Depends on your pov, really. If cheap sets, silly costumes, and space opera turn you off, not so much. But if decent characters, plotlines, gritty realism, and the occasional unpredictable death do...
Well, let's just say if it hadn't been for Blake's 7, some of the risks taken in SF today wouldn't have happened. Or would have happened differently.
Blake's 7 is wonderful, but, like much British SF of the era, you need to be able to stomach Shakesperean actors, who are alternately Shakesperean and camp, and some '70s excesses as part of it. It's Ian-McKellen-style SF. They made it on no money at all (almost literally so... in the second season, the costume designer spent her entire budget at the S&M shop on leather right away, and just made do for the rest), but with a fantastic script editor, who made sure the scripts were witty and very sharp, and that the universe was very dark and cynical. It was designed to sort of be the anti-Star Trek, where the military Federation and its Space Fleet were totalitarian menaces, the "good guys" are wanted criminals, and the situation never gets any better than it is when the series starts and they're all being transported to serve life sentences on a penal colony.
It looks dated (except in a few spots, where it's brilliant SF design), but conceptually it's very modern. It's absolutely the forerunner of all modern dark-tinged sci-fi, from Farscape to Firefly to BSG. Farscape and Firefly particularly owe a lot to it; explicitly in Farscape's case - they don't hide that that's where they got Grayza.
And, Lys, that's one of my fave Cally episodes. Yay!
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Never saw Blake's 7. Any good?
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Depends on your pov, really. If cheap sets, silly costumes, and space opera turn you off, not so much. But if decent characters, plotlines, gritty realism, and the occasional unpredictable death do...
Well, let's just say if it hadn't been for Blake's 7, some of the risks taken in SF today wouldn't have happened. Or would have happened differently.
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It looks dated (except in a few spots, where it's brilliant SF design), but conceptually it's very modern. It's absolutely the forerunner of all modern dark-tinged sci-fi, from Farscape to Firefly to BSG. Farscape and Firefly particularly owe a lot to it; explicitly in Farscape's case - they don't hide that that's where they got Grayza.
And, Lys, that's one of my fave Cally episodes. Yay!