2hotFeature one of my absolute favorites!

PlatinumRead Just so...so bad

ClassyWas Excellent, smart action film.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Vlad_the_Reviewer === The Good Stuff ===Though the budget was very low, for me as a SF fan this had it all, including the best character development I've ever seen. It wasn't always about the bad empire and high-tech. The people in it actually made it. We see a bunch of completely different characters. They acted very nice I feel. Some of them convinced me totally.=== Synopsis ==='Blakes 7' is a four-season Science Fiction drama. It's about a handful of escaped convicts, a special space-ship and even a more special on-board computer. Blake is a former freedom-fighter, framed by the futuristic government. He becomes the leader of the bunch, mainly due to his personality. He'll use the ship and the crew to fight the leaders of the universe. But as he progresses, he needs to deviate often from his main objective: enter the adventures of 'Blake's 7'.=== Bad Stuff ===A minor criticism is the replacement of Blake: some youngster without charisma in my opinion. He has a loud voice, but that didn't convince me he has enough authority to be the Captain of the ship. BBC should have found an older actor with more charisma. Also, there are four episodes and each episode gets weaker and weaker. In my mind only episode 1 lives.=== Verdict ===In my previous review I gave it a perfect 10 stars. That's not entirely fair. I'll give it now 7 stars because the weak episodes were of a too low quality and the episodes got weaker and weaker.

Lars Madsen I know that's a bold statement, but you have to consider the players in the field; Star Trek (in all its incarnations) was very hit-or-miss, Babylon 5 took two seasons to warm up and the final season petered out, the old Battlestar Galactica was pretty dopey, and a thousand others did little to validate the credentials of sci fi for broadcast TV.Blake's 7 has rotten production values, sub-par special effects, terrible acting, major continuity problems, and many planet-side shots seem to have been shot in the same gravel quarry used by every BBC studio since time began.That being said, the show keeps you riveted from the start, since you can't honestly say which of the main characters are going to survive from episode to episode. There's very little altruism here; the more ruthless characters leave each other hanging almost as a rule. Great fun.

phuture-1 I was 8 when i first saw this A show called Blake's 7 and Blake is hardly even in it. Through fate and misfortune, that in itself is sheer class.Avon , master of dark wit and sarcasm Servalan , erm , yes please , she introduced some very dark conceptsat perhaps too early an age :) Orac, way ahead of its time, we only just started getting transparent boxes for our pcs recently. The best noise ever from a computerSets are cheap, and i kinda like that , its very of its timeLiberator is a great ship design , well i'd have one put it that wayThe stories aren't all that , but the beauty lies in the dialogue and relationships between the main characters and their unwillingness to do almost anything unless really pushedGreat show imo

Alex-372 The television of my childhood. Very camp, very entertaining, virtually no budget at all, and yet the best episodes were extremely involving.The take Blake's 7 took on the Star Trek theme, was to put Robin Hood in outer space. The theme is reasonably simple. A cast of seven outlaws, led by Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas), are on the run from "The Federation", an intergalactic superstate that wants to control all it's citizens. The crew consists of the brooding leader Blake, hot chicks (for the seventies) Cally and the blond Jenna, the cold and machiavellian Avon and the Little John like giant Gan and his wimpy buddy Vila. The seventh member of the crew is the ever present square box computer (a novelty at the time) Zen (later: Orac, as in Oracle).Bad guys are the killer lady Servalan, and her slaveboy Travis (complete with eye patch).This was pretty much compulsive viewing for me when it came out in 1978. Even then, the cheapness of some sets was apparent, but at the best of times, the themes they could come up with were eerie and suspenseful. I loved it anyway. But then, 1978 was a different time, and seems like a world away.