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Posted by speckx 1 hour ago

Michael Keating has died(www.bigfinish.com)
42 points | 22 comments
card_zero 1 hour ago|
There was some graffiti near me that said "bring back Blake's 7". It appeared in the mid 80s, and lasted about 30 years. It was like a landmark. Eventually they did bring back Blake's 7, and it unfortunately wasn't any good, and the graffiti has faded and vanished now. Farewell, Vila.
dhosek 57 minutes ago||
That’s just a perfect story.
busterarm 21 minutes ago||
> Eventually they did bring back Blake's 7, and it unfortunately wasn't any good

huh? They only announced the reboot in January.

simonh 5 minutes ago||
There were some radio dramas or something.
Angostura 13 minutes ago||
Today I Learned Vila's second name. RIP
endoblast 57 minutes ago||
Vila 'There isn't a lock I can't open if I'm scared enough' Restal was one of the finest sci-fi characters on British telly. The caustic exchanges between him and Avon were priceless.

> Michael was asked whether Vila could cope living in a society stripped of all technology [..] His answer was entirely in character: "I'm sure he would survive. As long as he could make fire, keep warm and meet a young lady. He'd learn a lot about the trees on the planet, build a little hut. It would be wonderful."

I'm not sure that is entirely in character. There's a marvellous episode 'The City at the Edge of the World' where Vila is the main focus of the story. He is given more or less the very opportunity described above and he turned it down:

KERRIL Are you coming with me? VILA I can't. KERRIL Why not? It's a chance to be free. You saw that place, it's beautiful. VILA But there's nothing there worth stealing [..] a thief isn't what I am, it's WHO I am.

https://www.hermit.org/b7/Episodes/scripts/City-EOTW.html

Michael Keating also did a cameo in 'Micro Men' which can be watched on YouTube.

Rest in peace.

bryanrasmussen 27 minutes ago|
turning down an option does not necessarily mean you can't cope with that option.
dylan604 24 minutes ago||
That was my thought when reading it as well. It wasn't the only option and he chooses to continue with everything else. The real question would be if the everything else suddenly vanished, would he be able to cope then?
saltyoldman 41 minutes ago||
PSA: Keat[ing] was an english actor. Michael Keat[on] (batman) has not died.
jagged-chisel 8 minutes ago||
he was Mr Mom first fyi
charlieo88 29 minutes ago||
That was my first thought.
MattCruikshank 1 hour ago||
That's a bummer.

I'll admit that, at first, I thought this said Michael Keaton. And oddly enough, Michael Keaton's real name is Michael Douglas. So, there's a whole spiral of madness that my brain went off into.

rz2k 1 hour ago|
I assume it was changed so there wouldn’t be a name collision with Issur Danielovitch’s son?
bragr 1 hour ago||
Yeah looks like Micheal Douglas was using that name professionally about decade before Michael Keaton started his career so union rules would require an alternate name.
dhosek 53 minutes ago||
Yep, that’s also why Michael J. Fox isn’t merely Michael Fox. I like to imagine that at some time in the 25th century or so, actors will end up having names that sound like generic pharmaceuticals because all the names will have been used already.

(As an aside, when Michael Douglas first attained prominence in the early 80s, I thought briefly that he was maybe the 70s daytime talk show host, Mike Douglas.)

madcaptenor 37 minutes ago||
Michael J. Fox's middle name is Andrew. But he didn't want to be Michael A. Fox because that sounded too much like "Michael, a fox."
addedGone 36 minutes ago||
cant access the website OP.
SirFatty 22 minutes ago|
Time to retire your NetZero dialup account.
addedGone 19 minutes ago||
but how will I watch all that ASCII pr0n from my minitel? :(
pixel_popping 47 minutes ago|
If webmaster is around, maybe let's adjust a bit the dictatorship? Can't browse (no privacy setup for this visit, just VPN)

Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access bigfinish.com

Edit: Works with privacy setup (Residential proxy + Spoofed fingerprints).

boca_honey 32 minutes ago|
It's really weird you go straight to "dictatorship" when talking about a regular security feature of most websites.

Most people don't use VPNs, nevermind spoofed fingerprints, etc. The problem is on your side.

pixel_popping 25 minutes ago||
I understand that some users are alright giving their browsing history to ISPs (it does, even with TLS 1.3 and DoH and so-on due to correlation but it's out of place here) but this is HN where I would believe that most have very basic security principles applied and we are also talking about tech, so it's relevant (VPN isn't for privacy, it's for basic security, it's unsafe to let ISPs resell history with identity attached).

If we don't point it out, how can we expect a change and respect users that don't want to be KYCed when browsing a website?