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  • Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
  • Join us as we look into what life would be like aboard the guerrilla warrior's dream ship, The Liberator!
    In a future where humanity has spread itself amongst the stars, only to be dominated by an oppressive and frankly psychotic Terran Federation, it doesn’t take a hero to see the need to escape t o the stars. For the majority of the population not dosed with an array of sedatives and designer drugs designed to make you more compliant, a trip off world will likely mean a trip on board a Federation starship to some outer colony to mine raw materials, if you live long enough to get there anyway.
    But deep in the void, another force grows in strength and curiosity. The computer-enthralled subjects of The System, and their fleet of highly advanced spaceships. One such craft was known as Deep Space Vehicle 2, a ship alien in concept, and even more alien in design. Ownership of such a vessel may just have the influence and power to turn the tide against humanity’s oppressors.. but what would it be like to live there?
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    All clips taken from Blake's 7 (plus some Star Trek TNG).
    For all things Blake's 7, get yourself over to Horizon, the official Blake's 7 fan club right ruddy here: www.blakes7onl...
    Likewise, order yourself a technical manual here: www.ebay.co.uk...
    Written, presented and hosted by Adam Tyler
    Music from Epidemic Sound, Production Crate et al.
    tomgon3d (Wireframe 3D animation) - tomgon.de
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    Life Aboard is a series dedicated to examining what it would be like to live, work and serve aboard some of science fiction's most notorious spaceships. Forget the laser cannons, the made up technobabble and let's ask ourselves what the important questions are - how's breakfast, and where do I sleep?

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  • @noakj006
    @noakj006 Год назад +96

    I’ve been watching Blake’s 7 for the first time recently and any sci-fi fans out there should watch it!

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +10

      Absolutely!

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад +6

      Welcome aboard. Glad you're loving Blake's 7. Who are your favourite characters? 😊

    • @derekmcmanus8615
      @derekmcmanus8615 Год назад +5

      Weak special effects but superb acting and storytelling

    • @dogwalker666
      @dogwalker666 Год назад +6

      Loved it since I was a kid, Love the big finish audio drama too,

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад +5

      @@dogwalker666 The last one with Paul Darrow in it made me well up.

  • @anticat900
    @anticat900 Год назад +10

    Despite its set failings, this is my favourite sci fi show ever, before this everything was lovely and nice, but with this federation it was bent, corrupt and controlling - so something to fight against - which they did in the best spaceship ever designed 🙂

  • @gordiebrooks
    @gordiebrooks Год назад +21

    The worse thing they ever did in Blake’s 7 was to destroy the Liberator !!

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 Год назад +5

      AND remove Blake and replace crew members after season 2.

    • @lightworker5456
      @lightworker5456 Год назад +3

      I totally agree. It's the best ship ever, in any Sci-fi show.

    • @Chuckf66
      @Chuckf66 7 месяцев назад +3

      Zen's "I...have failed...you...." was heartbreaking.

    • @patdbean
      @patdbean 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@Emdee5632but the actor wanted to leave. So unless you recast, like they did with Travis.

    • @stevegordon5689
      @stevegordon5689 5 месяцев назад

      Then that blatant effort to make the new ship look like the millennium falcon!

  • @jamespeters2859
    @jamespeters2859 Год назад +10

    I always liked the sound Orac makes when they turn him off.
    Brilliant show. Grew up to this classic.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      It always sounds so disappointed!

    • @simonjones7727
      @simonjones7727 Год назад +2

      Like the little moue of displeasure Kenneth Williams might utter before saying "Stop Messing About"

    • @jamespeters2859
      @jamespeters2859 Год назад

      @@simonjones7727 Wow, what a beautiful observation. Yes exactly like that.
      👌🏻💚🥰

  • @sevenodonata
    @sevenodonata Год назад +13

    As a young child I always felt the Liberator was flying around "backwards" 😂

  • @RX552VBK
    @RX552VBK Год назад +15

    Blake's 7 is one of my all time favorite British SF shows (next to Space:1999 and UFO). It wasn't the technical BG design or EFX that did it for me--it was the wonderful performances and characterizations created by the legendary Terry Nation. I became a HUGE fan years after it's original premiere on UK TV; it cameto American TV in the late 80's--I first saw on ch. 13 PBS in NYC in '89 (alsowith another Nation favorite of mine Star Cops). It reminded so much of my first Doc Who episodes with Tom Baker--I fell for the characters and the premise immediately. Thank you for making this look at one of the coolest, most powerful space ship in the annals of SF tv (I'd pit "Libby" against the Enterprise-D anytime). Great job, mate!

