Blake's 7: Powerplay

There's an awkwardness for me in these first few episodes of series three. On the one hand, I've always thought that there are too many characters in Blake's 7, with the obvious consequence that half of them never have anything to do - and here we are, in the opening episodes of the new series, acquiring two more. On the face of it this is a bad idea; and yet they're favourites of mine, so I can't really complain. They shouldn't have brought in any more people, and they should have left the title as erroneous as it's been most of the way along. And yet...

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