Bibliogryphon

The universe missed another piece of serendipity with the NZ test win over England this week.

Jack Warner says he fears for his life so I think next year there may be a significant increase in the number of FIFA associated people picked on the DDP. Unless they bribe us to keep their names off.

Didn't know Tanith had gone. She was my favourite B7 writer after Chris Boucher. When "Wife in Space" was blogging B7 last year, some of the site's readers tried to find out about Mr Steed and there isn't much information on him at all. In fact, the suggestion was raised that "Ben Steed" might even be a nom de plume for another writer, given the controversial nature of his scripts (the perceived sexism). Perceived? They are atrocious. "Give her to your men" On his imdb page he has credits for a lot of other programmes such as CATS eyes, Crown Court, Dramarama & Coronation Street. It is hard to tell if Kairos is a parody or serious. Remember the rock "distorts and exaggerates things" so the hyper-masculine male character may be a parody. If so, it was still badly written and ineffective. Power is a bit ambiguous too since it says that a war betwen the sexes leads nowhere and all of the male tribe were portrayed as being fairly dopey so perhaps there is a bit more depth there in the script than most people realise. Whatever his intentions, the overall execution of his scripts was terrible though. I would rank Moloch along with The Web and Dawn of the Gods as being the three worst episodes. All of Allan Prior's episodes are fairly wretched, apart from Volcano. I like Horizon but agree that Animals would only just be outside that bottom three. Yes, Horizon's has a good premise and arguably more topic than ever in this day and age but it doesn't quite work for me. BTW, I have recently purchased Paul Darrow's Lucifer trilogy. I haven't read them yet but I have briefly skimmed through. They read very much like scripts so I suspect they have their genesis in the sequel trilogy/mini-series project that Darrow and Andrew Mark Sewell were trying to get off the ground some years ago as "Blake's 7 Enterprises." According to the Paul Darrow Fan Club, only the initial premise (Avon being trapped on an island a la Napoleon on Elba) came from Terry Nation's idea for a sequel story. The rest of it came from chats between Darrow and Nation before that latter died but a sub-plot about China emerging as a global power was all Darrow's own idea. As I said, I have only read a few extracts at this stage but parts of it are very florid. Other parts are quite good but it is very much written by an actor with an eye for the dramatic. There is also a lot of graphic violence in it but on one level that is good since Blake's 7 is basically about evil people doing evil things to even more evil people so emphasising the violence and ruthlessness of the characters even more than they could on the television show could emphasise the moral vacuum they all live in. After all, the only really "nice" and moral character in the series, Bran Foster, dies half way through the first episode... BTW, even the title of the series, "Lucifer", is meant to highlight how morally bankrupt the characters in the B7 universe are. Darrow himself has noted in interviews that we are meant to be left guessing who the Lucifer character is: is it Servalan? Is it Travis' daughter? Is it the Chinese ruler? Is it Avon? They are all candidates for the title of fallen angel. I did read Darrow's book Avon: A Terrible Aspect which was essentially Avon's back story. It was never published in the UK but I managed to get a US import it was comeptently written and ends as the series begins which left me wanting to see better adaptations of the series which could be fleshed out. If you read Trevor Hoyle's adaptations who get glimpses of how the characters were developed by the actors particularly the first one which seems to have been writted from scripts rather than what was transmitted. I always thought that the Avon/Cally relationship was interesting she being almost his conscience and after her death he descends into his obsession with Blake which leads to the final confrontation.

Toying with puns for this one (when it happens) Helmut Cold or Kohl in the Ground?

Just put this out there on twitter and someone at a B7 Fanzine account confirmed that Ben Steed is no longer alive. So even if Masters & Davis are alive there are more living contributors to Star Trek (TOS) than to Blake's 7. Despite there being a ten year gap between transmission. Although because Terry Nation and Chris Boucher wrote so much a smaller pool of writers was used. I stopped when I got to 7 Star Trek writers.

Didn't know Tanith had gone. She was my favourite B7 writer after Chris Boucher. When "Wife in Space" was blogging B7 last year, some of the site's readers tried to find out about Mr Steed and there isn't much information on him at all. In fact, the suggestion was raised that "Ben Steed" might even be a nom de plume for another writer, given the controversial nature of his scripts (the perceived sexism). Perceived? They are atrocious. "Give her to your men" On his imdb page he has credits for a lot of other programmes such as CATS eyes, Crown Court, Dramarama & Coronation Street. It is hard to tell if Kairos is a parody or serious. Remember the rock "distorts and exaggerates things" so the hyper-masculine male character may be a parody. If so, it was still badly written and ineffective. Power is a bit ambiguous too since it says that a war betwen the sexes leads nowhere and all of the male tribe were portrayed as being fairly dopey so perhaps there is a bit more depth there in the script than most people realise. Whatever his intentions, the overall execution of his scripts was terrible though. I would rank Moloch along with The Web and Dawn of the Gods as being the three worst episodes. All of Allan Prior's episodes are fairly wretched, apart from Volcano. I like Horizon but agree that Animals would only just be outside that bottom three.

