Year: 2009

There’s a general opinion that all the women on classic 70s/80s BBC sci-fi show Blake’s 7 – with the exception of the evil Servalan – were a bit rubbish. To a certain extent, that’s true: Cally, Jenna and even Dayna had a certain “not very good” quality to them. 

However, in the fourth series, along came Glynis Barber (later to become Makepeace in Dempsey and Makepeace) as gunslinger Soolin and changed all of that by basically kicking arse a lot and not once getting kidnapped, tied up, etc.

She also had a very dry wit to match Avon’s:

Vila: Why do I get all the dirty jobs?
Soolin: Typecasting?

Soolin: All sweet things have one thing in common: a tendency to make you sick.

Soolin: I really could be quite annoyed if I thought we’d been the bait in a trap you’d laid, Avon.

Orac: Join us, Soolin. We can fulfil your every desire.
Soolin: You wouldn’t know where to start.

[after Soolin slaps Piri’s face]
Tarrant: You enjoyed that, didn’t you?
Soolin: There are two classic ways of dealing with an hysterical woman. You didn’t really expect me to kiss her, did you?
Tarrant: Of course, you know what this is about, don’t you? It’s simple female jealousy.
Soolin: Oh, terrific. If two men don’t like each other that’s a rational judgement. If it’s two women what else could it be but jealousy?

Anyway, someone took all her best action/looking slinky in a jumpsuit bits, stuck them to a soundtrack of Suede’s ‘Killer’ in an artistic kind of way and turned them into a music video. God bless him, that’s all I say, although it’s a shame you don’t get to hear any dialogue.

I think I might have to have a lie down now.