ThaOGDreamWeaver Posted August 24 Posted August 24 Just a note for UK folks: 70s/80s classic dark sci-fi epic Blake’s Seven is now available on ITVX. (You can also get it via Britbox on Apple and Amazon in the USA). If you’ve not run across it, a band of rebels have stolen an advanced ship (and a sarcastic supercomputer) and attempt to take down the eeeevil Federation, led by mercilessly fabulous proto-goth/kink icon Commander Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce). It shares the same zero-budget design ethos as Doctor Who (amazing how many alien planets look like quarries in Wales), plus similar talent pool and even some of the same writers, while stealing liberally from Star Wars, Trek, Gerry Anderson’s assorted shows and everywhere in between. But it’s most definitely its own thing, doing morally grey characters, devastating mission fails and killing its darlings way before any of that was fashionable - even the title character. And while the FX may have been dodgy, some of the ideas were traumatic enough that they should have been kept away from Saturday teatimes. If you like your paranoid sci-fi, give it a run… 1 WAKE UP YA MISCREANTS AND... HEY, GET YOUR OWN DAMN SIGNATURE. Look out for me being generally cool, stylish and funny (delete as applicable) on Excelsior.
Darmian Posted August 24 Posted August 24 Coming on Bluray in November. Plus I'd recommend the Big Finish audio dramas that continue the story! AE SFMA Arcs: The Meteors (Arc id 42079) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part One. (Arc id 26756) X | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Two. (Arc id 26952) | Dark Deeds in Galaxy City: Part Three. (Arc id 27233) Darker Deeds: Part One (Arc id 28374) | Darker Deeds: Part Two. (Arc id 28536) | Darker Deeds: Part Three. (Arc id 29252) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part One (Arc id 29891) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Two (Arc id 30210) | Darkest Before Dawn: Part Three (Arc id 30560) | Bridge of Forever ( Arc id 36642) | The Cassini Division (Arc id 37104) X | The House of Gaunt Saints (Arc id 37489) X | The Spark of the Blind (Arc id 40403) | Damnatio Memoriae (Arc id 41140) X | The Eve of War (Arc id 41583) X | Spirals: Part One. (Arc id 55109) | Spirals: Part Two. (Arc id 55358) | Spirals: Part Three. (Arc id 57197) I Sing of Arms and the Man (Arc id 42617) | Three Sisters (Arc id 43013) (Pre War Praetorian Loyalist. Pre War Praetorian Resistance. Pre ITF Cimerora. Post ITF Cimerora. X = Dev Choice/Hall of Fame )
Coin Posted August 29 Posted August 29 Love this show!! Already ordered the new Collection Blu-Ray, as I have all the Doctor Who ones as well 🙂 Fun fact, I once went to see a stage performance of Guards, Guards by the late, great Sir Terry Pratchett and it starred Paul Darrow as Captain Vimes. He was excellent in the role 🙂 1
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