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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 7:42:22 GMT -5
Cally: My people have a saying: A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.
Avon: Life expectancy must be fairly short among your people.
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Post by String on Aug 19, 2016 7:42:27 GMT -5
They have the entire episodes on YouTube unless they took them out recently. Yessir, they are still there! Thank you for I hardly watch anything on Youtube so it didn't occur to me to check there. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 19, 2016 8:26:20 GMT -5
Also, I have the entire Blakes 7 show which had 52 episodes. I actually recorded them all and transposed them to cd a few years ago. Great show. It aggravates me to NO END that a proper collection of this show has yet to be released. The only current DVDs that I know about are Region 2 that I can't watch. >Pedant mode on: Surely you've just contradicted yourself? A proper collection has been released. In R2, which makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that it's a Dutch release rather than a British one, despite being a BBC show. Pedant mode off<  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2016 14:14:36 GMT -5
By the way, and to come back on topic, those 2 quotes from Blake's 7 illustrate a good use of continuity. Avon repeating the old saying that Cally told him in a previous episode gives the characters a little depth, like they had lives that intersected. And it gives the viewer who remembers the first quote a sense of involvement when it's referenced again. But it doesn't require a convoluted justification, and doesn't retcon anything.
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 22, 2016 3:35:11 GMT -5
By the way, and to come back on topic, those 2 quotes from Blake's 7 illustrate a good use of continuity. Avon repeating the old saying that Cally told him in a previous episode gives the characters a little depth, like they had lives that intersected. And it gives the viewer who remembers the first quote a sense of involvement when it's referenced again. But it doesn't require a convoluted justification, and doesn't retcon anything. It is a nice touch. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 22, 2016 4:49:32 GMT -5
By the way, and to come back on topic, those 2 quotes from Blake's 7 illustrate a good use of continuity. Avon repeating the old saying that Cally told him in a previous episode gives the characters a little depth, like they had lives that intersected. And it gives the viewer who remembers the first quote a sense of involvement when it's referenced again. But it doesn't require a convoluted justification, and doesn't retcon anything. It is. Comics and motion pictures/TV are much different in that the actors age if the show is on long enough. They have no writer coming on in 30 years that have to keep the characters at the same age and violate continuity to do it. There's something cool about Blakes 7 having a 4 year run with a definitive ending. |
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Post by String on Aug 22, 2016 16:19:30 GMT -5
It aggravates me to NO END that a proper collection of this show has yet to be released. The only current DVDs that I know about are Region 2 that I can't watch. >Pedant mode on: Surely you've just contradicted yourself? A proper collection has been released. In R2, which makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that it's a Dutch release rather than a British one, despite being a BBC show. Pedant mode off< Of course. It fits now. When you least expect it...the Dutch. What I find supremely ironic is that going on 30 years now, my local PBS station still airs Eastenders. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 23, 2016 1:40:17 GMT -5
>Pedant mode on: Surely you've just contradicted yourself? A proper collection has been released. In R2, which makes sense. What doesn't make sense is that it's a Dutch release rather than a British one, despite being a BBC show. Pedant mode off< Of course. It fits now. When you least expect it...the Dutch. What I find supremely ironic is that going on 30 years now, my local PBS station still airs Eastenders. Oh, God. Does anyone watch it? I wasn't aware it had escaped into the outside world.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2016 8:11:02 GMT -5
I watched EastEnders for a while when our local PBS station brought it over. I remembered the actress who played Pauline from Are You Being Served?, and I really liked Angie from the Queen Vic. But I drifted away after a while. Doubt I'd recognize any of the characters now. Which is, as has been said, the kind of continuity you can get with real actors.
Are they really doing a new version of Are You Being Served?
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 23, 2016 14:19:37 GMT -5
I would definitely NOT expect the average person in the U.S. to know that the Doctor regenerates, especially the over 30 crowd. Mention Doctor Who and they probably have some vague recollections about a tall English dude with a long scarf and an Afro and a blue telephone booth. An afro!!!?Tom Baker had a white guy's version of an afro:  And for the record, I'm over 30, the only Doctor Who I've seen was the movie with the Daleks, and I knew about his regeneration. |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 24, 2016 0:54:12 GMT -5
Tom Baker had a white guy's version of an afro: And for the record, I'm over 30, the only Doctor Who I've seen was the movie with the Daleks, and I knew about his regeneration. I think that's just called "having curly hair". |
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 24, 2016 0:59:14 GMT -5
Are they really doing a new version of Are You Being Served?Just a one-off special, at the moment, as part of some sort of celebration of British sitcoms. There's also a new version of Porridge. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 1:32:51 GMT -5
Tom Baker had a white guy's version of an afro: And for the record, I'm over 30, the only Doctor Who I've seen was the movie with the Daleks, and I knew about his regeneration. I think that's just called "having curly hair". In my neck of the woods we called that The White Man's 'fro or a broccoli head, otherwise known as Don Henley hair in the 70s.  It could also be called Chia head...  -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 24, 2016 1:41:01 GMT -5
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Post by tingramretro on Aug 24, 2016 2:15:27 GMT -5
Not a common term in the UK. I've never heard any of them before. Tom Baker just had curly hair.
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