Gambit

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Blake 7: Season Two: Gambit
The search for the cyber-surgeon Docholli takes the crew to Freedom City, and while Blake, Jenna and Cally look for him, Avon and Vila take advantage of the city's casino, and use Orac to cheat.
By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Sunday, July 09, 2000 - 3:29 am:

Orac is supposed to shrink to 1/8 his size, but some of his plastic dowels seem too big to be 1/8 their normal size.

I guess the Krantor is really into retro graphics & music. The speed chess graphics & music look and sound like they came from the 1970's. ;-)

Wouldn't a man like Krantor already have listening devices installed in the rooms?

So why is Servalan traveling around with a complete and utter cabbagehead like Jerrier? At one point, I thought he was there because Servalan knew Krantor would be listening in, but the guy is to braindead for that to be the case. He went along with Servalan about the bomb in Travis' arm, but then he even had to ask questions about that later. I guess Servalan got tired of his stupidity and had him killed after this episode.

Servalan is sitting on the bed, when Krantor tells her he has Docherly, and yet, Krantor's mirror/communicator shows Servalan in the same position as when last she spoke to him. (Not necesarily a nit, but it seemed odd. Particularly since there didn't seem to be a camera she could speak into.)

Avon was wrong about breaking the bank in under an hour. It took almost two hours.

Krantor is listening to Travis' bug, in front of the mirror/communicator, which is reflecting Krantor's image. Then he stands up and orders his men to get Docherly, then sits down, suddenly the mirror/communicator is showing the roulette wheel, which Krantor then sweeps away.

Cally's outfit seems to stay white even after wandering around the docks & 'fighting' with Jenna.

Chavendish (?) is alive enough to spill the beans, but not enough to shoot Travis? Well, I guess he thought Travis was going to die anyway.

Why would Travis get gangrene if all Servalan did was disconnect some wires?

Why did Travis insist that Docherly work on his arm after being warned about the tampering?

When Orac popped back to normal size, where did the box go?


By Richard Davies on Tuesday, April 03, 2001 - 1:51 pm:

Did the box burst? (It's not too clear) Could Avon have left Orac on The Liberator & got it to connect to Vila's Bracelet? It seems Orac could operate the teleport from Freedom city, but could it have scanned the gaming computers from there? I'm suprised no-one questioned why Avon was holding a braclet to Orac's box.


By KAM on Wednesday, April 04, 2001 - 5:00 am:

Orac has been shown to communicate with computers from a distance. In Orac it took control of Liberator even though it was on the planet & Liberator was in orbit. It should have been able to take control of the gaming computers while on the ship.


By Richard Davies on Sunday, May 06, 2001 - 9:09 am:

The cream leather/vinyl sofas in Freedom City are from the Sandminer from the Dr Who Story The Robots Of Death, which is almost a Blake's 7 dummy run, see my postings for this story in the Dr Who section.


By Mandy on Wednesday, October 30, 2002 - 4:56 am:

Avon's avowed mission in life is to become wealthy. Now that he has millions of credits, why does he continue to stay with Blake?


By Kevin on Wednesday, February 23, 2005 - 1:44 am:

He wants the Liberator too. And after essentially getting the Liberator a few episodes later, he probably assumes its wealth to be his as well. (Why go looking for Blake then is another question.) Funny how he's essentially a millionare, never seems to live like one, nor does he lament the loss of his millions after the events of Terminus.

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this, here or anywhere else, but about 16 minutes in, Servalan's goofball assistant (Jerriere?) is talking while his earring falls off, quite visibly. In some scenes he's no longer wearing it.

Does Docheli's sentence 'He's gone to earth on a planet called Goth' make sense to anyone? I always thought I was mishearing it, but it's clear on the remaster and the subtitles say that as well. Is 'gone to earth' an idiom I'm unfamiliar with?

Agree that Orac should have been able to do everything from the Liberator, which would have spared us the ridiculous molecular reduction explanation.

In the room where Servalan talks to Travis, some of the wall decorations look very much like pieces from an old TARDIS set.


By Kevin on Monday, June 19, 2006 - 1:39 am:

Found out that 'gone to earth' means to go into hiding, but...what a stupid expression to use in a science-fiction show.


By Bookwyrme on Saturday, August 05, 2006 - 10:42 pm:

Well, since "gone to earth" refers to foxes hiding in their dens (I mean originally), I'm not sure that it is such a bad SF expression. I think people would likely be calling dirt earth even when it wasn't on Earth, and sayings have a habit of hanging around for a long, long time.


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