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Why wouldn't you assume a trilogy? Everything is trilogies. It's the best compromise between amortizing development costs and guranteeing a reasonably stable income. I mean, there's one reason "Hobbit" was three movies instead of one, and it's got nothing to do with integrity. Besides...

I can think of several ways to do the Rangers and Crusade well, essentially by conflating the two. I think they were just poorly done. In the case of Crusade, it was rather misguided, and in the case of LOTR, it was just badly thought out.

I like full-length seasons. Filler can be problematic, but it can also be used to do major worldbuilding and also character development. Arc-wise, this isn't a probem. Let's take the example of "Longmire," which tells a great 13-episode arc-heavy series. This ends on a cliffhanger and does...

I would be happy with that list. Not EVERYTHING on it do I agree with, but there's more than enough there to overshadow my reservations. Good job!

Realistically speaking, with the full force of a major studio behind it, it takes about three years to make a major effects picture. There's about 3 years between Bond films, Star Wars films, etc. Writing, preproduction, casting, production, editing, scoring, merchandising, it's involved. 3...

Actually, JMS was the first one to suggest the whole "Wiping the Trek-slate clean" thing with paramount. Paramount rejected the idea out of hand. I actually like the "Old characters, new destinies" idea, and didn't hate the 2nd one the way I figured it was. It was pitched as a remake...

I don't claim to know Joe's mind, but I know a lot of writers, and I'm an amateur myself. Regardless of the original plan (Which was the 10-year B5/BP arc in this case), things slide around a lot. You paint yourself into a corner, or a better idea appears, or you get an unrelated moment of...

You know, I kind of hope you're not wrong. Not to be negative. I desparately want more B5, and I doubt you'll find anyone outside a mental institution who's more obsessed with it than me. This particular project has been troubling me, though. If someone wanted to reboot everything between...

Thank you very much for typing that. More than a little vague, though, isn't it? It does clearly indicate he was thinking about a movie, though.

My preference is a solid, self-contained series as a reboot, of course, but I have occasionally entertained the notion of three overlapping full-length series. In my most fanwankerly of daydreams, I think I might like something like this: * A Starship-based series.110 episodes, five seasons...

Ok, so let's break this down objectively. 1) Lannier is dead as of SIL 2) Lannier died at some point after Objects At Rest. That's fact. That's canon. That's onscreen and beyond debate. 3) JMS said in 1997 that Lannier would die late in the movie series. This is less certainly canonical...

Oooh! Any chance you could quote this?

Actually, a better question is when did it *STOP* being part of it? JMS said he'd wrap everything up in 5 years. Of course we now know what he was talking about isn't exactly what we thought: the station blows up, the good guys lose, the Sinclairs are on the run. The End. His lingering...

Agree entirely and without reservation.

Well, JMS himself has said he's pretty displeased with a lot of 'em. I believe there was even a book published a couple years back that listed what counted and what didn't on a book-by-book basis, wasn't there? Anyway: Right off the bat, we can divide 'em into three batches: The first batch...

Condition on anonymity, sorry. Writers don't get paid much, and working writers don't want to endanger their income by saying things that may be interpreted badly about folks who gave them work. Added to which I've been trying to crack into the professional writer biz for years, and I'm sure...

Ok, wellllll most obviously, the repeated attempts to revive the franchise strongly imply he didn't intend to just stop. From the first season, he said he had interest in doing an off-B5 spinoff. "Crusade" wasn't that (It was "Babylon Prime") but clearly he never intended to just stop. It was...

So straight forward reboot. Change nothing, just a do-over, and resign yourself to having a somewhat older cast. Doable. Certainly the most efficient way, as you've got all that stuff written, and a working model to compare it to. You could still use Bester with no problems. Walter is in good...

Politely, you're wrong. The whole "Valen" arc was introduced as a way to write O'Hare out of the series. It was not part of the original draft. I have a pretty detailed outline for the original concept of B5, if you'd like me to link you to it. The "Dark" angle is interesting. I don't think...

Ok, how would you reboot crusade? I wouldn't do it as-filmed. I'd have it based on Tuzanor, or maybe even out of B5 (As a hub, not the main base) with a squadron of White Stars (All interchangeable). It'd be primarily about 7 or 10 rangers, who'd get sent out in various combinations, based on...