Enough About Me ...

Vila is the comic relief in this vintage sci-fi brit series, Blakes 7 . I would say brit-com, but the com part is really stretching it. It's really a brit-dram. Vila is one of those characters tossed in to say the funny lines or set up the snappy remarks by the cool characters, (e.g. Avon). There is a small chance that Vila is actually funny and it is the actor who is messing everything up. Some examples of funny Vila lines:
"Don't leave me here! At least leave me a torch. I don't like the dark. I like to see what I'm scared of."
"I hate personal violence, especially when I'm the person."
"I don't mind rough. It's fatal I'm not keen on!"
These one liners remind me of something written on a gift from the Hallmark store or a dusty find at a gift shop in Kentucky that involves a stuffed, shellacked frog holding a fishing line. As much as the actor might suck - and he pretty much does, the lines would flop no matter what the delivery was. I think.
Here's one of his setups that I actually do like
Vila: I've got this shocking pain right behind the eyes.
Avon: Have you considered amputation?
Oh Vila, you cheeky lovable outlaw you. I suppose you did the best you could in a series that carried out an entire season without the Blake character - yes, that is Blake, as in Blakes 7, went missing one year. I'm even doubtful that there were ever seven . Having All In The Family where it's actually not all in the family because Archie Bunker isn't in the show, just wouldn't happen in American Television. I loves me some British TV.