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AceOfFlames posted:Boxleitner isn't and you can be sure he's going to demand a piece of this. And he’s a right wing major chud so it’s not even really acting for him. He and Mr. Garibaldi would regularly show up on the Michael savage show. Garibaldi even ended up guest hosting for Michael savage at one point before becoming a talk show host on his own right. Stoked about b 5 though. JMS is legit an awesome writer/geek.
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The Klowner posted:hasn't he been trying to get this greeenlit for the last twenty years or something? good for him that he's finally getting the ball rolling There was apparently some executive who personally hated JMS and B5. That person has now retired, which is why it is suddenly on HBO in HD and now getting a reboot! JMS is on Twitter all the time and very responsive, for better or worse.
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# ? Sep 27, 2021 22:11 |
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:There was apparently some executive who personally hated JMS and B5. That person has now retired, which is why it is suddenly on HBO in HD and now getting a reboot! He hasn’t left his house in like 2 years because of COVID and is just an On the spectrum writer nerd. He’s kinda awesome honestly. He also didn’t get nearly enough credit for writing strong women they were multi dimensional in the 90s when everybody was fawning over josh Wedons writing of women
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LionArcher posted:On the other hand I was sure that season 2 of Ted lasso would be great and the writers are solidly loving it up, so…. lol
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I mean, it’s still good. But season 1 is lightening in a bottle great. Season 2 already has a half a dozen major flaws including a borderline (or just straight is ) a racist stereotype, a hugely problematic romance that is so tone deaf I can’t believe they didn’t see it’s lovely, and when that wasn’t enough they just threw in a boring love triangle because they don’t know what to do with two or three of the characters.
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Azhais posted:If it's a full reboot he could even play something like Sinclair This is the 2020s he could play Delenn. I'm curious how they try to recapture the magic with a new Londo and G'Kar. Everyone else ranged from "there" to "pretty good" with some real highs and lows but those two were on another level and willing to do it all with weirdass alien hair and makeup.
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LionArcher posted:I mean, it’s still good. But season 1 is lightening in a bottle great. Season 2 already has a half a dozen major flaws including a borderline (or just straight is ) a racist stereotype, a hugely problematic romance that is so tone deaf I can’t believe they didn’t see it’s lovely, and when that wasn’t enough they just threw in a boring love triangle because they don’t know what to do with two or three of the characters. Are you talking about the Dutch guy?
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Are you talking about the Dutch guy? The psychologist. She’s great, but there’s a common trope that poc teachers in media refer to as “magic n word character”. I was not worried about the trope too much, but as the show has gone on she’s getting closer and closer to that, here to help everyone who’s white/main characters and then ride off into the sunset on her magically/umbrella-bike.
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# ? Sep 27, 2021 23:33 |
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Evil is a fuckin weird rear end show
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 01:23 |
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Mostly because you watch it and you think "Ah, ok, this is a scam. Wait, now it's real? Oh, it really was just a scam. Wait, wtf it's real again?"
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Medullah posted:Evil is a fuckin weird rear end show The Kings really are good at writing lead women who are truly unlikable. By the end of the Good wife she was the worst, and it only took two seasons to do the same with Evil. Edit. This is not a criticism. It's actually impressive, and the actors are doing a killer job with weird as poo poo material.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 01:32 |
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The Good Wife has a jaw dropping scene where the protagonist admits that she doesn't think she loves her children. And it's actually built up pretty well and doesn't come out of nowhere. She also knows her husband is a piece of poo poo but keeps the political marriage alive for the benefits.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 01:59 |
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Speaking of JMS https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?s=21 Click link for entire thread. Answers a few questions I had.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 02:03 |
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The first show I'm super psyched about other than Wheel of Time. I know we're years off if he's writing the pilot but drat.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 02:16 |
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I still haven't seen past S2 of B5, but this sounds awesome. Can we do a Farscape reboot next please? just kidding. don't kill me
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 02:34 |
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You know what gets me? The positivity in that thread from fans. So so rare to get that these days. I have to say, I'm pumped myself. I was putting off watching the remastered B5 on HBO Max because it hasn't been that long since I went through the series, but I think it's time to go through it again.
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Amiga fans gonna be pissed if they don’t use Lightwave.
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theblackw0lf posted:Speaking of JMS He probably knows that trying to capture the same magic as B5 is a doomed effort, and he mentions Westworld and Battlestar probably because he plans to do something completely new with the basic concept. I'd expect at best a lot of casual references to the original, some original cast in new roles, but otherwise something very different. Wonder if they'll let him do a 5 year start to finish planned ending if it gets that far. Supernatural was originally like that but was too successful for them to let go of. Plus, he's not even written the pilot yet, so it's like 2 years out unless the CW is going to throw money at it.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 03:36 |
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I'm excited, not gonna lie. Hoping we get some good stuff out of this explosion of Sandman/RTD Who/Babylon 5 /Wheel Of Time/Witcher/Game Of Thrones. But I'm worried that most of these shows won't have momentum, because of large gaps between seasons/long development times/lack of IT factor energy. Makes me happy that smaller shows, like The Other Two, exists. Just got renewed for season 3. Medullah posted:Evil is a fuckin weird rear end show The opening music video this episode was so good. Following it up by the regular cast doing a bunch of "what the gently caress is even going on" reactions, was the chef's kiss though.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 04:39 |
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The Other Two s2 was so so loving good and Doc Sharon isn’t a racial stereotype at all what the hell, is my response to the posts made while I was asleep that I actually care about (someone make a Babylon 5 thread, quick!!)
