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so it seemed to me that basically everyone online who watches old school Dr Who also watches Blake's 7. I read the description on teh Wikipedia, and found some of the Farscapeyness of the premise intriguing (I've also been watching Farscape all this summer, it is hardcore awesome), and I had some time on my hands so I watched the first 3 episodes.
so far it's interesting. it's kind of like the Prisoner went into the future, raped Farscape and let their depressed crackbaby grow up in an even cheaper corner of British outer space than Dr Who with even uglier clothes. Blake is ok (has anyone noticed how goofy he runs? they only show that clip like 50 times in the first episode), but physically he keeps reminding me of Joe Flaherty as Rocco on SCTV's 'The Days of the Week', and that's a little bizarre. I like Avon, he has a bunch of qualities that I tend to like in fictional characters - smart, bitchy, a little faggy, and kinda ridiculous (I'm pretty sure Avon's mom cuts his hair). I like Jenna, but so far it seems like they're having her soften up to Blake way too fast. we'll see how that goes. Vila doesn't bother me yet, but I hope they eventually do things with him besides have him be saucily Cockney. Gan I also don't have much of an impression of yet, beyond being "the muscle". the show moves faster than old Dr Who (thank Christ), but it does have an ongoing plot, which is cool. and Brian Blessed shows up in the third episode as a cult leader, so that's pretty awesome (lol, Brian Blessed). the opening credits crack me up ... not so much the bad computer effects (think like, Atari level computer graphics), they can't really help that, but man. the music is pretty awful (that bit the first time the title pops up is such soap opera organ music), and I love that there's like, 2 parts of it - one quick "space, 'Blake's 7'" bit and then a longer, "Blake's backstory, and in case you forgot from 20 seconds ago, 'Blake's 7'" part. woops, I mean 'Blakes 7', cause apostrophes ... aren't outer spacey enough, or something.
it's dweeby as all hell, but it's ok so far, and I'll probably watch a bit more of it.
so far it's interesting. it's kind of like the Prisoner went into the future, raped Farscape and let their depressed crackbaby grow up in an even cheaper corner of British outer space than Dr Who with even uglier clothes. Blake is ok (has anyone noticed how goofy he runs? they only show that clip like 50 times in the first episode), but physically he keeps reminding me of Joe Flaherty as Rocco on SCTV's 'The Days of the Week', and that's a little bizarre. I like Avon, he has a bunch of qualities that I tend to like in fictional characters - smart, bitchy, a little faggy, and kinda ridiculous (I'm pretty sure Avon's mom cuts his hair). I like Jenna, but so far it seems like they're having her soften up to Blake way too fast. we'll see how that goes. Vila doesn't bother me yet, but I hope they eventually do things with him besides have him be saucily Cockney. Gan I also don't have much of an impression of yet, beyond being "the muscle". the show moves faster than old Dr Who (thank Christ), but it does have an ongoing plot, which is cool. and Brian Blessed shows up in the third episode as a cult leader, so that's pretty awesome (lol, Brian Blessed). the opening credits crack me up ... not so much the bad computer effects (think like, Atari level computer graphics), they can't really help that, but man. the music is pretty awful (that bit the first time the title pops up is such soap opera organ music), and I love that there's like, 2 parts of it - one quick "space, 'Blake's 7'" bit and then a longer, "Blake's backstory, and in case you forgot from 20 seconds ago, 'Blake's 7'" part. woops, I mean 'Blakes 7', cause apostrophes ... aren't outer spacey enough, or something.
it's dweeby as all hell, but it's ok so far, and I'll probably watch a bit more of it.