30 Days of Blake's 7 - Day 23
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julesjones Day 23: Favourite cliffhanger
Depending on how you define cliffhanger, every series ended in one. Terminal was supposed to be the final episode, but it can be seen as a cliffhanger, and certainly became one when it was announced over the closing credits that Blake's 7 would be back next year, apparently to the great surprise of all involved. Blake was written to allow the series to go out with a bang if it wasn't renewed, or to be a cliffhanger allowing them to bring back any actor who wanted to if the series was renewed. It's somewhat ironic that having specified that his character was to have an ending that meant he absolutely couldn't come back, Gareth Thomas later said that if he'd been allowed to play that version of Blake, the battered grim version he is by then, he'd have considered doing more episodes.
Of them all, my favourite is Star One. It works as a cliffhanger; it would have worked as a final episode. And it would not mean anything without the episodes before it building up a picture of this universe and the people in it, and why it matters so much that Blake abandons his political fight and Servalan acts immediately on a call for help from her enemy.
Depending on how you define cliffhanger, every series ended in one. Terminal was supposed to be the final episode, but it can be seen as a cliffhanger, and certainly became one when it was announced over the closing credits that Blake's 7 would be back next year, apparently to the great surprise of all involved. Blake was written to allow the series to go out with a bang if it wasn't renewed, or to be a cliffhanger allowing them to bring back any actor who wanted to if the series was renewed. It's somewhat ironic that having specified that his character was to have an ending that meant he absolutely couldn't come back, Gareth Thomas later said that if he'd been allowed to play that version of Blake, the battered grim version he is by then, he'd have considered doing more episodes.
Of them all, my favourite is Star One. It works as a cliffhanger; it would have worked as a final episode. And it would not mean anything without the episodes before it building up a picture of this universe and the people in it, and why it matters so much that Blake abandons his political fight and Servalan acts immediately on a call for help from her enemy.