I'm delighted to announce that
Blakes 7 is currently available for free
on YouTube. All forty-seven episodes can be watched on this channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCww62Q1B2hR7RWfSIV4TjyA.
I remember seeing this serial on TV as a small child when I was far too young
to comprehend it, but now I understand that it contains themes which the
HPANWO-reader will definitely appreciate; in fact the series covers more of variety
of them than any other single programme or film I've ever seen. Here I review all
four seasons episode by episode:
http://hpanwo.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/blakes-7.html.
A few months ago it was revealed that a new series of
Blakes 7 is going to be produced, over thirty years since the
original one ended, see:
http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/blakes-7-remake.html.
That's going to be a tough task and I wonder if it can possibly match up to the
original; if they get in any way close it will be a job well done. Science
fiction fans tend to be very conservative and sentimental, and I am no
exception. "Remastered" programmes with improved special effects etc leave
me cold. They are almost always angrily rejected by aficionadoes who consider
the artistic creations they love to be hallowed ground and not there for
fiddling with by TV company marketers; we've seen this backlash with the
Star Wars and
Red Dwarf remastered releases.
Blakes
7 was always famous for its homespun special effects which were crude even
for the era it was made. But, as I've said, if you have a good storyline, with
good characters and a good script then you don’t need fancy special effects.
Conversely if you have a crap storyline with shallow characters and a lame
script then big-budget SFX won’t save it;
Independence
Day comes to mind. If you're like me, you'll be relieved to know that the
YouTube edition of
Blakes 7 has posted
the entire original content untouched. I'm glad. I'd never have forgiven them
if they took away our spaceships on strings!
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