WEBVTT NOTE This transcript was created on 2026-06-07 at 22:09:57 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.899 Well, there's not much to say about this one, so we should be done very quickly. 2 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:27.359 Hello, and welcome back to Maximum Power, the Blake 7 podcast, where this week we're discussing my personal favourite episode of Blake 7, but I'm not going to get sentimental about it because sentiment breeds weakness. 3 00:00:27.420 --> 00:00:29.219 Let it get ahold of you, you're dead. 4 00:00:29.339 --> 00:00:31.019 Hello, I'm Cy. 5 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:32.039 I'm Cole. 6 00:00:32.159 --> 00:00:33.119 I'm James. 7 00:00:33.179 --> 00:00:34.079 I'm Mark. 8 00:00:34.140 --> 00:00:35.039 And I'm Pete. 9 00:00:35.100 --> 00:00:37.320 Oh my God, we did it. 10 00:00:37.619 --> 00:00:39.179 We did. 11 00:00:39.179 --> 00:00:41.100 We did rehearsing either. 12 00:00:41.340 --> 00:00:43.500 I suddenly clouded. 13 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:44.640 Oh my god, I'm last. 14 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:48.060 Two weeks at the Acton Hilton to rehearse our intro. 15 00:00:49.380 --> 00:00:55.020 So, here we are at the end of series C and the end of the show. 16 00:00:55.079 --> 00:00:57.780 This is the last episode that is planned. 17 00:00:57.840 --> 00:00:59.159 We are done. 18 00:00:59.219 --> 00:01:03.119 Terry Nation is back to finish off his show and 0 my god. 19 00:01:03.179 --> 00:01:07.920 He finishes off his show in a spectacular way. 20 00:01:08.219 --> 00:01:13.739 I have so much to say about this episode and I think we will all have lots to say about this episode. 21 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:22.140 But I'm going to throw it over to Mark 1st because Mark is our watching Blake 7 guinea pig who has never seen Blake 7 before. 22 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:25.500 So did this episode take you by surprise, Mark? 23 00:01:25.620 --> 00:01:27.120 It did. 24 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:32.640 I absolutely loved it. and obviously 33 things, or else you really took me by surprise. 25 00:01:32.700 --> 00:01:36.239 Obviously, the appearance of Blake, which I'm sure we'll talk about. 26 00:01:36.299 --> 00:01:37.920 The appearance of Servilan. 27 00:01:37.980 --> 00:01:40.620 I completely blindsided me as well. 28 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:53.040 Wasn't expecting that because obviously there's none of the Federation insignia or troops or anything, you know, obviously very carefully not ceded that and then the destruction of the Liberator, I was not expecting. 29 00:01:53.159 --> 00:02:03.299 I think because the series opened with the near destruction of the Liberator, and then all having to evacuate, I was convinced up until the very last minute that it was not going to be destroyed. 30 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.659 So yeah, when it finally was, I was, yeah, really taken aback. 31 00:02:07.019 --> 00:02:18.840 I'm sure, absolutely, the audience back in 1980 must have had exactly the same feelings that this doesn't happen in a show, this you don't destroy your big spaceship. 32 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:21.060 You don't you don't do anything like this. 33 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:40.740 So there's lots to talk about in this episode, but let's talk about the destruction of the liberator because although that's the finale, That's the thing that makes this episode feel so wrong right from the start, that every time I have a moment, every time they go to the cloud particle, and I'm just saying, no, don't do it. 34 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:42.060 Go through that. 35 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:43.620 It'll all be all right if you don't do that. 36 00:02:44.039 --> 00:02:51.000 And for me, this is one of the 1st memories I've got of seeing a TV show repeated and knowing what was coming. 37 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:56.520 And so, because I was like, uh, 6 or 7 when it 1st went out and then it was repeated a few months later. 38 00:02:56.699 --> 00:03:00.000 And so I saw the repeat and was like, oh, don't go into it this time. 39 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:02.099 They still did. 40 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:03.599 Choose your adventure. 41 00:03:03.659 --> 00:03:09.719 I like to think of that sort of weird snot that starts carving everything is space figure. 42 00:03:11.819 --> 00:03:16.500 Villa does peer at it and say maximum discharge at one point. 43 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:18.240 Sounds like a great name for a podcast. 44 00:03:18.300 --> 00:03:19.620 I don't know how we missed that one. 45 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:25.020 That's the even more explicitly tagged version of this podcast. 46 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:30.419 It's because Tarent has said that it looks like some kind of shaft cover as well. 47 00:03:31.979 --> 00:03:34.680 Very sharp for a shaft cover. 48 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:37.680 I wouldn't want that as a sharp, a shaft cover. 49 00:03:40.740 --> 00:03:44.580 It was amusing how unobservant they are to begin with. 50 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:54.900 Dana and Villa are wandering around the ship and there's these huge patches of like globules of goo and stuff and they it takes a quite a while to notice, doesn't it? 51 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:56.699 That's sort of unintentionally amusing, I think. 52 00:03:56.759 --> 00:04:01.620 Yeah, the script, there's been a, yeah, the effects people have been like, okay, you want Gunk? 53 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:02.400 going to put gunk. 54 00:04:02.520 --> 00:04:03.599 It's like, script. 55 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.300 It is a bit... getting ahead of ourselves. 56 00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:08.639 Bloody serverland. 57 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:15.659 Oh, maybe there's something wrong. after she's on the other ship for 5 minutes. 58 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:19.259 Why is the lighting a bit low? 59 00:04:19.319 --> 00:04:22.379 Why did someone sneeze on that console? 60 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:34.800 But much as we joke about it, it's an incredible way to finish off the ship. 61 00:04:34.860 --> 00:04:38.220 And I love that it's just by accident. 62 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:44.040 Well, actually, it's not by accident because the whole of the episode is about Avon being the most selfish bastard. 63 00:04:44.220 --> 00:04:50.939 And if he just talked to someone all the way through, then they could have done this and they could have could have avoided all of this. 64 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:55.019 But because of his selfishness, this is his ultimate punishment, is the ship being destroyed. 65 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:56.160 Yes, Colin. 66 00:04:56.220 --> 00:04:57.180 Is it? 67 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:58.259 Yes. 68 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:02.819 Listeners, we've decided to put up our hands to get avoided edgeways. 69 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:04.740 No, I think that's a good point. 70 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.279 I think it's a story about overconfidence and mistakes. 71 00:05:08.459 --> 00:05:14.100 And it starts with the board game, that stupid fucking space monopoly, right? 72 00:05:14.160 --> 00:05:15.720 Belopoly. 73 00:05:17.699 --> 00:05:25.319 Do you know, and I think that it, I think it's sort of overdesigned such that to maintain the mystery. 74 00:05:25.379 --> 00:05:34.259 So Avon isn't going to tell any of them anything, and therefore the audience isn't going to know, and we save this awesome couple of reveals at the end. 75 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:41.819 But I like the way it's about kind of overconfidence, which Blake was very good at, and Avon refers to it. 76 00:05:42.300 --> 00:05:50.339 And then you're right at the end, when they're sort of, they turn around from the viewscreen, they all give him a really shitty look. 77 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:55.379 He just turns around and smirks at the camera. 78 00:05:55.439 --> 00:05:59.699 Imagine if that had been the last shot of the entire series. 79 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:00.660 Brilliant. 80 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:12.959 The fact that it's ultra cynical Avon, who is suddenly possessed by this by this conviction that he's got to do this thing, but that he's not taking them with him this time. 81 00:06:13.019 --> 00:06:16.680 Maybe it's different next year, but he's spoilers. 82 00:06:16.740 --> 00:06:18.120 But he's... 83 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:19.439 Don't tell Mark. 84 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:22.079 He's our space ingenure. 85 00:06:22.199 --> 00:06:22.920 Yeah. 86 00:06:22.920 --> 00:06:32.639 The, um, and I love, he gets to say my favourite, my favourite thing in Blake 7 is the way they all pronounce the word visual, and you know, with more relish than ever at one point. 87 00:06:32.699 --> 00:06:34.980 When Zen is about to spoiler what's happening. 88 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:36.959 He says, does that number? 89 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:38.279 Give me a visual readout. 90 00:06:38.399 --> 00:06:44.459 And he struts over to a column so he can read some squiggles instead of having Zen revealing to us what's actually happening. 