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Nostalgia: Blake's 7
I've been re-watching Blake's 7, and there's stuff I'd forgotten along the way. Mostly, how little Cally and Jenna are given to do, which is intensely frustrating. They're such great characters, as is Vila, and they spend so much of the time standing in the background twiddling their fingers.
It's especially frustrating in long ensemble shots, where Blake and Avon (and later, Tarrant and Avon) have five-minute long conversations while the rest just stand there, looking sort of uncomfortable as they have nothing to do
Also, some of the writers have some great concepts buried in amongst the badness (JARVIK IS THE WORST, but Kairos and the spiders are creepy and cool).
That said, I still love it like burning, and I have come out of seasons one and two with the urge to write Cally/Jenna (I wrote and posted a drabble, at least).
I'm also sad that I still can't really connect with Gan. I want desperately to like him, because he's so nice. And he's GREAT in Time Squad... and then he just sort of gets shunted into non-entity status, which is sad. I blame a lot of this on the writers not realizing he was good as the medic, and giving him that as a stable role-placement, instead of just "tall dude who sometimes has moral objections."
He also suffers simply because Avon and Blake get the bulk of the writing.
Vila suffers that as well, but he actually has a cemented role as the thief/lockbreaker.
I was introduced to Blake's 7 at a young age, by my mother's friend. She was an Avon fan, and most certainly would have joined the Kerr Avon Estrogen Brigade, if those had been a thing in the 80s. She never showed it in episode order, but in some order that she'd worked out which introduced the characters and plots in a specific way (to show how awesome Avon was).
Looking back, I'm fairly certain she was a Servalan/Avon shipper. She passed away in the 90s, so I've never been able to ask her (and I'm wondering what her opinion of my Cally/Avon shipping would be, probably call me a sweet child and shake her head at my naivete).
I'm also still really shipping Cally/Avon, and keep re-watching bits going, "yes, emotionally hurt each other more, so you can go have angry sex later."
However, one thing I'd forgotten. Or merely obscured: Cally meets Travis II only briefly, and they don't actually speak to each other. It makes shipping them even more convoluted than I thought it was. I still ship that, too, though.
It's especially frustrating in long ensemble shots, where Blake and Avon (and later, Tarrant and Avon) have five-minute long conversations while the rest just stand there, looking sort of uncomfortable as they have nothing to do
Also, some of the writers have some great concepts buried in amongst the badness (JARVIK IS THE WORST, but Kairos and the spiders are creepy and cool).
That said, I still love it like burning, and I have come out of seasons one and two with the urge to write Cally/Jenna (I wrote and posted a drabble, at least).
I'm also sad that I still can't really connect with Gan. I want desperately to like him, because he's so nice. And he's GREAT in Time Squad... and then he just sort of gets shunted into non-entity status, which is sad. I blame a lot of this on the writers not realizing he was good as the medic, and giving him that as a stable role-placement, instead of just "tall dude who sometimes has moral objections."
He also suffers simply because Avon and Blake get the bulk of the writing.
Vila suffers that as well, but he actually has a cemented role as the thief/lockbreaker.
I was introduced to Blake's 7 at a young age, by my mother's friend. She was an Avon fan, and most certainly would have joined the Kerr Avon Estrogen Brigade, if those had been a thing in the 80s. She never showed it in episode order, but in some order that she'd worked out which introduced the characters and plots in a specific way (to show how awesome Avon was).
Looking back, I'm fairly certain she was a Servalan/Avon shipper. She passed away in the 90s, so I've never been able to ask her (and I'm wondering what her opinion of my Cally/Avon shipping would be, probably call me a sweet child and shake her head at my naivete).
I'm also still really shipping Cally/Avon, and keep re-watching bits going, "yes, emotionally hurt each other more, so you can go have angry sex later."
However, one thing I'd forgotten. Or merely obscured: Cally meets Travis II only briefly, and they don't actually speak to each other. It makes shipping them even more convoluted than I thought it was. I still ship that, too, though.
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I miss RSR and her fic, too.
J/C not being center of the fics about them sadly doesn't surprise me (although the bulk of fic seems a lot smaller for the entire B7 fandom as a whole? I don't know, I need to go back and try reading some, I think--I've gotten way pickier in my old age, though).
J/C also suffers from me knowing "I like them like this" and then not finding that specific dynamic--at least, not a decade a go when I was looking for it. Not that I can articulate it (I know it when I see it, but even trying to list the description to myself, I'm hopeless).