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Blakes 7 audio - parts 1-3 review
I've listened to the first three mini-episodes now. Listen here.
Mixed feelings
I like the overall feeling of the soundscape. I find it very easy to visualise the scenes in my head.
I like the voices. I think Jenna is the character who works least well for me. Mezin is good - dry and sarcastic. Avon feels very good, that dry edge is there perfectly. Blake works too, in spite of having a totally different accent from what my brain expects.
The story has had a few tweaks - that's to be expected, though I do think the memory-wipe was rushed over excessively fast. I wonder if newcommers will actually pick up what happened. On the other hand, I did like the idea of how Blake appearing to collaborate after the mind-wipe affected his followers - who either gave up or collaborated too.
The 'future' feels a little uneven. Nanocytes and frying pans don't fit easily together in a vision of a coherent world.
Mezin, the new character, a Federation officer, feels promising. I think she'll provide some gritty interaction.
We seem to have lost (at least on initial impressions) the vendetta between Travis and Blake. Which is all to the good. It always struck me as daft that Travis would go totally irrational over a man who caused him to lose an eye. He's a soldier; soldiers expect to get injured. They can hate the enemy, but I don't expect it to lead to personal vendettas and lack of all common sense. I'm hoping that we'll get a man who sees Blake as a challenge and acts intelligentally in his attempts to kill him.
I still can't decide if I like or dislike the lines of dialogue from the original series that are slipped in here and there. Sometimes they are in the mouth of the character that originally had them (like the judge sentencing Blake to a penal colony) and some have been given to someone else (Avon being the second-best computer hacker in the Federation). They're good lines, and in one way, it's nice to hear them again, but in other ways it can be a little disconcerting to hear the old among the new. All in all, I think I'd rather have them. There's some lines I'd really love to hear again and see what the new cast make of them, but many personal favourites will inevitably be missed.
I'm hoping that we'll get to know more about the Federation - maybe Mezin will give us a window into that world. It was a failing of the original series that we saw so little of what the Federation was like to the people who actually were a part of it.
Mixed feelings
I like the overall feeling of the soundscape. I find it very easy to visualise the scenes in my head.
I like the voices. I think Jenna is the character who works least well for me. Mezin is good - dry and sarcastic. Avon feels very good, that dry edge is there perfectly. Blake works too, in spite of having a totally different accent from what my brain expects.
The story has had a few tweaks - that's to be expected, though I do think the memory-wipe was rushed over excessively fast. I wonder if newcommers will actually pick up what happened. On the other hand, I did like the idea of how Blake appearing to collaborate after the mind-wipe affected his followers - who either gave up or collaborated too.
The 'future' feels a little uneven. Nanocytes and frying pans don't fit easily together in a vision of a coherent world.
Mezin, the new character, a Federation officer, feels promising. I think she'll provide some gritty interaction.
We seem to have lost (at least on initial impressions) the vendetta between Travis and Blake. Which is all to the good. It always struck me as daft that Travis would go totally irrational over a man who caused him to lose an eye. He's a soldier; soldiers expect to get injured. They can hate the enemy, but I don't expect it to lead to personal vendettas and lack of all common sense. I'm hoping that we'll get a man who sees Blake as a challenge and acts intelligentally in his attempts to kill him.
I still can't decide if I like or dislike the lines of dialogue from the original series that are slipped in here and there. Sometimes they are in the mouth of the character that originally had them (like the judge sentencing Blake to a penal colony) and some have been given to someone else (Avon being the second-best computer hacker in the Federation). They're good lines, and in one way, it's nice to hear them again, but in other ways it can be a little disconcerting to hear the old among the new. All in all, I think I'd rather have them. There's some lines I'd really love to hear again and see what the new cast make of them, but many personal favourites will inevitably be missed.
I'm hoping that we'll get to know more about the Federation - maybe Mezin will give us a window into that world. It was a failing of the original series that we saw so little of what the Federation was like to the people who actually were a part of it.
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Its also been nice to get a fairly favorable response from most people I know - and the negitive stuff has come from - well - where I would expect it - every fandom has its purists and they have a right to their views ..
Personally I plan to enjoy this on its own merits ...
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BTW - Thanks for your postings about Heroes just before it was on Sky. Persuaded me to try it from the beginning and I'm greatly enjoying it.
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Best thing about Heroes is it just keeps getting better and better (apart from some very minor hiccups). Episodes 17 and 19 in particular are just sooooo good - but for very different reasons.
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Regarding a couple of things you said...
The Travis/Blake vendetta - we haven't lost it, it just hasn't happened yet. As the story begins, Travis has two perfectly good eyes and only a professional dislike for Blake... And there's more of Mezin to come, along with visits to some Federation planets and a view of life under a kleptocracy.
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'Kleptocracy' I like that word.