'Blake' is deeply, deeply depressing.
You think Not Fade Away was bad?
Imagine if Buffy turned up and staked Angel, because he pulled that crap with the Circle of the Black Thorn but when she arrived to call him on it he chose the words "I set all this up" as the perfect way to explain.
That ending... is such a mixture of *facepalm* and utter tragedy... Actually tragedy is *facepalm* taken to the ultimate extreme, really, the whole mess playing out with everyone's personality leaving them only one way to react.
But... when the guy with the gun says "Stand still" it is a good idea to assume he *really really means it*.
*facepalm*
I hadn't seen that last season before. The last ten minutes of a couple of episodes, and all of 'Orbit' repeatedly (which I always find funny in an evil laugh way, but which really is very depressing too from a serious angle). They spent the whole season having every single thing go wrong and every plan be futile, and Avon wasn't exactly sane to start with, and he totally lost it in such a cold way... I mean its fun from one point of view, they never that I noticed broke premise or character to get to the utter depression, but from another... ouch!
I like my version of Blake taped off UK Gold better... actually I can't remember exactly how it went. I think it was "Blakes 7 will be back next week", and then you're left to wonder *how* exactly. But it could have been "Blakes 7 will be taking a break next week", and then is more a question of "No shit!"
I usually laugh at the everybody dies bit. I mean, okay, evil laugh of badness, and I shouldn't. But this time I was far more 'wah!' because I watched them all the way down and it was... You know, they tried, and they only screwed up in ways that seemed perfectly sensible at the time, and... Everybody dies!
Deeply depressing.
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