B7 blog: Adventures with the Wife and Blake

[vilakins]

Neil Perryman, whose blog Adventures with the Wife in Space followed his wife Sue's reaction to Doctor Who, has started a new blog. This time he's getting Sue to watch Blake's 7 with him.

Adventures with the Wife and Blake is only up to Space Fall, so now's a good time to follow. Their pets are already named after B7 characters, which I'm

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[astrogirl2]

Ah, thanks for the heads-up on that! I love The Wife in Space. :)

[vilakins]

I see there's a book. Do you have the book? I haven't read it, but man, that's a huge canon to watch through, and I wouldn't know a lot of the eps. Maybe I'll look at Nine onwards.

[astrogirl2]

I do not have the book, although I've vaguely considered picking it up.

Sadly, they have not done New Who, just the classic series. But you could maybe read the blog posts for the eps you've seen. It's highly entertaining.

[vilakins]

I will! I've watched a few fairly recently and would remember enough to find it fun.

[vjezkova]

New for me, thank you very much!

[vilakins]

I love seeing other people's reactions to shows, especially B7.

[aralias]

thanks for linking to this! i knew it was coming up, but i had forgotten when it was actually starting. read it, and really enjoyed it :D also, so pleased that she's enjoying it! i am too invested.

[vilakins]

She's actually pretty perceptive after just two eps; did you see her comment about Blake and Avon?

[aralias]

i've read both the episode summaries, so i must have done, but also i have to ask - which one? love triangle? what are they going to do for four months? (IT IS FIVE SECONDS, not four months.)

as far as perceptive, i do definitely agree :D particularly what she says about predicting what will happen in blake's 7 (although i expect she will still be surprised by the ending and how bleak it can get). my other favourite serious comment is 'i think it will be like red dwarf but not as funny'/'it is like red dwarf only much funnier'. now - i think red dwarf is the funniest sitcom ever, so i wouldn't say blake's 7 is funnIER, but it is plenty funny, and i like that that's acknowledged. and it's like red dwarf in some other ways also.

the one that had me wiping tears of laughter from my eyes is about the cats on the intro page. that piece of news was like gasoline on a flame

[vilakins]

Five seconds? I think she's right that the London will take 4 months but I generally go with Jenna's turbo-drive button giving them really fast FTL travel with huge time-distort.

You mean that Blake-cat and Avon-cat couldn't stop shagging? Yeah, very funny, but really they should get the feral cats neutered or they'll end up having to use up all the character names including one-off guests for the huge mob of kittens. And unwanted kittens are sad.

Ha! I just noticed the cartoon features a green drink (on Orac)! A&S!

[nautile26]

Wonderful. I'm going to try to follow along. Thanks for the link. :)

[vilakins]

It's a pity there's not a feed, but I'll be checking every weekend.

Nice hexagons!

[astrogirl2]

What feedreader do you use? A lot of them will let you subscribe to blogs with the URL. I was able to get it to work on Feedly.

[aralias]

i've tried to force them to give me one... i used teh series 1 category tab and fed it into dreamwidth.

http://wifeandblake1-feed.dreamwidth.org/

it's difficult to know if it will work at this early stage, but it's picked up all the posts that were already on the page and despoited them on my f-list. and i guess we will know about cygnus alpha in a few days.

[stevie_carroll]

That's definitely one to follow.

Thanks!