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OMG THEY KILLED GAN!
How did I not know that was going to happen? Blimey. I didn't even like him, and now I'm all sad. (Although they managed to film it so badly I was a bit confused and didn't believe it for ages.) I then had to watch Trial in order to make sure he wasn't just sci-fi dead, and lo, twas awesome. I did spend the whole thing wishing proper!Travis was in it, admittedly, but there was also Nyder and Plum from the Pros and Tosh from The Bill, and emo!Blake which was quite cheering. And a lizard woman and a planet that eats people. And Avon just...Avonning. I LOVE YOU BLAKE'S 7.
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And, well. Pressure Point. Half of which was just emo slash bitchery, really (see icon).
And Travis II is rubbish but he seems to have a crazy fan following. I don't really get it, but at least you can point at him and laugh every time he goes "NYAAARGH", the Cockney nutjob.
I love how Avon and Blake manage to be slashy in a 'pair of old bitchy exes' way and a 'we're never ever doing it ever stop looking at me like that' way simultaneously. Then again, Avon is practically humping the furniture, so it's hard not to find subtext with pretty much everyone.
People like Trav II? WHAAAAAT? Total downgrade. Even shouting POUND YOUR BANANA at him doesn't really bring the love: he's just not as capable of having a pervery pissing contest with Servalan. Though I do like the fact you can't see his eye through a fucking huge hole in the front of his eyepatch.
Seriously, it's freaking carnage. And so realistic given they're a pack of terrorists with a huge bounty on their heads that I HUG IT TO BITS
Especially because I keep seeing all the ways it's influenced other things - most obviously that whole fundamental distinction between the Trek-style 'we are the authority, let us educate the savages' shows and the 'crazy space rebels!' ones. Farscape especially springs to mind: not just Crichton-the-loony, but the moment when Moya finally demands a captain (and it isn't John!); Chiana doing a bunk to the planet of teenage shroomies, and pointing out that life on Moya is actually quite shite. Spaceships full of people with agendas who never wanted to be there in the first place FTW.
Although that has thankfully changed - US sci fi does still have an annoying tendency to want happy endings, but at least it's beginning to pull back on the frankly unrealistic bullshit. Which is why RTD annoys me because he has a tendency to swing towards thatHAPPY SHINY ENDING shizz, which makes me want to poke my eyes out with an olive fork.
If you've ever seen Babylon 5, JMS owes a LOT to (oddly enough) both b7 and Trek. Except his is more tempered - although the idea of the highly stylised, almost iconic hero of the rebellion is there, it's tempered by far more humanity. The faults of a human being at the core of the mythos are there, but instead of being self-destructive, they're closer to the Trek ideal of "Hero People is niiiiiiice"
(At the same time though, I've never seen a trek character turn into a raging alcoholic to deal with it, or end up as a brain in a jar, or all that other lovely b5 stuff :)
It's completely and utterly unsurprising that Farscape ended up more UK than US - it is after all, done by a pack of Aussies :D
Oh, Trial would have been SO GLORIOUS with Stephen Greif in it. sigh.
You're getting close to Killer though, one of my very favorites. XD With Vila in his tight leather trousers. :D
I just watched Killer and thought it was a bit pants, sorry. I got all excited about it being Bob Holmes, too. I liked Avon and Vila snarking, of course - and OMG CHOCOLATE-COATED COCKROACH OUTFITS. But the stuff with the virus and Blake doing his 'I'm going down there regardless of whether it makes sense, or there will not be enough happening in this episode' business was yawnsome. Cally's sudden! reoccuring! magic! powers were quite random too. If there was a version with just Avon and Vila and Ronald Lacey in it that would be grand, though. But I think I prefer Boucher's insanely piss-takey Avon...
2 and a half episodes in one day when I have soooo much else I need to be doing. Oh dear.
CLEARLY YOU LOVE THE B7 MORE THAN WORK. (Which, frankly, isn't hard.)