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    Babylon 5 Fan Films

    That link didn't lead to anything concerning fanfilms, it was about the Hyperion picking up a signal while in hyperspace. Anyway, assuming that's roughly the same date as the conversation with JMS about fanfilms, then it's twenty years old. A lotta' lotta' lotta' stuff has changed since then...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    Ok. I'll try that.
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    How would you reboot B5?

    Ubik said >>>Good point. I suppose it really depends where JMS mind is at as to the ‘reboot’. Logically, I would assume he want to use this as a fresh start, so he can set a new baseline and then expand on it from there. The film could lead into a new TV series, with WB blessing, or it could be...
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    How would you reboot B5?

    @ Ubik Space Battleship Yamato is pretty awesome. The live-action movie is a little too long and a little too talkie, and perhaps a littel too influenced by the RDM Galactica, but I came out of it dropjawed because of how low my expectations were (I read the Disney treatment fro 20 years ago...
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    How would you reboot B5?

    Which raises the question we've all been avoiding: Do we wanna even call it Babylon 5? Would the name recognition even help at this point, or would it be a hinderance as we're kinda' on the ash heap of pop culture history? Might be best to just call it something completely new, and assume no...
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    How would you reboot B5?

    Ubik....that's....wow. That's pretty damn good! I'm impressed, I genuinely am. In however many years I've been tooling around on here - what, four, five? Anyone know? - that's the best proposal I've read. In 2010 they did a live-action version of "Space Battleship Yamato" in Japan. The task...
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    B5 Feature Film to be scriptedTRUE! There will be a feature film going into productio

    Like I said above, I'll go see it whatever happens. That said, I instantly started protecting myself becuse I don't think it's going to happen, and I'm tired of getting my heart broken. A German friend of mine who was absolutely vastly passionately more obsessive about B5 than I once said...
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    My Kid's Reboot

    [In Wendys] "Hey, Dad, are they still talking about a B5 reboot, or have they abandoned it already?" "Still talking as far as I know." "Wanna' hear my idea?" "Always." "Ok, I've decided there's too many aliens." "I think I speak for all of us when I say I didn't see that one coming." "Think...
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    How would you reboot B5?

    I just don't like Franke. I just don't. Even at his best, with other people, I think he's weak. I don't like Hans Zimmer at all. Alf Claussen, though...! <G> Bear is a much more well-rounded composer than you'd think, if you check out his soundtracks for other shows. Basically he picked up a...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    Let's just chalk it up to the low class of people I hang out with, but the local fans were pretty emphatic about how great it was. "Believers" at least was trying to make a point, and I think it *DID* make it, it was just rather ham-fisted and an unpopular point. TKO had the scenes with...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    Springer said: >>That's going to be a... controversial statement! I mean personally I don't have a strong opinion on the episode – I think it's fine, some interesting character moments, some fun parts, competently written although not necessarily my favourite episode, but to put it on a list...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    Quotes thing isn't working. Ubik said "JMS has talked about being a bit burnt out when Crusade got going, but I can imagine he must have been under a lot of pressure and very tired by the time they got S5 off the ground. When you look at the odds he was up against, it’s a wonder S5 is as good...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    QUote thing is down again. Anway, Springer said: "At the Blackpool convention in 97 just before the start of season five JMS had all his notes for season 5 thrown out by hotel cleaning staff – maybe that contributed to having to rush to put together the opening episodes." I agree, and it...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    The quoting system's gone all wonky, so we'll do this the old fashioned way: UBIK said: "‘Infection’ was the one episode that stopped a close friend of mine from watching the show. It’s why I sometimes use a ‘abridged’ season one approach sometimes. After that episode he declared he ‘couldn’t...
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    I Have A New WORST B5 Episode, and it is....

    Sadly, Sinclair's performance kills that episode. HIs tone is all off, and it asks us to assume too much that doesn't make sense. The idea that a bumbling oaf like Londo has secrets that could actually bring down the government is unbelievable at that point in the series. Yeah, if Trakis simply...
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