Yeah!!! The Liberator! Blake's Seven is awesome. Cynical, but awesome. Wish it could get a reboot for an increasing cynical world. Could be a vehicle for finding ways to survive it. - ThreadSky

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norsehound.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Yeah!!! The Liberator!

Blake's Seven is awesome. Cynical, but awesome. Wish it could get a reboot for an increasing cynical world. Could be a vehicle for finding ways to survive it.

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callieoart.bsky.social•25 days ago

Thank you for reminding me I need to watch that show.

norsehound.bsky.social•25 days ago

I only go as far as the end of season 2. Losing Blake, then the Liberator, kinda feels like abandoning the premise and I like the plot better across those two seasons.

theycallmejc.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oooh the things I'd do with the Liberator and its discovery, like the London finding it because it had scavenged the ring of a nearby gas giant for repair materials and left a gap... but before they find it they find scraps of ships that the Liberator had 'eaten'...

norsehound.bsky.social•25 days ago

If I swung at it, I'd want to tighten the show's premise against the insurgency and taking on the surveillance state of the Federation. B7 tended to drift into generic space adventure later, which is good worldbuilding but I'd want the show to start digging into dealing with the oppression in S2+.

norsehound.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not necessary to Andor levels, that show is doing a lot of good on the theories and operation of oppression. B7R I'd like to see more about how cynical people work to make a better place for others in spite of that cynicism.

norsehound.bsky.social•25 days ago

Something I think is missing in media, and is especially glaring now, is depicting how a democracy can come back from a corrupted takeover and how to build a better way. B7R could do this.

norsehound.bsky.social•25 days ago

Even if it's a downer ending for the heroes personally, a 1984-like epilogue discussing the seven in retrospect from a post federation society would be rad. Even if that society is post apocalyptic lost spaceflight rake- humanity would have another chance.

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