OK, so, let's just pretend I got round to actually writing a shedload of squee posts about all of B7 season 1. In them I observed how very much I did love it all, especially Servalan and Travis being completely brilliant at one another, and Blaaaaake actually being weirdly attractive (in a lumbering sort of way), and Avon filling the world with lols (sometimes intentionally), and Vilavilavilailovehimso, and how, really, any show where that prompts an 'ooh, is that Carol Royle?' is going to bring the happy round at Pontisbright Towers. (I may have skimmed over the intense boringness of Jenna and how much Cally needs a sandwich. But I skimmed over even these things with love.)

Aaaaaanyway, now am on S2. And...um...


Redemption? I approve of running around that place from The Hand of Fear with the pixie-like Thal from Genesis of the Daleks and Sheila Ruskin (who was Kassia in Keeper of Traken though I actually recognised her from Pros and had to look her up, for shame). But:



WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU ALL WEARING?

Granted, Avon's gimpwear is not exactly a departure. But really, Blake, if you're going to be having fights with bits of electrical cable, you should probably opt for something a touch less parachutey? Cally looks like the Green Cross Code Woman. Vila's bananatrousers upset me. And oh, Gan, you did not really need to look more like an out-of-work Shakespearean stage actor.

I liked the bacofoil and flares in space and those weird furry parka things they had. I don't mind them looking a bit daft. I positively approve of them looking a bit daft. But THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE FUGITIVES. Fugitives do not wear velvet cloaks and big pouffy sleeves of impracticalness.

Also: I was hoping for a longer wait for Darrow to cotton on to the fact that the audience like his batshit delivery to random corners of the room. It's like Jack Sparrow: the minute we're all in on the joke, it stops being funny. Oh Avon, you were so much more fun when it was by accident.

I did like that bit when Blake told them all to sit down, when they were sitting down. But it was mostly quite annoying.

Tell me it returns to the giddy heights of S1?