Recent content by RMcD

I believe the Markab homeworld was recently vacated.. Besides, we saw at least two earthlike planets in Crusade with tiny human colonies on them.

I liked Byron, both the actor and the dialogue. What bothered me more about those early S5 episodes was that many of the regular cast started acting like they'd been lobotomised. Byron was a welcome diversion.

I've never seen any of his movies, but I was a little shaken because he was the same age as me. And I had been looking forward to the new Batman in any case as the previous one was quite decent. But it does sound like it was self-inflicted, even if it was a mistake.

My memory is hazy, did Anna Sheridan and the team that dug up the shadow vessel on Mars actually work for IPX or were those digs just funded by them? If the latter, is it possible that IPX started out as a shell company that the EA bioweapons division used to provide funding for archaeological...

I like Byron.. Never had a problem with the character, hair, dialogue or actor. I'm not so keen on the string of episodes he appears in, but more because I think they're clunkily constructed, underambitious, and make poor use of the series regulars (especially Sheridan and Delenn), while more or...

Given how Sheridan spends so much time in 'In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum' running around shouting at everybody about how Morden is already dead, legally speaking, I assumed it was Morden right up until JMS contradicted it. And I think I agree with KoshFan that it makes more sense for it to be...

He did promise way way back that we would see the Vorlon homeworld in Series 5. Which, of course, we did.

There are some pretty good storytelling reasons for the designs of the ships not to vary too much in those scenes.. If that establishing shot of 1,000 years ago had featured completely unrecognisable Minbari ships, the casual viewer might have ended up confused, especially as the glimpse we...

Yeah, I thought fish too, like the original Minbari ships. Only one of those tropical fish with whiskers, perhaps, instead of one of those tall skinny ones. Although from a distance the silhouette is maybe a little similar to the Scimitar from Star Trek: Nemesis..

Why are they still using Starfuries? Well, the original Starfury cockpit happened to be among the few props that were still knocking around, and they were able to dust it off and transport it to Vancouver.. (Sorry, I know I'm not really getting into the spirit of this).

That contrivance to get him into a Starfury seemed a little strained - as if John McCain was elected President, then badgered by the press to fly to his inauguration in a Vietnam-era Skyhawk, and Prince Harry flew his wing because he once read a book about US jet planes..

The Drakh attack Earth in A Call to Arms because humans are seen as having led the other races against the Shadows, even though Earth itself had nothing to do with defeating them and had in fact colluded with them. That seems no less tenuous.

Somehow the phrase Deus Ex Machina seems really appropriate in this case.

That sounds something like what they did when Oliver Reed died midway through filming of Gladiator. And sometimes I think it's done well, as in this advert for Virgin Pendolino trains: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hozCKWDOk9c

I wouldn't mind if the Crusade sets had to be rebuilt.. I don't think they'd hold up so well now. I know they were technically better than the B5 sets (they had ceilings!), and that certain areas like the bridge were an unusual shape, but they always struck me as flat (perhaps something to do...