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Having enjoyed Fall Out, Stevens and Moore's guide to The Prisoner, I decided to pick up their Blake's 7 book and watch it alongside the parent show during the third and fourth seasons, going back to read the entries for earlier ones as I did. The book is necessarily less detailed than Fall Out (The Prisoner ran seventeen episodes to Blake's 7's fifty-two), but suffers more in that, when it comes down to it, I like Blake's 7 a whole lot less than The Prisoner. I think that there's a huge disconnect between the show Blake's 7 thought it was (a hard-hitting drama about revolutionaries) and the one it actually was (a show by Terry Nation). So a lot of their analyses just engendered eye-rolling in me, especially when they refer to episodes building on each others' themes when in fact they mean that the show recycles a lot of plots. But it's not all the book's fault; I felt the same way reading the Telos guide to Torchwood, a show I also don't like very much. That said, they are good at teasing out more subtle moments, and they can often build compelling arguments for interesting interpretations-- such as with the hidden backstory of Gan, who the show never did much with. On the other hand, sometimes they feel like they're reaching; when Series Three's inconsistent about the details of the war that happened just before it, it's probably because of bad writing, not that there were two wars. And sometimes their reviews are just weird, such as one that tells you an episode is primarily worthwhile for the draft scripts that reveal the original setup for Series Four. Only to those of us who sit around with draft scripts of Blake's 7 episodes; the rest of us had to suffer through "Traitor"! Their list of shows inspired by Blake's 7 are a stretch, too-- Farscape, I believe; Red Dwarf, not so much.

The thing that aggravates me most is that the appendix covering spin-offs has no room for officially-sanctioned comics... but plenty of room for the fan audios made by co-author Alan Stevens. Really? I'd stick to The Anorak Zone; even if the website is gone, you can still access its much-less-serious reviews of Blake's 7 on the Wayback Machine. He, at least, can admit that the show actually had flaws.
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Stevil2001 | Nov 14, 2010 |
I'd seen several episodes of the classic 60s TV series The Prisoner in the past, and had formed a vague impression of it as interesting, but sort of pointlessly weird. A recent, much more attentive viewing of the whole series quickly convinced me that it's nothing of the sort. It's intelligent and subtle, strange and surreal, and at times maddeningly obscure, but "pointless" is the one thing it clearly isn't. After I finished, I was immediately curious as to what other people might have to say about the show and its meaning(s), and this book proved to be exactly what I was looking for. It goes through the show episode by episode (including episodes that were never filmed and even spinoff books), analyzing its recurring themes and motifs. It does so without using any lit-crit jargon, and -- very wisely in my opinion -- without ever attempting to push any specific theories or to claim any particular interpretation as the obvious "truth." The authors have quite a few very insightful things to say, and even when I happen to think that they're stretching a point or dwelling too much on a detail, their analysis is always thought-provoking. Definitely recommended for those with an interest in the show.… (mer)
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