production. Judith said: >I mentally awarded Anne a gold star for her serendipitous choice of pub and was >so deep in conversation with Gareth that I didn't notice her arrival until I >turned round and realised that Anne had joined us. No...strangely, words like 'hello' and 'drink?' and the noisy acquisition of a bar stool had no effect whatsoever! :-) Judith kindly got me a ticket for the pre-performance chat with members of the cast. I went along on Wednesday after work. The audience of about 30 people were mainly going to that evening's performance and very few people (including the cast members) had seen any other production or the film, so the 'discussion' was a little one sided. Gareth was not one of the participants, although there was one empty chair and I half expected to see him come on, convention-style, pint in hand, but, alas, no. The cast members were Bryan Robson (Giles Corey), Michael Stroud (Francis Nurse) and Alexandra Mathie (Elizabeth Proctor). The chair was the Assistant Director (Neale Birch). I was a little disappointed that the Director, Kenny Ireland, wasn't there. There was more discussion on the historical aspects than on the play itself. The cast members were very knowledgeable about the period - apparently all the cast have read the Frances Hill book that is quoted in the programme. There was some mention of McCarthy and of the Clinton saga; it was stated that the director, in line with Miller's thinking, had decided to concentrate on the Salem story and let the audience draw their own parallels. The man that plays Corey complained that he had researched the part and found that Corey was a Lincolnshire farmer, but was not allowed to play him with a Lincolnshire accent. This was because a decision had been taken to use a dialect that was a mixture of West Country and Irish as the most authentic for the mix of settlers and the origins of American accents. Even though at the time (about 70 years after the Mayflower) settlers were still arriving from all over Britain, it was felt that the audience would not perceive it as one community if there was a variety of accents. There was also some complaint the Miller required actors to remain on stage for long periods without giving them anything to do or say (especially in the Court scene). The Assistant director said that Miller had said that there were no villains in the play. Interestingly, though, the cast, when pushed, plumped for Danforth as the villain (the Starr of his day, as was said!). I would have thought Putnam was the villain, as he was quite clearly motivated by self interest. We were told that in real life Danforth was much more cruel and brutal than in the play, and Miller had said that if he had re-written it he would have made him nastier (doesn't sound like Gareth at all!). I certainly agree more with Gareth's view of Danforth, but maybe I'm biased. All in all, an interesting accompaniment to the play. Anne ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:33:25 -0500 (CDT) From: Tegan To: "'B7'" Subject: RE: [B7L] Teddy bear Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > Just saw the B5 episode that ends brilliantly with the Sheridan teddy floating > in space - does anyone know whether JMS has heard the Avon's teddy story? sounds like a question to ask jms at a con... so far as I know, he hasn't mentioned anything about it, since that teddy bear is based on one that he received from Peter David... throwing the bear out was jms' little addition to that story... tegan (*) tegan@goddess.coe.missouri.edu http://goddess.coe.missouri.edu/~tegan But if you've tread in primal soup, please wipe it from your shoes -Phish, Cavern ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 13:54:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "G. Robbins" To: JMR cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: [B7L] Official "Horizon" Newsflash... Message-ID: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII >It also looks hopeful that there will be >another BBC Internet phone in - we'll give you the date when we hear. >(It >will probably be with Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce - but that's not >confirmed.) Great! I was wondering about that, and now I don't even have to ask!! --Grace -------------------------------- End of blakes7-d Digest V98 Issue #246 **************************************