Firefly and Blake 7 Parallels

POSTED BY: qino
UPDATED: Thursday, June 1, 2006 03:15
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LIVLASS

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:00 PM

tarrant could be simon, all ideals and good looks. soolin and jayne, yeah, they were first looking for money and got suckered in. i would say wash and villa, more than the computers. altho villa wasn't a pilot, he DID have an overactive libedo. as for servalan, ... hello?! the operative! could also be travis. yeah, travis. he was single minded and just wanted them dead. servalan wanted to play cat and mouse.

QINO

Thursday, June 1, 2006 2:54 AM

Wow, so many good replies I’m not sure I know where to start but this is as good as any…

Book and Gan: Book had a hidden past (presumably military) but was now quite the pacifist, Gan was restrained by a collar device (if I recall) which would kill him if he killed and also suggested a dark past but both survived their series with out taking any lives but causing a great deal of damage and distraction to those who were out to harm the crew.

I didn’t mean to forget any of the other characters like Jenna and Tristan and Villa but B7 had such a large group that kept coming and going and dying compared to Firefly which didn’t loose anyone until the movie (hope that doesn’t spoil it for any newbies!). The other most interesting part was how the traits of one character in B7 were shifted into at least two people in Firefly and vice versa. Jayne is the best example, willing to kill and betray if it suited him and was also not the bright one on the crew but was definitely a source of info regarding weapons and thieving. Avon had the killing and betrayal down pat but was easily smarter than everyone else except Orac. Vila was the professional thief but was too much of a coward to ever be useful in a fight. These B7 characters also overlap with other Firefly members; Malcolm was a decent thief in his own right but was also not shy about picking a fight or using guns when needed. Someone also mentioned that River was definitely the smartest (no argument here) but Avon was not hobbled by morality or psychosis, and Orac was simply a very smart computer.

The more I think about it Simonwho was right in that Firefly was very much a series in the model of B7 brought up to modern times, a mismatched group, on the run, outside the law and fighting to stay free, alive and away from the big bad ‘Government’.

But a final note lest anyone consider that I think B7 was really the progenitor of Firefly, Blake 7 was by and large far simpler and campier than Firefly and had a number of episodes that really were a waste of time. But like Firefly, B7 did have several very memorable episodes that explored how to tell great stories within a Sci-Fi setting and that may be the only reason anyone still cares that B7 was made.

EAC

RMMC

Thursday, June 1, 2006 3:15 AM

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But a final note lest anyone consider that I think B7 was really the progenitor of Firefly, Blake 7 was by and large far simpler and campier than Firefly and had a number of episodes that really were a waste of time.

Yeah, I won't mention 'Gold' or 'Sand' here, okay?

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But like Firefly, B7 did have several very memorable episodes that explored how to tell great stories within a Sci-Fi setting and that may be the only reason anyone still cares that B7 was made.

It's the first show I know of that let one of the main characters go dangerously insane during the course of it. I've seen it happen since, like in Farscape, but not before.

Thanks for the nifty thread!

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RMMC

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