Favourite Episodes of Old Telly: Blake

[thisbluespirit]

I am currently just a deep well of sadness, so it seems appropriate enough to post this, which of course I meant to post two days ago when I reblogged it again on tumblr. I am being bad at getting round to crossposting and thus having these safely stored up here, but here's no. 2.

(I was not normally doing episodes for Old TV that actually has a fandom, but I made this two years ago when we hit the 40th anniversary of Gauda Prime. And it genuinely is one of my fave episodes of anything, because sometimes I like to eat tragedy up with a spoon and this is the awesome kind.)

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Original post on tumblr.

Favourite episodes of old telly: Blake's 7 4.13 “Blake” (BBC 21st December 1981; written by Chris Boucher; dir. Mary Ridge.)









“In the end, winning is the only safety.”

#i normally do a write up for these #but b7 has a fandom #so let's just say that i am sadistic #and this is my favourite b7 ep of all #and i mean #look at mary ridge's direction here #i was just spoiled for choice #b7 spoilers #gauda prime day <-- my tumblr tags.

(Honestly, this remains my basic commentary. If you know, you know. If you don't, you'd be better off watching the series. Anyway, when I first watched these after some fellow fans who loved both classic Who and Spooks bullied me into it, just before I watched this, "There is nothing in the world this show can do to make me love it more now" I said to myself ... and then David Collings walked in, and that is B7 for you.)

(Some of these episodes aren't "here's my cathartic episodes of sadness I rewatch a lot" I swear.)

Anyway, belated Happy Gauda Prime Day to those of us who celebrate commiserate! ♥

Comments

[theseatheseatheopensea]

I am currently just a deep well of sadness

*all the hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

I feel a bit better now I've done something! *hugs back tightly* <3

[singe]

I swear just vacuuming the floor will pull me back from the brink. Hang in there!

[thisbluespirit]

I'm okay now, don't worry. That was two days ago, now I have zooms and presents and nice food and a Yuletide fic. XD

But thank you! And, yes, just making this post and doing something constructive instead of thinking helped enormously. I'm just melodramatic sometimes *hugs you* (Merry Christmas! <3)

[singe]

Merry Christmas!

[paranoidangel]

There's nothing quite like the ending of Blake to help you wallow in your sadness.

[thisbluespirit]

Indeed!

[executrix]

Try to remember, and if you remember, then wallow! wallow! wallow!

[thisbluespirit]

Heh!

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you again for inducting me into the " If you know, you know" club :) (I feel pretty confident in saying I would not have watched this show any other way but with an enthusiastic guide XD)

And I'm sorry about the well of sadness. I hope something will come along to improve your mood <3

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Doing a thing helped at least put the lid on the sadness well for a bit. XD

And, aw, it was very much my pleasure!

[thisbluespirit]

Btw, WILTY is back as well! S17 started yesterday, and when I went to watch it on the iPlayer, turned out there'd been a Christmas ep, too, featuring bonus Victoria. ♥

[stranger]

B7 was a huge education on what television SF could do with nearly nothing but writers actors. I used to cite it as (among other things) a commentary on Thatcher, until someone reminded me Thatcher was PM mostly after the show ended. But, it's *still* a prescient commentary on her decade.

And, well suited to wallowing in sadness for the zeitgeist.

[thisbluespirit]

It was always very great, and, indeed, yes, cathartic. <3

[executrix]

"How can you overthrow a repressive regime? Asking for a friend."

I am incapable of thinking of the chain of hardware stores as anything but the Servalan (Dome Despot).

[lyr]

Happy Gauda Prime Day, inasmuch as "happy" can be said to be the applicable adjective for that particular event.

[thisbluespirit]

Heh, thank you, and yes! <3

[osprey_archer]

I'm sorry to hear about the well of sadness. Hope you are feeling better today.

Skipping the Blake's 7 spoilers because I continue to delude myself that I may someday watch it! Someday...

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! And actually doing something did, as ever, at least put the lid back on it for a while! <3

Skipping the Blake's 7 spoilers because I continue to delude myself that I may someday watch it! Someday...

I always do that, too. Sometimes even when I know the odds are, like, slim to nothing even.

[persiflage_1]

Big hugs for the well of sadness.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, thanks! *hugs back* I hope you're holding up okay. ♥ ♥ ♥

[persiflage_1]

Okay-ish.

[thisbluespirit]

*sends even more hugs your way*

[persiflage_1]

Thanks! *hugs*

[kerk_hiraeth]

This was the episode that started me writing.

The heartbreaking trauma, repeated when Tara was killed on Buffy restarted me.

kerk

[thisbluespirit]

Nothing so inspiring as the need to fix-it! <3<3<3

[maia]

*Hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you!