Blake's 7 - 1x10 - Breakdown
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Blake's 7. Full Episodes and Seasons in playlists on YouTube - http://bit.ly/Blakes7Movies Blake's 7 is a British science fiction television series produced by the BBC for broadcast on BBC1. Four 13-episode series of Blake's 7 were broadcast between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also created the Daleks for Doctor Who. The script editor was Chris Boucher. The series was inspired by a range of fictional media including Passage to Marseilles, The Dirty Dozen, Robin Hood, Brave New World, Star Trek, classic Westerns and real-world political conflicts in South America and Israel. The series is set in a future age of interstellar travel and follows the exploits of a group of renegades and convicted criminals. Gareth Thomas played the eponymous character Roj Blake, a political dissident who is arrested, tried and convicted on false charges, and then deported from Earth to a prison planet. He and two fellow prisoners, treated as expendable, are sent to board and investigate an abandoned alien spacecraft. They get the ship working, commandeer it, rescue two more prisoners, and are joined by an alien guerrilla with telepathic abilities. In their attempts to stay ahead of their enemies and inspire others to rebel, they encounter a wide variety of cultures on different planets, and are forced to confront human and alien threats. The group conducts a campaign against the totalitarian Terran Federation until an intergalactic war occurs. Blake disappears and Kerr Avon then leads the group. When their spacecraft is destroyed and one group member dies, they commandeer an inferior craft and a base on a distant planet, from which they continue their campaign. In the final episode Avon finds Blake and, suspecting him of betraying the group, kills him. The group is then shot by Federation guards, who surround Avon in the final scene. Blake's 7 was popular from its first broadcast, watched by approximately 10 million people in the UK and shown in 25 other countries. Although many tropes of space opera are present, such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens, its budget was inadequate for its interstellar narrative. It remains well regarded for its strong characterisation, ambiguous morality and pessimistic tone. Critical responses to the programme have been polarised; reviewers praised its dystopian themes and "enormous sense of fun", and broadcaster Clive James described it as "classically awful". A limited range of Blake's 7 merchandise was issued. Books, magazines and annuals were published. The BBC released music and sound effects from the series, and several companies made Blake's 7 toys and models. Four video compilations were released between 1985 and 1990, and the entire series was released on videocassette starting in 1991 and re-released in 1997. It was subsequently released as four DVD boxed sets between 2003 and 2006. The BBC produced two audio dramas in 1998 and 1999 that feature some original cast members, and were broadcast on Radio 4. Although proposals for live-action and animated remakes have not been realised, Blake's 7 has been revived with two series of official audio dramas, a comedic short film, a series of fan-made audio plays, and a proposed series of official novels.
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Julian Glover chose poorly once again
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Gan had a brain?! Who knew. The fight with Blake scores highly as "most embarassing tv fight ever".
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Good Episode!~
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RIP Gareth Thomas :(
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lol "Space medicine" tsk tsk Avon. i'll pretend i didnt hear that, You would NEVER say something so crass.
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Is that Calli just retarded?
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I wonder if you today can get a degree in stupidity :)
"Master of Stupidity" would look good on the old CV:) -
If I had a old chip glued to my head, had to navigate through a meteor storm, I guess I also would have a headache:)
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So they had one of their crew saved , not a very bright or specialized one, and a whole space station with doctors and scientists destroyed . Happy ending of the episode ! And don't say it was not their fault, as all of them had suspicions - or should have- about the neutrality of xk72 and likeliness of their story. So if Blake had the doctor supervised, what should have been done, and send him back after half an hour, all would have been well. But still an enjoyable episode.
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Blake says, he will break the surgeons hands. OK. So who is going to help him do that? Guy isnt going to stand still for it. The obvious answer would actually be the mindlessly obedient Gan but he's out for the count. Cally wouldnt. Vila would beg off right away. Jenna wouldnt. So 'then there was one'...
Would he? Would Avon break the guy's hands while Blake holds him still? Since its so logical, and all...and isnt Avon supposed to be without feelings or heart: he's always boasting he is... -
Why not have the ships nanobots repair the limiter? Why don't the nanobots counteract Avon's adjustments? Why do the pursuit ships fly so close together , a crash at high speeds would be devastating? I would smack callies bum for letting gan loose. NEVER RELEASE FRANKENSTEIN FROM THE SLAB!!!!!!
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Gan's dying and they travel only at standard by 6 to get help taking 150 hours to get to xk-72? That is over 6 days. Liberator can travel half way accross the galaxy in just 2 hours at maximum speed(as seen in Redemption). This is an emergency travel faster. Yet when under attack they move at standard by 8 and then increase speed to standard by 8? They already moving at that speed lol.
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love the 1st series, great characters and conflict; another good episode .
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21:49 - Late 70s Bluetooth prediction.
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He chose...poorly
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You lot have no faith in British drama ... I far as I'm concerned, you're all a bunch of Gant's !!! :)
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General Veers!
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Points deducted from Cally due to her sheer stupidity in releasing Gan despite his previously attacking and overwhelming most of the crew !
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