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Blake's 7 season 3 review
I was enjoying this review of the season 3 DVDs - it's fun and well-written - and then it handed me one of the best short reviews of 'Blake' I've ever read:
"[I]n Series 4 ... the whole thing will work up to a wonderful episode, again by Chris Boucher, in which almost every line is quoteable. It will all end up uncannily like Act V of Hamlet, duel scene, misunderstandings and all. Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
This, on our beloved Man of Iron:
"In being-annoyed scenes, he is frequently reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder, especially when dressed in preposterous black outfits: though he never actually says 'Fortune vomits on my eiderdown again', that is pretty often his gist."
Then this is just joyous:
"Jacqueline Pearce pretty well glories in her badness as Servalan, too, and yet that is the genius of it, because I have a feeling that the whole thing would have fallen flat if acted by - how can I put this? - actors."
I have tears running down my cheeks. Great start to the week. Go and have a read.
"[I]n Series 4 ... the whole thing will work up to a wonderful episode, again by Chris Boucher, in which almost every line is quoteable. It will all end up uncannily like Act V of Hamlet, duel scene, misunderstandings and all. Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
This, on our beloved Man of Iron:
"In being-annoyed scenes, he is frequently reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder, especially when dressed in preposterous black outfits: though he never actually says 'Fortune vomits on my eiderdown again', that is pretty often his gist."
Then this is just joyous:
"Jacqueline Pearce pretty well glories in her badness as Servalan, too, and yet that is the genius of it, because I have a feeling that the whole thing would have fallen flat if acted by - how can I put this? - actors."
I have tears running down my cheeks. Great start to the week. Go and have a read.
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When I saw the series a few years ago, it took me a few eps to get used to the 'declaiming Shakespeare from a stage' style. I think he was a bit mean claiming that SP and JS were better than MK; quite apart from my liking for Vila, I always considered him the most natural of the regulars.
I love the tally sheet. Darling!
But... Harvest of Kairos one of the best? [boggles] That undermines everything he said.
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Harvest of Kairos one of the best? [boggles] That undermines everything he said.
I let my eye slide over that, because he'd been so funny. Perhaps he had similarly just let his eye slide over Jarvik and Brian.
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At least he didn't praise any more B STard eps. [shudder] Or your beloved Animals. :-)
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