It looks like only Avon is returning at present. I know the cast were all killed off in the last episode but in the Sci-fi world anything could happen!
I know the cast were all killed off in the last episode
No they weren't - only Blake was *definitely* killed (hence the large amount of blood when Avon shot him). The fate of the others was always left vague... they could just have been stunned...
Forgive me, but the sets were shakey
Why do people insist on applying this particularly unimaginative cliche to telefantasy shows, as if sci-fi had a monopoly on shaky sets?
Look carefully at just about *any* TV programme from *any* era (including current ones) - all the sets shake!
For that matter, look at the number of shaky sets visible in megabucks movies! Goldeneye comes to mind; in the pre-credits sequence, when Bond flattens himself against a "concrete" wall, it bows slightly!
and the scripts were poor - with acting to match
Some of the scripts were poor, yes - but many others were much more adult and enjoyable than most TV SF, with some absolutely superb dialogue.
Because B7 was about character interaction rather than crap rubber monsters, and it had a gritty, dystopian approach, it still stands up as drama much better than kiddie-oriented shows like Doctor Who.
Forgive me, but the sets were shakey and the scripts were poor
Many sets from the sixties and seventies were skakey. Fawlty Towers had a wobbly set, as did Doctor in the House, to name but two. People just use it as an easy criticism when they can't think of anything else.
Many sets from the sixties and seventies were skakey. Fawlty Towers had a wobbly set, as did Doctor in the House, to name but two. People just use it as an easy criticism when they can't think of anything else.
Here's a little (true) story. I'm a great fan of the excellent Aussie soap Prisoner. It attracts (amongst other unfair comments) a higher than usual number of wobbly walls jibes (which is particularly unfair since it's sets were some of the most solidly built TV sets in use at that time - total number of wobbles was about 5 in 692 episodes).
The reason for this is that some reviewer upon watching the first episode on Tyne Tees in 1984 saw a handrail on a staircase wobble alarmingly as someone touched it with not that much force. Almost every review since has been plagarised from this one (or plagarised from other plagarisms - I don't honestly believe that anyone writing a review of Prisoner for a magazine in the last 10 years has watched even a minute of the programme), and so the programme has become associated with having wobbly sets. The only thing is - he didn't see a wobbly set. The handrail does indeed wobble very visibly, but it wasn't a set; the stairs on Prisoner were the real fire escape stairs of the building where it was filmed!
The entire programme is derided for having wobbly sets based on a shot of an actual real fixture!
Anyway I agree, 'this programme has wobbly walls' is usually said when someone is determined to dislike a programme and can't think of anything else to say. If set integrity is a key deciding factor in a programme's quality, then that would make Fawlty Towers some of the worst s**te ever produced.
The worrying thing is that there's only a handful of us on this forum old enough to remember it from when it was originally translated - and was, quite frankly, and outstanding series in the sea of TV at that time (yes, okay, in my opinion).
Saw some of it again a few years back on UK Gold and noticed even then the quality of the dialogue and characterisation. I hope the new version can live up to that.
And it won't be the same if Servalan isn't brought back...
