Blake's 7 season 3 review

[altariel]

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.

Comments

[hafren.livejournal.com]

when they tease Gan at the end of Breakdown

I didn't see it quite like that. He is effectively being welcomed back among them, which is more than Avon is. That's one ep when Avon actually behaves quite decently and gets sod all thanks for it, and it's his exclusion from the group I recall from the ending. (Ditto the end of Horizon).

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love the Avon bits in Breakdown, and even more the Vila bits, when he sighs and goes for a gun because he doesn't think anyone else will do the job.

I don't think the teasing is malicious in any way, just embarrassingly stupid and unamusing.