Hope the B7 experience gets better for you. You have 48 to go, however here is a list of 27 episodes that you could concentrate on, these will give you a good B7 experience without doing all 52 episodes.
Wow M!
Nobody has ever worked so hard in service of a show they love, to help a "newbie" get the feel of what makes everyone else so fanatic about it. As I said, I intend to watch at least all of the first season but now, I'll concentrate on your recommendations in the hope that they will get me through to series 2. And you're incredibly astute in your observations about the dialogue on the show. I find more than a bit of it cumbersome and rather clunky... which seems to get in the way (for me at least) of establishing a solid relationship with any of the characters. It's clearly not the actors themselves, although sometimes it feels as if they're not even quite sure of where they're supposed to be going, it's more that the script isn't giving them enough personal identity to feed off of, which leaves them entirely on their own in terms of creating their characters and the feel of the "world" those characters are really living in.
To a degree, I would use
Farscape as a comparison and for contrast as well. All the characters were thrown together in a rather dystopian part of the universe (most were escapees from a prison ship) few spoke each other's language although that was dealt with by tech. and then enter one human from a completely different universe with no experience of any of it whatsoever. As I see it, in many ways,
Blake's 7 was at least in part, a foundation of what
Farscape was built upon. It would also be unfair to say that
Farscape didn't rotate it's central characters on a somewhat regular basis. But I would also have to add that in the final analysis,
Farscape was a symphony while
Blake's 7 merely a Quartet. That in no way diminishes it, as I've spent enough time playing in orchestras to know that quartets are capable of phenomenally beautiful work and are essentially a perfect representation of the string section in miniature.
So I'll print your list of B7 eps and watch those, keeping everything I've just said in mind and say
thank you for all the work you keep putting into making B7 a positive experience for me and one that I can share from a much better perspective with other fans because of all the work you've done.
Let me know when you finish Eureka and we can share our favorite episodes and compare notes on what made it work so well and....
what occasionally failed.... (as much as I hate to say it Sci-Fi was guilty of losing site of their goals on more than one occasion and don't even get me started on the changeover to "Sy-Fy"- which we pronounced "Sifee") And thank you again M. You've got me committed to watching it and that's really saying something!
And a bunch of DBs for all your hard work!!