91 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.639 But yeah, it's just a slime cloud. 92 00:06:47.699 --> 00:06:49.620 What's the worst that could happen? 93 00:06:50.699 --> 00:06:55.860 Avon, Avon admitting that his starcasm is not up to its usual standard this week. 94 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:57.540 It's quite a nice touch as well. 95 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:00.120 Uh, you know, he, because he's lost his focus. 96 00:07:00.180 --> 00:07:06.600 He's all about this or rather he's become overfocused on whatever his mysterious mission that's definitely not a trap. 97 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:07.740 Uh, it is. 98 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:13.259 When you talk about the space monopoly, because when it opened, I thought he was playing hide and seek. 99 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:15.480 And then I was like, oh, no, of course he isn't. 100 00:07:15.540 --> 00:07:17.939 But then, yeah, the next thing they, I just, oh, boy, I guess. 101 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:34.079 Exactly, because the episode starts almost like business as usual in Blake 7 with the liberator flying somewhere, but just that short of Avon on the flight deck looking tired, unsettles you right from the start. 102 00:07:34.139 --> 00:07:36.060 Like, this is not normal. 103 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:47.279 This isn't how we normally open a Blake 7 episode, even though they're having drinks and games, they're all out in the teleport bay, which is not where they usually do this stuff. 104 00:07:47.339 --> 00:07:53.819 So something is going on and it's right from the start, you get a feeling that things are not quite right. 105 00:07:54.000 --> 00:08:00.240 Well, maybe they'd already destroyed the bridge set when they filmed that scene. 106 00:08:01.019 --> 00:08:03.120 Their head cannon. 107 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:05.519 Yeah, they also... 108 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:11.699 But also we know Avon has been on the flight deck on his own for hours and hours and hours doing all of this stuff. 109 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:13.560 He chops them off the flight deck. 110 00:08:13.620 --> 00:08:14.160 Yes. 111 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:17.279 Pussy bastard. 112 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:24.300 And it shows, there's this little conflict moment between him and Taryn, which again shows that Taryn just can't stand up to him. 113 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:37.679 He's just a complete, but the wet lettuce compared to compared to Avon's force of personality, I mean, whereas if Blake had still been there, ironically, Blake would have been the one who could have said to Avon, this is a trap, don't do it. 114 00:08:37.740 --> 00:08:48.120 But then, but then it's, it's, uh, uh, Taryn does have the, uh, the impetuousness to follow him anyway, despite being instructed not to. 115 00:08:48.179 --> 00:08:51.360 And what a fantastic speech it is from Avon before he beams down that. 116 00:08:51.419 --> 00:08:53.820 If you follow me, I'll kill you speech. 117 00:08:53.879 --> 00:08:55.259 What if he sees this? 118 00:08:55.320 --> 00:08:56.519 Oh, duck. 119 00:08:56.639 --> 00:08:57.960 Yes. 120 00:08:57.960 --> 00:08:58.679 Yeah. 121 00:08:58.740 --> 00:09:01.200 That's the kind of line that Villa might have in a way. 122 00:09:01.259 --> 00:09:06.240 Villa could have got that line, but it's nice to have Tarrant getting some good comedy material. 123 00:09:06.360 --> 00:09:08.340 I think Terence's pretty good in this. 124 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:08.639 Yeah. 125 00:09:08.700 --> 00:09:13.379 No, the way you sort of go, oh, we, we can't get what you, always what we want, Villa, you know? 126 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:17.700 He's trying to counterpoint the whole thing, but he's not effective enough to... 127 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:25.019 I mean, Terrence should have just got a gun and said, Avon, I'm going to shoot you if you don't tell me what you're up to, because this is going to fuck us all over. 128 00:09:25.139 --> 00:09:29.399 And instead, Tara, um, Tara gets the gun in his stomach. 129 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:31.559 And that amazing hog... 130 00:09:31.559 --> 00:09:33.960 He says he was going to, he meant it. 131 00:09:34.019 --> 00:09:35.100 He was going to kill you. 132 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:46.080 And I wonder if this is a pivotal character moment because we'll see in the next series that Tarrant doesn't argue with Avon to the same extent again. 133 00:09:46.139 --> 00:09:57.899 So whether this is an unconscious change in the character that he doesn't do that after this because he knows Avon is dangerous, whether that's just me think over people. 134 00:09:58.019 --> 00:09:58.500 No you're right. 135 00:09:58.559 --> 00:10:00.240 Yeah, sort of spoilery, but not really. 136 00:10:00.299 --> 00:10:04.259 Well, just, yeah, he settles down to being Chekhov, doesn't he? 137 00:10:04.379 --> 00:10:05.700 in series four. 138 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:07.679 He's not fighting to be the captain anymore, yeah. 139 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:16.799 I think we've done things important because up to that point, you know, I think Avon has earned their trust by that by now, hasn't he? 140 00:10:16.860 --> 00:10:26.220 There's no reason for them to be distrustful in him because he's even done stuff before, hasn't he, where he hasn't really told them what's going on when he found, didn't he find that mineral that sort of mimic things, but made it bigger or something? 141 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:28.139 And he wouldn't tell me what was going then. 142 00:10:28.139 --> 00:10:30.600 And that ended up saving the day on that episode. 143 00:10:30.659 --> 00:10:37.139 So I think up until a point when he pulls the gun and Callie sells it by saying, yeah, he was fully intending to kill you. 144 00:10:37.379 --> 00:10:41.340 Their distrust wasn't really warranted until that point. 145 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:44.399 I think it was, yeah, it was a really impactful scene for that reason. 146 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:56.700 And I think you know then that something big is going on, but we still have no idea what it is, which is really great, and we don't find out for a long time. 147 00:10:56.759 --> 00:10:58.259 Yeah, what are they up to? 148 00:10:58.320 --> 00:10:59.700 Well, what is he up to? 149 00:10:59.700 --> 00:11:02.700 I think it's teased out really well. 150 00:11:03.659 --> 00:11:07.379 Just doing orienteering on a space planet. 151 00:11:07.440 --> 00:11:08.700 I love that. 152 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:12.179 That planet is just drizzly woods, little cops. 153 00:11:12.179 --> 00:11:12.840 I love it. 154 00:11:12.899 --> 00:11:14.879 Very, very windy. 155 00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:16.139 Where is it? 156 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:16.919 We have to go there. 157 00:11:16.980 --> 00:11:20.580 Pissing it down and safe and it's just left side. 158 00:11:20.820 --> 00:11:25.679 It's exactly where I'd be out playing with my friends, imagining we were on an alien planet. 159 00:11:25.740 --> 00:11:27.480 So I'm really invested in that. 160 00:11:27.539 --> 00:11:29.279 It's like space Essex. 161 00:11:30.179 --> 00:11:31.799 Oh no. 162 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:34.740 It was never filmed in Essex. 163 00:11:34.799 --> 00:11:36.419 It was all filmed home counties. 164 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:40.080 I want to say like Durham or something. 165 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:43.320 Yeah, they just they went up north sometimes, didn't they, for this? 166 00:11:43.379 --> 00:11:48.000 Because there was always bloody cybermen and Daleks in the quarries down south. 167 00:11:48.419 --> 00:11:51.419 You actually see them glinting over the horizon. 168 00:11:55.500 --> 00:12:01.500 What is brilliant about all the scenes on terminal is the heartbeat. 169 00:12:01.559 --> 00:12:03.299 Yes, the sound design. 170 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:11.639 It is really unsettling, having that heartbeat that's just steady all the time, just pulsing away. 171 00:12:11.700 --> 00:12:14.279 Again, I think, adds to the tension. 172 00:12:14.340 --> 00:12:20.639 There's something about a heartbeat as a sound effect that just unnerves you, I think. and no music. 173 00:12:20.700 --> 00:12:23.340 Slightly, it's slightly a rhythmic as well. 174 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:26.460 So it's really, it's really disconcerting. 175 00:12:26.460 --> 00:12:30.779 The sort of... thing is really... 176 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:31.679 Yeah, yeah. 177 00:12:31.740 --> 00:12:35.340 Do we think that's Dudley Simpson or Elizabeth Parker? 178 00:12:35.460 --> 00:12:36.299 I think it's... 179 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:37.500 I think that was Liz Parker. 180 00:12:37.559 --> 00:12:38.220 Yeah, yeah. 181 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:49.139 No, I think it's a, it's a, I mean, because Mary Ridge does the final episode as well, and I think that really knowing when not to use music is a real skill. 182 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:58.019 And I think I may have mentioned this before, but it's like at the end of Planet of the Apes, where spoiler alert, you know, Charles and Hester sort of looks up and something happens. 183 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.580 Like Jerry Goldspit. 184 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:02.820 Exactly. 