    • @larrytinsley4247
      @larrytinsley4247 9 месяцев назад +1

      I just finished it man that ending got me right in the feels im waffling between it was a great tragic end to a great story or wa it mishandled by the producer they replaced Terry with please reply I need closure if its a great ending I gotta find some way to accept it like the Iliad and if not I can write a different end to it in my head

    • @andrewhickton3189
      @andrewhickton3189 4 месяца назад +1


      Try reading Paul Darrow autobiography "your him aren't you" he pointed out, that Avon isn't seen getting killed at the end. He even tried to get a sequel made.

    • @RX552VBK
      @RX552VBK 4 месяца назад

      @@andrewhickton3189 I will check out Mr. Darrow's bio. It would've been spectacular if he'd gotten a sequel series off the ground!

    • @MichaelSaunders-y2m
      @MichaelSaunders-y2m 2 месяца назад

      Cally❤

  • @leegriffin1584
    @leegriffin1584 Год назад +80

    I love the way the flight deck is pretty much the Millennium Falcon!
    Of all the deaths in B7, the end of The Liberator hurt the most.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +14

      “She’s starting to break up..” I deliberately left out the narration of The Liberator’s death.. it’s heartbreaking!

    • @stevekitt52
      @stevekitt52 Год назад +7

      I felt the same sadness when the Liberator ended as when the Enterprise met it's fate in ST3.

    • @GnrMilligan
      @GnrMilligan Год назад +9

      @@spacedoutgame Zen saying " I've failed you" as he dies was the really tragic part of Liberators death. I suspect it had something to do with the show's death too!

    • @GnrMilligan
      @GnrMilligan Год назад +2

      And at 5.06 in the bottom left corner there's a what I assume to be a table and chair, that looks suspiciously like The Enterprise.

    • @leepshin
      @leepshin Год назад +10

      ​@@spacedoutgameZen and the Liberator were one of a kind as was Orac. I was never able to accept Scorpio and Slave. To me they were poor substitutes for a far far superior space vehicle and computer. If there's ever to be a reboot, the Liberators flight deck and teleport area "MUST" be rebuilt exactly as they appeared all those years ago as the designs are like a certain "black Trans-Am".......timeless. Zen's visual interface is also a complete work of art. The BBC designers really outdid themselves when they created the Liberator.

  • @psammiad
    @psammiad Год назад +10

    Zen being able to read "brainwave scans" is a great idea that's never really used. There's so much potential to the setting that was never really explored.

  • @djalice
    @djalice 4 дня назад

    The Liberator is may favourite spaceship design. Watched B7 as a child and loved it as it was quite revolutionary for its time. Killing off main characters regularly kept you on the edge of your seat as you knew known was safe.

  • @simonjones7727
    @simonjones7727 Год назад +12

    Almost everything about the Liberator is naff, and yet somehow I cannot imagine anything I would rather zip around the galaxy in. I think it is among the most "domestic" of space vehicles somehow and its aesthetic, which is perhaps most akin to the top floor coffee shop in a mid 70s provincial department store in the UK, is somehow oddly appealing (even if I do get an odd urge to go shopping for loose covers after watching some B7 episodes!)

    • @wbbartlett
      @wbbartlett Год назад +5

      The Deep Space Vehicle "British Home Stores"

  • @RobbieR-x6c
    @RobbieR-x6c 2 месяца назад +3

    The Liberator was one of the best, most original space ship designs ever!!

  • @Nellyontheland
    @Nellyontheland Год назад +4

    With reference to the I.T. Crowd...
    ...ORAC is the Internet.

    • @susanyoung6579
      @susanyoung6579 6 месяцев назад

      Nevermind the backdoor built into every CPU...

  • @BaseDeltaZero1972
    @BaseDeltaZero1972 Год назад +5

    As a child of the 70's, I never got into this - Dr Who, Space 1999 and the like were more my scene. My older cousin however absolutely loved it.
    Everything I know and hear about this series tells me it was aimed at an older more sophisticated viewer than the average 7 or 8 year old of the time - I can understand why it is so respected among certain age groups. It must have felt like somebody was taking Sci-Fi seriously and that it wasn't just for kids.

  • @Aileil
    @Aileil 11 месяцев назад +1

    This is a fantastic description of the Liberator's capabilities and equipment. I particularly enjoyed your contextualizing it's original purpose vs. the use to which we general see it being put.

