Sometimes oldschool is the right answer
Oct. 30th, 2009 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kilroyI'm just about done with the first season of Blake's 7, and I'm still enjoying myself immensely. The characters are really broadly drawn and the writing is fairly formulaic, but I still find myself drawn into it. Only one special effect has been bad enough to actually break my immersion (the weird atrophied-body-in-a-tank which was actually a guy's head stuck through a wall with an unconvincing body attached), and only one plot made me want to slap Terry Nation upside the head (The Duel). Out of thirteen episodes of vintage late 70s BBC scifi, this is a shockingly good average.
I enjoy the fact that the crew is snarky with each other. All of them, even the computer.
I enjoy the fact that there's a healthy dose of weird in the show-- it's not just humans and politics, although those are some of the best episodes. They really do have space adventures.
I enjoy the fact that everyone is totally okay with chewing the scenery. It's not over the top for the most part, but the coward is really a coward, the villain is really a villain, etc.
And I'm not normally a slasher, but there are a few moments between Blake and Avon that I just can't unsee.
I enjoy the fact that the crew is snarky with each other. All of them, even the computer.
I enjoy the fact that there's a healthy dose of weird in the show-- it's not just humans and politics, although those are some of the best episodes. They really do have space adventures.
I enjoy the fact that everyone is totally okay with chewing the scenery. It's not over the top for the most part, but the coward is really a coward, the villain is really a villain, etc.
And I'm not normally a slasher, but there are a few moments between Blake and Avon that I just can't unsee.