Gauda Prime Day

[altariel]

kalypso_v remembers that it is Gauda Prime Day - the twenty-third anniversary of the screening of the last episode of Blake's 7.

At the time, I was a bright-eyed nine-year-old, with a hope-filled heart and faith in human nature. Fifty minutes of television changed all that. When the credits rolled at the end of the episode, I sat gawping at the screen for a bit, and then ran upstairs and had a big cry. Hurrah for the Christmas spirit!

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

I sat gawping at the screen for a bit, and then ran upstairs and had a big cry.

Me too! *snf*

(I was 14. I wrote pages about it in my journal. Thank God we didn't have online journals then!)

[gfk88.livejournal.com]

I was thirteen. I did that gawping thing too, but when I went upstairs I ran into my dad.

"Finished, has it ? Did they all get killed ?"

"Yes."

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Fifty minutes of television changed all that

So that was what turned you in the bitter and twisted soul that we know today? Chris Boucher has a lot to answer for.

I was perhaps already slightly more cynical, because I didn't believe it. I was convinced that they were somehow going to come back. It took a long time for me to believe that no, they really weren't.

[kathyh]

I was a lot older than you but remember feeling pretty much the same. How I'd have felt at 9 I don't even want to imagine!

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Awww! Never underestimate the power of television.

My hope-filled heart and faith in human nature were destroyed several years earlier, but also at the age of nine. The ending of 'Blake' just confirmed it. That, and being at secondary school by then.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I too ran upstairs and cried, though I think my sense of faith in human nature had been challenged some years earlier.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

What? They all died?

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I was relatively ancient but still shocked. I don't think any series that was even vaguely good vs bad (and it was, though the good guys were by then fairly tarnished) had ever ended so bleakly, let alone 4 days before Christmas.

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

I think my equivalent, at about the same age, was Michael Moorcock's History of the Runestaff series. All of the second-string good guys get gruesomely killed off in the final battle, after having followed their adventures through three or four volumes. That was just not the way fantasy was meant to work :)

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

I first saw that episode in (very considerably delayed) reruns in the States, and had absolutely no idea it was going to be the last episode. There I was, studying for my fields exams, Samuel Johnson all over my bed, taking my one precious break of the week, and . . . they were all killed. I didn't have the excuse of being thirteen, but my jaw remained dropped for about a week I think. Good God.

[kerravonsen]

i cant remember when they showed it, but because of the way there had been a large gap between third and fourth season, i had previously been watching -the omega factor- which chris boucher had also been heavily involved in, so my thoughts on seeing -blake- were more along the lines of "Bloody typical!"

[raspberryfool.livejournal.com]

I was thirteen, and it was my first term at Upper School which i hated! I hated the world - or was beginning to - back then, and B7 was the last Good Thing i had. Then they took it away from me, and i hated the world completely.

The... *sad wimper* ...B*****ST*RDS!!!

I'm gonna cry now...

[temeres.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's just me being typically strange, but I was hit harder by the end of the 3rd Season. I had to go and lie down in a dark room for a while after that. I think it was a combination of the 4th Season as a whole being largely shite, and the fact that I knew the final episode was destined to be the last ever, that I was expecting them all to get killed so the only surprise was how it would happen.

Mind you, many years later, I introduced a friend to B7, and when it came to 'Blake' I got to see her jaw well and truly drop. Served her right for being a Star Trek junkie, I thought.