  • @gamerhoagy5998
    @gamerhoagy5998 Год назад +2

    I'm glad I'm not the only one that noticed that, when Blake gives his gun to Jenna so that she's holding two.

  • @glyndaley5844
    @glyndaley5844 Год назад +8

    The irony wes AVON was non stop trying to get the Liberator when BLAKE was in charge then by season 3 he got his wish then flys her into a red acid cloud in search of BLAKE with Catastrophic consequences.

  • @CharlesMarlow1898
    @CharlesMarlow1898 Год назад +7

    If I had to pick my favouite sf tv series at this moment it'd be Blakes 7. It's amazing. Thanks for covering it. Space Out, have you watched The Starlost. It gets terribly panned on thee internets but I think it's quite amazing and there's tonnes of later sf media that've borrowed from it. Oh, I've two Corgi Liberators!

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      I gotta say.. having recently watched it all, I have to agree. You don’t get the same sort of interplay between characters anywhere else!
      Not heard of Starlost? Will take a look! Always love to see what inspired later creators

    • @CharlesMarlow1898
      @CharlesMarlow1898 Год назад

      @@spacedoutgame It's 'The Starlost' it might be on YT? I've got it on DVD.

  • @peterharrington8709
    @peterharrington8709 Год назад +3

    Tbh I had no understanding of any of this "System" stuff, or how Orac and Zen worked when I watched this as a kid. I thought it was just sci fi Robin Hood. Terry Nation had one hell of an imagination.

  • @Laszlo34
    @Laszlo34 Год назад +1

    Yay!! One of the most awesome and forgotten series!! Okay...to be fair, I really didn't like the ending, but then I can't think of a better one (b'cuz I'm not smart), so I won't go cutting up the show for it. I'd gladly watch the whole thing again!!

  • @Allegheny500
    @Allegheny500 Год назад +2

    I watched this series, twice, and I only just noticed the screen using Star Trek deltas to mark the federation ships. A dig at the American series that proceeded it no doubt.

  • @patdbean
    @patdbean Год назад +2

    11:36 like modern fly by wire systems in fighter aurcraft today.

  • @legor2sw906
    @legor2sw906 Год назад +2

    Thanks for a great video. B7 is one of my all time favourite shows. Looking forward to watching more of your content ❤

  • @delavalmilker
    @delavalmilker Месяц назад

    Great video about a great series. And wonderfully detailed analysis of one of its main characters: the Liberator spaceship.

  • @Tigermoto
    @Tigermoto Год назад +6

    You've only gone and done it. It was a very long way at Standard by two, but so far it looks to have been a lot of work.
    Many thanks for this. Blakes 7 was something i watched with my dad as a kid and I loved it! So much so i still have it.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +3

      This was a mammoth task - and the first one I had to start from scratch with (I think I only knew the ending!).
      Hope it does the show justice for you! I absolutely loved watching it all!

    • @Tigermoto
      @Tigermoto Год назад

      @@spacedoutgame Finished it now, and i think you hit the nail on the head, fast, powerful, incredibly advanced, not too overpowered that you can forget strategic planning, and when it comes right down to it... Not yours, nor designed to make you comfortable.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      @@Tigermoto Excellent! I do wish there was more of a focus on the alien nature of the ship - I suspect if it were ever to be remade, the mystery of the original owners would be played on a lot more

  • @octaviusfooks7194
    @octaviusfooks7194 Год назад +5

    Surely Liberator’s top speed is Standard by 20

    • @susanyoung6579
      @susanyoung6579 6 месяцев назад

      Not to mention its time distort capabilities.

  • @macsnafu
    @macsnafu Год назад +1

    This was a great idea for a video. Thanks!

  • @misterangel8486
    @misterangel8486 Год назад +1

    You deserve a lot bigger audience for these very entertaining videos😎👌

  • @fuzzlemacfuzz
    @fuzzlemacfuzz Год назад +5

    My mum had the disco version of the theme music on vinyl.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      It’s a banger!

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад

      I did a remix myself. Plan to use it for a Blake's 7 podcast 😁

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      @@Problembeing Awesome! Let me know when you get started - I’d love to hear it 😁

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад

      @@spacedoutgame It was used before for my friends over at The Spacebook :) ruclips.net/video/zjNnzcmHITI/видео.html

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    You're awesome for reviewing Blake's 7.