185 00:13:02.879 --> 00:13:10.620 Jerry Goldsmith said I could not have scored that scene because it would have done nothing to add to Charlton Heston's overacting. 186 00:13:10.620 --> 00:13:16.200 So there's sometimes you don't need to add music and it just works. 187 00:13:16.259 --> 00:13:26.159 It's one of it's one of the main things I love about this episode is, A, the sound design, as you say, Si, and B, all the direction, which I'm sure we'll get onto. 188 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:31.980 I think the way it isn't explained as well, adds to the sort of mysteriousness of the planet. 189 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:34.559 I guess the idea is it's because it's a manmade planet. 190 00:13:34.620 --> 00:13:37.080 It's sort of machinery deep in the planet or something like that. 191 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:38.159 It's oval. 192 00:13:38.220 --> 00:13:39.059 It's oval. 193 00:13:39.120 --> 00:13:40.679 Yeah, it is, yeah. 194 00:13:40.980 --> 00:13:44.399 It's like the logo of the day-to-day. 195 00:13:45.899 --> 00:13:47.519 Happy now. 196 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:57.179 The revelation that the Deep Roy in an ape suit is the final... 197 00:13:57.299 --> 00:13:57.480 Yeah. 198 00:13:57.480 --> 00:14:00.899 It's one final terrogation. 199 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:06.059 He leaves the show with one final, this is what man will become moment. 200 00:14:06.120 --> 00:14:10.679 He leaves the UK with one final... 201 00:14:10.740 --> 00:14:11.399 Yeah, sure, okay. 202 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:16.200 I mean, those costumes are the weakest point of the episode is that? 203 00:14:16.259 --> 00:14:19.139 Yeah, the idea is the great people know. 204 00:14:19.259 --> 00:14:20.700 Are they just saying the word? 205 00:14:22.980 --> 00:14:25.559 They might as well be dinosaur puppets. 206 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:28.379 Yeah, bless them. 207 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:34.500 Like, and that's, you know, one of the, one of the great sci-fi tropes, you know, I mean, it's bloody, it's the time machine, for God's sake. 208 00:14:34.620 --> 00:14:37.679 But it's just let down by those costumes. 209 00:14:37.740 --> 00:14:44.159 It would have been funny, though, for the end, where, so, jumping around, but at the end, my servant says, those creatures aren't what you're descended from. 210 00:14:44.220 --> 00:14:48.179 If it just cut to one of them rolling their eyes and going, oh, God, they're what we're going to evolve into, aren't they? 211 00:14:49.500 --> 00:14:51.960 Not actually a surprise. 212 00:14:52.080 --> 00:14:54.240 But we're getting ahead ourselves. 213 00:14:54.299 --> 00:14:56.580 We've read science fiction, sir. 214 00:14:56.879 --> 00:14:59.940 It's true, Star Trek, dystopian future. 215 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:00.360 Come on. 216 00:15:00.419 --> 00:15:03.960 We do have a feet blonde space people, though, don't we? 217 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:06.600 We certainly do. with dodgy wigs. 218 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:10.919 Well, Colin said that he'll edit it out if I said who they look like. 219 00:15:10.980 --> 00:15:16.259 So I'll quote the war machines and say they look like that disc jockey. 220 00:15:18.059 --> 00:15:22.019 Something with a hint of Boris Johnson as well, Twinkie. 221 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:25.980 Instead of saying raw, they're going, wow. 222 00:15:29.100 --> 00:15:31.259 And having a legal party. 223 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:32.820 Another team. 224 00:15:32.820 --> 00:15:35.700 That's how they devolved. 225 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.740 They're actually conservatives. 226 00:15:39.059 --> 00:15:40.919 We're keeping that in. 227 00:15:40.980 --> 00:15:41.399 Yeah. 228 00:15:42.539 --> 00:15:45.120 Do we have any Tory listeners? 229 00:15:45.179 --> 00:15:52.860 I hope not I haven't learned the lesson of Blake 7 is the... 230 00:15:52.860 --> 00:15:53.700 Socialism's good. 231 00:15:54.059 --> 00:15:56.639 You are the vampire. 232 00:15:59.700 --> 00:16:03.240 That planet is very, it reminded me a lot of Star Trek 3, actually. 233 00:16:03.299 --> 00:16:14.639 You know, they build an artificial planet with Genesis. and everything accelerates really fast and again, it's this really great concepts through this. 234 00:16:14.700 --> 00:16:21.720 I mean, it's it's very unexplored and as you say, site, it's a like a throwaway kind of primitive quick, put primitives in there. 235 00:16:21.899 --> 00:16:36.179 And because if this was supposed to be the last episode, you're kind of showing the way we all behave, the way we are, you know, fighting each other, creating empires, killing people, you may as well just be animals. 236 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:40.019 So, but more on animals next year. 237 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:54.960 Speaking of this being the last episode, you know the cast found out that was being renewed, when they were watching the episode on television and heard the voiceover on the end titles. 238 00:16:55.080 --> 00:16:56.220 No. 239 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:57.299 Tell us. 240 00:16:57.360 --> 00:16:57.720 Yeah. 241 00:16:57.779 --> 00:17:06.960 Yeah, the managing director of BBC TV rung the help rang the switchboard and said, tell them they're having another series. was so good. 242 00:17:07.019 --> 00:17:14.460 And literally, they got they got the announcement over the end credits that Blake 7 will return next year and no one knew. 243 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:15.779 Oh wow. 244 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:30.960 So the anecdotally, the reason for that was because that would bring it to 52 episodes, which is the perfect length for stripping a show weekly on American syndicated television. 245 00:17:32.220 --> 00:17:34.619 So let's make another season. 246 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:36.960 So we can sell it to the US. 247 00:17:37.019 --> 00:17:42.420 It makes it much more profitable and saleable if you can say you've got 52 episodes. 248 00:17:42.480 --> 00:17:44.700 You can either do it, like half a year or a whole year. 249 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.579 Like, I mean, that's a business decision. 250 00:17:54.180 --> 00:18:01.740 Avon gets the space boppet, uh, thing that's gonna direct him to the door in a rock wall. 251 00:18:01.799 --> 00:18:03.299 That was at least not a door in a rock wall. 252 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:04.380 It would improve it. 253 00:18:04.440 --> 00:18:06.960 It's a door in a field, but it's still close enough. 254 00:18:07.019 --> 00:18:15.420 I went, I recently went a holiday to Svalbard, the Norwegian island up in the Arctic Circle, and they've got where the world seed vault is. 255 00:18:15.480 --> 00:18:19.319 And I've seen pictures of it and it looks like this huge James Bond infrastructure. 256 00:18:19.380 --> 00:18:20.759 Did you see an armoured bear? 257 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:26.220 No, I didn't see an almond bear, sadly, although I did buy a little fluffy one, so that's the next best thing. 258 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.839 But the global seed vault, which looks like this huge James Bond towering structure, wherever you see it. 259 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:35.579 It's a 7 foot high door, concrete door in a rock wall. 260 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:37.740 It's your favourite thing in the world. 261 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:38.519 Send me a photo. 262 00:18:38.579 --> 00:18:43.140 I would if I think the actual seed vault itself is all in a studio in Southeast London. 263 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.240 They've only stuck the door up there on the rock face. 264 00:18:48.299 --> 00:18:49.440 Excellent. 265 00:18:49.500 --> 00:18:52.980 But that little structure is really, really interesting. 266 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:57.000 And I don't know whether it's something that's actually just there or something they've built. 267 00:18:57.059 --> 00:18:58.980 But I love the little mirrors on it. 268 00:18:58.980 --> 00:19:12.119 And the way that it flips open in an unexpectedly over dramatic way, that half of it just flips flips over rather than a little little door opening. 269 00:19:12.180 --> 00:19:16.859 It's just another thing that is really just quite cool in this episode, I think. 270 00:19:16.920 --> 00:19:18.900 We need a series of polls, don't we? 271 00:19:19.019 --> 00:19:20.700 The best door. 272 00:19:20.759 --> 00:19:22.559 Yeah, go do it. 273 00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:23.099 Okay. 274 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:37.920 And the little satnav boys, because it's got a serious episode and even villa doesn't get much comedy, but the little bit when he when Avon gets the ball, and it's really snippy and it says, you know, I told you to put both hands. 275 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:45.000 Yeah, it's just a nice light little moment in a darker than average episode, I thought. 276 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:54.839 Unusually, as an Irish accent, I think, for computers and things like that, it's, you don't normally, they normally have more sort of cut glass accents, don't they? 277 00:19:54.900 --> 00:19:56.519 I think it was a bit. 278 00:19:56.579 --> 00:19:58.319 I thought it was a bit more American actually. 279 00:19:58.440 --> 00:19:59.220 I'd be wrong. 280 00:19:59.279 --> 00:19:59.700 Maybe wrong. 281 00:19:59.759 --> 00:20:00.119 Oh right. 