Reluctantly, I must agree with Cavil #3. What possible contemporary relevance could a show about a surveillance society that fights colonial wars for resources under the command of a ruthless woman have to anything that could happen today?
Another part of #4 -- how many shows kill of their entire cast in the last episode? Or, to put it another way, one can consider the whole thing a classic Tragedy, with the flaws of the main characters leading to the tragic end.
Humphrys was feared by politicians - Blair wouldn't go near him - but is less sarky with the public. I'm sure though that he has no knowledge of SF and will see it as a geek genre. But he's open-minded enough to be impressed by some of the points you've mentioned so far. B7 is still famed for awful SFX so maybe she should point out that other things matter more...
I think I'd choose B7 too, but you have to have several subjects to get through which would stop me. She's already done well on a book series--'The Romney Marsh Novels of Monica Edwards'--and will do 'The Life of Alex Harvey' if she gets further.
I suppose I could do B7 and the Marlow novels of Antonia Forest but I'd be stumped for another one. Perhaps Asimov's Foundation series? Both of those I could bone up on.
But I'd be far too nervous to do well anyway. I was once on a winning school team, but that's different, being one of four.
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I was thinking of the incumbent.
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(I won't name it for spoiler reasons, and also because it's more fun to make people rack their brains trying to figure it out. ;))
This, of course, does not negate the point!
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I suppose I could do B7 and the Marlow novels of Antonia Forest but I'd be stumped for another one. Perhaps Asimov's Foundation series? Both of those I could bone up on.
But I'd be far too nervous to do well anyway. I was once on a winning school team, but that's different, being one of four.
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4. The bad guys win. There's no irony, or back-pedalling, or allusions to hope for the future - and there's no punches pulled. They just win.
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