Rejoice!

[kerravonsen]

Yes, the stories are here! Actually, they aren't here, they're here.

As I said before, I'm keeping the authorship secret for about a week (well, I'll probably do the changeover on the weekend) and then reveal the authors.

And now, you should comment here on them. I have started threads for each story, so you should be able to comment separately on separate stories -- see below.

Comments

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

I've not ever watched Blake's 7, so I what I know about plot and character has been strictly picked-up-by-the-wayside...but I liked this. The format, with tiny thoughtful interludes between scholarly dissection, worked very well. And I found a great deal of sympathy for Avon, particularly in the last line.

*ponders getting ahold of Blake's 7 tapes*

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[kerravonsen]

Of course, now you've had the ending of the series spoiled... still worth watching, though.
Now that the DVDs are out for the first two seasons, you might even manage to inherit someones tapes -- though I guess that would be less likely in the US.

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Like kerravonsen says, definitely worth watching. Even if it takes some effort to hunt up the tapes. :)

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

Any thoughts about lists or sites where I could try looking for tapes?

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Well, I know Amazon has the tapes, and if you can play R2 discs -- I'm not sure where you are -- the first two seasons are out on DVD. If that's out of your price range and you are in North America, I've been know to be persuaded to make copies for people. :)

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

oooo. I checked Amazon for DVDs (I'm in California) and came up empty, but did not check for tapes. Will do so now!

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[kerravonsen]

For the DVDs, you would have to (a) be sure that you had a multi-region DVD player and (b) probably buy them directly from the UK, somewhere like sendit.com

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Or http://www.play.com - who are very cheap and I think will despatch to the US.

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hey, I guess I'm allowed to admit to writing this thing now. :)

Anyway, I'm glad you liked it. I'm actually very surprised (but not at all displeased) to know that it works even for someone who's not really familiar with the show. Given that I was writing for snowgrouse, who I know is a huge fan, I didn't make much of an attempt to make it widely accessible.

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

well...anything academic or pretending to be instantly grabs my interest (and I tend to assume that historians don't know a lot, so you told me much by what was not said). :-)

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I confess that I avoiding reading it, on the grounds that it was (1) about a fandom that I'm not very familiar with, (2) longish, and (3) looked rather spoilerful. Maybe I should go back and read it now.

Re: Blake's 7: Excerpts from Chapter 23 of "Blake's Rebels: A Historical Perspective", with Interlud

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Well, it still is all three. :)

(At least, by my standards it's longish, anyway...)