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A "Blake's 7" science-fiction adventure in which Avon and his crew decide to make one last planetary raid. If they take over the wealthy planet Syndexia, they could negotiate with the Federation, gain protection and settle down. But they discover that Servalan, their arch-enemy, is ahead of them.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Where to start? The characters are all spot on. Avon and Tarrant are particularly noteworthy. The story however is a turgid rehash of The SevenFold Crown. Replace the diadem with Syndeton and it's spookily identical.
What's all this hyperspace stuff anyway? Has Barry gotten the show mixed up with Babylon 5 perhaps?
For the fanatical devotees its worth getting if only to feed the obsessvie collective complex however the casual listener may wish to steer themselves towards The SevenFold Crown which is much better.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The first Blake's 7 audio adventure, The Sevenfold Crown, was pretty poor, but this follow up is far more successful, even if it only compares to the 'average' tv episodes. The plot itself is unremarkable, but the main joy is in the way it successfully recreates the style and feel of the TV episodes. Set somewhere in the show's last series, with most of the original cast it's an entertaining 60 minutes of space opera that is actually better than several episodes from that last series. Paul Darrow sounds a little older and gruffer but is still unmistakably Avon, Michael Keating and Jacqueline Pearce slip effortlessly back into their roles, although Stephen Pacey sounds strangely different as Tarrant. The two replacements for Dayna and Soolin are surprisingly convincing too. The script isn't really anything to shout about, but then Blake's 7 was really more about gung-ho space action and good characterization, than thought-provoking stories (although it did have a few of those too.) Overall, I would recommend The Syndeton Experiment to any Blake's 7 fan and it's a shame that there were no more audio adventures with the original cast after this.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Imagine if you could transfer your mind into a powerful, virtually indestructible robot body. As close to immortality as you could ever want!
An old idea by any standards but there is always life in any old concept. Sadly, despite nods to Capek and RUR, among other robotic nuances there is little to riase this story above the dreary.
If "Sevenfold Crown" made you reminisce about how good B7 was as a TV series then this particular audio adventure will make you pine for it even more so.
This is totally awful with few redeeming features. I wish there was a ZERO option for the ratings as this is so bad and such an insult the original series.
It takes effort to listen to this and simply refuses to get any better. It tales some of the ideas from the original series, throws them out and replaces them with lamer concepts eg Vila's affinity for adrenalin and soma is replaced by something almost akin to becoming a hardened chocoholic.
Forget this one and pray that there are no more from Barry Letts.
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