There's occasional slash on the comm - I don't think it's possible to find anywhere Blake/Avon free in this fandom, but it tends mainly to fun Vila-Avon fics, and Avon/Cally, and just generally ficlet-challenge nonsense, so I feel fairly at home there.
I had watched nearly all his DW eps before I ever got near B7, so it amused me to count the cliches as they went - Orac got the highest number in one episode, I seem to recall. (And the clams: squidgy things in tunnels.) Yes, people claim a lot of Genesis was down to Robert Holmes (oh, and David Maloney... B7/DW is so incestuous!), but the Terry Nation cliches are much too evident for it too have been more than tweaking. And the clams - squidgy mutated things in tunnels. See Orac. :-D Actually, to be fair, Terry Nation, can be very, very good - he just seems to stop trying at some points. And he's not Chris Boucher. (I want to find out about Star Cops one day, too. It's a crying shame that he doesn't seem to have written anything for TV since.) Also, the thing is, as editor, there's quite a lot of his snarkage and stuff in some of the Nation episodes, particularly towards the end of S1. (There's definitely one where TN's script must have fallen short, because there's suddenly a random sub-plot that is very reminiscent of one element of Image of the Fendahl. It's the one with Julian Glover, and Gan's chip going mad...)
Um... Let's hope curuchamion doesn't mind us hi-jacking the thread. :-)
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Date: 2010-08-04 08:12 pm (UTC)I had watched nearly all his DW eps before I ever got near B7, so it amused me to count the cliches as they went - Orac got the highest number in one episode, I seem to recall. (And the clams: squidgy things in tunnels.) Yes, people claim a lot of Genesis was down to Robert Holmes (oh, and David Maloney... B7/DW is so incestuous!), but the Terry Nation cliches are much too evident for it too have been more than tweaking. And the clams - squidgy mutated things in tunnels. See Orac. :-D Actually, to be fair, Terry Nation, can be very, very good - he just seems to stop trying at some points. And he's not Chris Boucher. (I want to find out about Star Cops one day, too. It's a crying shame that he doesn't seem to have written anything for TV since.) Also, the thing is, as editor, there's quite a lot of his snarkage and stuff in some of the Nation episodes, particularly towards the end of S1. (There's definitely one where TN's script must have fallen short, because there's suddenly a random sub-plot that is very reminiscent of one element of Image of the Fendahl. It's the one with Julian Glover, and Gan's chip going mad...)
Um... Let's hope