In a message dated 2/18/01 10:58:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Who has seen Blake's Seven besides me? I got it in Chicago in the 80's.
The
Sons of Gallifrey had done some nice fundraising for the local PBS affiliate.
I think they got Blake's Seven as a "thank you." I haven't seen it since
then. It was pretty cool. Stylish acting. >>
I've been a BIG B7 fan since the mid-1980s. Went to cons, wrote fan-fic, etc.
As I said earlier, a big difference for me between B7 and Andromeda is that
the latter has no Bad Guy (or Gal) the way B7 did. Nothing central for Dylan
Hunt to fight against the way Blake was fighting against the Federation.
Interestingly, Blake knew what he was fighting AGAINST, but not what he was
fighting FOR. Dylan Hunt has the opposite problem: he know what he wants to
build, but not what he wants to destroy.
And I'm not saying Andromeda NEEDS a single central villain. That can turn
out to be a cliche - oh, here comes the Bad Guy again, or worse - how shall
Dylan and the Bad Guy not quite annihilate each other THIS week?
Of course, Blakes 7 made it work. They got rid of Travis after two seasons,
and Servalan was always fighting more than just Blake, so they didn't lock
horns in every episode. But the Federation was almost always the whole point
of Blake's self-assigned mission.
Does Dylan Hunt need a Moby Dick? Or doesn't he? You make the call.
Tom Beck
