Sad news. I just last month watched all the way through Blake's 7, which I hadn't seen since I was a kid. Vila was always my favorite as a kid, and Keating still held up.

For me, it was always a two-hander between Avon and Vila. The sparks just flew whenever they were in a scene together.

Vila was the most relatable character though.

Avon was a hell of an anti-hero and Paul Darrow nailed the role. All my friends at school wanted to be Avon. And don't get me started on Servalan...

Avon and Servalan was the combo I liked seeing the most on screen. They had such great intellectual tension as they constantly tried to sniffed each other out. But, as you say, Vila was definitely the most relatable.