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!

Comments

[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 :)

[hafren.livejournal.com]

There was of course C S Lewis's grotesque The Last Battle, which wanted me to believe that a train crash constituted a happy ending because all the parties concerned had gone to heaven. But even at nine, I could see through that one!

[communicator.livejournal.com]

'Blake' cast retrospective glory on the whole of Season 4, but The Last Battle ruined Narnia for me.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I had been so thoroughly catholicized even by the age of 9 so that the ending of The Last Battle seemed a happy one. (A long slow process of de-catholicization came later.)

[fictualities.livejournal.com]

Urgh, do not like that book. All the parties went to heaven except Susan. Can you imagine how devastated she must have been to have her entire family killed at one go? Pretty severe punishment for being interested in lipsticks and nylons.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The good are meant to end happily! (That's what fiction's all about...)

[the-wild-iris.livejournal.com]

It was definitely a blow to the three-volume-novel view of the world. The villains are all English, for a start :)