  • @akakjb
    @akakjb Год назад +3

    BRILLIANT!
    Didn't see how long it was before I started playing but once I got into it, I didn't care1 Nlow there's some high praise for a video.
    Looks like everyone else noticed that the flight deck was the Millennium Falcon and I loved the "it is green" clip from Next Gen. Brilliant work all round!
    I pitched a Series 5 to Terry Nation, not long after the end of Series 4 (that he encouraged me to submit to BBC) and it would have included a new Liberator-style ship. Those plots keep bouncing around in my head. With the way AI animation is going, maybe I can find somewhere that I can just input my scripts & plots and have it give back something to watch! LOL

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад

      Oh that’s awesome!! I’d absolutely love to read some of those pitches - bet you could definitely get some storyboards made at the very least!

  • @CyraNoavek
    @CyraNoavek Год назад +1

    Nicely done.

  • @kroon275
    @kroon275 Год назад +1

    Great show.
    Watched as a 10yr old bk when it 1st aired.
    The UKs Star Trek

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    I remember watching this on WTVS Detroit PBS as a kid!

  • @simonjones7727
    @simonjones7727 Год назад +2

    Very enjoyable video. Everything really hinges on Se2Ep1 to help explain who the The System are and why they might have built DSV2 but it still does not make much sense. Nothing about The System suggest that they would want to dress up to engage with other civilisations, especially as (based on the clothes themselves) those civilisations might include those who worship Alvin Stardust and Carol Chell from Playschool. I do quite enjoy B7 fashion, if I am honest. The future? well, its tabards basically, all the way (so we have that to look forward to, unless you a hospital radiographer in which case, I guess, you are already halfway there, even if your ones happen to be lead lined). As for The Liberator the script hints at a concept that the design cannot effectively realise; it is biomorphic, its controls meld in some way with the crew, it is like a living organism. Unfortunately what you see on screen is mostly Fablon and repurposed Anglepoise lamps (as the "flight controls") so I don't think that ever really comes across. Zen looks like the light show in one of those late 70s provincial discotheques that had names like "Napoleon's" or "Le Jardin". Somehow, despite it all, B7 is a joy and it all takes place somehow much more in the viewers head than on screen. Among the best SF performances and script ever.

  • @Belzediel
    @Belzediel Год назад +5

    Ah. Sorry, Liberator has many more than one deck. What you've done there is assume the deck plans from the fanzine were both canon and complete. Liberator has room for 86 decks, assuming three meters per deck. Twice that if you consider the central spire to be living space right down to the stellar core. She's BIG big, 700,000 m2. Ish. Not including the hangar spaces.
    Oh, the the painsticks the System use are not the same thing as a Doomwand. Different prop. You even show a System Drone using a painstick whilst also wearing a doomwand.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      Totally happy to be corrected - it did seem odd. Would love some sources if you have any!

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад +1

      True fan boy 🙌

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад

      ​@@spacedoutgamedo a follow up if you get those 😊

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      @@Problembeing absolutely!

    • @Problembeing
      @Problembeing Год назад

      @@spacedoutgame Confirmed!

  • @seano4977
    @seano4977 7 месяцев назад

    Great music at the beginning. I used to have this LP. Geoff Loves Intergalactic Disco Sounds

  • @tashvadj4914
    @tashvadj4914 Год назад +1

    All hail The Liberator!

  • @stehpengray2084
    @stehpengray2084 Год назад +1

    Loved the show loved the Actors grew up watching the show. Of course it was made at the time on a shoestring. What do you expect it was the BBC biguideers no money spent on practical effects but it was of its time still really enjoy It even some of the way out scripts . I had the great pleasure in meeting some of the actors several times even though I stayed up in Aberdeen Scotland like the Arthur who played Avon He was my favourite of course. Ruby nice actor in persand others very generous was his time when he met fansuddenly. Couldn't have been easy Living such a well known face for so many years. My sympathies go out to his family and friends I would just like to say really nice man Face-to-face. Thank you for all the hard work you put in to make this video much appreciated . Keep on doing the good work. Thank you.!!!!

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад

      You’re very welcome! The low budget just adds to the charm - although it never stopped them telling great stories! It must have been fantastic meeting the actors - sadly I got to this show far too late!

  • @grandslapper
    @grandslapper Год назад +1

    I always assumed that carapace at the back was a fusion reactor, and the intakes towards the front were intakes for hydrogen atoms - near light speed, you'd get a lot of those. That's how I assumed the Liberator was powered.

