I got a 'user's manual' for the Liberator from someone on this site - I'm afraid I can't remember who. But it would be very useful if you wanted to build one.

Ah, I see Travisina has better information about it!

I like Soolin being the one deputed to tell Vila and Tarrant that they can't return to the base.

One thing I really love about this ep and which really lifts it, is the sullen Slave. Really good, and well -written.

She really comes into her own, doesn't she? Someone on FB at some time really challenged me about her, saying the character is useless and wooden, blah, blah, blah, but I like her sangfroid.

She really comes into her own, doesn't she? Someone on FB at some time really challenged me about her, saying the character is useless and wooden, blah, blah, blah, but I like her sangfroid.

Yes, I like that too. And ORAC is sounding more Ensor-like than he has for ages.

What is annoying me this time is the sound effects. Everything sounds a bit like stage thunder, which weems really inappropriate.

Avon: "You have to do better than that, Orac, if you expect me to kill them."

But then, when Orac reports: "Vila weighs 73 kilos", Avon has nothing to say?

Avon: "You have to do better than that, Orac, if you expect me to kill them."

But then, when Orac reports: "Vila weighs 73 kilos", Avon has nothing to say?

I love the design of these survival suits. Too bad the helmets are completely open at the base and so let in the nasties.

In Orbit, he saw a direct threat to his life. Here I think he believes in ORAC's warnings enough to be suspicious, but not enough to leave Vila and Tarrant to die.

I love the design of these survival suits. Too bad the helmets are completely open at the base and so let in the nasties.

Why do the space suits have those silly little fins on the helmets?

Dunno. I quite like them. To make them aerodynamic even though there's no air?

One thing I like about this episode is that we really get to see Scorpio and the base. It's a pit the base didn't feature in the user's manual. I liked the plans of Scorpio, though.

Exactamente.

Yes, how all the rooms relate to each other. Some idea of the layout comes in Warlord.

As a Vila fan, I find 'Orbit' VERY traumatic!

P.S. should have added about Xenon base that I'm fascinated by the Maidenhair fern.

I like to think of Soolin watering it carefully.

It's not a head, it's a jiffied-up motorcycle helmet.

Ah, but Avon doesn't know about motorcycle helmets.

I had boots like Soolin's only they were bronze – bought in one of the blackmarket towns in the mountains on the border of Syria and Lebanon. They have very distinctive folds in the leather.

Really? He's wearing motorcycle boots.

Finally!
Hello, sorry I'm late. Had a visitor who evidently didn't grasp the importance of B7 rewatches. Where are we? (Does it matter? Servalan's not in it).

Am now wondering what Soolin was doing buying boots in a blackmarket town ont he borders of Syria and Lebanon....

I'm sure my electrical engineer father would have chuckled at Avon climbing that tower and clipping the wires. It's quite funny – plus him chucking the clippers in typical Avon fashion.

They look very comfortable.

Yes, I always think 'now you're going to have to spend the next 10 minutes looking for those things'.