http://www.metafilter.com/tags/SpaceOpera Posts tagged with 'SpaceOpera' at MetaFilter. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:09:55 -0800 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:09:55 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/71145/The%2DDefinitive%2DBritish%2DSpace%2DOpera%2Die%2DBloody%2DMiserable <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/apr/25/bskyb.television">Blake's Back!</a> British science fiction <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pn-LZApBBE">classic</a> <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake's_7">Blakes</a></em> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gallery/2008/apr/24/bbc.bskyb?picture=333730896"><em>7</em></a> is getting the <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> treatment. Created by <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=hILNfZN-WNY">Terry Nation</a>, the original program famously finished with one of the most <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=LY10pMsq3N8">downbeat endings of all time</a>. However it is probably now more notorious for it's less than special <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=57ui-9lRJPM">special effects</a>, but what can you expect for fifty quid an episode? It's been kept alive <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Xr0SqxRJc">by</a> <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=I2X2098KgrI">fans</a> ever since it was first broadcast. Now the big question is, who on earth can fill <a href="http://www.jacquelinepearce.com/">Jacqueline</a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/blakes7/servalan/index.shtml">Pearce</a>'s stilettos as <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=v5R5-NVvDMc">Servalan</a>? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.71145 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:09:55 -0800 Blakes7 Quarries ScienceFiction SpaceOpera SpecialEffects Television UK YouTube fearfulsymmetry