RIP Michael Keating 1947-2026

 Sad news today with the death of Michael Keating, known and loved by Blake's 7 fans as Vila. As kalypso notes, we have been watching the Blu-ray box sets saying "I hope they get a new interview with Michael Keating". With any luck they did.

We'd got to the end of series B last week and were contemplating rewatching Gambit to do a bit of research for a possible story. It will be no hardship to watch it again just to say farewell to the actor - it was a superb and very funny performance.

30 Days of Blake's 7 - Day 21

 Day 21: Favourite fanon/headcanon

Canon is canon. Anything else is AU. While I understand the concepts of fanon and headcanon (those are two different things, at least to me) it's not really something I do with regard to B7, beyond "yes, Avon did like the rest of them, even if he didn't like it". (Word Of God was that Avon's behaviour was deliberately written to be ambiguous - there was almost always potentially both a decent reason and a selfish reason for him doing something to/for other people.)