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blakes7-d Digest				Volume 98 : Issue 313

Today's Topics:
	 Re: [B7L] UNCUT
	 Re: [B7L] worst cast
	 [B7L] B7: Another most incompatible cast
	 Re: [B7L] UNCUT
	 [B7L] Re: worst cast
	 [B7L] Re:uncut
	 [B7L] B7L  UK TV Monday
	 Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
	 [B7L] Watching the detectives
	 [B7L] Over the Moon
	 Re: [B7L] 'Duel'...

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 01:06:38 -0000
From: "Dangermouse" <master@sol.co.uk>
To: "cj" <rollingthunder@net.ntl.com>, <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] UNCUT
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> Looking at mt collection of Blakes 7 vidos, I see that a most of the
> videos say "Contains 2 complete unedited episodes".  Can anyone tell me
> exactly which episodes in the series have been edited and what exactly
> has been removed from them?

AFAIK the only cut of the 26-tape set was of Avon clapping his hands over
the guard's ears in the fight in the computer room in Space Fall.

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Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 19:32:50 -0000
From: "Neil Faulkner" <N.Faulkner@tesco.net>
To: "lysator" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] worst cast
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>> Music by - Devo


I do hope, 'Psycho', <g> that you are implying that the sound of the mighty
Devo is merely inappropriate for a B7 movie, because some people out here
happen to like them rather a lot.  (And while I'm at it, Reuben, the B52s
might be crap now but Rock Lobster was and still is the proverbial biz.)

Anyway, wouldn't a real B7 movie have to have music by the Fun Lovin'
Criminals?

Hey, who needs religion and politics when there's music?

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 16:02:47 +0800
From: "Fleur A Johnstone" <fleur@p086.aone.net.au>
To: <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] B7: Another most incompatible cast
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Hi everyone, I wish all a very merry christmas. While in the UK, you'll be
having a cold one, for us here in Oz it will be warm.  The w/bureau are
predicting around 33 degrees.

There has been interesting input on casts for for a B7 movie, specially
Neil's idea of having Rick Moranis for Blake (would you have him wear
glasses or contacts?) and Pat's Gan being Sly Stallone (would he do
anything other than grunt and/or shoot?)! Here is another alterative:

B7 The Motion Picture - Back to Horizon

The Cast most likely to be incompatible are: 
Blake - Antonio Banderas - for that exotic touch - he would have an eye
for Jenna and Cally if they were interested!
Avon - Kevin Spacey (plays the classic deadpan and/or psycho roles
brilliantly. Does everyone remember his part in "Seven"?)
Gan - Andre the Giant (remember him in his "Giant" role in The Princess
Bride?)He would be the classic gentle giant.
Villa - Jerry Seinfeld (to throw the cat amongst the pigeons)
Cally - Cher (Beauty, brains and the psychic look. This could mark her
current comeback)
Jenna - Kate Winslett (the young beauty interest)
Servalan - Melanie Griffith (but she'd have to change her hair colour and
style to something drastic - like a green mohawk!)
Zen - Brian Ferry or David Essex - for a soothing voice with intellect. 
Travis - Stephen Tompkinson (from Drop the Dead Donkey where he is well
known for his ruthlessness, lack of regard for other's safety etc - watch
out Gerry!)

With the above cast how long do you think it would take for each to get on
the others nerves?? Not very long....... There would be some rather
amusing and entertaining moments though.

Regards, Fleur.

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:06:38 +0000
From: Julia Jones <julia.lysator@jajones.demon.co.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Cc: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] UNCUT
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In message <199812200113.BAA28955@gnasher.sol.co.uk>, Dangermouse
<master@sol.co.uk> writes
>> Looking at mt collection of Blakes 7 vidos, I see that a most of the
>> videos say "Contains 2 complete unedited episodes".  Can anyone tell me
>> exactly which episodes in the series have been edited and what exactly
>> has been removed from them?
>
>AFAIK the only cut of the 26-tape set was of Avon clapping his hands over
>the guard's ears in the fight in the computer room in Space Fall.
>
The tape of Rescue is allegedly uncut, but in fact is different to the
broadcast version. It's missing a second or two at the end of the scene
where Vila trips over the gun while drinking from the bottle - and it's
that second or two that make it quite clear that Vila has to decide
between rescuing his friends, and crawling into the bottle, and
seriously considers crawling into the bottle... The final scene after
the monster is killed is quite different to the broadcast version, and
is obviously a different take, not just minor differences in editing.
Broadcast has a continuous pan around from Dayna bending over the young
man to the group by the stairs, and Soolin, standing at the back of the
group, looks around at them before sneaking up the stairs. The tape has
a cut from Dayna to the group, with no sign of Soolin. This doesn't make
it clear that Soolin doesn't trust the existing group and has sneaked
off to hide somewhere.
-- 
Julia Jones

