b7 comm has lift-off (and crashes, obv.)

Mar 23, 2012 17:41

Well, no one told me not to do the comm, so b7love_250 is live! Feel free to join, add prompts to the prompt post or even write a ficlet. (And older fic that would fit an unclaimed pairing - and as yet, they're all unclaimed - is okay, although obviously the idea is to generate some new ficlets for the fandom, too ( Read more... )

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alto2 March 23 2012, 21:16:28 UTC
I ave never seen a single episode of this show, alas. I read a book (novelisation?) way back in the 80s because I saw it and had heard of it and had no other access. But that's it. And I fear that if I try to watch it now, I will react in much the same way New Who fans react when they go back and watch the old stuff. Is there hope, or do you think I'm better off deciding I missed the moment on this one?

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lost_spook March 23 2012, 22:05:34 UTC
Well, if you're used to watching Classic Who, as long as that's what you expect - and given the people involved, that is what you get! - I don't see why you shouldn't be able to take it for what it is. It was made 1978-1981.

The biggest problem with it, though, is that for some reason they still haven't released the DVDs in the US (no idea; probably the Terry Nation Estate and copyright again, or something), so you need to either have some means of playing non-region 1 DVDs, or other inventive skills. Otherwise, this is a totally hypothetical issue anyway ( ... )

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alto2 March 23 2012, 22:32:08 UTC
Well, I do have the region-free DVD payer, though I'm not sure how much I'd want to shell out on something I've never seen. YouTube might be able to help--I'll check that.

As for the spoilers, a friend unknowingly spoiled me years ago--she had no idea I hadn't seen it. (Or was that Blackadder Goes Forth? Hmm. Now I don't know, so perhaps there's still an element of surprise!) It's a wonder she's still alive...

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lost_spook March 24 2012, 08:30:09 UTC
Yes, I'm the same - I was lucky enough to chance on some 2nd hand video copies in a charity shop to start me off (although the first 4 eps had been spliced into each other, so my shiny new DVDs when I finally got them surprised me with about an extra 25 mins of ep1 in particular.) Anyway, I was going to say that I wasn't sure & I came expecting to mock - and then instantly loved the theme, and was surprised by lots of what happened - and then desperately needed the DVDs!!

And I went to YT find the theme for you, and came back with episode 1 - although as I said, the first few episodes have a slower feel than later on, and S2-4 are pretty snappy in comparison. (The main characters get introduced slowly, so some of them aren't in this, including a very important one - but if you don't know who the crew is, then I'll say no more, because it's clear that who would end up as being 'the seven' was part of the point of the first few eps - indeed, the whole of S1, really.)

B7 - The Way Back (The internet is a wonderful thing ( ... )

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vilakins March 24 2012, 00:03:27 UTC
Ooh! [joins]

This reminds me that I should finish my big damn table of 100 fics I was doing for Vila. There are only 9 or so to go, but they're topics that don't inspire me.

You should pimp this on blakes7 and b7fic and also blakes7 on dreamwidth which does have some subscribers though not many posts.

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lost_spook March 24 2012, 17:01:39 UTC
\o/ And then there were two! :lol:

Thank you - I was going to put it on blakes7 but I hadn't realised there was a Dreamwidth one, or whether it would be okay to post a non-fic post on b7fic, so that's v helpful. (I should be able to get it on fandom_of_one as well.) Or, of course, since we two are there, I could just not and we could pair Vila with everyone in the universe before anyone else joins in and notices. :lol:

Heh. (Sorry, I have a vision of your masterpost being titled that now - My Big Damn Table of 100 Vila Fics. Do you have a masterlist for it, btw? *curious*) Anyway, your problem is solved. Throw a random character to pair Vila for each of those final 9 awkward prompts, and kill two birds with one stone. ;-)

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vilakins March 24 2012, 21:34:41 UTC
Posts of or about b7 fic are fine there; ficathons and comms are very welcome to be pimped (and have been). :-)

My master post is in fact called just that! It's here. It looks like there are only eight prompt left. Admittedly three of those are author's choice but I've held off picking those till I filled the hard ones.

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lost_spook March 25 2012, 12:20:55 UTC
Thanks! :lol: I love that that IS what you've called it, and I've bookmarked it so I can poke about in the fics at some point. :-)

See, they are just waiting for random pairings... Heh.

Actually, OT, was it you who was saying to me that Farscape was good, or at least that I should like Aeryn Sun? Because the other day I went to add it to my Amazon wishlist, and discovered S1 up for 1p (well, £1.27 with p&p, but even so...!) So I have it! (I mean, maybe a disc will turn out to be dodgy, but I can live with that for 1p. And it certainly all looks fine.)

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belantana March 25 2012, 02:59:35 UTC
*joins* for the sake of joining

Best of luck with the comm! I shall be a bewildered supporter wandering around with vaguely undirected good cheer.

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lost_spook March 25 2012, 12:22:19 UTC
:lol: Thank you. A bewildered supporter sounds lovely.

Just ware spoilers - B7 spoilers are dangerous; they hang out in unexpected places and bite passers-by. ;-)

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lolmac March 25 2012, 16:36:21 UTC
Ooo! *runs off to admire shiny new comm*

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