  • @Inignot12
    @Inignot12 Год назад +2

    Hahaha the fashion montage is perfect

  • @FrankStrickland-t7t
    @FrankStrickland-t7t 2 месяца назад

    I like the Props and set designs 😁👍👍👍👍

  • @olsmokey
    @olsmokey 7 месяцев назад +1

    Does anyone out there recall the last episode of Blake's Seven?
    I could visualise the writers meeting before writing the last episode. A bunch of drunk suits sitting around a table discussing how to end the series and entire storyline.
    "Oh I know" says someone at the end of the table. " Why don't we have a shootout and kill off all the main characters?"
    "Sounds good" says another suit. "Do we all agree?"
    And they did. Bang bang zap kapowie. All main characters dead. No More Blake's Seven. Oh well. It was good while it lasted.

  • @Emdee5632
    @Emdee5632 Год назад +3

    What I always loved the most about B7 was the often somewhat negative, desperate atmosphere. The Federation is not like the federation in Star Trek. In fact if the future of mankind will keep being desperately searching for resources but now in space, the B7 federation is far more likely to happen than the ST one.
    Maybe it also looked more realistic to me because of the low budget. Not all this fancy American stuff. Of course special effects in the 1970s and early 1980s were not as good as they are now. In fact in B7 they were often quite bad 😅 but I still loved the show.
    Oohh and of course Servalan, the pursuit ships and those black uniforms (although the Federation infantry blasters weren't much).

    • @anticat900
      @anticat900 Год назад

      I found it odd how they so often crossed Servalan or their friends or sisters etc. You'd think the galaxy being so big and all this would be a rare occurrence?

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 Год назад

      @@anticat900 Don't forget Servalan is a Federation agent, and the Federation has been hunting them since the day they escaped from the prison ship London. Servalan's ''friends and sisters'' are Federation agents and soldiers (and mutoids). Some of the people Blake and his crew met were neutral. Too bad they often had to pay with their lifes if they helped Blake.

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau Год назад +1

      B7 is a dystopian version of Star Trek. The Terran Fedation's main goal was the kill Blake.
      I loved the increasingly bleak, underdog premise and especially the finale scene. What a way to go out, no spoilers from me though.

    • @anticat900
      @anticat900 Год назад

      @@gorillaau definitely

    • @susanyoung6579
      @susanyoung6579 6 месяцев назад

      The B7 universe was brilliant exactly because it was historically accurate. It portrayed the cycles of expansion and collapse that human civilizations undergo. Not to mention the seriously cynical view towards governments and the tyrannical rulers that end up controlling them. Real life consists of multiple shades of gray and B7 accurately reflects that.

  • @vincentcarly5856
    @vincentcarly5856 Год назад

    Loved Blakes Seven wheni was a kid, love to see a movie with modern effects etc !! :0)

  • @AlexanderDunn-cj5me
    @AlexanderDunn-cj5me 7 месяцев назад

    Thank you thank you you have filled in the blanks. I always thought Iain M Banks used the liberator and its pylons pods & deep space zones at the bases for his ROU design

  • @andrewhickton3189
    @andrewhickton3189 4 месяца назад

    I will always feel sorry for Paul Darrow. He so wanted to make a sequel, especially as Avons fate was left open in the last episode (you didn't see him die).

  • @highwindsclarke2685
    @highwindsclarke2685 4 месяца назад

    The system space station was located in the 12th sector astro .781 Star One was located at Grid Reference 317 320 in the 11th sector. Harriet Philpin played Alta 2. She also played a character called Bettan in the Doctor Who story Genesis of the Daleks.

  • @superdoctor14
    @superdoctor14 Год назад

    Thebest ship un science fiction. Thumbs up for a reboot in this time of Doctor who Star trek and Babylon 5 potentially coming back

  • @AndyParkinson-r2h
    @AndyParkinson-r2h 5 дней назад

    I just geekgasmed..blakes 7 is my first love

  • @stefanov2387
    @stefanov2387 18 дней назад

    I remember years ago I got it all out on VHS ! - a giant box the size of ORAC! Heard later the DVD box set had some scenes which 'got stuck' problem with DVD tracking / skipping sections of some episodes? Anyone comment on this? Will get it on DVD and re-live it again!

  • @davidrobertson5700
    @davidrobertson5700 Год назад +2

    What about the Scorpio ?

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад

      There’s less to discuss, but it’s most definitely on the list!

  • @simonjones7727
    @simonjones7727 Год назад

    Those set elements from the Gerry Anderson's UFO Moonbase (11:58) that Century 21 loaned out to so many productions over the years.I'd never spotted them in the Liberator before.