282 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:01.920 It sounded very familiar, that voice. 283 00:20:01.980 --> 00:20:02.940 It sounded really familiar. 284 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.559 How about Boston Irish? 285 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:05.940 Okay. 286 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.460 We'll settle for that. 287 00:20:09.779 --> 00:20:16.440 It was David Healy, who is apparently a jovial New Yorker, according to his IMDb profile. 288 00:20:16.980 --> 00:20:19.079 I was miles out there. 289 00:20:22.200 --> 00:20:30.420 But yeah, I mean, considering we don't actually get Aurak in this episode, we only have 22 computer voices. 290 00:20:30.480 --> 00:20:34.980 And so let's talk about Zen because You're going to cry. 291 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:40.019 I have to cry because this is the most moving death in the whole of the series. 292 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:41.279 It's incredibly done. 293 00:20:41.519 --> 00:21:07.559 We were talking in the episode we recorded about sarcophagus about when Zen goes wrong, things feel bad, and that 1st moment where Zen breaks down and starts talking in a strange language suddenly is really discomforting because we start off with Zen at the start of this episode being very like series one, sorry, series A, Zen. 294 00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:11.880 Uh, this is a dangerous area of space. 295 00:21:11.940 --> 00:21:14.160 Computers suggest don't go through it. 296 00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:15.839 We don't know. not going to tell you why. 297 00:21:15.900 --> 00:21:17.400 But I'm not going. yeah exactly. 298 00:21:17.940 --> 00:21:26.940 And then sort of that slow decay that goes with the liberator is really incredible right to that very final scene. 299 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:31.619 Yeah, yeah. and the linking of Zen and the Liberator. 300 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:33.960 Um, you know, as being sort of one and the same. 301 00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:48.660 And I like, I mean, it's a bit bleak, but the idea that a spaceship, not knowing what's wrong with it and what's, what the problem is, just because it hasn't got the right type of sensors to, to just immediate, to quite detect what's going on. 302 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:59.099 It's the kind of thing that's led to space shuttles exploding and things like that because people just didn't have the information or the ability to know what was what the problem was. 303 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:09.420 And it's really, and it's a great example of Villa suddenly being revealing himself to be very astute when he tells Zen, you know, shut down everything other than locating. 304 00:22:09.480 --> 00:22:12.900 There's no point trying to um, trying to fix it if you don't really know what the cause is. 305 00:22:12.960 --> 00:22:20.819 Uh, and then that that final scene, it's really, it's really close because they've been in every episode, I suppose, between, between Villa and Zen. 306 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:28.799 Um, that um, the, Michael Keating is is acting his socks off as well as um, as well as uh, Peter Tottenham. 307 00:22:28.859 --> 00:22:32.880 Yeah, it's just really emotional without being over the top, though, you know. 308 00:22:32.940 --> 00:22:36.599 It's just that I have failed you. 309 00:22:36.660 --> 00:22:40.619 I am sorry and Villa's really sad. 310 00:22:40.680 --> 00:22:51.480 He never once referred to himself, he never once called himself I. And that's just, wow, that's really great writing from Terry Nation there. 311 00:22:51.539 --> 00:22:54.779 And it shouldn't be that poignant. 312 00:22:54.839 --> 00:23:05.160 And on some level that sells in his moments of death that sells the idea that this ship was always sentient on some level. 313 00:23:05.460 --> 00:23:11.579 And that he, you know, he, you know, he, you know, he's failed. 314 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:21.660 Like, he has actually, like, that gives it so much more weight than just, you know, like any other sort of talking ship dying. 315 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.160 Yeah, yeah. 316 00:23:23.220 --> 00:23:25.500 Or any another, what was his name? 317 00:23:25.559 --> 00:23:26.039 Gan. 318 00:23:29.220 --> 00:23:31.200 I'm joking. 319 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:33.240 It's the most affecting death in Great Kevin. 320 00:23:33.299 --> 00:23:35.579 It was sad when Gand died. 321 00:23:35.640 --> 00:23:43.019 It was more like it just made everyone grumpy rather than it being quite so touching. 322 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:43.380 Yeah. 323 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:45.299 Yeah, completely agree. 324 00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:52.259 And the way that Peter Tottenham, yeah, just puts emotion, like you say, it's always been very consistent, the voice. 325 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.160 And then, yeah, the emotion in the last few lines. 326 00:23:56.220 --> 00:24:06.180 And it says Blake's name as well, which sort of suggests that, yeah, he's not quite sure what's going on or hiking back to a previous time and that kind of thing. 327 00:24:06.240 --> 00:24:07.859 So it's yeah, really well done. 328 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:17.640 But yeah, you wouldn't think that a bank of flashing lights and the way the lights just fade away at the end is just really nicely done. 329 00:24:17.700 --> 00:24:40.380 And that the fact the next time we see that that bank, the whole of Zen's fascia has disappeared, and it's just the ducting and tubing behind it, that's sort of there to explode, is quite, I think that's quite something because I think seeing that that fascia of Zen exploding at the end would have been really, would have been far too much. 330 00:24:40.440 --> 00:24:41.519 I couldn't take that. 331 00:24:47.579 --> 00:24:50.880 So Avon finds his way into this space. 332 00:24:50.940 --> 00:24:58.740 He's in a bit of a jam, but he's going underground, which is fitting because number one single in the UK that week, was going underground by the jam, only enough. 333 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:01.559 Oh my god. 334 00:25:01.619 --> 00:25:03.000 That's a point. 335 00:25:04.259 --> 00:25:07.680 This is the point where we finally find out it's actually about Blake. 336 00:25:07.740 --> 00:25:10.559 It's so easy to forget that watching it for the 1st time. 337 00:25:10.619 --> 00:25:12.059 It could be anything. 338 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:15.779 It could be a plague, a cure for a plague, a supercom- a new supercomputer. 339 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:22.859 But actually, can't imagine what disappointing that would be if it was just a 3rd supercomputer. that we now have. 340 00:25:23.940 --> 00:25:27.240 Yeah, well, something along those lines next year. 341 00:25:27.299 --> 00:25:33.359 But, um, yeah, that whole, that, and the scene with Blake is on location, isn't it? 342 00:25:33.420 --> 00:25:34.380 is in a big room somewhere else. 343 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:37.140 I don't imagine that... 344 00:25:37.140 --> 00:25:38.160 I believe. 345 00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:52.500 Yeah, because I think Gareth was filming at, well, record, was on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and I think they weren't filming very far away, so they managed to get him down to the Church Hall and sort of rig up that scene. 346 00:25:52.559 --> 00:25:53.339 Dress it up, yeah. 347 00:25:53.400 --> 00:25:54.420 He's still there. 348 00:25:57.359 --> 00:25:59.039 What's that? 349 00:25:59.039 --> 00:25:59.940 gives it. yeah. 350 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:06.000 But that gives it the real feeling of a series finale that you're bringing Blake back after all this time. 351 00:26:06.059 --> 00:26:10.980 And again, that must have been such a surprise for the audience the 1st time round. 352 00:26:11.039 --> 00:26:13.079 I guess Mark, you weren't expecting that at all. 353 00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:23.039 No, and I did think slightly afterwards, slightly did they throw it away by having the his face on the screen and the medical report? 354 00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:31.440 But then after I actually saw him, I kind of wondered if it was because of the beard, they worried that people wouldn't immediately recognise him. 355 00:26:31.500 --> 00:26:32.940 So they needed to tee it up. 356 00:26:33.000 --> 00:26:41.700 I mean, I don't know if that's the if that's the reason, but it might have been more impactful just to for even to walk in the room and see Blake and that would have been a big surprise. 357 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:46.079 Quite possibly that's what, I mean, isn't that why they permed Stephen Pacey's hair? 358 00:26:47.339 --> 00:26:52.319 Because they want, because he was replacing Blake and they... 359 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:54.180 Just give me the vibe. 360 00:26:54.240 --> 00:26:55.500 Got to fill that gap somehow. 361 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:59.759 You've got to fill the curly, curly head space. 362 00:27:00.119 --> 00:27:08.759 I got very excited by the readout of the case history that he's compares on that screen because it says the patient's condition and there's no apostrophe. 363 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:11.940 I know. commenting too, yeah. 364 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:13.259 No apostrophe. 365 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:18.359 So that means the absence of an apostrophe from the logo is absolutely canonical. 