Blake decides to destroy the Federation once and for all . He can achieve this by destroyin Control the Federation's main computer centre . If control is destroyed so will the Federation rule over the Galaxy but first he must meet the rebel leader on Earth Kasabi
This gets off to a great opening hook where a couple of rebel soldiers are killed trying to find a path in to the Control . It reminds the audience that if this was an episode of STAR TREK then nearly everyone in any episode of the show would be wearing a red shirt . What wouldn't so obvious is that sometimes a regular would also be wearing a red shirt too
Before we get to the surprising conclusion we go through the motions of so many episodes of having the crew contact a rebel group on Planet Earth , somewhere we haven't seen since the opening episode of the show and even only fleetingly and his episode goes in to a little bit more as to what life will be like in a Dystopian future created by Nation and script-editor Chris Boucher
The problem with being the good guys is that they're always written and played in an uninteresting manner and this episode is no different . That said there is a slightly different spin where one of the goodies is forced to work for the Federation only to find Servalan doesn't keep her end of the bargin. Apart from that they're some what lacking in charisma or even dubious misguided but empathetic fanaticism
Pressure Point also sees the demise of Gan who dies trying to save Blake . It says a lot about the production team who have to write for so many recurring characters week in week out and still keep plots and characters refreshing , but there's only so much that's possible . Gan has been the least interesting character of The Liberatotor crew he seemed surplus to creative requirement so he's the one for the chop and it was something of a shock watching this in 1979 realising a regular character had been killed . You certainly wouldn't get that in STAR TREK or DOCTOR WHO and that makes BLAKES 7 more edgy than its reputation years later suggests
This gets off to a great opening hook where a couple of rebel soldiers are killed trying to find a path in to the Control . It reminds the audience that if this was an episode of STAR TREK then nearly everyone in any episode of the show would be wearing a red shirt . What wouldn't so obvious is that sometimes a regular would also be wearing a red shirt too
Before we get to the surprising conclusion we go through the motions of so many episodes of having the crew contact a rebel group on Planet Earth , somewhere we haven't seen since the opening episode of the show and even only fleetingly and his episode goes in to a little bit more as to what life will be like in a Dystopian future created by Nation and script-editor Chris Boucher
The problem with being the good guys is that they're always written and played in an uninteresting manner and this episode is no different . That said there is a slightly different spin where one of the goodies is forced to work for the Federation only to find Servalan doesn't keep her end of the bargin. Apart from that they're some what lacking in charisma or even dubious misguided but empathetic fanaticism
Pressure Point also sees the demise of Gan who dies trying to save Blake . It says a lot about the production team who have to write for so many recurring characters week in week out and still keep plots and characters refreshing , but there's only so much that's possible . Gan has been the least interesting character of The Liberatotor crew he seemed surplus to creative requirement so he's the one for the chop and it was something of a shock watching this in 1979 realising a regular character had been killed . You certainly wouldn't get that in STAR TREK or DOCTOR WHO and that makes BLAKES 7 more edgy than its reputation years later suggests
