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Post by lidar on May 27, 2016 10:46:53 GMT
Can't we have post 'blake' stories? Definitely a no from me. THAT ending has stood for too long to be continued now. Had there been a series 5 in 1982, then fair enough, but why undermine one of the greatest TV endings ever?
Post "Blake" would only work for me if it was a spin-off set in the B7 universe, with Servalan the only regular who could plausibly still be alive after "Blake". Jenna could be alive as far as TV canon goes, but she has been killed off in the the BF canon. Avon is the only other possibility, but the gunshots in the closing credits make me think he was a goner too.
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Post by TinDogPodcast on May 27, 2016 11:55:32 GMT
The last gun shot sound I'd avons...
However.no always had them down ad set to stun.
Serveran would want to torture them
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Post by bobod on May 27, 2016 12:24:54 GMT
However one might justify it fictionally, after all these years - that's HOW IT ENDED. I'd rather have no more Blakes 7 than Blakes which contradicted that.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 16:36:15 GMT
However one might justify it fictionally, after all these years - that's HOW IT ENDED. I'd rather have no more Blakes 7 than Blakes which contradicted that. As tindog says, the last gunshot heard in Blake is Avon's. That's not an ending.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 17:10:10 GMT
Definitely a no from me. THAT ending has stood for too long to be continued now. Had there been a series 5 in 1982, then fair enough, but why undermine one of the greatest TV endings ever? 100%. I've lost count of the amount of times when speculating on what will happen at the end of any series people say "it should do a Blake's 7". It's iconic. It's also absolutely fitting. This is not a universe of happy endings for anyone. It's really the only way it could have ended for all concerned.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 17:15:10 GMT
However one might justify it fictionally, after all these years - that's HOW IT ENDED. I'd rather have no more Blakes 7 than Blakes which contradicted that. As tindog says, the last gunshot heard in Blake is Avon's. That's not an ending. It's absolutely an ending. Just because there's a bit of ambiguity for one character doesn't mean it's not an ending and a supremely successful one at that. It wraps everything into a neat bow and leaves a tiny bit of doubt for the one character who always seems to have an ace up his sleeve. A tiny, tiny sliver of hope in amongst the death, the gloom and the despair...Blake's 7 distilled into one scene.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 23:26:19 GMT
The ending of series 4 of Blakes y was one of the best endings to any drama show, ever - even though it was not originally meant to be the final ending! This was in 1981. To undermine that ending now would be, I think a big mistake.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on May 28, 2016 10:15:29 GMT
Indeed, any continuation should be set in the same universe but a new team. Avon established what looked like a viable resistance in "Warlord", a group of smugglers working for that resistance is a good basis for a series IMO.
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Post by shutupbanks on May 28, 2016 12:28:36 GMT
I don't mind the side-trips (I was prepared to hate the addition of Grant to the team but have liked it a lot more than I thought possible, though i don't know if I'd welcome him as a permanent member of the BF7 crew) but I think I would not like a continuation of the show beyond Gauda Prime. In my head I know that it was just another cliffhanger like the other three season finales, but it was such a perfect way for them to go out, especially after the spiraling down they had been doing all through Series D (I'd probably still buy it, though).
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Post by who on May 29, 2016 0:17:00 GMT
The ending is strong and iconic - but it was never meant to be the series finale, only a season finale. They intentionally used a different weapon on Blake than the others so that while Blake was meant to be dead, everyone else was supposed to live to continue on for the next season. So I'd have no problems with moving on past the finale (which Lucifer has done anyways). I always wanted to see Avon meet one of Cally's clone sisters after her death, it just seems like an interesting possibility, although of course the clone could have a completely different personality. That could be done in a one off story or short arc set in the last tv season era, but it could also be a way to bring a Cally back to the series post finale.
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Post by Audio Watchdog on May 29, 2016 0:23:41 GMT
The ending is strong and iconic - but it was never meant to be the series finale, only a season finale. They intentionally used a different weapon on Blake than the others so that while Blake was meant to be dead, everyone else was supposed to live to continue on for the next season. So I'd have no problems with moving on past the finale (which Lucifer has done anyways). I always wanted to see Avon meet one of Cally's clone sisters after her death, it just seems like an interesting possibility, although of course the clone could have a completely different personality. That could be done in a one off story or short arc set in the last tv season era, but it could also be a way to bring a Cally back to the series post finale. What the ending of series D was meant to be and what it ended up becoming are two different things but 30+ years on that ending has stood. As several people have noted, for this particular show, the ending we got, no matter how unintended, is really rather perfect. I don't know how I would feel about a Blake's 7 set post-series D except that I would never think it was totally "right."
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Jul 2, 2016 23:59:00 GMT
A post Gauda Prime one off featuring Grant? Trying to find out what the hell happened?
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Post by fitzoliverj on Jul 3, 2016 7:35:37 GMT
I believe there are already a few novels giving different accounts of what happened next. You don't, surely, want to risk turning Gauda Prime into the new "Liz Shaw leaves"/"Mike Yates arrives"/"whatever happened to Peri?"?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2016 13:44:11 GMT
In view of the increasingly frustrating lack of B7 news, I'd love for any future audio to focus on Travis - for me, a character who never had a fitting exit from the show. Both Brian Croucher and Stephen Grief have starred in Big Finish productions - I'd be fascinatied with a story that explained the change in Travis from series 1 to series 2, and how extensive his therapy was, and quite why he was so changed by it. Of course, we all know the changes were due to Stephen leaving and Brian coming into replace him, but an explanation within the fiction of B7 would be terrific.
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Post by lidar on Nov 19, 2016 17:44:26 GMT
When bf announced their license renewal the heading referred to 2016 IIRC which makes me think there were plans for some 2016 releases (LC12 was the tail end of the previous license) and I can only conclude that the sad death of Gareth Thomas scuppered those plans. I would guess it was a case of back to the drawing board, hence the lack of any news since the renewal was announced over a year ago.
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Post by tordred on Nov 20, 2016 1:55:56 GMT
There was mention that news is coming in the latest Vortex. Hope is still there!
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Nov 20, 2016 20:46:50 GMT
A post Gauda Prime one off featuring Grant? Trying to find out what the hell happened? And he finds Orac, and decides that if he does have one bankable talent it's "asymmetrical warfare" and goes off to build a core team to strike against the Federation? With Orac he could set about building stuff like a stardrive and teleport etc.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Nov 20, 2016 20:49:59 GMT
In view of the increasingly frustrating lack of B7 news, I'd love for any future audio to focus on Travis - for me, a character who never had a fitting exit from the show. Both Brian Croucher and Stephen Grief have starred in Big Finish productions - I'd be fascinatied with a story that explained the change in Travis from series 1 to series 2, and how extensive his therapy was, and quite why he was so changed by it. Of course, we all know the changes were due to Stephen leaving and Brian coming into replace him, but an explanation within the fiction of B7 would be terrific. The Magic Bullet story "Logic of Empire" offers a rather sinister hint as to what may have happened, at the end of LoE {Spoiler} Avon is captured and brainwashed into thinking he was Roj Blake and used as a rebellion lure by the Federstion. Suggesting that both "our" Blake was the same AND that Travis 2 was LITERALLY a different man to Travis 1.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 5:07:59 GMT
I hadn't hard that - thank you. Sounds very intriguing!
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Post by jarod on Nov 26, 2016 19:50:45 GMT
According to a post over on the Horizon boards, a full cast series is being worked on at the moment.
I hope that's accurate.
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