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Apr. 3rd, 2010 12:30 amIf The Middleman ever switched from Retro to Steampunk, Wendy Watson would look like this:
http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/2511600.html
Speaking of The Middleman, I'm writing a short review of comic books that continue where canceled television shows leave off for our store's website, and one of the three shows I'm covering is The Middleman. So I pulled out my unread copy of The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse, a comic book adaptation of the penultimate episode that wasn't shot because TPTB decided to take the money from that episode and double the budget for their final episode. Much to my surprise, the script is riddled with Blake's 7 references! In the annotations section of the comic -- for, indeed, all of The Middlemen comics and episodes come with annotations for the pop culture references -- the reason given for all the B7 refs is this:
"Blake's 7 is famous for featuring the single most depressing series finale in the history of science fiction television, so its repeated evocation seemed a good device to foreshadow the dark events in this story."
Fair enough!
I wish this episode had been filmed -- I think I'd have just about died when they broke into the Kerr-Avon Labs.
http://community.livejournal.com/steamfashion/2511600.html
Speaking of The Middleman, I'm writing a short review of comic books that continue where canceled television shows leave off for our store's website, and one of the three shows I'm covering is The Middleman. So I pulled out my unread copy of The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse, a comic book adaptation of the penultimate episode that wasn't shot because TPTB decided to take the money from that episode and double the budget for their final episode. Much to my surprise, the script is riddled with Blake's 7 references! In the annotations section of the comic -- for, indeed, all of The Middlemen comics and episodes come with annotations for the pop culture references -- the reason given for all the B7 refs is this:
"Blake's 7 is famous for featuring the single most depressing series finale in the history of science fiction television, so its repeated evocation seemed a good device to foreshadow the dark events in this story."
Fair enough!
I wish this episode had been filmed -- I think I'd have just about died when they broke into the Kerr-Avon Labs.
