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Hollywood Reporter announces a revival of Blake's 7.
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redbyrd_sgfic for pointing this out to me; I found it the next day on Sci Fi Wire, and if she hadn't warned me, there'd have been hummus all over my computer screen.
My instinct is to view this with great trepidation, but Redbyrd rightly points out that if it's bad, I don't have to watch. I'm just not very good at that (see how long it took me to quit BSG?). I start watching a show out of curiosity, and I get sucked in even when I have serious problems with it, complaining weekly--I watched too much ER this way in grad school, and BSG was an especially egregious case. I saw all of the new Bionic Woman; shouldn't have bothered with any of it.
Then again,pepper_field encourages me to think there might actually be more actors out there who could pull it off, even if Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce are a tad old to be doing it now. After all, we've seen some fine actors on Doctor Who (often doing very silly things, but that's DW for you) and on Torchwood (also sometimes doing very silly things). If I could stand to watch MI-5/Spooks, I'd see others, but I don't like shows where they keep killing major characters, so I stopped watching that after a few episodes. ::fume:: In fact, there's so much good British tv and film I can't possibly keep up.
I'm also not sure B7 would be the same without shaky sets and some truly awe-inspiring late 70s/early 80s hair and costumes, but then, the revival of Doctor Who has made me quite happy!
Thanks to
redbyrd_sgfic for pointing this out to me; I found it the next day on Sci Fi Wire, and if she hadn't warned me, there'd have been hummus all over my computer screen.My instinct is to view this with great trepidation, but Redbyrd rightly points out that if it's bad, I don't have to watch. I'm just not very good at that (see how long it took me to quit BSG?). I start watching a show out of curiosity, and I get sucked in even when I have serious problems with it, complaining weekly--I watched too much ER this way in grad school, and BSG was an especially egregious case. I saw all of the new Bionic Woman; shouldn't have bothered with any of it.
Then again,
pepper_field encourages me to think there might actually be more actors out there who could pull it off, even if Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce are a tad old to be doing it now. After all, we've seen some fine actors on Doctor Who (often doing very silly things, but that's DW for you) and on Torchwood (also sometimes doing very silly things). If I could stand to watch MI-5/Spooks, I'd see others, but I don't like shows where they keep killing major characters, so I stopped watching that after a few episodes. ::fume:: In fact, there's so much good British tv and film I can't possibly keep up.I'm also not sure B7 would be the same without shaky sets and some truly awe-inspiring late 70s/early 80s hair and costumes, but then, the revival of Doctor Who has made me quite happy!
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