Comments on: Blake’s 7 – Sarcophagus https://visualmutterings.com/blakes-7-sarcophagus Archive television thoughts Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 By: AndrewP https://visualmutterings.com/blakes-7-sarcophagus#comment-108 Sat, 13 Jun 2020 06:57:36 +0000 http://visualmutterings.com/?p=622#comment-108 This is *still* probably my favourite episode of the series… and your comments do echo my original reactions to seeing it back in 1980 and thinking “What on earth is this?” Revisiting it again and again, I admire the freshness and depth which is brought to it by a writer who was inexperienced with television… and whose inexperience therefore allowed something really different to be created. The direction is also terrific – the increasingly darkened flight deck (and the relief when – like daybreak – the lighting is restored) is wonderful.

But it’s a good question for a medium which – at the time – was ‘instant art’: does a programme need to work on a single viewing? I mean, I love this still after 40 years, but I was lucky enough to grab the 1981 repeat on Betamax and savour it again and again… and again…

Thanks for this blog – it’s a continual treat! 🙂

All the best

Andrew

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