TheInfection
Regular
Here in Finland I am waiting and worrying what will happen if the Rangers will get their series. I'm hoping the best of course, with my thumbs up, but as I have talked with other fans here (by email or face to face) it seems that they are far less interested than what I am. One said that Babylon 5 was a good show, but tought that the francise of Babylon 5 was already been dead for a while and saw nothing good about the new potential series. No reason to wake the dead, so to speak. Other who I talked trough email, said that first of all there is no point to wait if our television channels will buy the new movie just because it is there.
I can partly agree. There's no point to buy one television movie, but as we finnish fans have seen, TV2 is very loyal to Babylon 5. They showed the entire series, but not because the ratings were good (they were actually kinda low) but because the executives knew that the series had many excited fans around the country - even if not so many. TV2 then bought the movies and aired them twice: first couple of weeks after Babylon 5 was ended and again in last summer. After the first airing of the movies, TV2 showed great deal of respect for us and aired Crusade even if it only had 13 episodes and even if they could have said "No, we don't want that. It's over. That's it. Screw the fans." And the fact that TV2 is goverments property, which means that the business isn't based on commercials, did help that they could air everything related to B5.
So, I'm hopeful, even if some of us has loosed their interest. I know that there are other fans from Finland here and I would like to what you think about this. Have you already seen the movie?
Regards,
TheInfection
I can partly agree. There's no point to buy one television movie, but as we finnish fans have seen, TV2 is very loyal to Babylon 5. They showed the entire series, but not because the ratings were good (they were actually kinda low) but because the executives knew that the series had many excited fans around the country - even if not so many. TV2 then bought the movies and aired them twice: first couple of weeks after Babylon 5 was ended and again in last summer. After the first airing of the movies, TV2 showed great deal of respect for us and aired Crusade even if it only had 13 episodes and even if they could have said "No, we don't want that. It's over. That's it. Screw the fans." And the fact that TV2 is goverments property, which means that the business isn't based on commercials, did help that they could air everything related to B5.
So, I'm hopeful, even if some of us has loosed their interest. I know that there are other fans from Finland here and I would like to what you think about this. Have you already seen the movie?
Regards,
TheInfection