TIME CHECK, EVERYBODY! Reply with your time zone and preferred time and I'll try to have something ready for next week and/or the weekend.

Everyone is welcome! Lurkers, randoms, everybody except Ben Steed Suggestions? I think we might as well go from the very start with The Way Back. Though I feel like some Avon snark... what about Shadow?

So going by the logo alone the B7 reboot is NOT OFF TO A GOOD START. They included an apostrophe, even.

I am seriously... I can't... just...

I really need to start on that angry letter because honestly... dead wife? Dead wife!!??!?!

KETCHUP??!?!?! /head explodes

"The year is 2136, Blake wakes up on one side of the bed. He reaches for the other side. There’s nobody there. As reality sets in, this handsome ex-soldier sits up, and looks at a photo of his wife Rachel. Beautiful. Deceased."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DO THAT

WHEN THE FALSE ACCUSATION OF CHILD MOLESTATION PLOT IS SO MUCH GRITTER AND BETTER AND HARSHER AND OH GOD NO NOTHING IS WORSE

FUCKING HELL WHAT IS WRONG WITH SCREENWRITERS. THE WRITING THERE IS ONE STEP AWAY FROM 'CHOCOLATE-HAIRED TALL MAN"

"The year is 2136. Blake wakes up in a prison cell. It's empty but for a lone security camera. He looks up and his confronted with his memories. A brutal battle, a trial, a conviction of the worst kind of crime. The honey-eyed hairy Welshman The rebel swears blind he's innocent, but how can a man have contradicting recollections..."

JESUS CHRIST HOW COULD ANYONE PREFER THE FORMER OVER THE LATTER WHICH I JUST WROTE IN A SECOND

Warship extras!

Omg, guys... do you remember last year when Big Finish asked us to send questions to the original cast in? Some of those questions were asked in the extras of Warship, including mine!

...sadly we are no closer to uncovering the mystery of why Blake bites his fingers all the time, though. Gareth gave a one sentence reply to my question about how much of the physical work is workshopped and how much is intuitive...

..."no, it's all instinct"

STILL THO :D

Just finished listening to Warship

;_______________;

10/10

EVERYBODY

WARSHIP HAS BEEN RELEASED EARLY

Remember; if you buy the CD, you can also instantly download the mp3s as well! CD is only a few bucks more, so you get the best of both :)

...Orac is a shit

I was suffering withdrawal so I had to go watch Redemption again. Ten minutes in... Orac won't tell Blake the origin of his prediction of death because that would invalidate the prediction.

...but if Orac would tell them then they wouldn't get blown up. Orac is basically just making shit up and refusing to justify it. He'd make a great presidential candidate.

WHAT KIND OF SHITTY COMPUTER ARE YOU ORAC

Don't take his shit lying down Blake!!!

edit; lollll Avon's "I was watching you for hours" sudden appearance always slays me

It slays me in the same way Kryten's recent "Oh I've been operating on you for years, Mr Lister" slays me except his is out of innocence and the desire to help and isn't half as creepy as Avon

and that's still very creepy

edit 2; Avon didn't really have to rewind that video clip over and over again. He didn't even have to turn it on. Clearly it's an excuse to stand behind Blake and watch him some more (was hours not enough!?)

So I finally caught up with the third in the series! I thought it was brilliant... after the year Jackie's had, her performance here is fantastic. Like she never left. Jan is brilliant and believable, even delivering a 'we are fighting for justice' speech. Wonderful.

Definitely recommend.

So I've listened to 2.1 and 2.2 now, The Magnificent Four and False Positive. :D

Spoiler free!

I haven't been disappointed! Jan is in absolute top form as Cally in Magnificent Four and it's so nice listening to her first person perspective. Paul's delivery is a bit more relaxed... it'd be nice if he was a bit snappier like his youthful self but considering the year he's had I can give him a break. The story is all a bit "but what kind of person is Avon really~?" which is a bit done to death by now but the performances and DUN DUN DUNDUUUNN DUN DUN music have me forgiving anything. It's lovely hearing Cally's observations.

False Positive is essentially a Gareth show and I always love listening to him but this time we get the special treat of hearing what he thinks Avon sounds like (which sounds hilariously like Geoffrey Palmer when you're not listening to/seeing Avon through Gareth's mind's eye :D) It's pretty much another adventure story, although it's nice to hear some asides as to his observations of Avon. Those observations are something you could infer in the show but not hear said outright, which is nice.

I like that he gets ballsy and cocky and angry towards the end, though I personally think his hostility to psychology could have been played up even more because that's one of my favourite themes.

Now to listen to Servalan :D

WHAT: Blake's 7 S4E12 Warlord rewatch! WHERE: gaudaprime on ustream TIME: Sat 18th: [11pm Australia(East)] [8am US(CST)] [2pm UK(London)] RULES: Everyone welcome (except Jarvik & ilk who will be plasma bolted on sight)

Sorry folks, had to make an executive decision; forgot I was working Sunday, bah! These times aren't to everyone's strengths but if we have fun and do it again we can rotate to better ones!

Potential future stream requests: S2E6 Trial, S2E11 Gambit

"Lucifer"

Spoilers for S4!!!

So Paul has written his own post-Gauda-Prime fanfic for Big Finish! I don't have high hopes for the content because 1.) his earlier stuff is generally considered awful and 2.) Blake probably won't appear as a ghost/clone/in a life support capsule as he does in all the other PGP smutfanfic.

Still though, massive respect to a man who's had a horrible year but keeps on giving back to the fandom in any way he can, thirty odd years after it ended. And good on Big Finish for breathing new life into the series. Eee!

OH MY GOD

After sad news comes amazing news...

ALL B7 CREW REUNITED FOR AN AUDIO ADVENTURE SET AFTER STAR ONE

.....SET AFTER STAR ONE