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That logo just looks perfect.. Even without the name you'd know what it was from the stripe and the backdrop.. And I really love the effects shot too - all that extra detail and layering (look at Epsilon 3!) and yet it's still so faithful to the original look.. :) Thanks for linking that! :)

Hey, maybe the Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning guys would be up for doing a Crusade revival..? Okay, it might be in Finnish, and it might take them 5 years to make each episode, but at least it'd have great effects :) Just a random thought.. My point is that virtual sets and B5-quality effects...

Although I don't expect I'm going to be too popular for saying this, I simply don't believe that anyone is ever going to pay to revive a series that ran for 13 episodes 8 years ago, was never really a critical success, currently enjoys virtually zero public awareness (doesn't even have name...

I guess the unspoken assumption WB is making is that with all these new distribution outlets other than TV and marketing theories about consumer choice and the long tails etc being in vogue, in future it might prove more profitable to make a large number of varied, low cost productions for niche...

Okay. I remember finding those particular decisions puzzling at the time. It seems like the atmosphere was so poisonous while that show was being made, I'm actually kind of glad JMS stuck to his principles ultimately, even if they were incompatible with Crusade's continuing. And what we did get...

Stupidity for sure. They paid for the uniform change and also injected some extra cash to build new sets (like the gym) - I'm sure both moves were well-intended at the time. The real malice seems to have started with the script notes after they restarted. Internal politics must have been...

Lol, that's brilliant, I never made that connection :D. Given the scrutiny that the scripts seem to have been being subjected to at that point, I can't believe JMS assumed he could slip these things past. Nobody likes being taken for a fool, least of all a fool in a suit.. (and looking back at...

I remember wondering at the time whether TNT cancelled the show in part because JMS went too far in that episode, and they took it personally.. But it was madness. Change the uniforms? Okay, but much better to do it at the end of the season, so it didn't look so much like they were admitting...

I'm not a Galen fan. Without wanting to be too hard on Peter Woodward, that guy always sounded to me like he was devoting too much of his attention to the technical theatrical delivery of his lines, while not paying enough attention to the content. Not to mention the character frequently came...

IMO most of the American, New Zealand and Australian actors in Lord of the Rings do a stellar job at doing a British accent (Elijah Wood and Sean Astin are amazing). Gwyneth Paltrow does it very well too. Before that I thought that guy who played Spike in Buffy was the best fake Brit. On the...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News I think my top 10 would be the same as yours, except that I'd substitute Max Eilerson in place of Galen. Here's a short list of some of the many minor / incidental characters who left a big enough impression on me that I'd like to see them again (assuming the actors are...

I've never spotted that, although I'm pretty sure there's a Buffyverse vampire in the Zocalo in A Call to Arms (and of course N'Grath made an appearance in Buffy..) Surely station security isn't so lax that the most dangerous creature in the entire sector would be allowed to shop at the...

Interestingly it seems to have been the first in the production order. As the TNT interference increased over time, perhaps it's the closest we have to an unadulterated episode..

I'm rewatching Crusade at the moment. I know it deserves special latitude because of what was going on behind the scenes, but still, whereas even the worst B5 eps are never less than entertaining, a number of episodes of Crusade (War Zone and The Rules of the Game, for example) are very nearly...

I totally agree, I think David Warner's great in everything he's in. It's show #33 (www.babylonpodcast.com), less than 5 minutes in. Copeland basically says that Grail is the one episode of 110 that he felt didn't work, and that David Warner walked through the role and phoned it in. I guess...

You know, I think what the usual suspects have in common is that they tend to be episodes that JMS himself has said he's not 100% happy with (and even then he's usually quite equivocal about it). I found this on the Lurker's guide: and on Grey 17: Those are just some edited highlights. John...

It's because he's the one pulling the strings behind the scenes.. For some reason I'd always thought it was John Copeland, but on reflection I have no reason for believing that whatsoever. It does sound like Clarke. It also sounds horribly, horribly cheesy.. One thing I wanted to know. Does...

I like it, including the A plot. Garibaldi doesn't get to solve mysteries very often, and there's a lengthy list of episodes I enjoy less than Grey 17. It just has been saddled with a reputation for being a stinker (same as Infection, TKO and Grail, which I also tend to enjoy a lot more than...

Re: Actual B5:TLT News Definitely, I thought their demo reel seemed to contain all the most amazing effects shots from BSG, which bodes very well.. :)

I've cranked up the brightness.