366 00:27:18.420 --> 00:27:19.859 Just stay in the court. 367 00:27:19.859 --> 00:27:22.200 They were used intermittently in the 1500s. 368 00:27:22.259 --> 00:27:27.180 They only caught on a couple 100 years after that and they'll have their day and be familiar. 369 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:29.640 By the time we get to space year 25,000. 370 00:27:30.180 --> 00:27:33.299 Lots of other legs already done away with them. 371 00:27:33.359 --> 00:27:35.160 Federation of bands. 372 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.539 Was this the 4th calendar or some bullshit? 373 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:45.000 Yes. 3rd century of the 2nd calendar, wasn't it, I think? 374 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:47.759 Or apostrophe free. 375 00:27:47.819 --> 00:27:49.079 Yes. 376 00:27:49.140 --> 00:27:50.880 Apostrophe. 377 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.579 I'm just really enjoying these compound words. 378 00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:07.140 But isn't it a great scene with Blake and Avon and they finally get a bit snippy with each other again straight away. 379 00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:33.119 Also, what I really love is that there's the little callback to Avon and Sentiment, and Blake says, careful Avon, you're letting your sentiment show, whereas Avon has said earlier that Sentiment breeds weakness, that it get a hold of you, and you're dead, and actually, there's something about the relationship between him and Blake, that does bring out that sentiment in him, and it's always, always there. 380 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:55.259 Yeah, and it's also adds to the whole heightened reality that this is a simulation, and it's such a good simulation, that they spent months preparing it, and they, you know, whole Serverland's plan, you know, it's the Roadrunner thing, or the Pink Panther thing of the week where capture the Liberator capture the Liberator. 381 00:28:55.319 --> 00:29:05.099 This actually works because it's so clever and so well done in terms of luring in there and creating that recreation of him. 382 00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:09.059 And it has something, you know, it talks, it's a little bit about AI. 383 00:29:09.119 --> 00:29:11.460 It's effectively an AI version of Blake. 384 00:29:11.519 --> 00:29:19.859 And having that bit about all careful, you're getting sentimental, is part of the AI personality. 385 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:22.920 I thought was very clever and make it believable. 386 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:26.339 And I love the way when Servolan and Avon meet up. 387 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:33.420 Um, Avon's still, you know, Servoland's going, oh, uh, you know, you'll get to see Blake later or something like that. 388 00:29:33.539 --> 00:29:34.920 And Avon goes, ha, ha, ha. 389 00:29:34.980 --> 00:29:35.819 I already have. 390 00:29:35.880 --> 00:29:37.619 And so everyone says, oh, really? 391 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:38.700 You know? 392 00:29:38.759 --> 00:29:40.559 And she plays along beautifully. 393 00:29:40.619 --> 00:29:41.220 Brilliant. 394 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:42.839 Yeah, there's no clues, is there? 395 00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:44.880 There's no hints until she drops that. 396 00:29:44.940 --> 00:29:49.619 There's no wonky camera effect or anything in the... 397 00:29:49.619 --> 00:30:04.859 No, there's just that disconcerting thing where you see Avon shot and then the next thing he's doing is getting up and meeting Blake and then you get him being shot again and them saying, oh, we must get the continuity right in a very meta moment. 398 00:30:04.859 --> 00:30:05.700 That's true. 399 00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:06.299 Yeah. 400 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:07.019 Yeah, yeah. 401 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:11.819 And then that's the 1st time you get an inkling that something here is not quite right. 402 00:30:11.880 --> 00:30:18.180 Again, it's that feeling that you get all through this episode that things aren't happening quite as they normally do. 403 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:24.779 So that's that 1st moment of, oh, and I remember watching it the 1st time at Vicable. 404 00:30:24.839 --> 00:30:25.440 What's app? 405 00:30:25.500 --> 00:30:26.099 What's happened there? 406 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:36.839 Because we get that moment where we see Avon with the microphone next to him and things like that, where we see that, and it's just that, Oh, hang on, what's happening? 407 00:30:36.900 --> 00:30:39.599 But it's not explicitly said till later on. 408 00:30:39.660 --> 00:30:42.240 And that's right back to beginning of Blake 7. 409 00:30:42.359 --> 00:30:48.599 We sort of mind control and brainwashing, isn't it, where Blake had had his personality overwritten and his memories are raised. 410 00:30:48.660 --> 00:30:56.099 So that was a nice of, if this had been the last story, it sort of took back to the original Federation stuff that they were doing to the characters as well. 411 00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:10.259 It's quite, it's kind of signposted because when Callie and Tarrant are searching the, the room that, where, where, Avon had been taken. 412 00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:18.720 Take, um, Calicus goes up to a piece of instrumentation and says, this looks like a visual image structurizer. 413 00:31:21.059 --> 00:31:24.000 Oh, oh, I wonder what that does. 414 00:31:26.759 --> 00:31:30.420 I didn't quite know the conversation between Blake and Avon. 415 00:31:30.480 --> 00:31:33.059 They were talking about lightning rain and I didn't... 416 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:40.559 It's no, it's the lightning raid, but he slightly under sort of mumbles it. 417 00:31:40.619 --> 00:31:41.579 So it doesn't come across. 418 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:46.319 It's like a lightning rage to rescue me and get me out via the teleport. 419 00:31:46.380 --> 00:31:52.559 It took me years until I got a subtitled version to actually see what that was. 420 00:31:53.579 --> 00:32:05.099 I thought that was the thing that Blake had discovered that was going to make them sort of rich and invincible. something called lightning rain and some kind of weapon or I was kind of, is that a reference to something earlier on that I couldn't remember? 421 00:32:05.160 --> 00:32:06.599 I rewound that. 422 00:32:06.599 --> 00:32:10.680 I rewound that scene. because I was like, I heard the same thing and then... 423 00:32:10.680 --> 00:32:12.660 Oh, rave. 424 00:32:12.720 --> 00:32:13.920 Right. 425 00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:16.440 Enunciate. 426 00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:20.880 Which for Gareth Thomas is very unusual. 427 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:26.700 He is usually absolutely spot on, but maybe it's maybe it's one of those things. 428 00:32:26.759 --> 00:32:47.819 And there is a fantastic blooper from that scene between Avon and Blake as well, where Avon is just about to leave and he says, carefully, Avon, your sentiment's showing, and he pops up with a little teddy bear, and Paul Darrow absolutely roars with laughter in the most Paul Darrow way. 429 00:32:47.880 --> 00:32:54.599 And yeah, it's really, it's on the, it's on the DVD. the back the backstory to that, though. 430 00:32:54.660 --> 00:32:58.440 No, I know, well, I think if I have, I've forgotten it, so go on, James. 431 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:09.779 There was a running joke on the set that the reason Avon was such a grumpy bitch, just because somebody stole his teddy bear as a child. 432 00:33:13.619 --> 00:33:15.180 That's great. 433 00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:18.960 That makes perfect sense now, and of course, that would be why he, yeah. 434 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:50.339 We need to probably discuss the last 10 minutes of this episode because someone arrives and absolutely steals the show from everyone else who has been, who, I mean, all the costs have been really spectacularly good this week, apart from maybe Callie, who doesn't get, even though she gets to go down to the planet. doesn't get a great deal to do. and she even when, when, um, uh, when Taryn's leaving, she sort of goes, I'll come too. 435 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:51.299 And he's like, okay. 436 00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.039 And then we left behind this time. 437 00:33:53.099 --> 00:33:55.980 And when they get there, he's wearing bright red. 438 00:33:56.039 --> 00:33:58.500 She's wearing gray and he turns to her and goes, get down. 439 00:33:58.559 --> 00:33:59.099 They'll see you. 440 00:33:59.160 --> 00:34:00.660 And he just... 441 00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:02.640 He's like, Darren. 442 00:34:02.700 --> 00:34:03.660 They've already seen me. 443 00:34:04.200 --> 00:34:06.059 It's typical Taron. 444 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:19.260 Shockingly and amazingly, Serverland turns up just for the last 10 or 11 minutes of this episode and Jacqueline Pierce is at her very best here. 445 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:22.320 I think this is likes in Star one. 446 00:34:22.380 --> 00:34:33.960 It's the episode finale, she just raises her game for, and this week she is absolutely superb because she is completely in charge of this situation and it's worked. 447 00:34:34.019 --> 00:34:37.500 Her plan to capture Avon has finally worked. 