Is that a question or a statement?
If the former, no.
If the latter, oh no!
Both for the same reason : don’t tarnish the original with a modern retelling. Make a new Sci-Fi programme if you really must! |
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"Is that a question or a statement?
If the former, no.
If the latter, oh no!
Both for the same reason : don’t tarnish the original with a modern retelling. Make a new Sci-Fi programme if you really must! "
Arguably, it worked for Dr Who.  |
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"Is that a question or a statement?
If the former, no.
If the latter, oh no!
Both for the same reason : don’t tarnish the original with a modern retelling. Make a new Sci-Fi programme if you really must!
Arguably, it worked for Dr Who. "
Initially …  |
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By *lynJMan 5 days ago
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"Is that a question or a statement?
If the former, no.
If the latter, oh no!
Both for the same reason : don’t tarnish the original with a modern retelling. Make a new Sci-Fi programme if you really must!
Arguably, it worked for Dr Who.
Initially … "
And then Disney got involved |
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I think one of my first crushes was on Avon! And I thought Orac was cool. Although looking back it was a big perspex box with wires and fairy lights lol. They'd need to really update...everything! Lol |
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"I remember a stern woman in pvc in that program or am I confusing it with something else ?
Servilan! "
Servilan was hot..! Always crushed on her more than the others.
Met Avon (Paul Darrow) once when shopping in Reigate.. He lived there. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 4 days ago
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"Only if they remake Buck Rogers in the 25th century as well. "
...aaaand I only got to see this dubbed into Afrikaans as well. They seemed to have a tendency to do this with sci-fi shows in South Africa in the 70s. Thank God at least Star Trek was left in English when they finally aired it in the early 80s. Battlestar Galactica, too, now that I think about it. |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 4 days ago
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"Only if they remake Buck Rogers in the 25th century as well.
...aaaand I only got to see this dubbed into Afrikaans as well. They seemed to have a tendency to do this with sci-fi shows in South Africa in the 70s. Thank God at least Star Trek was left in English when they finally aired it in the early 80s. Battlestar Galactica, too, now that I think about it."
I don't know how I would have coped with "Kaptein Kirk en Meneer Spock op die Ruimteskip Enterprise van die Verenigde Federasie van Planete"  |
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"Only if they remake Buck Rogers in the 25th century as well.
...aaaand I only got to see this dubbed into Afrikaans as well. They seemed to have a tendency to do this with sci-fi shows in South Africa in the 70s. Thank God at least Star Trek was left in English when they finally aired it in the early 80s. Battlestar Galactica, too, now that I think about it."
I wonder if you still got the classic line from Twiki "I'm freezing my ball-bearings off!".  |
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"Only if they remake Buck Rogers in the 25th century as well.
...aaaand I only got to see this dubbed into Afrikaans as well. They seemed to have a tendency to do this with sci-fi shows in South Africa in the 70s. Thank God at least Star Trek was left in English when they finally aired it in the early 80s. Battlestar Galactica, too, now that I think about it.
I wonder if you still got the classic line from Twiki "I'm freezing my ball-bearings off!". "
I do remember that for years people paraphrased Twiki by saying, "bidi bidi bidi - dis 'n fok-op" when things went wrong |
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I never saw Blakes 7 I wasn't really in to si-fi at that age, there is a lot of love for it though.
As for a remake Battlestar was the only remake that was good in my opinion, I saw the Quantum Leap remake and no ho no, and at this time with this woke agenda I think Blake's 7 would become Belinda's 7.
Maybe after this woke phase has passed.
As a footnote where can I find it to watch. |
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There's been a few attempts at getting funding and interest in revamping Blakes 7.
If they did manage it I would hope they would make it darker, and give it a budget at least equivalent to the Dr Who remake.
Alternatively, make attempts at newer sci fi adaptations in a similar fashion to Altered Carbon (absolutely spot on with the first series).
There's plenty of authors to chose from, whether they want short stories or full blown space opera.
I'd love to see Peter F. Hamilton's work serialised, but that'll never happen.
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"There's been a few attempts at getting funding and interest in revamping Blakes 7.
If they did manage it I would hope they would make it darker, and give it a budget at least equivalent to the Dr Who remake.
Alternatively, make attempts at newer sci fi adaptations in a similar fashion to Altered Carbon (absolutely spot on with the first series).
There's plenty of authors to chose from, whether they want short stories or full blown space opera.
I'd love to see Peter F. Hamilton's work serialised, but that'll never happen.
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Hopefully the production of Westworld Season 5 gets the green light |
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By *avinaTVTV/TS 4 days ago
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"There's been a few attempts at getting funding and interest in revamping Blakes 7.
If they did manage it I would hope they would make it darker, and give it a budget at least equivalent to the Dr Who remake.
Alternatively, make attempts at newer sci fi adaptations in a similar fashion to Altered Carbon (absolutely spot on with the first series).
There's plenty of authors to chose from, whether they want short stories or full blown space opera.
I'd love to see Peter F. Hamilton's work serialised, but that'll never happen.
Hopefully the production of Westworld Season 5 gets the green light "
Oooh, god forbid! What a car crash after season 2. |
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"There's been a few attempts at getting funding and interest in revamping Blakes 7.
If they did manage it I would hope they would make it darker, and give it a budget at least equivalent to the Dr Who remake.
Alternatively, make attempts at newer sci fi adaptations in a similar fashion to Altered Carbon (absolutely spot on with the first series).
There's plenty of authors to chose from, whether they want short stories or full blown space opera.
I'd love to see Peter F. Hamilton's work serialised, but that'll never happen.
Hopefully the production of Westworld Season 5 gets the green light "
I think westward came to its conclusion but I would watch if there were more. |
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By *os19Man 4 days ago
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The actress that played Soolin Glynis Barber is still alive and about 5-10 years ago was in Eastenders playing the mother of Roni & Roxy Mitchell mother.If I remember correctly they all were killed in Blake's 7 although we don’t see Avon been killed |
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"There's been a few attempts at getting funding and interest in revamping Blakes 7.
If they did manage it I would hope they would make it darker, and give it a budget at least equivalent to the Dr Who remake.
Alternatively, make attempts at newer sci fi adaptations in a similar fashion to Altered Carbon (absolutely spot on with the first series).
There's plenty of authors to chose from, whether they want short stories or full blown space opera.
I'd love to see Peter F. Hamilton's work serialised, but that'll never happen.
Hopefully the production of Westworld Season 5 gets the green light
Oooh, god forbid! What a car crash after season 2."
Yes, S3 was a bit of a mess. But the ending of S4 would warrant a new series. |
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"I'm surprised it hasn't been remade. It's a good premise. The original was so cheesy and low-budge it should be good if you get good writers. "
Actually, I think the premise and story lines were quite engaging, so writers wouldn’t be where I spent the money but raising the production values |
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I watched this first time round and loved it. Didn’t notice the wobbly sets and plots holes, but it was good fun. Was sad when it ended. Before Paul Darrow died, he was trying to reboot the series or have a movie made.
Since we didn’t actually see them all get killed in the last episode, left it open for a continuation. However, I think it’s been too long now and won’t have the same feel. It will be just another rebooting of the 80s shows being done. |
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Don't know if it's of interest that there's a company called Big Finish who mostly do Dr Who audio dramas with the cast of the classic series, but have also done (and are still doing) loads of Blakes' 7 audios as well with original cast members? |
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"Is that a question or a statement?
If the former, no.
If the latter, oh no!
Both for the same reason : don’t tarnish the original with a modern retelling. Make a new Sci-Fi programme if you really must! "
Blake’s….8!  |
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