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:37:09 +0100
From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@MCR1.poptel.org.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Re: worst cast
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Pat said:

> Roj Blake.........................William Shatner

The trouble is, if they did make a B7 movie, that could well be the
case.

Reuben suggested:

> Cally - Claudia Christian

What's wrong with that, it could work.

> Written by - Terrance Dicks

Arrgh! No. Get thee behind me Satan
--
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

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:55:35 +0100
From: Steve Rogerson <steve.rogerson@MCR1.poptel.org.uk>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Re:uncut
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Chris asked: "Looking at mt collection of Blakes 7 vidos, I see that a
most of the
videos say "Contains 2 complete unedited episodes".  Can anyone tell me
exactly which episodes in the series have been edited and what exactly
has been removed from them?"

The strangest one comes from Space Fall. In the computer room scene
where Avon attacks the guy, the final punch is edited out. It is
strange, because in the video The Beginning, which is a heavily edited
version of the early episodes, that scene is complete.
--
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

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:59:54 -0000
From: "Debra Collard" <Debra@whisson1.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "B7L" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] B7L  UK TV Monday
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Harriet Monkhouse mentions that Clive James is taking a wry view of tv =
sci fi on Monday night on the UK ITV at 10pm.

According to my tv schedule pages Clive will be taking a special look at =
his favourite sci fi- Blakes 7, but doesn't mention guests. As I usually =
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:15:28 +0100 (BST)
From: Judith Proctor <Judith@blakes-7.demon.co.uk>
To: Lysator List <Blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: Re: [B7L] What does 'Duel' Tell Us...
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On Fri 18 Dec, Penny Dreadful wrote:
> Judith said:
> 
> > Or to put it another way, he wanted human contact as much as sex.
> 
> Okay. I assume sex is an undercurrent in any male/female interaction, 
> until proven otherwise. 

I don't, perhaps because I have many male friends whom I intereact with on a
totally non-sexual level.  There's an undercurrent there with a few friends, but
they're in a minority.
 
> >> I think he felt isolated from, and (psychologically) threatened by, 
> >> normal people even when he was physically "normal". I think he felt 
> more 
> >> empathy for the mental processes of mutoids than he did for those of 
> >> normal people.
> >
> >Possibly.  But why?
> 
> Because normal people's minds tend to be convoluted conglomerations of 
> wants and fears and dreams (of varying grandiosity levels) of wealth, 
> love, power, pleasure; not to mention maintenance of various 
> social/familial relationships. Travis doesn't appear to suffer from such 
> complications, and he can't understand people who do. For instance he 
> always seems surprised to see what's going on in Servalan's head, and he 
> does not like to be surprised. Mutoids, on the other hand, don't have 
> Ulterior Motives. Travis can predict their behaviour, more or less, they 
> probably won't surprise him.

Interesting, I never thought Servalan surprised him that much.  They recognised
one another's ruthless streak.  I did catch occasional undercurrents (especially
early on) between Travis and Servalan, but then Servalan managed to introduce a
sexual element to almost every since interaction.

I think Travis lost his ability to read Servalan as time went by.  He became
more fanatic and inward looking and she respected him less.

Judith

PS.  For anyone who hasn't already heard it, I highly recommend 'Travis The
Final Act'.  It's an audio tape containing interviews with both actors who
played Travis and also the script editor and it's very interesting.  It gives a
balanced look at the character and his background and includes relevent clips
from the series to illustrate points being discussed.

It was written by Alan Stevens, produced by Alistair Locke and is available from
Horizon.

