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

[altariel.livejournal.com]

'Death Watch' is successful all round, I think.

That is a very good Avon-Vila scene - I guess I would think of that as a success of the script-writing across the show rather than a success of 'Volcano' as an episode. But then I'm always ready for a spot of Boucher-worship! :-D