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Blake's 7 - Terminal / Rescue [VHS]

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The next vol. of Blake's 7 entitled TERMINAL and RESCUE

In the epsidoe entitled TERMINAL
Avon has been avoding the crew. The few times Avon has been corned by any of the crew he has threaten to kill them. The only clue they have is the heading for the planet called Terminal. What little to know of the planet is that it was man made and it seems that Avon is going alone. Avon goes down and finds a Federation base and there he finds....Blake. The others begin to worry so Tarrant and Cally head down as well. But Dayna and Villa are being attacked by some kind of space leech that is killing Liberator. Avon soon finds out it is a trap by Servalan she wants nothing more then the Liberator. Avon not knowing what is happening to the Liberator begins a deadly bargin that may or may not work out. This marks a truly sad point in the series with the loss of the Liberator and marking a darker turn in the universe of Blake's 7 that no one would ever thought of.
In the next epsidoe entitled RESCUE
The Liberator is destoyed even worse the base that Avon and the others were in has just exploded with Cally still in it. Avon, Villa, Tarrant,Dayna and Orac have nothing, no weapons and very little chance to live. The life on Terminal is dangerous but all seems not lost a ship lands and a salvage operator named Dorian comes to the rescue. Soon on board the ship Scorpio they head to where Dorian lives and works. But all seems not to be as Dorain has a vast complex and seems to be getting older by the second. Even his compaion the trigger happy Soolin seems to wonder what is going on. Have Avon and the others found themselves in a trap that not even the federation could have come up with. If so then who is springing the trap?

A welcome "return" (?) of a missing central character in Terminal in a well written episode. Should the series have ended with this episode? No. There are darker sides to come in series 4 ...

All right, so this isn't really a happy ending either. (the show wasn't really a 'happy ending' kind of series) The problem with Blake's 7, after this volume, is that it becomes ever darker and darker and more reliant upon needless violence to flesh out many of the stories to the required time. This is a pity, too, because Blake's 7 (up to this point) always seemed to me how the BBC would have done Star Trek, had they been asked to produce it. While it is fun, in a series, to see all your favorite characters 'doing it all again, one more time', watching the way that season 4 destroys the characters and everything that they've worked for almost makes one wish that the BBC hadn't extended the show the extra season. On the other hand, perhaps I am just being morbid. Watch the remaining episodes if you wish, but mark my words: it will all just end in tears.

"Terminal" should have been the final episode of this series. Written by series creator Terry Nation, this episode contains surprises and a satisfying ending to the saga of the crew of the Liberator. However, the BBC decided to bring the series back for one more season and with Nation in Los Angeles, the series was left in the hands of script editor Chris Boucher. In "Rescue," the premiere episode of the fourth and final season, Boucher strikes again with a plot that starts off well, but once again offers a disappointing ending. Plus, the characters take on their darkest natures under Boucher's pen and it is hard to root for them during his episodes. This video is essential for all Blake's fans as it features the end of one era and introduces the crew for the final season.