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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[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.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The death of Zen and the Liberator really hit me hard too. I was still young and trusting enough not to expect the end to 'Blake'. I remember mildly traumatizing some friends at uni with a screening of 'Blake'.