anyone noticed that the announcer at the base says a few things about a Dr Ellis Dee, or Dr L.S. Dee? I just consider this a little bazzare.

Some views & nitpicks:

The mutoid communicator looks like the nutrotope container (from A7) fitted with an aerial.

A standard BBC set is used in this episode as the lab walls, it resembles a slab of chocolate chunks. I've seen it twice in Dr Who. (The Face Of Evil & Frontios.)

Is it me or is there an announcment for Dr. Ellis Dee. (prenounced LSD.)

Some of Glynis Barber's hair is showing under the rubber Mutoid head piece.

How does the Federation know Blake's ship is called the Liberator? Has Avalon been spreading the word?

a 1970s pocket calculator is used for the teleport programming.

The test victim's face decays in stages, like a number of pictures faded together.

Severlin wears almost the same shades Gan wears in The Web, but these are connected to a computer, & could be some kind of readout.

Some of the silver walls seems to have blisters, like badly put up wallpaper.

If Blake & co. supposed to get away why does the Robot napalm him? Why do the raiding party takes ages to have a go at shooting it?

Is there any reason for keeping a perspex wedge on the Liberator's "coffee table"?

Jenna states the Federation gun should have ripped Blake's shoulder off, when the guns don't cause any physical deformity to the rebels who where shot, just some smoke.

Why doesn't the Avalon android break the contaner as soon as she gets teleported aboard?

Why does the Avalon android make a noise when moving at the end? (Did Avon have to remove the soundproofing?) & also blinks a few times. (Programming fault?)

Another nit:

When Blake & Jenna run down the corridor towards the hatch I can hear a liberator gun eing fired though neither Blake or Jenna are firing.

Military Nit Pick.
The resistance energy weapon is an American M-16 rifle circa Vietnam era.

After goiving this sequence another look I've spotted a few other nits, The Avalon android arrives in the Liberator wearing Blake's Jacket & a prison tunic, & Gan stright away takes her away. Next she walks into the crew room in a pink outfit, & wallops Cally & Chevner, & walks onto the Flight deck where she asks Gan where her her tunic is & her says Jenna left it in the teleport room. I'm suprised when changing the Avalon Android didn't ask to be alone to get changed (I presume someone showed her to the wardrobe), & whilst alone broke the phial. Whoever programmed the android didn't include this or does the Phobon plauge only have a limited range.

Another nit is why Jenna took the tunic back to the teleport room. & why she didn't notice there was the phial container in the pocket. Does Jenna like to keep the Liberator tidy & teleports off anything unwanted? Or she kept it hand in case they need to go off exploring in a hurry & don't have the time to pick up their colour co-ordinated jackets?

Well, that would certainly explain how the Federation keeps finding Blake & Co. "We've been following a trail of coffee cups, dirty dishes and wadded up tissues through space. We think it's Blake."

I guess one of Soolin's relatives must have been transformed into a Mutoid. ;-) (Glynis Barber who played the Mutoid would play Soolin in the final season.)

It looks like all of the Mutoids are women. I believe in Search-Locate-Destroy it was mentioned that Mutoids were altered criminals. Therefore we should see some male Mutoids since more men commit crimes (or at least, more men get caught.)

I beleive the explanation for the "ice crystals" is rubbish. Most gemstones form because their elements are molten, then they cool & need room to allow crystal growth. A large number of gemstones require impurities to become the gems we think of as gems. For instance, Rubies & Sapphires are Corundum, but pure Corundum is clear. Clear Quartz, Amethysts, Citrines, Agates & Opals are Silicon dioxide, which is brown in it's pure state. Truthfully, it would probably be easier & less expensive to grow perfect crystals on a space station, then to have a slave labor group on a planet which would have to be guarded.

So why wasn't Blake or Jenna suspicious that the homing device wasn't destroyed. Chevnor should have heard Travis' comment about leaving it working for Blake.

In Search-Locate-Destroy, Vila demonstrated how fast he can open a lock and practically disappear when the patrol robot is coming. Here Vila is much, much slower to do the same thing.

Yes, Richard, it does sound like Dr. LSD.

Servalan has never seen the virus work, but she was pretty certain that the thing was dead when it was supposed to be. (Not necesarily a nit, but I certainly would be nervous.)

So why didn't Blake & co. try to rescue some of those other prisoners?

Okay, the Liberator has to leave orbit to evade the interceptors, then they come back. So why isn't one of them waiting in the teleport room in case Blake & co. need an emergency beam out?

Richard: I think it's possible that the virus does have a limited range. Consider the test earlier. The virus was only alive for what, a minute or two? That might not be enough time to spread through the ship before it's harmless. Possibly, the virus was to take out most of them then the android would finish off the rest. Still, one has to wonder why it didn't kill Cally as well as Chevnor.

Why would the gun have to be a different type than the usual Federation gun if all they've done is reduce the power it shoots?

They believe Chevnor is guilty when 'Avalon' walks onto the flight deck. She asks for her tunic and Gan says he'll go look for it and starts to leave while she stays.
First, she's just said that Chevnor had grabbed her and took her with him before taking off on his own, then she asks about her tunic as if nothing had happened. Why wasn't Gan suspicious?
Second, why is Gan walking off alone, believing that Chevnor is on the loose & might be dangerous?
Third, when walking into the teleport room, 'Avalon' is closely behind Gan. Well, I guess the android decided to run after him & catch up.

When Travis catches the virus capsule, it looks like the blue side is up, but a later shot shows the purple side up.

Richard: The Federation probably knows the ship is called Liberator because Cally was captured & interrogated in Search-Locate-Destroy.