What! You’re not wearing a black eyepatch tonight! What sort of B7 fan are you…. LOL

I like this episode - it's much the best one in the first half of series 4, I think. A lot of nice details.

Down here they’ve started giving the flu and Covid in one jab. I’m guessing you can probably get them separately and a couple of weeks apart if you ask but for the most part they are now one jab.

Hi Anne
Glad to hear that the trials and tribulations are sorting themselves. I like this episode too, for all those details. Too many people get bogged down with Avon's tunic (which, ages ago, we determined must have been bought at Space KMart) and Sleer's make-up. Furthermore, I love the uniforms, the pointy sideburns AND Servie's new look.

Finally, a use for the ones we get in Christmas crackers!

Down here they’ve started giving the flu and Covid in one jab. I’m guessing you can probably get them separately and a couple of weeks apart if you ask but for the most part they are now one jab.

One wonders how many scores Servalan settled in the 'confusion' of the war. More than 26, I imagine.

One wonders how many scores Servalan settled in the 'confusion' of the war. More than 26, I imagine.

The answer to the first part of the Avon's tunic thing is that Tarrant and Dayna take them from the trussed-up Helots. The Helot got his from Space KMart.

On the contrary, I think that, once she had established herself, she only had to kill a few. I think the Federation being a totalitarian regime, people have got very used to not seeing anything to which their attention is not specifically drawn. So, if a 'Commissioner Sleer' shows up saying that she is definitely not Servalan, then . . . she is definitely not Servalan. A lot of people must know - or suspect - that she is, really, but they won't say anything.

A lot of people seem to find her new identity unrealistic - but I find it a very chilling example of how the Federation works.

The Helots don't strike me as being very fashion conscious.

The Helots don't strike me as being very fashion conscious.

Oh look, it's Peter Sellers doing a cross between Dr. Strangelove and Davros.

Nice reasoning, and I agree, but I was thinking more about the 'establishing herself' part.

There's been a war. Rationing, utility designs etc.

One was. Before he was adapted he opted for the same navy blue leather as Avon did in S2/B.

Ah - you mean to say that he was wearing something that was fashionable at least two years before?

Ah - you mean to say that he was wearing something that was fashionable at least two years before?

Reuse, recycle, revolt!

But Pylene is a stroke of luck for her - she's too useful for many questions to be asked.

And Tarrant borrows it in order to look like a local.

Servalan makes her own 'luck'.

Reuse, recycle, revolt!

Who knew? Pink, green and silver cachous will reverse the effects of Pylene 50. If only they worked on bronchitis.

They look like cake decorations.

Why different colours, though? Adults, children? Or does Forbus have an artistic streak?

Jacqueline Pearce didn't like the eye make-up because she thought it made her look like a drag queen, but I think it goes very nicely with Servie's new identity. I'd love the whole outfit.

Really? She does look increasingly like a drag queen as the series progresses, but it's not really the eye make-up that is the deciding factor.

'Helots' has always bothered me. Apparently a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, between citizens and slaves.

Hang on - when did Dayna and Tarrant change their clothes?