Excellent video. If ever there was a sci fi show that needs to be remade, Blakes 7 is it. It's been talked about many times over the years, but its never got going
I can't possibly be the only one who would love to see a good reboot of Blake's 7 if it were done right. Imagine how much better the effects would look with modern CGI and a reasonable budget, let alone the sets and props.
@Kitirena • The problem is when the budget goes for special effects, the writing & acting tend to become neglected. At the time the original Blake's 7 aired, better special effects were available. The BBC wouldn't pay for them. Consequently, we got great characters like Avon. I don't think modern writers are up to the task of relying on dialog, storyline, and character development when they can get ous and ahs from special effects. Maybe I'm just too cynical though.
@@shaz2761 Even though I couldn't get into it personally, the Battlestar Galactica reboot says otherwise. Likewise for the Quantum Leap and Night Court reboots. If you get a producer that's a fan of the original, a good writing team who understands how the original worked and how to write episodes for today to make the show more relevant than it already is, and get a good cast, you could seriously introduce a good series to a whole new audience.
@Phil Exactly! One of the worst things the writers did IMHO was destroy the Liberator, not that Slave was a bad character as AIs go. But yes, if it were given a real chance with a producer that understood what made the original work, decent writers who could produce updated scripts that keep the relevance of the original and add in commentary about totalitarian regimes now, and a good cast and decent SFX, I bet it would be a winner. The crazy part is that a dedicated group of fans could probably do a B7 reboot as a RU-vid series and pull it off, with FX technology these days...
Paul Darrow and Jacqueline Pearce were great, but having sat through the entire box set a year ago, the series overall was pretty weak. It wasn't just the _terrible_ effects (which would certainly be ripe for a modern remake); there's only so many times the Federation can have the heroes in their grasp and somehow blow it. It becomes very repetitive. And this is coming from someone who had fond (if hazy) childhood memories of the final series. It does have a certain retro charm, but I doubt I'll revisit it anytime soon.
Waaaay back at university one of the groups had a blakes 7 epic weekend. It was basically a TV, VHS player and a pile of tapes. The idea was that you came and went as you want but if the tape had finished then you loaded the next one. Nobody watched them all but it was a fun B7 weekend. Happy times!
I say George your videos are awesome in millions and billions of ways and I like them, immensely and I will say B7 having a returning arch-villain Servalan in it was at the time B7 went out on tv a novelty in sci-fi and sadly not many sci-fi series and sci-fi films have had female arch-villains since B7.
I love Blake's 7, and it looked Ok at the time, the visual effects haven't aged well, you've done a good job here, the scripts, the acting were almost alway perfect, especially Paul Darrow, looking back at it now, it just needs a VFX upgrade and it would be perfect.
