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Maximum Power podcast – Blake’s 7 – Sarcophagus

H E Cooper — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 20:52:58 +0000

Maximum Power reaches Series C of Blake’s 7 and I stepped up to discuss all the wonderful weirdness of Sarcophagus. It’s an episode that’s grown on me the more I’ve thought about it and I highly enjoyed rewatching it (multiple times!) in preparation for the podcast. My Blake’s 7 blog posts were all largely …

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Guide to Blake’s 7 Locations – Yorkshire

H E Cooper — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 15:29:33 +0000

If you are considering a trip to Yorkshire to check out some Blake’s 7 filming locations, here’s a guide for those without teleport bracelets that includes the important stuff, like where to park, grab a bite to eat and the nearest toilets. This guide does presume you have access to a car as public transport …

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The Federation’s Most Wanted – A Blake’s 7 podcast

H E Cooper — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 10:32:41 +0000

ThePreacher711 has launched this new podcast series to ‘Seek, Locate & Interview Blake’s 7 fans from across the community’. One of the greatest joys of writing my Blake’s 7 blogs was that it helped to connect me with the rest of Blake’s 7 fandom. I now know there are plenty of fellow fans out there …

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Maximum Power podcast – Blake’s 7 – Hostage

H E Cooper — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:57:43 +0000

The posts on this blog are evidence of my huge love for Blake’s 7, so I was delighted when Series A of Maximum Power launched. For me, the podcast has the right balance of a fondness for the show that also enables its fans to gently rib it when it falls short. There is an appreciation that …

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Blake’s 7 – Series C alternative episode order

H E Cooper — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 21:18:54 +0000

Since finishing Blake’s 7, I’ve been enjoying Tim Dickinson’s Watching Blake’s 7 blog and his post on Sarcophagus mulls on a rejigged episode order for Series C. “I did wonder what would happen if this was the penultimate episode of season C. It felt like a late series episode. A coda. A summing up of …

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Blake’s 7 – Blake

H E Cooper — Fri, 15 Jan 2021 17:48:25 +0000

Looking for the start of Blake’s 7? The Way Back It’s been 19 months since I sat down with The Way Back. That’s a relatively long time to spend, almost non-stop, with a series and its characters. They have lived in my head between episodes, between writing these blogs, between doodling them in notebooks, and …

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Blake’s 7 – Warlord

H E Cooper — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:29:55 +0000

After realising I may never entirely recover from Orbit, I decided I was going to have to press on with Warlord eventually. The trauma was one reason holding me back, but I also know I’m nearing the end and I don’t want there to be no more new episodes of Blake’s 7 for me. The …

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Blake’s 7 – Orbit

H E Cooper — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 18:50:29 +0000

I had known there was another episode by Robert Holmes to come and I needed him to redeem himself after Traitor let me down. The word ‘enjoyed’ feels ill-suited for Orbit because it left me disturbingly shocked. Its final act has haunted me and the execution was utterly brilliant. A complete aside, but I loved …

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Blake’s 7 – Gold

H E Cooper — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 17:38:01 +0000

By the start of Gold, no one on the Scorpio seems to care anymore that Tarrant shagged their mortal enemy and I was intrigued by some viewers’ suggestions that the sand in Sand had influenced him and Servalan. Maybe the rest of the crew came to think this too, or perhaps they all decided that …

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Blake’s 7 – Sand

H E Cooper — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 17:52:45 +0000

After a couple of debuts, Blake’s 7 is back to a proven writer with Sand penned by Tanith Lee. Despite needing to watch Series C’s Sarcophagus twice to understand much of what was happening, I had enjoyed it for being so interesting and different. Sand would provide something equally weird. I like that Tanith Lee …

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