Follow That Trebuchet
I was terribly to learn last night that Gareth Thomas, most famous for playing Blake in Blake's 7, has passed away. His work has given me so much joy over the years, not just Blake's 7 but really anything I saw him in (Children of the Stones is particularly winning), for he was a marvellous,…
Continue reading ➞ Bye bye, Blake
Hello, lovely people! I spent an hour or so of today engaged on a terrible enterprise. Hamilton, that wildly successful musical (I say, just in case you don't know what the dickens I'm on about), has been mashed up with all sorts of other fandoms in all sorts of ways because Hamilton is kind of…
Some might argue the New Year arrived about a week ago; these people are, of course, wrong. It was yesterday. That bit before doesn't count because there were floods and I had fake flu, and I wish to start the New Year both well and not feeling faintly panicky every time it starts to rain.…
The first episode of this shiny new podcast that I'm on came out last week: Down and Safe, an episode-by-episode look at Blake's 7. B7, in case you don't know, is a smashing BBC sci-fi show that aired from 1978 to 1981, and combined awesome banter and fabulous costumes with broken morality compasses and spaceships.…
