History Recap / BlakesSevenS2E5PressurePoint

* FailedaSpotCheck: A pretty egregious one. Servalan in a gorgeous white dress with two mutiods stands twenty meters above the line of advance of the resistance fighters. They walk right past them - some even seem to be walking in their direction up the hill and STILL fail to see them!

* BBCQuarry: Averted (it is Earth, after all); apparently the Forbidden Zone is in a woodland in Oxfordshire.

* SchizoTech: An ultramodern control room is hidden inside a thatched cottage.

-->'''Blake:''' I want to hit at the heart. And the heart of the Federation is Earth.
-->'''Jenna:''' Where, exactly, or do you plan to take the whole planet?

-->'''Vila:''' I don't want to go.
-->'''Avon:''' You surprise me.
-->'''Vila:''' I don't feel well. I'm going to be a big handicap.
-->'''Avon:''' I'm used to that.

-->'''Travis:''' They'll dig us out eventually.
-->'''Servalan:''' Oh, yes. They'll dig us out eventually. And then I'll bury you!

** As Servalan has to go all the way to the High Council to get the Forbidden Zone deactivated, she warns Travis that they'll both be held responsible if he fails again. As Blake does in fact escape, the next episode has Travis being on trial for his life thanks to Servalan's machinations, so he can't be a witness against her.

* EconomyCast: Travis has just two mutoids aiding him. He refuses reinforcements because he wants to kill Blake himself, but it looks particularly ridiculous when these two single-handedly wipe out an armed rebel column (compare the number of mutoids and Security troops Travis has in "Project Avalon"). The lack of security also enables Servalan to be captured because she has no-one to protect her.

* AnyoneCanDie: Gan is the first but not the last member of the Seven to get killed.

* ArmourPiercingSlap: Servalan slaps Travis for hesitating to let Blake go [[ItsAllAboutMe to ensure her own safety.]]

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Servalan slaps Travis for hesitating to let Blake go [[ItsAllAboutMe to ensure her own safety.]]

* ForbiddenZone: Control is located inside a Forbidden Zone protected by automated defenses, which no-one can enter without the authorization of the Federation High Council.

* ManipulativeBastard: Blake knew his crew would object to their landing on Earth, which is why he mislead them "just a little" by saying they were just going to make a quick recon pass to check out the defenses at long range (Avon of course never believed a word of it). When Blake discovers that Kasabi has been killed along with all her men, he fails to pass on this information to the others back on the Liberator.

-->'''Blake:''' Two hundred years ago, when the Federation began [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression expansion and conquest]], the Administration established a computer complex to monitor information: political, civil, military -- everything! That computer is the nerve center of ALL Federation activity. Smashing that would be the biggest single step toward the destruction of their power. [[DecapitatedArmy I don't think they would ever recover from it.]]

** Blake leaves Veron underground inside the Forbidden Zone, instead of teleporting her out with them and setting her down elsewhere. Servalan has turned off the defenses, but he doesn't know that.
* PointDefenseless: Control has resisted all attempts to destroy it with OrbitalBombardment or ground assault, but Blake thinks he can infiltrate with a small band of rebels, using Avon's skill with computers and Vila's with locks.

* AbsoluteCleavage: Servalan has a white dress with a jeweled lizard clutching at her exposed cleavage.

* BeingWatched
-->'''Vila:''' I've the feeling we're being watched.
-->'''Avon:''' ''[SlasherSmile]'' Automatic scanners [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou will have picked us up as soon as we got here]].

-->'''Avon:''' So you've made contact with Kasabi?
-->'''Blake:''' No, not yet.
-->'''Avon:''' Then everything is ''not'' alright.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech

-->'''Travis:''' That is no concern of mine.
-->'''Kasabi:''' Then it should be. It should be everyone's concern. The Federation is degenerate, run by creatures like her.
* RebelLeader

* CrazyEnoughToWork: Blakes says they still have the element of surprise, as with the rebel column destroyed no-one would be expecting another attack so soon. Even Gan thinks he's trying to justify himself, but goes along anyway.

* AbsenteeActor: Orac is mentioned but has no role in the episode.

* MoreExpendableThanYou: Gan's FamousLastWords are "Go. I'm not worth dying for!"

* FamousLastWords:
-->'''Gan:''' Go, I'm not worth dying for.

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: Veron is cooperating with the Federation to save her mother, not knowing that Servalan has already killed her.