More adventures in Blake-land

[altariel]

And last night I watched Trial. Now that really is absolutely fucking brilliant!

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[hafren.livejournal.com]

It's one of those eps with a parallel structure, which I like a lot. Blake's relationship with his crew vs Travis's with his ex-command (and that cruel touch where Par says he stuck with Travis because whatever else the man was, he did keep them safe - just as well poor Blake didn't hear that). Par is a brilliant cameo in himself. And the agonising Blake/Avon scene near the start, where you just want to shake A and say: stop saying things you don't mean and don't even want to hear yourself saying. And B's deadly riposte to "At least I don't get them killed": true, Avon, with all its implied "because they wouldn't follow you that far". Actually I don't even mind the alien, though I know some find her annoying.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The structure of it really leapt out this time, and seemed to get cleverer and more complex the more I thought about it. I hadn't worked out that cruel touch with Par, and was struggling to look for connections between him and the Liberator plotline - thank you for that!

I was a lot more forgiving of the alien this time too.

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Trial! Yes, it's good, isn't it?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

*Extremely* good! I even didn't mind Zil this time round!

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I think Trial is the mirror image of Voice from the Past: i.e., it's HALF fucking brilliant, half sucks big rocks, but in the case of Trial "the bits with Travis are great" and in VftP "the bits with Travis are unbelievably crap."

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I had always had the same opinion of 'Trial', but watching it back this time, the scenes down on Zil's planet turned out to be: 1. not as many as remembered and 2. not even as bad as I remembered! Plus the ancillary scenes in this plotline on the Liberator are really brilliant.