448 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:52.440 Yeah, she gets to play triumph, which isn't something she actually inevitably isn't something she can often do because, yeah, I did want, I thought they could have tied it into Moloch for having that duplicating technology. 449 00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:59.880 That occurred to me that they could, she could have duplicated, that could have been a way of having Blake, but they were, but Mono Moloch was a bit of a late, a late edition. 450 00:34:59.940 --> 00:35:08.940 But she's, but her finally being able to, and Avon, um, having to, giving that a call to liberate, just saying, go. 451 00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:12.179 Well, I can't remember exactly what he says, but it's a great moment. 452 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:16.679 And it's like, oh, is that, is that him being the hero and rescuing them or is it just because he doesn't want her to get the ship? 453 00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:20.099 But either way, that is him attempting to sacrifice himself one way or another. 454 00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:23.039 And she gets a marvellous, you fool. 455 00:35:23.099 --> 00:35:25.739 And she says it twice because she's so cross. 456 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:37.139 And it works because Villa gets cut off before he can say, no, no, no, don't come back to the ship because it's got a bit of a cold. 457 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.980 Uh, you know, so that, that, It's got COVID. 458 00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:49.079 All of these things are really well set up, yeah, so that the person who knows the thing that might have given the thing away is prevented from saying it. 459 00:35:49.139 --> 00:35:51.659 And it's all it's all quite done naturally. 460 00:35:51.719 --> 00:36:02.099 Like, even, there's even the bit about, I forgot to mention it at the start, you know, that he's not got, fill has not got the key to activate Aurak, because... 461 00:36:02.099 --> 00:36:06.900 They've all took it with him, yeah. because otherwise they could have just said to Aurak, what was wrong with the what's wrong with the liberation? 462 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:07.559 How do we fix it? 463 00:36:07.619 --> 00:36:08.639 All those little things. 464 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:10.679 I think that is ter just terrination on a good day. 465 00:36:10.739 --> 00:36:12.119 He does do that sort of thing pretty well. 466 00:36:12.179 --> 00:36:15.719 Of course, that gives you that wonderful line at the end. 467 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:21.360 You should always be careful about getting a secondhand spacecraft that can be very unreliable. 468 00:36:21.420 --> 00:36:22.320 Yes. 469 00:36:24.059 --> 00:36:27.119 Well, I mean, the... 470 00:36:27.119 --> 00:36:31.199 Sorry, but to say, Servalance henchwoman, who's operating the teleporter. 471 00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:33.780 It really doesn't deserve any prizes for initial. 472 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:36.360 He's just saying something cryptic and fine. 473 00:36:36.420 --> 00:36:40.139 Yeah, and also picking up Horac and she's like, what does that? 474 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:41.460 Oh, it's a souvenir. 475 00:36:41.519 --> 00:36:43.260 It has sentimental value. 476 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:45.900 Cupid woman. 477 00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:52.500 But my pay grade. don't care It wasn't one of my objective development objectives this year. can have it. 478 00:36:53.519 --> 00:37:11.099 But what I love as well, even in her moment of triumph, Serverland can't help but flirt with Avon add, it's just recalling those scenes in aftermath and there's just the 2 actors are sizzling. 479 00:37:11.159 --> 00:37:12.239 They're so good together. 480 00:37:12.239 --> 00:37:14.940 And that's what makes it, I think. 481 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:17.639 Her and her silver nails as well. 482 00:37:18.599 --> 00:37:24.300 She's got a kind of, um, like a, a fastened clip. 483 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:33.059 I don't know anything about dresses, obviously. like on her dress that looks like the entrance to the underground base. 484 00:37:33.119 --> 00:37:34.440 Just realise that. 485 00:37:34.500 --> 00:37:41.880 Like that, yeah, that sort of structured crisscross sort of like giant brooch thing. 486 00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:46.260 Yes, welcome to maximum power where lots of men described. 487 00:37:47.820 --> 00:37:50.579 To be fair, throw those men are gay. 488 00:37:50.820 --> 00:37:52.260 Exactly. 489 00:37:52.260 --> 00:37:53.519 Good old man, guys. 490 00:37:53.579 --> 00:37:54.000 Get on it. 491 00:37:54.059 --> 00:37:55.500 Put inside down, sorry. 492 00:37:56.159 --> 00:37:58.260 Not that sort of game. 493 00:37:59.940 --> 00:38:26.820 I think, as you say, Colin, though, it really sells it when she acts shocked that Avon's already seen Blake, and it isn't that sort of TV fake lying where you sort of winking to the audience, but the other actors in the room completely by it, it really has the audience convinced still that Blake is just like in the next room or whatever and that the deal, if the deal goes ahead, everyone's going to get what they want. 494 00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:45.659 No, I was going to say, it's like it's Schrodinger's Blake. since the end of series B, and it may continue to that way for a while, which is, it's just, I'm just really pleased that they, look, if this was going to be the final episode, what a way to end it. 495 00:38:45.780 --> 00:38:52.380 You know, you get it's, uh, you know, spectacularly well directed, I think. 496 00:38:52.440 --> 00:38:53.639 I think marriage is brilliant. 497 00:38:53.699 --> 00:38:56.880 I really do. gets the tone for Blake 7 completely right. 498 00:38:56.940 --> 00:39:11.039 There's some really great, like, well, on the underground base thing, directional flourishes that I think are really nice, like the, where Taryn and Callie are in that room and the door very slowly opens behind them. 499 00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:20.699 Just great, stuff like that, or where Avon's just, uh, he's, he's going to another room and he presses the keypad and the door opens and there's nothing there. 500 00:39:20.699 --> 00:39:22.800 And then just this gun comes around the corner. 501 00:39:22.860 --> 00:39:28.860 It's just, that's what I, uh, I think that makes it all work. 502 00:39:28.980 --> 00:39:32.340 It is remarkable that, you know, it onto direct terminus. 503 00:39:34.019 --> 00:39:37.320 I think the material wasn't quite as good. the same way. 504 00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:40.199 Don't mention the truth. 505 00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:47.039 But yeah, there's loads of great moments sort of all the way through that she does that. 506 00:39:47.099 --> 00:40:00.420 And considering she's coming in to direct what is ostensibly, for the 1st time, direct Blake 7, and it's the final episode, is I'm pretty amazing that she gets this show so right. 507 00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:23.460 I mean, you'd think it would have been handed to someone like Via Lorimer who had been there all the way through the show and had sort of directed from series A all the way through that almost like as a reward you get to direct the last episode or David Maloney coming in to do the last episode like he did at the end of series B for Star one, but he took his episode at the start of the year. 508 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:33.840 So it's a really interesting choice that bringing in someone completely new to the show just to round it off, and it could have gone so wrong, but she gets it so right. 509 00:40:33.840 --> 00:40:36.420 And they have her back quite a few times next year, don't they? 510 00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:38.880 Including for the finale next year as well. 511 00:40:38.940 --> 00:40:42.599 And the opening episode so that you get the continuity rights. 512 00:40:43.980 --> 00:40:45.360 Yes. 513 00:40:45.420 --> 00:40:47.400 I'm just looking at what else she's done. 514 00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:48.119 Zed cars? 515 00:40:48.179 --> 00:40:49.320 Hasn't everyone. 516 00:40:50.159 --> 00:40:53.579 Yeah, it's Dixon or Dot Green, yeah. 517 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:55.679 People who were born after it finished. 518 00:40:57.300 --> 00:41:00.000 No, later on, they just do the bill. 519 00:41:00.059 --> 00:41:02.519 Yeah, that was my difference. 520 00:41:05.579 --> 00:41:08.880 I like, so once, so let's get the climax. 521 00:41:08.940 --> 00:41:14.219 The ultimate line, the ultimate serverland phrase, the maximum power of it all. 522 00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:16.679 She's got everything she wants and it's all... 523 00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:17.639 I know they've heard it before. 524 00:41:18.000 --> 00:41:20.340 I know, I could catch on, yeah. 525 00:41:20.519 --> 00:41:23.940 And it all just explodes to pieces. 526 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.179 And that's that's one of the best blow up the ship things. 527 00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:36.780 And because we've kind of, we've done our sadness for Zen, but then we see, like you said earlier, like we see him actually sort of explode in his own way. 528 00:41:36.840 --> 00:41:40.079 Yeah, it's sort of like, yeah, his remains are exploding. 