A lot of re-using of space-ship models for the battle! The Liberator appears to attack and destroy Space City at one point - and even the Wanderer Class Antique from Killer gets to join the action! :-)
Vila doesn't seem nearly as freaked out as one might have thought in those opening shots of him alone in the disintegrating Liberator - it's only later, with Cally, that he appears to panic. It's as if that self-reliance crumbles as soon as there's somebody else around. :-( I'm pretty sure that if Cally hadn't been there Vila would have been fully capable of fixing the problem with the life-capsule himself.
First niggle: why would Avon take ORAC, seeing how it's been almost exclusively Blake's machine the entire time? I have to assume that Blake "heroically" told him to take it, perhaps for reasons of being able to repair any damage to it
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The rehashed special effects *are* a tad embarrassing... "hairdryer fleet" indeed.
Fandom has indeed settled on Avon as the sexy one. I think a lot of it is to do with a) lower entry point for handsome in 1980 b) gravelly voice c) attracted to bad boys so you can change 'em
In my youth that was also true of me, but now I'm wondering if he'll take the bins out and do his share of the hoovering. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for show watching purposes but would expect to see much more Tarrant swooning in future episodes.
I am hoping boots in the future are more breathable so it's ok to keep them on for long periods.
And now I want silver sheets....
Pretty much everything in this episode is random and doesn;t flow from prior plots. I'm much more excited about Powerplay and section leader Clegg next week! As I recall there we have Proper Plot driven by character.
c) attracted to bad boys so you can change 'em Aha, perhaps that's my problem - I don't want to change him... Well, unless it's back into his S1 persona, I suppose...
Funny thing is, I'm not a big fan of conventional flawless Hollywood-style prettiness either (boring!), and in any case characters only tend to become attractive to me as I get to know them, and then in direct proportion to how interesting I find them personality-wise (Vila is a case in point: I barely even noticed him in the beginning, but by now his face is starting to distract me from the plot, dammit.) But it just doesn't seem to work that way with Avon for some reason. No matter how fascinating he gets, his looks remain faintly off-putting to me, in a not-even-interesting kind of way. *shrugs*
Yes, I suppose this ep was pretty much just a way of bringing Dayna aboard while setting the stage for Tarrant... Pity they couldn't do it without stomping all over the sense of continuity...
Vila doesn't seem nearly as freaked out as one might have thought in those opening shots of him alone in the disintegrating Liberator - it's only later, with Cally, that he appears to panic. It's as if that self-reliance crumbles as soon as there's somebody else around. :-( I'm pretty sure that if Cally hadn't been there Vila would have been fully capable of fixing the problem with the life-capsule himself.
First niggle: why would Avon take ORAC, seeing how it's been almost exclusively Blake's machine the entire time? I have to assume that Blake "heroically" told him to take it, perhaps for reasons of being able to repair any damage to it ( ... )
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Fandom has indeed settled on Avon as the sexy one. I think a lot of it is to do with
a) lower entry point for handsome in 1980
b) gravelly voice
c) attracted to bad boys so you can change 'em
In my youth that was also true of me, but now I'm wondering if he'll take the bins out and do his share of the hoovering. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief for show watching purposes but would expect to see much more Tarrant swooning in future episodes.
I am hoping boots in the future are more breathable so it's ok to keep them on for long periods.
And now I want silver sheets....
Pretty much everything in this episode is random and doesn;t flow from prior plots. I'm much more excited about Powerplay and section leader Clegg next week! As I recall there we have Proper Plot driven by character.
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Aha, perhaps that's my problem - I don't want to change him... Well, unless it's back into his S1 persona, I suppose...
Funny thing is, I'm not a big fan of conventional flawless Hollywood-style prettiness either (boring!), and in any case characters only tend to become attractive to me as I get to know them, and then in direct proportion to how interesting I find them personality-wise (Vila is a case in point: I barely even noticed him in the beginning, but by now his face is starting to distract me from the plot, dammit.) But it just doesn't seem to work that way with Avon for some reason. No matter how fascinating he gets, his looks remain faintly off-putting to me, in a not-even-interesting kind of way. *shrugs*
Yes, I suppose this ep was pretty much just a way of bringing Dayna aboard while setting the stage for Tarrant... Pity they couldn't do it without stomping all over the sense of continuity...
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Ha! I actually did one as an icon for b7fanart:
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