  • @TheRaptor1967
    @TheRaptor1967 Год назад

    I watched this when it first come out. Funny how most ships of that time period and made on the cheap look really dated and unrealistic now. However the Liberator still looks good.
    Not so much the "Not so special" effects, or the acting, but the story line in general still holds up. I loved this as a youngster and added it to my TV Series collection.
    I have watched it about every 10 years since and have enjoyed it every time.

    • @newtronix
      @newtronix Год назад

      The acting was great what are you on about!

  • @NoFormalTraining
    @NoFormalTraining Год назад +4

    And like all good sci fi spaceships, we never see any sign of there being any toilets!

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      This is a real thing! I just assume everyone uses the three seashells at this point

    • @glyndaley5844
      @glyndaley5844 Год назад

      There nxt to the swimming pool 😅

  • @davidrobertson5700
    @davidrobertson5700 Год назад +5

    B7 is better than the expanse

  • @fuzzblightyear145
    @fuzzblightyear145 4 месяца назад

    Not so sure I would agree with the Liberator being quite so all-powerful and invulnerable. Strong, yes. But it quite often took a beating from several pursuit ships at once. I thought it actually good that they could get hurt/run out of power, added the sense of danger and the fact their standard course of action was usually to run

  • @brendanstoran7555
    @brendanstoran7555 Год назад

    I wouldn’t fancy flying to the local shops in that ship! I remember the walls shook when someone walked past,,, only god knows how she’d hold up to take off and landing, or warp speed 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

  • @deanedge5988
    @deanedge5988 4 месяца назад

    Delicious - Thanks

  • @SMunro
    @SMunro Год назад +1

    I guess AI can achieve amazing things. Ship design, teleportation, ftl.

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    THX-1138 In Space!

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 Год назад

    Picard: - "We cannot interfere Mr. Data, Prime Directive blah blah blah....",
    Kirk - "Prime Directive? Screw it Spock",
    Zen - "F^^k you".
    EPIC!

  • @Useaname
    @Useaname Год назад +1

    Several washing up bottles attached to each other

  • @craigcole9337
    @craigcole9337 Год назад +1

    I hold grudges against shows which robbed Doctor Who of a decent budget back in the day. Blake's 7 is probably my only exception.

  • @digipeeper
    @digipeeper Год назад +1

    If the series wasn’t cancelled, the System should have returned as a antagonist next to the Federation and it would have been excellent drama.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      100%. They set up a great villain in The System and didn’t scratch the surface with them.. see also the intergalactic aliens!

    • @digipeeper
      @digipeeper Год назад

      @@spacedoutgame The concept of the ultimate weapon belongs the ultimate enemy is very popular in sci-fi fantasy.
      The Andromedans could be a possible reexamination of adventures but it’s sort of self explanatory that they lost and couldn’t put up a fight.
      If you had listen the Big Finish audio drama Restoration. It reveals the fate of the System and it would make the Liberator seven times more rare and valuable.
      For 48 minutes, you covered close to 3 series of Blake’s 7 and it is as entertaining as the series itself.
      I know it’s obvious, hope you can do one for Scorpio!!!
      Keep up the excellent work.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      @@digipeeper Perhaps it is a bit overused these days, it’s basically the trope that launched every series of Stargate et al.
      Definitely need to look up the audio dramas soon!
      There’s a lot less to say about the Scorpio, but I haven’t discounted it just yet! It’s certainly a gorgeous model!

  • @kazsha1201
    @kazsha1201 Год назад

    WHENEVER ZEN SPOKE HE HAD A POSH TONE IN HIS VOICE BUT ORAC SOUNDED QUITE SASSY

  • @AndrewAHayes
    @AndrewAHayes 5 месяцев назад

    The thing that bugs me in nearly every Sci Fi show is that control panels have unlabeled control buttons!

  • @billyhills9933
    @billyhills9933 Год назад

    It would be great if someone could redo the space and view screen special effects like they did with ST:OS.

  • @Chuckf66
    @Chuckf66 7 месяцев назад

    I forgot Deep Roy made an appearance!

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    AURAC!

  • @antpearson9676
    @antpearson9676 10 месяцев назад

    This is wonderful
    Thanks
    Ant P UK teacher retired

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    The Liberator was sickly overpowered, like Lexx.

  • @sensiblename295
    @sensiblename295 Год назад +2

    Avon was a massive loser and couldn't admit it to himself, even after destroying the Liberator. Most episodes appear to be a Federation/Servalan trap but in the hopes of a quick snog, he walks straight into it. His death must have been a blessed relief for all concerned. Although as one commentator pointed out somewhere else, he probably took half an hour to fall to the floor as he was riddled and pummelled with plasma bullets.