529 00:41:40.139 --> 00:41:53.039 You just can't, you know, I remember the 1st time they blew up the Enterprise in Star Trek, I felt real emotion for it, but then subsequently it does start to just become an effect sequence with people shouting percentages at each other because you haven't, it's not a shit. 530 00:41:53.099 --> 00:41:57.239 They've only sometimes they've only been on it for a couple of years and then they just blow it up and it's kind of like having a flat tire. 531 00:41:57.300 --> 00:42:04.980 It's like, um, but this, this character, this is the death of a character as well as the blowing up of the vehicle, I suppose is what I'm saying. 532 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:14.760 And we even get a little, we get a little stab of the theme music in the incidental music from Dudley, because he knows it's the grand finale of the show. 533 00:42:15.239 --> 00:42:22.380 It's a phenomenal, if, I mean, the way they destroy the set is really fantastic. 534 00:42:22.380 --> 00:42:30.780 And you get suddenly a sense of scale once the floor sort of comes up and the woman slides down with the most amazing scream. 535 00:42:31.679 --> 00:42:35.519 It's like, I shouldn't have let him take that box of art. 536 00:42:36.539 --> 00:42:38.820 She's gonna come up on this. 537 00:42:40.559 --> 00:42:45.599 And it's interesting that they've written it, but they've written trapdoors in for a man, you know, she, Silverland flinging herself into the telephone. 538 00:42:45.659 --> 00:42:50.820 Yeah, when the teleport can't operate without somebody operating it, but they still... 539 00:42:50.820 --> 00:42:51.719 But everything is going wrong. 540 00:42:51.780 --> 00:42:53.519 So there's always a chance. 541 00:42:53.579 --> 00:42:54.300 Yeah. 542 00:42:54.900 --> 00:43:05.519 But yeah, I mean, just seeing, I mean, we've seen the flight deck blown up lots of times throughout this show before, but we've never seen it blown up like they blow it up here. 543 00:43:05.579 --> 00:43:10.440 It's like everyone is so pleased to see the back of this set that they just go to town. 544 00:43:10.500 --> 00:43:16.739 And when they're when their control panels start to topple, you know things are really bad at that point. 545 00:43:16.800 --> 00:43:21.420 I thought they were supposed to wait until the actors had left to strike the set. 546 00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:30.239 Yeah, at that point, I was accepting that the ship actually was going to be destroyed at that point. 547 00:43:30.300 --> 00:43:38.940 I was convinced all the way through, even even the apparent death of Zen, I thought, yeah, but, you know, we saw this at the beginning of the series, they'll find a way. 548 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:51.659 And then, yeah, when it blew up, it was, yeah, really, really striking moment, and the way it blew up, which is, I think it's different from memory to way it blew up when they had that when Aurak made that premonition or prophecy sort of thing. 549 00:43:51.900 --> 00:43:59.880 But I think it made sense of it all being quoted in this kind of gunk and slime that it blew up differently. 550 00:43:59.940 --> 00:44:07.320 I imagined like just the whole hull and everything was now rotted and yeah, kind of perforated and everything like that. 551 00:44:07.380 --> 00:44:17.340 That bit where one of the tower struts breaks off and starts spinning away and just went, wow, okay, the BBC special effects are going for this. 552 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:21.840 And the actual explosion of the model is really fantastic. 553 00:44:22.019 --> 00:44:24.420 It does feel wet. 554 00:44:24.480 --> 00:44:28.920 It feels wet, like as it explodes, like it's sodden. 555 00:44:28.980 --> 00:44:30.360 Yeah. 556 00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:31.019 It's kind. 557 00:44:31.079 --> 00:44:33.360 Yeah, it's this kind of really organic kind of explosion. 558 00:44:33.420 --> 00:44:35.280 It's full of clay or something. 559 00:44:35.340 --> 00:44:42.000 It looked like bits of clay flying around or something or... better articulated than what I was trying to say, but yeah, that's better. 560 00:44:42.599 --> 00:44:44.340 It's true. 561 00:44:44.340 --> 00:45:04.079 And I think just a word for the model shots sort of throughout this episode, they'd be really good and particularly showing the slow decline of the liberator and that last model shot you see before the ship flies off where it's really rusty and misshapen and it just feels it's so wrong. 562 00:45:04.139 --> 00:45:07.019 It's really, really well done. 563 00:45:07.079 --> 00:45:07.920 I really like that. 564 00:45:07.980 --> 00:45:11.340 It's particularly gleaming white in the beginning as well. 565 00:45:11.400 --> 00:45:12.539 Yes, exactly. 566 00:45:12.599 --> 00:45:14.460 So, yeah, for your business as usual. 567 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:16.739 It is absolutely perfect right at the start. 568 00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:27.360 And so our final shot is magnificent where Tarrant is there going, it's going to be business as usual, we're going to get off this planet. 569 00:45:27.420 --> 00:45:28.440 Yes, good. 570 00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.840 And that's the last line because they're watching it on TV. 571 00:45:30.900 --> 00:45:32.519 They're watching the episode on TV. 572 00:45:32.579 --> 00:45:33.480 Yeah, like the rest of us. 573 00:45:33.539 --> 00:45:35.340 They're like, oh, that's a good effect. 574 00:45:36.059 --> 00:45:39.840 Backtracked before that, with that excellent scene. 575 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:47.519 The whole interplay with Serveland, which is like, oh, yeah, I've left a ship for you. 576 00:45:47.579 --> 00:45:49.079 Oh, yeah. 577 00:45:49.079 --> 00:45:49.380 Oh, yes. 578 00:45:49.739 --> 00:45:54.000 Did you, yeah, like, so you've got a way off the planet. 579 00:45:54.059 --> 00:45:57.000 When I say landed, I mean crash. 580 00:45:58.739 --> 00:46:02.880 It might get you where you want to go eventually. 581 00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:08.579 And for her, and, you know, again, I mean, she could have just shot them all. 582 00:46:08.639 --> 00:46:09.059 Why not? 583 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:10.260 Why doesn't she just shoot them? 584 00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:13.980 Because just that would just not be as, I don't know. 585 00:46:14.039 --> 00:46:15.179 It just... 586 00:46:15.179 --> 00:46:18.659 It'd be hard to bring them back next year after that. 587 00:46:19.500 --> 00:46:23.219 But it's the final humiliation from Serverland, isn't it? 588 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:35.820 But she's she's really finally defeated them and she's stranded them on an awful, awful planet in the middle of nowhere with no hope of redemption except maybe they could get. 589 00:46:35.880 --> 00:46:37.679 Yeah, maybe they could get this ship working. 590 00:46:37.739 --> 00:46:43.260 She doesn't know that they're going to have Aurak at that point or anything else like that. 591 00:46:43.320 --> 00:46:47.639 So it's just, um, she's she's won. basically. 592 00:46:47.699 --> 00:46:50.940 She's defeated them, left them stranded somewhere. 593 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:57.539 They'll never escape, and she's got the best ship in space, so even if they do, what are they going to do? 594 00:46:57.599 --> 00:46:59.280 Yeah, yeah. 595 00:46:59.340 --> 00:46:59.880 She finds. 596 00:46:59.940 --> 00:47:02.159 Yeah, that's more satisfying to her than having them. 597 00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:04.739 Yeah, leaving them alive to suffer. 598 00:47:04.800 --> 00:47:10.380 But it's just that moment where Terrence says, because Avon does his big speech of she's one. 599 00:47:11.159 --> 00:47:24.360 I gave her the liberator and just the way Tarrant turns around, almost sadly, and just says, no, we all came out losers because he knows that bit of information that Avon hasn't got at that point that she's not going to get away. 600 00:47:24.420 --> 00:47:25.739 Yeah, yeah. 601 00:47:27.179 --> 00:47:31.559 And yeah, and so, yeah, the final final line, it goes to Tarrant, doesn't it? 602 00:47:31.619 --> 00:47:32.400 There's a lot to do. 603 00:47:32.460 --> 00:47:36.659 But Darrow completely upstages it. 604 00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:42.059 All of the way I love the way they all file past Avon. 605 00:47:42.059 --> 00:47:52.260 And the only person who can look at him is Villa, who looks him right in the eye and then walks away as if to say, I know what you've done, you bastard. 606 00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:57.179 You got rid of my vault full of jewels. 607 00:47:57.420 --> 00:48:00.239 I used to buy my booze and drugs. 608 00:48:00.300 --> 00:48:02.099 All our lovely board games. 609 00:48:03.300 --> 00:48:09.539 My callbacks with all the my lock breaking machinery. 610 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:13.320 Our colour-coded anorax. 611 00:48:13.380 --> 00:48:16.079 Yeah, we're going to be stuck in these costumes forever. 612 00:48:16.139 --> 00:48:18.179 Jenna's old weaves. 613 00:48:20.219 --> 00:48:32.400 But the series ends with Avon walking away, looking miserable, and then the perfect Avon Smirk. 614 00:48:33.360 --> 00:48:51.119 I am really fascinated to see where it goes from here, given that all of their advantages, like the, presumably, I'm guessing there's no more teleport because there was, that was the only ship with that technology, so that was a huge edge that they had in terms of being able to infiltrate places and escape from places. 