Pressure Point

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Blake 7: Season Two: Pressure Point
An attempt to destroy Central control on Earth goes horribly wrong when the crew are tricked, and Gan is killed.

NOTE Gan is the first of the 'Seven' to die.
By Keith Alan Morgan on Sunday, May 21, 2000 - 9:47 am:

Blake wants to destroy Control, but Orac can take over any computer that uses Ensor's designs. Just get Orac close enough and use it to control Control.

Blake fufills his promise from the end of The Way Back. He does return to Earth.

What kind of security does the Federation have? A strange ship is in stationary orbit for at least 2 hours and no security patrol asks who they are & what they are doing there? (Yes, Servalan or Travis may have ordered them to ignore Blake, but someone on Liberator should have wondered why no ship has challenged them.)

After 2 hours have passed with no signal from the resistance Blake says, "Jenna, I want the shortest way out of this system." Wouldn't that be a straight line? (Either up or down from the plane of the system.)

Blake is teleported down to scout out the area. Less than a minute and only a few yards away from where he landed he tells Liberator, "As far as I can tell it's all clear." First, he really hasn't had that much time to check. Second, he's in a forest where any number of things may be hiding.
Then he tells them to "home in on my signal and send down Gan." Why not just use the previous coordinates?

Blake has to explain what a church is to Gan, but what about the 'church' on Cygnus Alpha?

If the radiation grid can burn up a person, why is there grass all around? Shouldn't the two guys fried at the beginning of the episode have started a grass fire?

When asking why they can't teleport into the complex, Avon says, "There's bound to be anti-matter screenings." Does the teleporter turn matter to anti-matter send it to it's destination, then convert it back to matter? (I guess the writer thought it sounded science fictional.)

Why take the teleport bracelets, but not the guns, and why didn't anyone in the group question this? ("We've been gassed, had our teleport bracelets stolen, and been locked in the church. Good thing they left our guns in case we decide to commit suicide.")

Why is Gan trying to break down the door physically? They have their guns. Blast the door!

First they climb down this ladder in normal light, then they show what looks like the same shot under red light. Was it the same shot colored red, or did they film them climbing down, under normal light, then under a red light?


By John Davis on Sunday, March 11, 2001 - 4:11 pm:

I thought Servelan (sorry if spelling wrong!) was SUPREME COMMANDER. How come she doesn't have the authority to remove the defences?


By Richard Daives on Tuesday, March 13, 2001 - 3:13 pm:

Blake didn't take any explosives or other means to distroy Central Control. If it hadn't been removed how would he have distroyed it?


By Jessica on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 - 11:56 pm:

Isn't it wonderful how all super-secret, highly guarded installments with pressure-sensitive floors have evenly spaced and un-trapped bars overhead?

The scene where Blake runs into the room is wonderful.


By Chris Marks on Friday, January 21, 2005 - 4:27 am:

Woo hoo, season 2 box set.

When the Liberator loses contact with Blake, why didn't Jenna teleport down to the church cellar, or somewhere nearby the church, after all, they already had the co-ordinates for it from when they brought Avon and Villa over, and they've just shown they can adjust co-ordinates to come in near their target. (Of course, then she might have brought them some new teleport bracelets, and we wouldn't have had the exciting sprint across the fields away from the special effects.

Avon says he can knock the defense grid out if he fires from close to the ground. When he actually opens fire, his gun isn't actually that close to the ground.:)

Also, they should have been just ever so slightly suspicious of Veron, being the only survivor of a federation massacre and all. They had no way of knowing whether she had been brainwashed or otherwise coerced by the federation.


By Chris Marks on Thursday, May 18, 2006 - 6:07 am:

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Blake wants to destroy Control, but Orac can take over any computer that uses Ensor's designs. Just get Orac close enough and use it to control Control.
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On reflection, either control didn't use Ensor's designs, it was somehow shielded from such influence, or Blake didn't want that kind of power - turning himself into the new Servalan, and certainly wouldn't have wanted to continue the system, potentially letting it fall back into someone worse's hands.


By KAM on Friday, May 19, 2006 - 3:05 am:

What new Servalan? At this point isn't she basically just a powerful security chief?

Still I can see Blake not wanting power. He really wasn't much a tactician, was he? Seizing power, dealing with those who were in power, enacting new rules & regulations, then stepping down after creating a better political system would have been a much better goal then just blowing stuff up & hoping people rise up to overthrow the tyrants.


By Kevin on Friday, May 19, 2006 - 5:40 am:

I think Chris meant that Blake wouldn't want to become like Servalan. Or are you playing with words again?

He really wasn't much a tactician, was he?
Neither would you be if Terry Nation was controlling your every move. :-)


By KAM on Friday, May 19, 2006 - 6:06 am:

Sad, but true. ;-)

No I wasn't playing with words. I interpreted Chris's remark to mean Blake was afraid of becoming like Servalan when she was president, which didn't happen until season 3. At this point in the series she's essentially the Sheriff of Nottingham to Blake's Robin Hood.


By Chris Marks on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 6:00 am:

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What new Servalan? At this point isn't she basically just a powerful security chief?
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Doh! :) Although she does seem to have a lot of influence (Travis' latest spec pursuit ships from Seek, Locate, Destroy for example).

As for tactician, it's actually not a bad idea for Blake to leave a new leadership in someone else's hands, it covers any idea that he only did it for personal power, and the people in charge have this spectre looming over their shoulder that if they start to go back to where the federation was, he's had a lot of practise in bringing such organisations down.


By KAM on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 4:40 pm:

Although she does seem to have a lot of influence
Well a security chief's job is to gather all sorts of useful information & the Federation being a corrupt organization who knows what kind of dirt she has on influential people?


By Kevin on Monday, June 05, 2006 - 6:19 pm:

Enough for her to declare herself president after the War and not be challenged even while she's nowhere near headquarters for quite some time.


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