Forgotten series 70. Years created a plan for modern sci-fi

According to Jonathan Klotz
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The two most popular sci-fi franchise in the world, Star Trek and Star Wars, solves genre in opposite directions; The first assumes a utopian future, while the second is rather fantasy, but both include clear differences between good and evil. Thanks to the influential British series, the third way appeared Blake’s 7Which caused the heroes of criminals and rough around the edges, showing the sci-fi universe in which the boundary between good and evil is blurred. With a focus on more episode stories and a dark, bold tone to his world, the BBC series also laid the foundations for later programs like Babylon 5, Firefly, Farscapeand Battlestar Galactica remake.

Not good boys, not bad

Blaze Blake’s 7 He is a swarm of Blake (Gareth Thomas), a leader of a rebellion against the federation, a brain -brain, unnatural, and then framed for crimes that he did not tie and sent to the prison planet. Blake, born leader, helps other prisoners escape by commanding a liberator, a mysterious ship operated by an advanced computer AI named Zen. Thing Although Blake is a captain by default, he has his hands full to maintain their noisy compatriots in the queue when trying to take off the federation.

Together with Blak are Avon, a computer genius that lives according to the logic and reason code that sounds like a compound, besides being greedy and willing to sacrifice their sciences to save their own skin, villa, a cowardly thief with booze, Jenna Stannis, Pachol and pilot. episode. The other half includes Cally, Telepath with deadly wishes, Olag Giant bruising with a device implanted in the brain to keep it in peace and obedient and zen, a perceiving computer. Crew in Blake’s 7 would never be confused for the company officers or even the alliances of the rebels, but are probably the forerunner of the Moya crew in Farscape.

Laying the foundation for a new way forward

Blake’s 7 It watches the usual British television format, with four short seasons of 13 episodes, but in an unusual reversal for sci-fi the first season was written by the creator of the show Terry Nation, which would not end until J. Michael Straczynski was written Babylon 5. The first two seasons are played as a predecessor of another modern classic, Battlestar GalacticaWith the federation, on the heels of the liberator and Ragtag’s crew dealing with the enemy that exceeded and exceeded them. That is why, although the British series debuted in 1978 with a budget that would be considered non -existent today, he is a still beloved fan who is popular as decades ago.

Watch 30 seconds of the show and you can say that he did not have a budget, but had a strong sense of his characters, putting emphasis on spectacular special effects, but on how all seven abrasive personalities will be reflected in different combinations at a point where he threatens to leave the liberator for good every few episodes. Terry Nation wrote a space opera about terrible people who are immersed in the same cynicism and anti -government attitude that has been able to manage over the 70 years, yet he manages to maintain a sense of fun all the time. Regardless of the decade that has been released, Blake’s 7 would be welcome for being creative, courageous new view science fiction.

The most impressive part of the show is how to pull everything together for one of the most finals with the jaws of any series. In the world s shows that they end up on cliffhanger and others who are set up to start spin-off or revival is refreshing that they know that Blake’s 7 will complete the story. If you are bored with the Star Trek federation and you have seen too many characters of Star Wars Whoa, which allegedly the worst of the galaxy will show like teddy bears Amazon Prime Video) and enjoy a series of science fiction that has broken the form and has done sci-fi fans, there is more than one way to explore glaaxs far, far.