615 00:48:51.179 --> 00:48:53.639 The fastest. fair enough to assume that. 616 00:48:53.699 --> 00:48:54.659 Yeah. 617 00:48:54.659 --> 00:49:14.099 The best, fastest ship that, you know, allowed them to sort of, you know, fight the way or just get away quickly from situations that it's just Aurak, which obviously is the most powerful computer or whatever that they've that they've got left and their own cunning and ruthlessness and all the rest of it. 618 00:49:14.159 --> 00:49:15.599 So yeah, I'm fascinating to see. 619 00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:21.539 And I suppose if Servoland did manage to teleport, Terminus is the only place you could have gone. 620 00:49:21.599 --> 00:49:30.000 So, and there's only one ship on that planet, so, you know, there's maybe kind of battling for ownership of that as well. 621 00:49:30.059 --> 00:49:33.719 So, yeah, I can't wait to get stuck into the next series. 622 00:49:33.780 --> 00:49:37.260 Yeah, get you, Marmaduke Cussey. who it was? 623 00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.719 It was the director, the BBC one. 624 00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:40.440 Bill Cotton, I think. 625 00:49:40.500 --> 00:49:41.039 Bill Cotton. 626 00:49:41.099 --> 00:49:41.460 All right. 627 00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:42.179 Yeah. 628 00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:42.900 Yeah. 629 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:55.079 It was 18 months before the next series came on because, yeah, they had to start everything from scratch, build new sets, start open contract negotiations with the actors. because all the contracts. 630 00:49:55.079 --> 00:50:02.519 Maloney had moved on to another show, so he wasn't there to be producer, and so the hump was on for a new production team. 631 00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:04.980 So it sounds like something to do good to do a podcast about. 632 00:50:07.679 --> 00:50:09.960 Oh, and a new logo. 633 00:50:10.079 --> 00:50:12.539 Oh yeah, James, you're going to be busy. 634 00:50:13.320 --> 00:50:15.360 He said presumptively. 635 00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:17.940 I did it. 636 00:50:17.940 --> 00:50:19.739 I did it before I did the one. 637 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:20.460 You did, you did. 638 00:50:20.940 --> 00:50:22.679 You've already done it, haven't you? 639 00:50:22.739 --> 00:50:23.760 Four years ago, yeah. 640 00:50:24.599 --> 00:50:33.840 So, I guess the question is, if the series had ended here, would this have been a satisfying ending to Blake 7? 641 00:50:33.900 --> 00:50:36.659 Without spoilering the actual ending of Blake 7. 642 00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:41.340 Yes, we won't go there If you hadn't seen the actual ending. 643 00:50:41.400 --> 00:50:42.840 Like, Saichon's thing. 644 00:50:42.900 --> 00:50:45.719 I don't think so, but I think it's very in keeping with the show. 645 00:50:46.380 --> 00:51:04.860 Like the sort of, you know, like the show doesn't do sort of satisfaction or tying things up in a nice bowie, just kind of likes to leave things hanging and and for them not to be a perfect solution and the world to be pretty fucked up. 646 00:51:04.920 --> 00:51:09.719 Like, that's actually, this is a really Blake 7 ending in a way. 647 00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:18.420 It should have had them all playing that board game, uh, and then the camera sort of spinning around and then heading off into the ceiling. 648 00:51:18.420 --> 00:51:23.699 And then the enterprise, I mean, the, you know, they all laughed. 649 00:51:23.699 --> 00:51:25.440 Servalant has finally got her comeuppance. 650 00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:33.239 I bet Villa's disappointed she didn't grab the space chess. before leaving the flight deck. 651 00:51:34.320 --> 00:51:37.980 Well, he gets space rosé next year, so he'll be happy. 652 00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:50.820 But there's that thing where people watching it at the time, it would have just been builders the last in the series and because the BBC usually didn't bother to tell you whether there was going to be another series in the works. 653 00:51:50.880 --> 00:51:56.219 Anyway, like I remember some, it was, there's a perennial thing with Kangy and Lacey, which is one of my favourite shows when I was little. 654 00:51:56.280 --> 00:51:58.380 And they always just said on that. 655 00:51:58.440 --> 00:52:00.300 What's the last episode of Cagney and Lacy? 656 00:52:00.360 --> 00:52:03.179 And then maybe it would come back next year and maybe it wouldn't. 657 00:52:03.239 --> 00:52:08.039 And then there was contractual things about that going on because she's a whole other podcast. 658 00:52:08.099 --> 00:52:18.300 But, um, yeah, but yeah, I don't, I don't know if everyone sat down to watch it thinking this is definitely the last episode of Blake 7 or if they just watched, I knew it was the end of the series and it might or might not come back. 659 00:52:18.420 --> 00:52:22.679 But yeah, it definitely, it's a dot, dot, dot ending, isn't it? 660 00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.199 It has the potential to come back. 661 00:52:25.260 --> 00:52:25.679 Yeah. 662 00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:27.119 Yes, the best way to end it. 663 00:52:27.239 --> 00:52:29.460 But if it ended if it ended there, you'd be okay. 664 00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:30.300 You know? 665 00:52:30.360 --> 00:52:33.239 Yeah, they had a chance to do what they were going to do. 666 00:52:33.300 --> 00:52:38.159 Yeah, I was going to say if they were able to come back, say, 40 years later with a series of audio adventures. 667 00:52:38.219 --> 00:52:45.780 You would pick up from the moment they were on terminal and get them away and start new adventures from there, wouldn't you? 668 00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:50.219 Because there's enough potential to continue the series from there if you wanted to. 669 00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:53.579 Yeah, you got specific unanswered questions that you need to pick up from. 670 00:52:53.639 --> 00:52:56.699 Yeah. the end of Return of the Jedi or something and then coming back later. 671 00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:58.260 I think so. 672 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:01.019 And the Federation is pretty much defeated then, isn't it? 673 00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:08.340 Because from the beginning of the series, it's much more, it's much weakened and more, and scattered and Servoland's been holding it all together. 674 00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:31.500 So if you take that as Servoland's death, then I suppose what they ultimately set out to do, which was to destroy the Federation, then that has been achieved, because we know from, I can never remember episode titles, but the ones, the one where they went back to earth, that there was, there was a lot of rebellion on earth by this stage as well already when I went to a big country house and so everyone was having a dinner party. 675 00:53:31.559 --> 00:53:33.179 So, yeah. 676 00:53:33.239 --> 00:53:38.219 So I think certainly I kind of cut the head off the snake at that point, then you could you could read it as well. 677 00:53:38.280 --> 00:53:40.679 Ultimately, they have achieved what the series set out to do. 678 00:53:40.739 --> 00:53:42.539 We should replace... 679 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:51.119 Sorry, we should replace all the episode titles with Mark's recollection of what they might be called, such as Serverland's dinner party. 680 00:53:52.380 --> 00:53:54.360 The one with... 681 00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:57.420 Yeah, one with... 682 00:53:57.480 --> 00:54:03.480 But this is absolutely a good point because this is very much Serverland out on her own. 683 00:54:03.539 --> 00:54:05.400 There are no federation guards. 684 00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:09.000 There are no federation trappings in this place at all. 685 00:54:09.059 --> 00:54:21.059 And is this serverland having been maybe deposed and out finally to get the liberator so that she can get back to being in power again? 686 00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:22.079 We don't know. 687 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.599 There's not a lot of the backstory here. 688 00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:28.739 This might be months and months and months after Death Watch. 689 00:54:28.860 --> 00:54:30.900 We just don't know. 690 00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:36.480 Doesn't she say they've got federation scientists waiting to replicate the liberator, though? 691 00:54:36.539 --> 00:54:46.380 I assume they were just in different uniforms here so as not to tip off Avon or anybody that it was a Federation operation kind of thing. 692 00:54:46.440 --> 00:54:48.239 Maybe the weeks were part of that. 693 00:54:48.300 --> 00:54:50.519 Oh, if we're gonna dress up, I'm having a wig. 694 00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:54.599 That's the last line of the podcast. 695 00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:10.199 So, thank you very much for listening to us throughout series C. 696 00:55:10.260 --> 00:55:16.380 We'll be back next time for our season retrospective, looking back over the last year of Blake 7. 697 00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:18.719 Oh, come on, what's this? 698 00:55:18.780 --> 00:55:20.400 A phone call. 699 00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:22.320 Oh. 700 00:55:22.440 --> 00:55:27.059 Well, turns out, we've been renewed for another year unexpectedly. 701 00:55:27.119 --> 00:55:28.079 Hooray! 702 00:55:28.139 --> 00:55:29.400 Goodbye. 703 00:55:29.460 --> 00:55:30.360 Ta-ta. 704 00:55:30.420 --> 00:55:30.960 Goodbye. 705 00:55:31.019 --> 00:55:31.440 Goodbye. 706 00:55:31.500 --> 00:55:33.300 I am sorry. 707 00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:35.460 I have failed you. 708 00:55:44.579 --> 00:55:46.800 Switching to manual. 709 00:55:46.860 --> 00:55:48.900 Maximum power on all drives. 710 00:55:51.960 --> 00:55:53.820 Maximal power.