More Blake's 7

[bagheera_san]

I've now seen most of the first season of Blake's 7. So far I'm still not feeling very fannish about it, even though I have gone looking at some fanfic, mostly to discover that there is not enough Vila fic (possibly only on AO3 - fanlore says that Avon/Vila is a popular pairing. I can sort of see why. but at the moment I don't ship anyone) and not

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[aralias]

ok - so obviously this post is like a terrible flame to which the moth of my comment is drawn... i'm afraid i must arrive and tell you my MANY FEELINGS about breakdown, and how i love it, because it is not actually about gan and his limiter (in fact, a less gan episode it would be impossible to imagine), but in fact about how one day avon thought 'I MUST LEAVE BLAKE. FOR REAL THIS TIME' but then it didn't work out for him and blake went out of his way not to look like he'd even cared, but not well enough because cally noticed <3. all the rest is flim-flam to distract you from this plot

[bagheera_san]

I've discovered the hermit library already - and their incredibly weird search function :/ What *is* that thing with the radio buttons and the min/max?! So maybe there are scores of awesome Vila fics and I just don't know about it.

Yesterday I watched "Redemption" and is it just me or was there a sudden jump in quality? Or at least, in pace and maybe dialogue? I really liked this episode. It had action, and aliens (or strange humans ruled by machines - I can never tell in Blake's 7 whether people are supposed to be aliens or just humans who have been out of contact with the rest of humanity for a long time... anyway, I'm pleased that the Liberator was built by strange aliens) and Orac saving the day and everyone had matching black and white costumes.

[aralias]

As for radio buttons - I think it stems from an old school way if thinking about slash and het and gen. People who make zines seem to think that if I like a/b I am likely to also like a/v and certainly more than I would like a/j which is not true (a/j is hot and funny - because avon thinks he is cool but jenna doesnt - and not a serious threat). But if you didn't want to read slash you could vote it out. And if you only wanted to read gen... H you could vote out large swathes of the library. I want to... Be able to easily search by author and have the pairing clearly marked. So it's basically useless. I'm always finding b/a fic I missed on hermit.

[bagheera_san]

I've watched S2 now (up to and including "Aftermath") and NOW I'm hooked :) "Shadow" was an awesome episode that made me like Cally (unfortunately she never seems to get that good again), "Pressure Point", "Trial" and "Gambit" made me love Servalan and Travis (I thought Travis was an interesting character from the beginning, but now I'd really like a fic where Travis somehow ends up on the Liberator and working with them against the Federation and Servalan) and I like Avon and Blake more with every episode I watch - especially when it's clear that Blake is charismatic and heroic and certainly right about the Federation but that doesn't mean they should all follow him because his judgment is... not good. At all. Which isn't really a surprise given the things he's been through - if I ever write B7 fic, I think I'm going to be massively into Blake's trauma... In S1 I thought Avon was just being contrary and needlessly an ass to everyone (and he is, seriously, it's like Gregory House in Space whenever Avon opens his mouth - except he's