-- 
http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7

Redemption 99 - The Blakes 7/Babylon 5 convention  
26-28 February 1999, Ashford International Hotel, Kent
http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 14:21:06 PST
From: "Joanne MacQueen" <j_macqueen@hotmail.com>
To: blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: [B7L] Watching the detectives
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Hello all, and Neil Faulkner in particular

Neil, just in case you haven't been informed of this already, Luke 
Thanet is the name Dorothy Simpson gave to her police detective. He has 
a daughter who likes Blake's 7. We are given this information as an 
explanation for his mental description of a minor character in "Puppet 
for a corpse" as looking like a younger version of Servalan. <grin> 
There are some who may not care for this description - there can be only 
one Servalan, after all, and I strongly suspect that thou shalt have no 
other Servalans (along the lines of the Ten Commandments).

Now that I think of it, that subject line sounds more like a reference 
to the late Trooper Par and his colleagues at Sun Hill.

Julia Jones said: >Some of us quite enjoyed the none-too-subtle BUARA 
scene in that book...

Oh. Something to look forward to, then (?!?!?). All I've done so far is 
flick through some pages rather quickly. Unfortunately, some of the 
minor characters' names that I saw brought strange images to mind. Dr 
David Zukan, for instance. He, of course, will be dressed in grey, and 
have a bright orange topknot for a hairdo. That should impress his 
clients no end <grin> There is another character called Jarvik, for whom 
no image whatsoever comes to mind but, if reading the list's archives 
gives any indication, he must be a very manly man indeed!

Harriet said: >but all I can remember is that I couldn't get any 
>mushrooms.

<smile> Ah, I forgot about those. Not that what David Jackson eats has a 
direct correlation to what Gan eats, of course.

Time to do something else, lest I find myself draped with tinsel (and, 
therefore, at risk of looking like some piece of circuitry from 
"Timelash" <groan>).

Regards
Joanne

The tree ferns in green gullies sway, the cool stream flows silently by
The joy bells are greeting the day, and the chimes are adrift in the sky
--second verse of the previously mentioned carol.
(It isn't lovely weather for a sleigh ride, and I'm not dreaming of a 
White Christmas. Consistent sunshine, instead of consistent humidity and 
threat of rain, would do nicely right now.)


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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:12:00 -0500
From: Harriet Monkhouse <101637.2064@compuserve.com>
To: "INTERNET:blakes7@lysator.liu.se" <blakes7@lysator.liu.se>
Subject: [B7L] Over the Moon
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Una kindly offered:
>I now have digital TV. Anyone offering bribes for the 'Over the Moon'
video?

Wow, you managed to find a decoder in a shop?

Perhaps you could bring a video to Redemption?

Harriet

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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:20:05 PST
From: "Penny Dreadful" <pdreadful@hotmail.com>
To: Blakes7@lysator.liu.se
Subject: Re: [B7L] 'Duel'...
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Prurient Penny penned:

>>I assume sex is an undercurrent in any male/female interaction 

and Judith said:

>I don't, perhaps because I have many male friends whom I intereact with 
on a
>totally non-sexual level.

*Totally*? Well - maybe I've inadvertently absorbed too much Freud. Or 
Desmond Morris. Sometimes a machete is just a machete, eh? 

>I never thought Servalan surprised him that much. They recognised
>one another's ruthless streak.  

Yes, but his ruthlessness is generally of the neat-and-tidy kind, 
efficiency. Like (arguably) a machine (I swear I will at some future 
point construct a coherent and seamless argument vis a vis Travis's 
machineliness). Servalan's desires, and her schemes, are murkier, much 
more complex. So he identifies with her ruthlessness, but this doesn't 
mean he can predict her behaviour.

>I did catch occasional undercurrents (especially
>early on) between Travis and Servalan, but then Servalan managed to 
introduce a
>sexual element to almost every since interaction.

The tramp!

>I think Travis lost his ability to read Servalan as time went by.  He 
became
>more fanatic and inward looking and she respected him less.

She bent and bashed her toy until it broke, and then it wasn't fun to 
play with any more. How seasonally apropos.

-- Penny "Don't blame me, Doc, you're the one who keeps drawing dirty 
pictures" Dreadful

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