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Post by Whovitt on Jan 2, 2018 5:24:29 GMT
Announced in December 2017's edition of Vortex, Blake's 7 will return with another trilogy of box sets in late 2018 called Restoration.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 2, 2018 8:07:36 GMT
Announced in December 2017's edition of Vortex, Blake's 7 will return with another trilogy of box sets in late 2018 called Restoration. A title that suggests the beginning of the Federstion rebuilding we see well underway by “Traitor”, which is probably only a few weeks after the destruction of Liberator..... Ohh good lord, it might even explain how Servelan pulled off the “Commissioner Sleer” trick so quickly, it was a backup plan she activated after losing the Civil War and before pulling the business in “Terminal”.
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Post by Whovitt on Jan 2, 2018 8:11:46 GMT
Announced in December 2017's edition of Vortex, Blake's 7 will return with another trilogy of box sets in late 2018 called Restoration. A title that suggests the beginning of the Federstion rebuilding we see well underway by “Traitor”, which is probably only a few weeks after the destruction of Liberator..... Ohh good lord, it might even explain how Servelan pulled off the “Commissioner Sleer” trick so quickly, it was a backup plan she activated after losing the Civil War and before pulling the business in “Terminal”. That would be awesome! However, it's probably not very likely. The chances that they have the Series 4/D rights now but not in time for the 40th Anniversary Special are pretty slim
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 2, 2018 8:23:17 GMT
They don’t need to MENTION Sleer or Pylene-50, but Servelan being booted from office and adopting one of a couple of backup covers in order to escape, maybe with a “Ohh Avon, do you really think I wasn’t prepared for this? Alison Chang isn’t the only personality I own”.
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Post by Whovitt on Jan 2, 2018 8:27:58 GMT
They don’t need to MENTION Sleer or Pylene-50, but Servelan being booted from office and adopting one of a couple of backup covers in order to escape, maybe with a “Ohh Avon, do you really think I wasn’t prepared for this? Alison Chang isn’t the only personality I own”. They wouldn't be able to mention Soolin either though, nor Scorpio/Slave/the base. It would make it quite difficult, if not impossible, to make the stories work without those elements.
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Post by Sir Wearer of Hats on Jan 2, 2018 8:58:27 GMT
Set it before Terminal, explain why Avon’s suddenly obsessed with Blake, why Servelan is running around with mercenaries etc. We know from series D that the Federation has been resurgent for months before “Traitor”, which would put that resurgeance during late series C, it yes, we can’t mention anything from Aeries D.
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Post by warhead on Jan 6, 2018 10:55:52 GMT
Surely any "restoration" of the Federation would be in Series C, after the events of the Galactic War. In Children of Auron, Servalan describes "general disunity and anarchy" while Deral refers to "rebuilding the Federation". By the time of Rumours of Death, Earth and the Inner Planets are once again reunited.
As an aside, I suspect that Dissent (from The Way Ahead) is set in the gap between those stories, given some of the dialogue therein.
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Sept 7, 2018 1:46:08 GMT
Remind me again the reason why Season D is off limits?
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Post by omega on Sept 7, 2018 2:11:07 GMT
Remind me again the reason why Season D is off limits? The rights to Series 4, or rather the characters and concepts created for Series 4, belong to a different license holder than B7 Media. The Liberator Chronicle Blake's Story mentions events around the time of Terminal, but never name checks things like Scorpio and Sleer. Soolin was created for Series 4 when Jan Chappell declined to return except for a single voice over. Interestingly for the Rebellion Reborn series the banner on the covers for the Early Years includes Soolin, suggesting there were plans to incorporate a reimagining of the character in the series. Other unproduced Early Years stories appear to have been intended to feature Servalan, Blake and Tarrant, another surprise entry in the Rebellion Reborn continuity
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Post by charlesuirdhein on Sept 7, 2018 2:15:58 GMT
Remind me again the reason why Season D is off limits? The rights to Series 4, or rather the characters and concepts created for Series 4, belong to a different license holder than B7 Media. The Liberator Chronicle Blake's Story mentions events around the time of Terminal, but never name checks things like Scorpio and Sleer. Soolin was created for Series 4 when Jan Chappell declined to return except for a single voice over. Interestingly for the Rebellion Reborn series the banner on the covers for the Early Years includes Soolin, suggesting there were plans to incorporate a reimagining of the character in the series. Other unproduced Early Years stories appear to have been intended to feature Servalan, Blake and Tarrant, another surprise entry in the Rebellion Reborn continuity I'm sure this is probably an ongoing thing at BF, to secure those rights. I'm wondering if any of the Restoration material was recorded now, considering JP's death. There is nothing in the schedule.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 4:49:20 GMT
The rights to Series 4, or rather the characters and concepts created for Series 4, belong to a different license holder than B7 Media. The Liberator Chronicle Blake's Story mentions events around the time of Terminal, but never name checks things like Scorpio and Sleer. Soolin was created for Series 4 when Jan Chappell declined to return except for a single voice over. Interestingly for the Rebellion Reborn series the banner on the covers for the Early Years includes Soolin, suggesting there were plans to incorporate a reimagining of the character in the series. Other unproduced Early Years stories appear to have been intended to feature Servalan, Blake and Tarrant, another surprise entry in the Rebellion Reborn continuity I'm sure this is probably an ongoing thing at BF, to secure those rights. I'm wondering if any of the Restoration material was recorded now, considering JP's death. There is nothing in the schedule. Yes it would be pretty hard to do restoration without Jacqueline
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 7, 2018 7:54:27 GMT
I'm sure this is probably an ongoing thing at BF, to secure those rights. I'm wondering if any of the Restoration material was recorded now, considering JP's death. There is nothing in the schedule. Yes it would be pretty hard to do restoration without Jacqueline Perhaps Servalan could be in hiding following the events of Crossfire?
