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Blakes Seven To Return

Posted by Hemos on from the bad-acting-good-fun dept.

Clownfush writes "Blake's 7, magnificent UK low budget high drama Sci-Fi from the early 80's is to return, as a former star acquires rights to the show. "

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  1. It was better than Cats... by AndroidCat · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Darrow said: "The programme had such a gritty and dramatic style that was every bit as great an influence on the genre as the original Star Trek."
    I know he's trying to pump his project, but that's really quite an overstatement of its importance.
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    1. Re:It was better than Cats... by Rogerborg · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Sure, who would want to do a gritty, character based SF drama about a rag tag bunch of renegades in a stolen ship on the run from a fascist police state?

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  2. Re:Wonderful Programme... by Mandelbrute · · Score: 5, Insightful
    If they think they can get around the cost of decent sfx with CGI, I fear they're mistaken.
    Babylon5 was cheap as SF TV goes due to all the CGI. Red Dwarf was even cheaper - and Space Island One must have had a tiny budget but still worked well.

    If you consider Canadian SF - The cube didn't have a big budget.

    Blakes 7 with good sfx would seem wrong somehow. If were willing to suspend disbeleif enough for FTL travel we may as well suspend disbelief that a red platic esky is a high tech tool kit. The strength of the show was in the characters (well those that were at least 2D), and since it worked well as a radio play recently, lots of expensive visual effects are not required.

    I think it stands as one of the few self-consistant SF TV programmes ever made. I also liked the digs at the Trek utopian federation - the trek symbol at 90 degrees and the federation as a police state.