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Post by Cyggy on Mar 9, 2022 0:26:14 GMT
Please rate and discuss this episode here.....
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Post by GC on Mar 9, 2022 2:01:08 GMT
Strange one this. I've proper mixed feelings on it. When I first saw it as a kid the Decimas really gave me the creeps - the episode felt kinda eerie, claustrophobic to me. But many years later when I caught up with it on video, I found bits of it quite laughable - the shriveled up old prune guy floating about in the fish tank, possessed Jenna (Sally Knyvette badly miming some alien voice I once saw described as sounding like Bluebottle from The Goon Show) and the Decimas themselves (high pitched squeals and the bit where one of them (Deep Roy?) cries) I dunno, chalk it up as a so-so episode that didn't live up to childhood memories I suppose.
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Post by GC on Mar 9, 2022 2:07:54 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on May 9, 2022 12:39:46 GMT
I quite like this episode, the admittedly appalling fish-tank effect aside. The Blake/Avon relationship continues to develop. The women are not well served however, being the only ones to be taken over by the alien intelligence. Blake makes his stand as the moral hero, while Avon is more pragmatic, although he doesn't really challenge Blake here.. Paul Darrow often quoted the fact that he wanted to dump Cally in this episode as a very real reaction, that enriched his character. We also see the first signs of flirting between Avon and Cally. I am not sure if this is regarded as a great or poor episode of B7, but I really like it - and the design of the Decimas is fine by me. Like mini Zygons and sorta creepy. 7 out of 10
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Post by GC on Jan 9, 2023 0:34:00 GMT
Jenna possessed by Bluebottle... Blake's 7 - Jenna Possessed{Spoiler}
The flight deck of the Liberator
BLAKE: (to Cally) "Anything?" CALLY: "I've tried all recognized systems but there is nothing. No transmissions of any kind." BLAKE: "We'll move out. Go back the way we came." JENNA: "Without detectors? Blind backtracking is a good way to run into pursuit ships." BLAKE: "We've no choice. If we get clear then we can outrun them if necessary." ZEN: "Sensors register increasing gravitational influence. Field strength now eight point six." BLAKE: "We're moving closer into the planet. (He moves to the navigation position) Vila, I want a new course. Locate the center of that gravitational field. I want an attitude that takes us directly away from it." VILA: "Right." BLAKE: "Jenna, stand by to bring her round." (Pause) "How much reserve power is there? Jenna." (Jenna is immobile, her hand extended toward the controls, eyes unfocused. Cally moves down to join Blake.) "Jenna? What's wrong?" CALLY: "What is the matter with her?" BLAKE: "I don't know. Vila, give me a hand. We'll take her to her quarters." SAYMON: (V.O. speaking through Jenna) "We have waited for your coming for many years. Welcome. It pleases us that you are here." BLAKE: "Who are you?" SAYMON: "We will meet shortly and then we shall answer all your questions. For now, it is only important that you understand the danger of your situation." BLAKE: "Danger?" SAYMON: "Your ship is trapped. You cannot free yourselves." BLAKE: "We can free ourselves at any time we wish. You underestimate the power of our ship." SAYMON: "On the contrary. You overestimate it. We have examined your ship most carefully through our daughter Cally. You would require to sustain your maximum power for one hundred and sixty hours to break out of orbit. Your energy cells would be exhausted in less than one hundred. Gravitational attraction would draw you back to your present position before your cells would be recharged." BLAKE: "If we are trapped, then by whom?" SAYMON: "We do have some influence on your safety in that it is within our power to release you from the web. That we can and will do in return for assistance from you." BLAKE: "What do you want from us?" SAYMON: "In a few moments we will transmit a homing signal. It will give you a precise landing position. We will talk again when you have landed." BLAKE: "Listen." CALLY: (Touching her temple) "It has left her. Blake, that could've been one of the Lost." BLAKE: "Well, don't be mystical Cally. Explain." CALLY: "It is the legend of my people. They were cast out. Unfit to share the soul of Auronar."
A signal begins broadcasting to the Liberator. Cally moves back to the communications position.
CALLY: "Yes, it is a beacon signal." BLAKE: "Get a fix on it." VILA: "Are you going down?" BLAKE: "Not if I can help it. I don't like the sound of anything I heard. Let's try to pull her out of here." JENNA: (Recovered, unaware of passage of time) "Ready to go about?" BLAKE: "Jenna? Are you all right now?" JENNA: "Yes. (Pause) Of course, I am." And a squeaky Decima friend begging for help... Blake's 7 - Help Us{Spoiler} BLAKE: "Keep back." DECIMA: "Help us. Help us please." How could anyone refuse?...
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