Recent content by raindog

I pay $60 for digital cable with HBO, Showtime, TMC, IFC and Sundance. I ponied up starting last January for Oz and Six Feet Under on HBO, and for Queer as Folk and Stargate on Showtime. It was the same price to get just HBO and Showtime, or those two plus the indie channels and digital cable...

If showtimeonline.com won't let you connect to it directly, try using a public proxy like anonymizer.com's free service. The only drawback is that generally, if you view pages with it one day (or for that matter, if a lot of other people do) and come back the next, they'll be "for subscribers...

The best way to sum up Franke vs. Chen is that Franke is the Blade Runner soundtrack, and Chen is The Killing Fields. Listen to just the music from all four and I think you'll get my drift. As it happens, I liked the Killing Fields soundtrack much better I also like Crusade's music a lot...

Actually, there are standalone DVD players that display artifacts due to a poor MPEG decoder. The early Apexes and the old pay per view Divx players are two examples I've seen firsthand. With computers, there are so many variables that I just assume it's going to be pixelated and if not, so...

The two series both grew from the same seed of story. Neither series exactly resembles what Joe appears to have had in mind (captain goes back in time in the final episode to become the god associated with the alien legends about him) because both series were shot in the real world. But look...

I always found a kind of funny symmetry in that B5 and Lexx, opposite ends of the space opera spectrum, both produced four MOW's in the late 90's and in both cases, 1 and 4 were great and 2 and 3 kinda blew. ------------------

Turns out there were still a few copies out there on the web, not hidden at all, but finding them would be like that "14 words to make anyone fall in love with you" thing. Easy if you already know the words... ------------------

Re: If you don\'t have a Nielsen box I'd heard that digital cable and satellite receivers were going to automatically include anything you watch in the ratings figures, as they're reported back to the cable/satellite company, but I don't know whether it's happening yet. We've been a Nielsen...

Actually, one of the short stories from B5 Magazine <table bgcolor=black><tr><td bgcolor=black><font size=1 color=white>Spoiler:</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2 color=black> sort of shows us "Vorlon minions". If I understood the plot summary of The Nautilus Coil correctly, we meet...

Based on where I *think* jms was taking the series, this is how the characters fall, most to least important: Gideon Galen Lochley Matheson Dureena Eilerson Chambers In my own preference it's Galen, Gideon, Dureena, everyone else, and then Lochley would be dead last, but if the underlying...

I think this ties in with part of my "Rangers wishlist" reply over on the other board. Specifically, <table bgcolor=black><tr><td bgcolor=black><font size=1 color=white>Spoiler:</font></td></tr><tr><td><font size=2 color=black> we don't see them wearing chrysales in the Centauri trilogy, so...

Both B5 Magazine and Amazing Stories show up on ebay frequently, though right now none of the issues with B5 short stories seem to be out there. If you can attend a con with B5 guests, that may be your best bet right now. Some comic book stores may carry that stuff too. I'd also recommend...

It just occurred to me how side-splittingly hilarious the idea of a "writer's cut" would be to anyone who knows Hollywood. Sorry about any soaked keyboards or screens ------------------

I had completely forgotten about City of Sorrows; that and the Cavelos book were the only two standalone B5 novels that I think are worth anything, but it's been years since I read it. I should pull it out again now that B5 is kind of coming back to life a little. (The Cavelos one is kind of...

That would actually be "executive producer's cut" since I don't think Joe directed any episodes of Crusade. Unfortunately, most of TNT's interference seems to have taken place between the writing and the shooting, making a "writer's cut" (which I think is what you're really after) impossible...