Babylon 5

kmguru

kmguru

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I got the DVD set of the third season as gift. Loved it again. Looked better than my commercial laced privately recorded VHS tapes.

I still wonder why no one has stepped up to the plate to start a similarly high quality major arc series? Are we out of human talents these days or the young ones lack imagination?
 
You want a five year arc? How about Farscape? Farscape was about to go onto it's last season, season five, and then it was canceled.
 
That was not my fault. If they could have made and sold it directly to the DVD, I would have bought it (I was hooked). I guess there are not very many intelliegent people out there to justify such production.

If I had the money, I could start a direct to DVD 4 parter and sell it to millions of DVD player-owners....once hooked....
 
I wish Babylon 5 had gone onto better things. I really didn't like Excalibur. It was too Star Trekish. Babylon 5 was great because it was great characters, stories, and relationships, it just HAPPENED to be Scifi which made it cooler. If you noticed, most races on the show were an exact duplicate or some combinations of earth cultures through history. I loved that show. To me, its the closest to a real possibility for a future.

-AntonK
 
I'm a huge fan of B5. My season 3 DVD box set is autographed by Stephen Furst (Vir), Bill Mumy (Lennier) and Brad Dourif (Brother Edward in "Passing Through Gethsemane"). I grin stupidly every time I pull it out, remembering my geeky excitement when I got the autographs :)

Anyway, I don't know why there've been no other attempts at a show with a long-term story, the way B5 was. Possibly because it's not very feasible -- using Farscape as an example, even when a network contracts for a certain number of seasons (as SciFi did for Farscape seasons 4 and 5), that network can exercise their option to back out of the contract at their discretion. Simply put, there's no way to guarantee that the story will have enough time to be told. I imagine, then, that the prospect of trying to create something with a lengthy arc is a bit daunting, and might even seem like a waste of time when one could instead be working on a lesser, but more likely to be aired, project.
 
The reason network would not go for such a series is because networks are dead. The only channels that are any good are cable channels - HBO, Showtime, Sci-Fi, USA etc. One would expect the network would like to compete - but they go by quarterly results. So anything that lasts more than a quarter - is subject to cancellation.

OR, there may not be any imaginations left with MBAs.
 
Honey, how did you manage to get it signed? Did you meet them at a Con? If so, then you are most awesome.

I'd have the box sets if I had extra money. Unfortunatly I'm a bigger Farscape fan then I am B5 fan. But B5 is my second favorite show. Ahhh. *Dreams of Susan Ivonava*
 
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Hey Counsler, it was indeed at a con, this past DragonCon in Atlanta. It was very cool :) I also met Mira Furlan, who I'm afraid I wanted to bitchslap because she was obnoxious, and Walter Koenig. I'm also into Farscape and met David Franklin, Lani Tupu, Anthony Simcoe and Jonathan Hardy. They are crazy Aussie wildmen who I think partied terrifically hard during the con :D

And I too appreciate Ivanova, in a big way. Aahhh yes, I've had plenty of impure thoughts about the lovely commander....
 
I seriously miss that show so much. I watch TV and I'm so disappointed by whats out there now. B5 didn't have as much flash and pizzaz as some did. It's CG was good, good enough to tell the story and show us things that don't truly exist (yet). I'd love to meet the cast at a con sometime. Ivonova is indeed quite hot! Sad to hear that about Mira Furlan, she seemed so nice on the show (good actress I guess). Maybe she was just having a bad day...we all have them.

-AntonK
 
Honey,

You went to DragonCon! I hate you! I hate you sooo much. I didn't have a car, nor the money to go. And I wanted to go so badly. Johnathan Hardy has got to be my favorite Character, well, VOICE, on Farscape.

And I too appreciate Ivanova, in a big way. Aahhh yes, I've had plenty of impure thoughts about the lovely commander....
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I thought you were a girl?
 
Honey still may be...wouldn't be the first time here on SciForums

-AntonK

PS - I am loving the Quick Reply ... even if you don't CC
 
Ack, what a week!

Counsler, it's too bad you couldn't make it to DragonCon, as it was quite great! It was my first con in ~8 years and I must say, I really got my geek on *insert dork smiley*

Hardy was totally like Rygel only funnier, in his demeanor and his answers during panels. If I looked away while he was talking, it was very easy to imagine a puppet on a little upholstered hoversled instead of a guy *hahaha*

AntonK, you are of course correct and I would guess she was indeed just having a bad day. By all accounts, she's a very sweet woman. I was never so crazy about her character, though, that the thought of slapping her around a little didn't appeal.... ;)

CounslerCoffee said:
I thought you were a girl?
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You thought correctly.
 
Honey said:
My season 3 DVD box set is autographed by Stephen Furst (Vir), Bill Mumy (Lennier) and Brad Dourif (Brother Edward in "Passing Through Gethsemane"). I grin stupidly every time I pull it out, remembering my geeky excitement when I got the autographs :)
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/em falls dead of jalousy on the spot.

oooo man that's awesome for you :)
 
kmguru said:
I still wonder why no one has stepped up to the plate to start a similarly high quality major arc series? Are we out of human talents these days or the young ones lack imagination?
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J.Michael Straczynski recently pitched an idea to the rodenberry estate(er, or whoever owns the rights to star trek) for the next star trek, supposedly he has it all figured out how the franchise can be saved. Good news if something comes of it.

I love B5 as well, quality Sci-fi at it's best
 
I can't remember if it's been mentioned here or not, but Richard Biggs, who played the doctor, passed away a couple months back.

JMS has been working on a script for a new B5 movie called "The Memory of Shadows", as I understand it, bu Biggs' death has forced some re-writes and there's no release date at the moment, I don't think.
 
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