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City Hunter 2 - Reunion After Twenty Years: Please Look After my Sister, Mr. Saeba: Part 2

City Hunter (2024) // dir. Yuichi Sato

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There were 2 BBC radio dramas in the late 90's set in series 4, written by a Doctor Who writer who’d never actually seen Blake's 7, & it showed, as such I haven’t heard particularly good things about them. Beyond that, if I remember correctly there’s some sort of rights thing preventing Big Finish from using Soolin so they couldn’t do anything for series 4.

Lame. Soolin could potentially benefit from some extra stories.

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Thinking about Vila as I often do, in Sand "Funny aren’t I…if I died it’d be a real joke, who’d care…who cared about Cally…?" in Orbit…you know, his outburst in Warlord, Vila was just so throughly & utterly DONE with this shit in Series 4 & I would’ve loved a story exploring that.

They decided we needed Animals instead lmao.

On that note, it does make me wonder about how much of the media outside of the main show (i.e books and audio dramas) is set during the fourth series.

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"They Saved Hitler's Brain" (1968), considered one of the worst movies ever made, was frequently referenced in a running joke on the Simpsons.

It was referenced in a video game:

Hitler's head in a jar was a background gag on a few occasions:

Abraham Simpson, when he was the leader of the Fighting Hellfish, had a clear shot on Hitler, and said "now they'll never save your brain, Hitler!"

Hitler, it should be remembered, was the previous owner of Maggie's bear, Bobo, who he blamed in the bunker for his downfall:

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Oh man, no idea that Big Finish finally reissued their Sapphire and Steel audio dramas a few weeks ago. Nice.

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City Hunter: Bay City Wars (1990) // dir. Kenji Kodama

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I don’t mean to criticize General Zenobia but wouldn’t it just be less complicated to, I don’t know, throw small bombs at people?

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Demos from Changeman episode 7

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any blake's 7 fans

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I'm only going to respond to this at all for my followers.

This is absolutely a scam!

I've seen the same message crop up from different URLs, and a quick search of the person's URL as well as the tag #donation scam to see if anyone is talking about them confirms that this person has remade their blog quite a few times already.

Folks on Tumblr are generally very charitable (a good thing usually) and asking for money has become common, so it's very easy to present a story of someone in distress and make it look legit. The unfortunate reality is that most people who don't just make donation posts but also further go into random people's inboxes are likely scammers. Or even if by some slim chance they're not, they're not effective by being too invasive and overstepping normal donation etiquette, so they need to be told no and not have their actions encouraged.

If you have any doubts, look carefully at their blog, and also search their URL or scam tags to see if anyone else is having the same problem with them. Some scammers, like this one, may fill their blog with a bunch of stuff---reblogs, likes, etc.---to make it look legit at first glance, but their archive will reflect that they are a very new blog and likely made the account solely for the scam. (For this blog, they liked/reblogged a bunch of stuff and made a donation post a couple of days ago on the 18th but have no previous blog history beyond that.)

Here are some (likely not a complete list) of the other URLs this particular scammer recently went under that I pulled from other people's complaint posts:

strangeangelwinner, delicatesublimelizzardy, delicatesublimelizlzardyy, pleasantgiverdetective, psychiccandycollectionye, spookypersonasuit, spookykittygalaxy

Don't click any links on these scam blogs, instead just report them by pressing: User Icon/Meatball Menu -> Report -> Something Else -> Illegal uses or Content -> Phishing

This wonderful person, @kyra45, does good work on finding scam accounts. Give her blog a gander if you're wondering about a potential scammer!

Stay vigilant and save any money you want to donate to causes you know will help people, such as donation posts from your friends or mutuals, Gaza eSIMs, or other verified relief for Palestine!

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