Indeed you do but I am worrying the first by-election may end up being called before the start of the game. Though if legal proceedings are involved it may drag it out a bit. Is it too late to submit a team ? 30th June was the deadline the_engineer, still time. Yes please do and there are more MPs not selected than selected so plenty of possible uniques. I am itching to share all the statistics and quirks but don't want to disadvantage anyone. I will just have to wait until the end of the month.

The fact that this has been released now after three weeks might suggest they are preparing everyone for the end.

One thing that I am enjoying is see the constituency names next to the Politician. Margaret Hodge - Barking

Here is the same article from an English language site

Just put this out there on twitter and someone at a B7 Fanzine account confirmed that Ben Steed is no longer alive.

There is sometimes a nice warm feeling that can be obtained by finding a defunct thread and bringing it back to life.

Didn't know Tanith had gone. She was my favourite B7 writer after Chris Boucher. When "Wife in Space" was blogging B7 last year, some of the site's readers tried to find out about Mr Steed and there isn't much information on him at all. In fact, the suggestion was raised that "Ben Steed" might even be a nom de plume for another writer, given the controversial nature of his scripts (the perceived sexism). Perceived? They are atrocious. "Give her to your men" On his imdb page he has credits for a lot of other programmes such as CATS eyes, Crown Court, Dramarama & Coronation Street. It is hard to tell if Kairos is a parody or serious. Remember the rock "distorts and exaggerates things" so the hyper-masculine male character may be a parody. If so, it was still badly written and ineffective. Power is a bit ambiguous too since it says that a war betwen the sexes leads nowhere and all of the male tribe were portrayed as being fairly dopey so perhaps there is a bit more depth there in the script than most people realise. Whatever his intentions, the overall execution of his scripts was terrible though. I would rank Moloch along with The Web and Dawn of the Gods as being the three worst episodes.

He was the sort of politician who 'ordinary' people could relate to. I was always a bit suspicious about Menzies Campbell motives and role in his removal as leader. This seemed to be more about his reputation internally within the party rather than what the electorate thought of him. He never recriminated publically though. A man of integrity. I am put in mind of John Whittingdale's comments about FIFA "Shocked, but not surprised" Sad day.

Or in her case unfamous.

Indeed you do but I am worrying the first by-election may end up being called before the start of the game. Though if legal proceedings are involved it may drag it out a bit.

David Lodge (80) is complaining of diminishing creativity in old age. May not write another novel.

That's a bit unfair on someone who genuinely was a close friend and nothing more! Assumptions can be dangerous - I once knew two elderly ladies who lived together, whom I assumed to be a lesbian couple. Turned out they were sisters. When I was growing up in the Seventies and Eighties there were a number of elderly spinsters who lived together but in many cases these were close friends who had lost fiances during the war and never entered into other relationships.

Didn't know Tanith had gone. She was my favourite B7 writer after Chris Boucher. When "Wife in Space" was blogging B7 last year, some of the site's readers tried to find out about Mr Steed and there isn't much information on him at all. In fact, the suggestion was raised that "Ben Steed" might even be a nom de plume for another writer, given the controversial nature of his scripts (the perceived sexism). Perceived? They are atrocious. "Give her to your men" On his imdb page he has credits for a lot of other programmes such as CATS eyes, Crown Court, Dramarama & Coronation Street.

If you have not yet submitted a team but intend to could you let me know either here or in the PM. Many thanks. Database filled with all eight teams (although one team needs a replacement) Everyone who has submitted a team already should have had a reply to their DM. Apart from Deathray who was happy to share his team on the forum.

Fair play to whoever took the decision to include him. I was one of the neigh sayers who thought that this was a dud pick like Jake Roberts. I still think we are on track for double figures this year.

With the sad death of Tanith Lee I thought about how many writers for Blake's 7 were still alive. Terry Nation wrote all of the first series himself but during series 2 other writers started contributing. But it is not all plain sailing. There are three writers who are definitely still alive Chris Boucher James Follett Trevor Hoyle but I cannot find any information about another three Simon Masters Ben Steed Colin Davis Can anyone help?

Even my mum won't watch that and she loves all that shit. The first series was a lot better. Because we had enjoyed Merlin awaited Atlantis quite eagerly. We only managed to make it through four episodes before giving up.

Er... First Lady? That would be Nancy.

So Barbara Bush is now the oldest living second lady.