By Jonathan Klotz | Published
The two most popular science fiction franchises in the world, Star Trek and Star Wars, address the genre from opposite directions; The first provides a utopian future, while the second is more a fantasy, but both include clear distinctions between good and evil.
A third way arose thanks to the influential British series, Blake’s 7which made the criminal and rough heroes around the edges, showing a science fiction universe in which the line between good and evil is blurred. With an approach to the stories of several episodes and a dark and sandy tone for its world, the BBC series also laid the foundations for subsequent programs such as Babylon 5” Firefly” Distant landscapeand the Battlestar Galactica Redo.
They are not good, or bad guys
The blake of Blake’s 7 Is Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), leader of the rebellion against the Federation, washed the brain, without brake and then framed by crimes that he did not commit and sent to a prison planet? A leader born, Blake helps other prisoners to escape by ordering the liberator, a mysterious ship led by an advanced AI computer called Zen. The point is that, although Blake is the default captain, he has full hands keeping his noisy compatriots online while trying the Federation.
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Establish the bases for a new way to follow
Blake’s 7 Follow the usual format of British television, with four seasons of lack of 13 episodes each, but in an unusual turn for science fiction, the entire first season was written by the creator of the program, Terry Nation, a feat that would not be surpassed by Babylon 5. The first two seasons develop as the precursor of another modern classic, Battlestar Galacticawith the federation constantly after the liberator and the Ragtag team that deals with an enemy that has them overcome and surpassed. That is why the British series debuted in 1978 with a budget that today would be seen as non -existent, remains a dear favorite of fans acclaimed as bees decades before their time.
Look 30 seconds from the program and you can say that I had no budget, but it had a strong sense of its characters, putting the emphasis not on the spectacular special effects, but how the seven abrasive personalities bounce where the articles, to the point, seem, to aim, threatens to leave the liberator forever. Terry Nation wrote a spatial opera on horrible people that is immersed in the same cynicism and anti -government attitude England that turns the 70s and, nevertheless, manages to retain a feeling of fun through the division. No matter the decade that was launched, Blake’s 7 It would be acclaimed for being a new creative and bold version of science fiction.
The most impressive part of the program is how it manages to unite everything for one of the most amazing finals of any series. In a world with programs that end in Cliffhangers and others that are configured to launch spin-offs or revival, it is refreshing to know that Blake’s 7 The story ends. If you are boring with the Star Trek Federation and you have too good Wars, supposedly, the galaxy sausage becomes teddy bears, then it is good to shoot to shoot Britbox), and yawn his own orjnabe. He broke the mold and showed fans of science fiction, there is more than one way to explore a very, far gaaxy.