  • @ultramarinus2478
    @ultramarinus2478 Год назад

    Well, it is no generational voidship, where the crew is supposed to live for decades, witouth setting a foot out. For smaller time it is possible living space, if there is a washroom and toilet. Only the crew should bring (along a BIG supply of food) a book, or better a smartphone with whole library of songs, movies and books, because the leasuire time and entertinement kinda lacks.

  • @darchojandreoski
    @darchojandreoski Год назад

    I take you off in the 3 Kampf Weltraum Raumschiffe tomorrow morning

  • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
    @alphabetaxenonzzzcat Год назад

    Thanks for this video. Can you do one on the Scorpio?

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      There’s a LOT less to say about the Scorpio, but I have it on the list. Mostly just because of Slave!

  • @K13R0NI3O6
    @K13R0NI3O6 Год назад

    I'm sure I just saw the Millennium Falcon 🤔🙃

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад +1

    Lol, Federation Monopoly

  • @csi1392
    @csi1392 Год назад +1

    HAS A LIVABLE AREA IN THE SHAPE OF THE MILLENNIAL FALCON

  • @kefhomepage
    @kefhomepage Год назад

    I would love to see a reboot, as the special effects look so so dated now. Its still a great story, shame about the silly ending.

  • @anticat900
    @anticat900 Год назад

    Hearsay of SKY rebooting this show, along with some overly fussy CGIs of the ship. Its a pity nothing has so far come from this as it was way better than Dr who.

  • @chloedevereaux1801
    @chloedevereaux1801 Год назад

    now do scorpio....

  • @markrumrey790
    @markrumrey790 Год назад

    Always wonder why no one ever has to go do natures biz on all these shows.

  • @turbopokey
    @turbopokey Год назад

    I would like the ship if it was oriented with the ball section as the front, but the other way just looks wrong…and stupid. Stories might be fine but can’t get over the orientation, so I’ll guess I’ll never know how good they are. Unless… I know it could be sacrilegious but in this instance perhaps a reboot?
    This original show does unfortunately use one of the most annoying tropes (in my opinion), The “Heroes find cool stuff and use it for grand adventures“ trope. That’s how a lot of those “kids going on adventure” shows seem to start since kids have absolutely no way of doing anything useful on their own they have to have everything given to them. Anyway, I just find it annoying.

  • @andyf4292
    @andyf4292 Год назад +2

    Avon was marvellously evil

    • @glyndaley5844
      @glyndaley5844 Год назад +2

      Not evil just cold out 4 number one loved knocking out femails or cremating them in the platonic drives of planet hopper err ACTUALLY YIU MAY HAVE A POINT 😅😅

    • @derekmcmanus8615
      @derekmcmanus8615 Год назад +4

      Avon was the orginal Sci Fi anti hero

    • @tompearce5418
      @tompearce5418 Год назад

      The entire crew were escaped criminals. When they weren't fighting for democracy and social liberalism they were just as happy stealing stuff.

  • @derekwhite2929
    @derekwhite2929 Год назад

    Same shit different day

  • @Bob-b7x6v
    @Bob-b7x6v 2 месяца назад

    Space Fashion...

  • @TOSStarTrek
    @TOSStarTrek Год назад +1

    Stoped watching it once they lost the ship.

    • @Emdee5632
      @Emdee5632 Год назад +1

      I kept following B7 right up to the last episode and its stunning last couple of minutes, but yes the Scorpio episodes were not as great as the Liberator ones. Starting from the third season, I missed Jenna and Blake.

  • @lescobrandon1011
    @lescobrandon1011 Год назад

    Was the blonde female the witch in the Holy Grail?

  • @Regaljester75
    @Regaljester75 Год назад

    I think Farscape ripped off Blake’s 7

    • @cthulhuscot3940
      @cthulhuscot3940 Год назад +2

      As did Lexx.

    • @russbaxter1806
      @russbaxter1806 Год назад +3

      As did Babylon 5 in a way - JMS has admitted that B7 was his inspiration having seen it when he was at Uni in the UK. He said it made him realise that there was a market for SF which didn't have a happy ending every week

  • @badmutherfunster
    @badmutherfunster Год назад +1

    No no no, its not orac. Just a perspex box full of coloured crap😂

  • @utoob7361
    @utoob7361 Год назад +3

    This show desperately needs an American reboot. Nicholas Cage as Blake. Tom Cruise as Avon. Scarlett Johansson as Servalan. Help me out here, people. Lots of big explosions.

