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Re: Actual B5:TLT News I'm sure I've heard this too.. Maybe he says it somewhere on the Firefly DVD extras - where incidentally he makes a very disparaging remark about sci-fi shows with 'Ambassadors' :)

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Actually one aspect in which I really did like the way that B5 handled the makeup thing it was that it did emerge in the course of the story that whereas the younger races all tended to look pretty much human, the elder races had weird and wonderful body types (Lorien...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I dunno, I'm struggling to think of any sci-fi film or television property originating in this century (eg. since 2000) that has done it.. In fact even to me, personally, it does seem a little bit 20th century now. It was always a constraint of television that aliens...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I think all my anxieties around TLT can be summed up in four words: 'Firefly and Battlestar Galactica'. The reason I have no real problem with the Rangers pilot is that it came (just) before those two series, and in the period 1993 - 2002 even sub-par Babylon 5 was still...

There are some occasional fluffed lines of dialogue. For example, Franklin refers to a 'bi-pulmonary' system when he means bicardial in 'the Very Long Night of Londo Mollari' (kind of a worrying thing for a qualified Doctor to say :)). In 'Comes the Inquisitor' Sheridan originally referred to 'a...

Just let him be. I knew someone like this (a die-hard Trekkie). After a few months he watched ItB himself just to better inform his hatred. The last I heard he was watching through the whole series. If someone knows enough about something to have formed a strong opinion about it, odds are...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News What I really want to know is when we get to see some footage from it - trailers, featurettes, making ofs, a glimpse of B5's new look etc etc. Anything to pass the time between now and then. Hopefully WB is on the case (presumably they realise it's quite critical for them...

Findell's skullcap doesn't seem to fit properly either, particularly in the close-up scenes in his fighter.. It's a small thing next to his whining, but I find it distracting..

Londo also has that dream about the shadow vessels passing overhead, but I agree that they seem generally to be the kind of vague prophecy that only makes sense after the event, when it's too late to be any practical use. One echo which I like to believe JMS put in deliberately, but which...

The Centauri seemed to be pretty good at seeing the future accurately, whether in dreams or through seers, although they didn't seem able to fully control what they would see (but they always seem to be right). If they could do it, that would suggest that it is at least possible.

Given Draal's instructions to Ivanova in Voices of Authority, I always kind of assumed the Jedi built it..

Has there ever been any indication as to what he actually did during this period? I don't want to give anything away, but by the opening of the third book it seems the world views him in quite a different light. If Walter Koenig is still acting, it would be great to see him in Lost Tales...

It's the only trilogy I have read, and I only finally got round to it this year after buying them on ebay. The first left me a bit confused because it covers a couple of centuries of history and dozens of characters at speed, but I thought the second and third, which cover Bester's life, were...

There's a Salvation Army too...

This isn't really a serious comment, but it always amazes me that Sheridan reacts the way he does to Franklin's news. Given the meteoric career trajectories of everyone else in the inner circle after the shadow war, it seems like Franklin is entitled to be feeling a short changed at this point...

Re: How Will The B-5 Universe Change when JMS is g That's right about most of the C4 books being reprints of the Del Rey books, but wasn't there also a C4 published episode guide which ran up to mid season 3 (not the episode guide in the Making of book)? They used to push them after the end...

Well the Gathering had a special edition already, but I can only think of one effects shot (two laser blasts hitting a wall) that wasn't either in the original cut or culled from later seasons. I still don't think there's anything wrong with B5's effects, because I think it's a classic case of...

I'm convinced one of the main reasons B5 became so hugely successful here in the UK was because for the first 3 seasons it had a 6pm timeslot on channel 4 at a time when there were only 4 terrestrial channels in the UK (I think in response to BBC2 airing star trek so successfully in a weekday...

I bet the original BSG hasn't sold nearly as many DVDs as B5, or scored as many epsiode downloads. Times have changed.. (That said, I enjoy the original BSG, and I did buy the DVDs)

Shadow Dancing is one of my favourite episodes of all. That episode seemed to deliver movie-quality thrills that were far too good to belong on television, and it's almost a shame that it's so overshadowed by being immediately followed by Z'ha'dum. I think it's the best B5 battle too. Netter...