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[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...

Just as a thought experiment, how would you reboot B5, if it were up to you? What would you keep from the original show? What would you jettison? What would you invent? How would you recast it? What format would it be in? Would it be a modern netflix heavy-arc like "House of Cards," or use the...

I recently purchased a used couch which had the first 5 episodes of season 8 of Dr. Who wedged in the cushions. I immediately called the police for this copyright violation, but as it took a long time for them to get here, I went ahead and read 'em anyway. I won't give you any specifics or any...

Hey, everybody! Shameless self-promotion time: My fourth book, "The Bones of an Angel," is now published and available at smashword: (Here: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/433927 ) and on Amazon (Here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00K348VGI ) It's downloadable for Kindle or any other...

Hey, everybody. I need some advice: I have written and self-published three books in the last three years, and a fourth one is probably coming out in less than a month. I've got 'em up on Amazon and Smashwords, I plug 'em on both my sites (Which have no readers) and I plug 'em on Republibot...

Anyone here like Orson Welles? I'm going through one of my periodic obsessions with the guy. Watched "The One Man Band" about him last night, "The Stranger" last week, and "F For Fake" a few days before that (Which I'd never seen before). Two weeks before that I watched a reeeeeeeeeeeeallly nice...

So is anyone watching the new "Cosmos" on Fox? Got any thoughts on it? Personally, I thought the first ep was awful, the 2nd ep was a significant improvement, and the 3rd one was pretty good. That said, there's a number of things I don't like (Crappy animation, lame soundtrack), one of...

Hey. On another thread we were talking about whether or not Lannier was always intended to die in the Telepath Wars, or in some other fashion. I agree he was dead by the time of Sleeping In Light, as was Lyta, Londo, and G'kar, but I think he was intended for a bigger, more heroic end than a...

I'm sad. It's been kind of a shit couple of weeks, and if I'm honest, sort of a shit year, so perhaps I'm not at the top of my game, emotionaly or mentally. Whatever the reason, though, I'm kind of glum. When I was young we moved around a lot, and I was kind of a problem kid, didn't interact...

I just read a novel by an author named "Mack Reynolds," and it is officially the second-worst SF novel I've ever seen. It was so bad that it made me rush out and buy the sequel just to see if he was always that bad, or if he was maybe recovering from a stroke or something when he wrote the first...

Forgive me if this has come up before or not on the side, but have we ever discussed the similarities between "Star Blazers" and "Crusade?" Both have a ticking clock. The Excalibur has 5 years to find a cure for the Drakh plague. THe Argo has 1 year to get a cure for the radiation that is...

Thanks to Jan's link here http://www.geekplanetonline.com/hosting/originals/babbleon/?p=episode&name=2011-07-31_gpo_babbleon_012b.mp3&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBabbleOnProject+%28GeekPlanetOnline%3A+The+Babble+On+Project%29&utm_content=FeedBurner we now know...

Forgive me if we've already discussed this, but I'm fuzzy-headed today. A few years ago, JMS was talking about some 'big news' for B5 which predictably didn't happen. He's been close-lipped about exactly what he was talking about (Again predictably), but the phrase "Reboot" came up several...

So this is curious, and I've never heard anyone mention it before. We all know the B5 season 1 theme, and subsequent variations. Today in the car I was listening to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBva3nnCMvA and I noticed that around 3 minutes in, there's a vocal progression that is...

Anyone here like (Or at least read) Larry Niven?

So what's your favorite piece of music from B5/Crusade/Rangers/Lost Tales? What's your least favorite? Why to both?

Anyone here seen "Gravity?" Anyone wanna' talk about it? I just saw it tonight, FINALLY. (Been trying for 16 days straight. Something always comes up)

So how does the B5 council work? Earth, Minbar, Narn, Centauri Prime, and the Vorlon Empire each hold one vote, and Earth appears to permanently chair the meetings. All well and good. Often they assemble "The League of Nonaligned Worlds" for full council meetings. We never SEE them really...

Over on my site, one of my readers commented on how Claudia Christian wrote (Or attempted to write) a B5 novel, and that JMS legally blocked her. This is the first I've heard of it. He definitely wasn't talking about her fanfic story. Do any of you guys know anything about this?

Anyone interested in the actual reasons the original Battlestar Galactica (1978/79) got cancelled?