    • @Number6_
      @Number6_ Год назад +4

      Are you ficking kidding! They can't even get their own stuff going again. Nevermind ours.

    • @andyf4292
      @andyf4292 Год назад +6

      oh gods no

    • @stevekitt52
      @stevekitt52 Год назад +3

      A sequel would be much better.Set it years or decades after the original and how The Federation is in that time,plus a new set of freedom fighters,maybe a relative of Blake.

    • @richardgregory3684
      @richardgregory3684 Год назад +6

      Dear god, no. We've already had American remakes of The Prisoner and The Tomorrow People, and it stripped out eveything that made those shows what they were.

    • @utoob7361
      @utoob7361 Год назад +2

      @@andyf4292 oh gods yes !!! Just imagine ... Cage and Cruise on the same screen. Blakes 7 is modern-day Shakespeare - no lesser actors could pull it off. Taylor Swift as Callie. The Rock as Gan. ( Yes, I've actually watched B7. ) It's a guaranteed ratings smash. Amazon could pull this off! Somebody call Jeff Bezos. He could play Vila !!!

  • @Pugiron
    @Pugiron Год назад

    Those are some painfully English faces.

  • @ferawyn_
    @ferawyn_ Год назад +3

    This video would be better without the zany background music. It's unnecessary at best, and rather irritating at worst.

  • @andyf4292
    @andyf4292 Год назад

    the Federation is blakes 7...... is the actual federation from startrek, minus the propaganda

  • @seanhunt138
    @seanhunt138 Год назад

    Bad science

  • @Icypenguigo
    @Icypenguigo Год назад

    Ok so this show looks interesting! I'm going to take a look! I just have to ask, which side of the Liberator is the front? If that even matters.

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +2

      As someone who used to play with the micro machines toy.. backwards.. I know your pain! The green orb is, in fact, the back of the ship.
      Do check out the show, it’s fantastic!

    • @kroon275
      @kroon275 Год назад +1

      The pointy bits are the forward end 😉

  • @captainsensiblejr.
    @captainsensiblejr. Год назад +23

    The Liberator crew zeitgeist was set at Paranoia level 9.
    Not until Farscape was there a cast of characters who thoroughly mistrusted each other, and so frequently had their own agendas.

    • @RX552VBK
      @RX552VBK 4 месяца назад +1

      Agreed. Farscape can be B7's spiritual successor.

  • @captainsensiblejr.
    @captainsensiblejr. Год назад +20

    It was always a joy to see what Servalan was wearing from one episode to another.

    • @RX552VBK
      @RX552VBK 4 месяца назад

      Lordy, she was a sexy and evil woman!

  • @mrtrek2117
    @mrtrek2117 Год назад +7

    Nothing quite like those old BBC effects. Loved the teleporter!

  • @neilthomas6042
    @neilthomas6042 Год назад +21

    I grew up watching Blake’s 7 but later on fell out of love with the series. I kept on hearing how good the show was and I went to watch it again. It was a good show. Now in my top ten best TV show of all time. The effects weren’t much cop with a low budget but you looked beyond that; it’s the same with the original Doctor Who. Another great series starring Gareth Thomas was Children of the Stones, really creepy despite being a kids show.

    • @Phoenix2312
      @Phoenix2312 Год назад +4

      BLOODY HELL! I sort of recall Children of the Stones!
      It amazing how many Shows have been made on Low Budgets that actually hold up and stand the test of time... I feel its down to great Story... The effects can be poor as long a the story is engaging!
      One I recall was an old Aussie Children's TV Show called "Under The Mountain" - Based on a Novel... Its effects were honestly Not that bad given its low production value... And it had a real creepy vibe too!

    • @spacedoutgame
      @spacedoutgame  Год назад +1

      Happy Day, Neil Thomas. Happy Day.

    • @gamerhoagy5998
      @gamerhoagy5998 Год назад +1

      Also, Star Maidens, along with Judy Geeson.

    • @wbbartlett
      @wbbartlett Год назад

      Full series; ruclips.net/video/SwT0wLnT7Rc/видео.html
      The music freaked me out as a kid.

    • @Phoenix2312
      @Phoenix2312 Год назад

      @@wbbartlett Just took a quick look... Woah! That Music... And another Nostalgic Piece to enjoy!
      Not a series I have ever seen but one I have heard of... I look forward to watching it!