I'm trying to imagine...

[lyssie]

Given the hue and outrage and such from SG fandom, I'm trying to imagine Blake's 7 fandom. If B7 were being done today, with the same cast changes the show had. And deaths.

And, really, I'm imagining a Save Servalan campaign. Not to mention, there would be a whole slew who would PROUDLY claim to have stopped watching when the show jumped the shark (Blake leaving).

I totally think B7 fandom could have given SG fandom a run for its wanky money, back in the day...

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[scarfman]

I'm certain it was just like that, merely not as well documented.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Woe, that the internet and Fandom Wank weren't around then. Sigh.

[jashyr.livejournal.com]

Yep, B7 could be a modern scifi drama with very few changes. After all, you can't put much more post-modern irony in a show that framed its main character for paedophilia and murdered his lawyer in the first episode. Could you get away with showing that on a Saturday teatime 'family' tv programme in America even now?

It practically hurts my brain to think this was on at the same time that original BSG was committing genocide then stopping off at the nearest casino.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Oh gods. Passing through, and I had to comment. The outrage when Travis 1 was exchanged for Travis 2 (a.k.a. 'crap Travis'). The horror when Avon kissed... well, anyone. The wailing and gnashing of teeth when Jenna and Blake just... went. The screams of disbelief when they introduced Slave.

It all happened.

I used to subscribe a Blake's Seven fanzine, 'Horizon' - I got into the show about 15 years after it first aired, but the nitpicking was still going on, and on, and on... Jeepers did they go in-depth. Actually, it was kinda fun. There's a lot to nitpick on B7, and it was mostly pretty friendly - at least in that fanzine. :)

[tavella.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that B7 fandom managed to get that crazy *without* the internet. I've heard versions varying from "someone pressed a slash mag featuring his character on Paul Darrow" to "Darrow expressed a dislike of slash and various fen took this as license to hunt down and harrass slash writers to the point of people losing jobs" to "Darrow says people made shit up about him being anti-slash", but the agreement seems to be universal that whatever went down, there was a fuck-ton of crazy loose at the time.

[mylittleredgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of wondering how Babylon 5 survived, too, now that you mention it.