Blakes 7 reboot maybe please
- Thread starter Gray Pennell
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Never heard of it - and I suspect I'm going to regret that. Looks kind of Buck Rogersy, but the Brits have an absolute talent for doing a lot with very little.
Lycanorukke
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Mmm, I'm a bit leery about it.
It's not the first time people have tried to reboot it (3rd or 4th now IIRC), and then there is the hit-n-miss history of what US studios do to British series.
Still, it would be interesting to see how they try to set it - continue with the original characters after the ending in 'Blake'? Reboot the series from scratch (hopefully without the BBC props or the episode "Animals")? A whole new crew and ship?
Gray Pennell
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They can not restart where the characters left off because they were all killed in a great ending. And does anyone want to do a write up of the Liberator. I would love to see the uber version with the super computer and speed. i think it would have nuclear dampeners maybe a black globe and a big spiral mount meson gun. Maybe the computer would be an "ancient ai"
Icosahedron
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Ah, but were they??
Are you sure Servalan (or Blake) didn't have her troops use stun for some reason of her own? And in any case, we never saw Avon get shot. The scene faded to black...
Lycanorukke
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They already have in a book (Afterlife IIRC) set after 'Blake' where Avon, Vila and Tarrant survive. Servelan gets Orac, and the Andromeda aliens from "Star One" show up again. (And yes it is not very good).
More like a version of *ick* Virus. Spaceworld was run by "The System" computers with humans as drones/slaves and DSV-1 and 2 were built by the System. Slave and Orac however.....
Scorpio though easily looks like the standard Belter "Seeker" ship.
Andrew Boulton
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Done right, this could be great, but I'll be surprised if it gets made.
madmike
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Got deck plans of the Scorpio someplace
far-trader
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Except for the scale. With a bounding box of some 11,000dtons it's easily a few thousand dtons actual displacement. That's a problem common with most TV/Movie spaceships though, even the "small" ones are large by Traveller standards.
Gray Pennell
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Here is a page covering the model and I am afraid it is to big. Just look at the windows in the middle of the ship.
http://www.therpf.com/f10/scorpio-blakes-7-a-51357/
VonPickles
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Every few years someone trots out a remake rumour! I will believe it when i see it!
Fingers crossed the yanks don't do it tho! (Sorry) after the painful renditions of Life on Mars, Red Dwarf, Dr Who! Tho to balance Shameless isn't too bad
Fingers crossed the yanks don't do it tho! (Sorry) after the painful renditions of Life on Mars, Red Dwarf, Dr Who! Tho to balance Shameless isn't too bad
Easterner9504
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Andrew Boulton
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I never realised Scorpio was so big!
Vile
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This is going to feel weird, following on from one of Andrew's last posts. But here goes. Excellent taste in TV, by the way, that Boulton fella. 
It was big, all right, but maybe not as big as suggested by those windows (that's not the bridge - the Scorpio bridge had no windows). You can get an idea of scale from size of the docking tube in the black gold episode when she's docked with a liner. I can never remember whether the Scorpio was ripped off from the Blitzspear or vice versa.
As for the B7 reboot ... I'll believe it when I see it. It wouldn't be too bad to do a post-Gauda Prime story. Being British, the programme ended on a low note with the Federation looking worse than ever, so there'd be plenty for a new band of accidental heroes to do. I wait to be persuaded, but I can't imagine anyone pulling off the roles of Vila or Avon.
It was big, all right, but maybe not as big as suggested by those windows (that's not the bridge - the Scorpio bridge had no windows). You can get an idea of scale from size of the docking tube in the black gold episode when she's docked with a liner. I can never remember whether the Scorpio was ripped off from the Blitzspear or vice versa.
As for the B7 reboot ... I'll believe it when I see it. It wouldn't be too bad to do a post-Gauda Prime story. Being British, the programme ended on a low note with the Federation looking worse than ever, so there'd be plenty for a new band of accidental heroes to do. I wait to be persuaded, but I can't imagine anyone pulling off the roles of Vila or Avon.
far-trader
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QFT. However retreads get done because they are pre-marketed and less of a gamble, and they get done poorly imo largely for the same reason. Why waste money on fresh scripts and talent when you know the old audience is going to tune in anyway. GIGO = profits. Not to imply the originals were garbage, they weren't, for their time and audience. They generally are once they pass their best before date though. Only nostalgia allows me to revisit most once loved shows and even that can't hide the dated feeling.
There are exceptions of course, where someone who truly loved the original is given the latitude and budget to pay a proper homage with an update of an oldie. Rare that though.
Vile
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I think the advantage is that B7 SFX were already pretty ropey for their time*, yet the series was incredibly popular nonetheless. I don't deny it looks very dated now, but it still has a large following and I re-watch all four seasons every now and then. The appeal of B7 is largely in the character interaction, ultra-cool hardware notwithstanding. That's why it would be difficult to make a new series work, though I would like to see them try and reserve judgement until then.
*The few model effects where they actually has a budget were very good for their time and still stand up today. It's just that a lot of the time there was literally no SFX budget, hence the infamous hairdryer spaceship incident ...
*The few model effects where they actually has a budget were very good for their time and still stand up today. It's just that a lot of the time there was literally no SFX budget, hence the infamous hairdryer spaceship incident ...
I think a lot of people get edgy about the remakes, because it is stealing a golden moment from their youth. Though for an audience of today, seeing a 32 year old program has about as much appeal as our seeing something from 1950 back in 1980, it may have been neat, but the appeal was limited and often very dated, except for very few movies like Forbidden Planet, which was still dated. If they make it again, I just hope it is good, I will watch it though, I am a sci-fi fan, what can I say.
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