Blake's 7 - 3x04 - Dawn Of The Gods
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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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It's so retro they spend their time playing space-Monopoly, lol.
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5:26 its a planet gravitational pull, pulling the ship off course, dim wit.
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The Thong?! Aurons worship a talking G-string?!
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The Caliph AKA Willy Wonka
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I think the writers had a major problem deciding on where to go with the show once Blake had left. Avon had told Blake at the beginning of "Star One" that he wanted the Liberator once the Star One control centre was destroyed. This they got as the space battle destroyed it even after Blake's lot removed the explosive devices. We are led to assume that Blake and Jenna survived the space battle and are presumably heading for Earth to stop the Terran administration rebuilding control of the Federation. Avon was supposed not to be interested in this. He now has Vila & Cally back on board and two new characters. Cally & Tarrant have a "freedom fighter" political opposition/terrorist background but Vila just wants an easy life and Dayna simply has a personal grudge against Servalan for murdering her father. This episode seems to be an attempt to get away from the original premise of the series altogether. It strays much too much into fantasy land rather than sci-fi and is veering too much towards the whole Dr. Who concept which was aimed at a much younger audience than Blake's 7. I wonder whether Gareth Thomas & Sally Knyvette got a preview of Season 3 scripts before deciding whether to renew their contracts? If so, it might explain why we lost Blake & Jenna at the end of season 2 ! Last episodes premise of looking for Blake (albeit following a false rumour that he was on the planet Obsidian) at least made sense in that Zen was instructed to locate and retrieve all the crew at the beginning of the space battle with the Andromeda fleet. Why would Orac suddenly have been able to circumvent this?
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Google's fuclking me up. Is the new hairstyle or WW3 ? They want somethingt with Shiilaaru or whar? I swear.
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I wish they'd established why they all accepted Tarrant as their leader.... Does curly hair give automatic rank..? I which case, shouldn't Dana be captain?
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Tarrant is a wanna-be Blake acting like he's in charge. I wish Avon would kick his sissy ass!
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I think Orac likes Dana. "A black ho fascinating".LMAO!
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Is Herculanium related to Unobtainium?
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Damn right orac! The crew do need to explore more specially as they no longer have any kind of mission.
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Vila "I may not be the bravest man in the galaxy.." Avon "Are you sure?"
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A black hole is the ultimate sort of Pandora's box. This one contain a lonely midget who collects stray astronauts, disappointing.
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No Jenna.Pity.
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Cally gets center stage in an episode and it stinks.
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this episode started off fine.....until the appearance of the Caliph and it went all the way downhill from there .
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I rather like this episode... It begins with a board game. That board game could well be adapted to our times and circumstances, where objects like penal colonies on remote planets(i.e. think of Riddick) and fleets of federation spaceships, might be replaced by corporate interests, police states, "renegades", human suffering and degradation and international warfare on a perpetual basis; the terrible things we humans all adapt to, somehow, as humans have remarkable abilities to adapt to things they have no control over. I'm also rather impressed the show brought up Newton's Laws of Physics, albeit in a rather rough way. Come to think of it, how many shows can you think of make some attempt, however clumsy, to spare a minuite or two from the story line, and bring up Physical Laws. At least it's a lot better than Lukas' mystical and completely scientifically illiterate portrayal of "The Force". Avon states Newton's First Law quite accurately: That which is not affected by a force continues in a straight line without acceleration. That simply says what we all take for granted yet nonetheless sums up the first law: the definition of an inertial reference frame: that which isn't affected by "The Force" or any "forces" is at "rest" or continues to plod along at constant velocity, like seeing things go by as you move along in a train or a taxi-cab. Acceleration is easy enough: it's the acceleration of velocity -- when you want to blow thru time by hitting the gas. At rest or constant velocity, nothings' happening man. You go thru everything's the same it was before velocity or not. But implicit in the first law is the meaning of "The Force", roughly given by Tarrant, but when you hit the gas you infuse energy to blow thru time to get somewhere faster which is acceleration. And to accomplish that requires this thing we call "force" , which also depends on another thing we call "mass" (inertia, or resistance to force, which the Higg's Boson is supposedly all about). The more mass you want to accelerate (the heavier you're vehicle or locomotive or spaceship is + cargo + people), the more force is required to accelerated them to some greater velocities, and the greater the consumption of energy required to accomplish that. When you drop a heavy ball, it drops to the ground in the same time as a light ball since the inertia of the ball(its mass) cancels out the force upon it(or "heaviness") due to gravity The moon's got a lot of mass but it stays in orbit around the earth since it's close enough to the earth and has much greater mass it stays in equilibrium as the earth does about the sun for the same reason. We dramatically witness the consequences of unbalanced forces when we observe (or read about in the papers or google) collisions of relatively massive objects as in train wrecks and automobile accidents. Airplanes are another "matter" in that they must have as little mass as possible in order to accelerate from rest and ascend while meeting the requirements of the aerodynamics of take-off in earth's atmosphere and gravity while maintaining maximum fuel efficiency (9-11?). At any rate, as humans go about their various economic and perhaps nefarious activities transporting things, the trade-off is time vs energy, as Villa seems to be well aware of in this episode.
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All rather bizarre...a bit of Zardoz, Alice in Wonderland, even "A matter of life and death"...
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Among other things, the Caliph and the Thaarn seem straight out of a Star Trek episode (original series). This is the only episode of Blake's 7 (that I can recall, anyway) that has ever struck me this way. Although I love Star Trek, I consider it inferior to Blake's 7...
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