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 7, 2018 8:08:14 GMT
Remind me again the reason why Season D is off limits? The rights to Series 4, or rather the characters and concepts created for Series 4, belong to a different license holder than B7 Media. The Liberator Chronicle Blake's Story mentions events around the time of Terminal, but never name checks things like Scorpio and Sleer. Soolin was created for Series 4 when Jan Chappell declined to return except for a single voice over. Interestingly for the Rebellion Reborn series the banner on the covers for the Early Years includes Soolin, suggesting there were plans to incorporate a reimagining of the character in the series. Other unproduced Early Years stories appear to have been intended to feature Servalan, Blake and Tarrant, another surprise entry in the Rebellion Reborn continuity I freely admit that I am speaking from a position of total ignorance on this subject and just speculating.
The Barry Letts radio plays were set in series 4 so the rights were obtainable back in 1998/9. The season 4-specific elements were created by Chris Boucher and Vere Lorrimer so the rights are presumably split between those 2 and the BBC as they were BBC employees at the time. Given their close relationship on DW I can't imagine the BBC being a major problem for BF to work with and they have used other Boucher created material (Star Cops, Kaldor City and the Fendahl) so that just leaves the estate of Vere Lorrimer.
Possibly the problem is not that the rights are unavailable, it may be the price at which they are available, there may simply not be the money to be made from B7 to justify the cost of securing additional rights.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2018 9:50:35 GMT
I'm sure this is probably an ongoing thing at BF, to secure those rights. I'm wondering if any of the Restoration material was recorded now, considering JP's death. There is nothing in the schedule. It seems awkward speculating so soon after JP's very sad passing, but I was wondering about this too. It's quite possible to do Blake's 7 without Servalan, just as it is without Blake himself - many television episodes didn't feature these characters. But I wonder if the will is there from the cast and crew. I hope the range does continue because it is brilliant to have new Blake's 7 featuring so many of the originals. There is a new 'big bad' in the form of Hugh Fraser's former President, of course, but there will only ever be on Supreme Commander! As I say, I really hope Restoration is released if possible, but I know whatever happens, Big Finish will handle things respectfully.
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 9, 2018 11:17:30 GMT
Answer to a listener's email in today's podcast
No unreleased Blake's 7 recorded by Jacqueline Pearce.
So looks as if she is not in Restoration
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Post by omega on Sept 9, 2018 12:06:47 GMT
Answer to a listener's email in today's podcast No unreleased Blake's 7 recorded by Jacqueline Pearce. So looks as if she is not in Restoration Maybe she’s setting up her cover as Sleer for Series 4, since that’s right after Terminal and early on Federation representatives talk about Sleer as though they have a reputation. Maybe the final battle against the old president is what convinces her to do a The King is Dead, Long Live the King and operate under a different identity.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Sept 9, 2018 12:39:07 GMT
They don’t need to MENTION Sleer or Pylene-50, but Servelan being booted from office and adopting one of a couple of backup covers in order to escape, maybe with a “Ohh Avon, do you really think I wasn’t prepared for this? Alison Chang isn’t the only personality I own”. They wouldn't be able to mention Soolin either though, nor Scorpio/Slave/the base. It would make it quite difficult, if not impossible, to make the stories work without those elements. I'm wondering exactly what their restrictions are From The Way Ahead, I got the impression that they were not allowed to feature Soolin but could mention her
(or did I mishear?)
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Post by Whovitt on Sept 9, 2018 12:50:35 GMT
They wouldn't be able to mention Soolin either though, nor Scorpio/Slave/the base. It would make it quite difficult, if not impossible, to make the stories work without those elements. I'm wondering exactly what their restrictions are From The Way Ahead, I got the impression that they were not allowed to feature Soolin but could mention her
(or did I mishear?)
I haven't heard The Way Ahead since the day of release, so I can't say I really remember whether she was mentioned or not. All I know is that, so far, they seemed to have implied that they're not allowed to use/mention any of those elements in any capacity. I could easily be wrong though I'd relisten to The Way Ahead to check, but I'm sadly a bit snowed in with uni assignments and don't have the time
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Post by mark687 on Sept 9, 2018 12:59:42 GMT
I'm wondering exactly what their restrictions are From The Way Ahead, I got the impression that they were not allowed to feature Soolin but could mention her
(or did I mishear?)
I haven't heard The Way Ahead since the day of release, so I can't say I really remember whether she was mentioned or not. All I know is that, so far, they seemed to have implied that they're not allowed to use/mention any of those elements in any capacity. I could easily be wrong though I'd relisten to The Way Ahead to check, but I'm sadly a bit snowed in with uni assignments and don't have the time Its Specifically no use or mention of Solion, Scorpio or Slave as apparently its never been legally clear who owns the rights.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on Sept 9, 2018 13:05:39 GMT
I haven't heard The Way Ahead since the day of release, so I can't say I really remember whether she was mentioned or not. All I know is that, so far, they seemed to have implied that they're not allowed to use/mention any of those elements in any capacity. I could easily be wrong though I'd relisten to The Way Ahead to check, but I'm sadly a bit snowed in with uni assignments and don't have the time Its Specifically no use or mention of Solion, Scorpio or Slave as apparently its never been legally clear who owns the rights.
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I'll have to relisten (I thought I heard one mention...)
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