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 05:06 |
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pentyne posted:Wonder if they'll let him do a 5 year start to finish planned ending if it gets that far. Supernatural was originally like that but was too successful for them to let go of. Plus, he's not even written the pilot yet, so it's like 2 years out unless the CW is going to throw money at it. If I remember correctly he always planned for four seasons, and that is why the fifth one feels so out of place.
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Super happy about The Other Two being renewed. It seems so unlikely that this show is surviving, but it's great that it is.
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Oasx posted:If I remember correctly he always planned for four seasons, and that is why the fifth one feels so out of place. It was planned for 5, but it looked like it was going to be cancelled after 4 so JMS rushed plots to try to wrap up as much as possible which then left things thin for the 5th season. A lot of stuff with the rogue telepaths would have been better plotted had he not thought the 4th season was going to be the end.
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 05:51 |
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If the reboot is 5x13 episodes that could be a big improvement since the writers don't need to take cocaine to finish their work
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bull3964 posted:It was planned for 5, but it looked like it was going to be cancelled after 4 so JMS rushed plots to try to wrap up as much as possible which then left things thin for the 5th season. I see, thanks for clarifying.
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bull3964 posted:Super happy about The Other Two being renewed. It seems so unlikely that this show is surviving, but it's great that it is. As soon as I finished watching season 2 I still wanted more so I started rewatching some of 1. A big highlight of the show is there are no characters or character combinations that I don't enjoy. Everyone in that cast is killing it and it's just a joy to watch.
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theblackw0lf posted:Speaking of JMS
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# ? Sep 28, 2021 08:02 |
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I read that a Quantum Leap revival/reboot has entered into serious 'talks' or negotiations or whatever you wanna call it when money starts being secured. (Talking out my rear end about the money part, I assume thats what 'serious' means though) *edit* I read it from here! https://twitter.com/THR/status/1440071422525673474
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LionArcher posted:And he’s a right wing major chud so it’s not even really acting for him. He and Mr. Garibaldi would regularly show up on the Michael savage show. Garibaldi even ended up guest hosting for Michael savage at one point before becoming a talk show host on his own right. Jerry Doyle had a fascinatingly weird professional life. He got a BS in Aeronautics at Embry-Riddle (possibly the top aviation university in the world) and a pilot license, went on to become a private jet pilot and stockbroker until suddenly he dropped everything at the age of 35 to become an actor. After B5 he pivoted again into chud talk show host. It’s insane. Fun fact: that one time Garibaldi said that all of society’s problems could be solved with “electric bleachers” instead of electric chairs was something Doyle said in complete seriousness. JMS happened to overhear him and decided to gently caress with him by adding the line to the script. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621160529661952?s=21 The creative freedom is definitely great and it’s awesome that he’s being so supported but I can’t help but think of how he got screwed over by Hollywood Accounting last time around (“if a Warner Bros. set burns down in Botswana, they deduct it from B5’s profits”). Wonder if this time he’s getting a piece of the gross (I doubt it). AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 14:36 on Sep 28, 2021 |
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Sekhmnet posted:I read that a Quantum Leap revival/reboot has entered into serious 'talks' or negotiations or whatever you wanna call it when money starts being secured. (Talking out my rear end about the money part, I assume thats what 'serious' means though) Twenty-eight years later I still feel spited by that ending.
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This was a fun video about getting a TV show made https://twitter.com/saraschaefer1/status/1421622886574395393?s=21
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AceOfFlames posted:Fun fact: that one time Garibaldi said that all of society’s problems could be solved with “electric bleachers” instead of electric chairs was something Doyle said in complete seriousness. JMS happened to overhear him and decided to gently caress with him by adding the line to the script. So how did that own him
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This is kind of funny because I've been following JMS at a distance for years, just kind of poking my nose in and seeing what he was up to. He has always said that anything B5 related, remasters, sequels, prequels, reboots, even just basic upscaling to HD was all impossible. Now, suddenly, here we are and all of those things seem possible or are already happening! Really wondering who the stick in the mud was for the last 20 years. Oasx posted:If I remember correctly he always planned for four seasons, and that is why the fifth one feels so out of place. It was originally planned as 5, but I think there were cancellation fears during the production of 4, so they wrapped up a lot of the big war plots? Then some padding had to be added to S5 for the things they stole. I might be wrong, but I think the second-to-last episode of S5 was the original S4 ending when they thought it was getting canned.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:This is kind of funny because I've been following JMS at a distance for years, just kind of poking my nose in and seeing what he was up to. He has always said that anything B5 related, remasters, sequels, prequels, reboots, even just basic upscaling to HD was all impossible. Now, suddenly, here we are and all of those things seem possible or are already happening! iirc JMS has said that there was some high up exec at WB that really really hated JMS and or B5 and would personally shoot down anything related to it.
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:I might be wrong, but I think the second-to-last episode of S5 was the original S4 ending when they thought it was getting canned. The S5 ending was always going to be the S4 ending, it was shot as part of S4 (and the replacement episode was shot as part of S5) It'd be interesting to see if this time he does the original idea for B5 as he changed plans in between S1 and S2, partly because Michael O'Hare was really not dealing well with his schizophrenia - that had B5 as a 5 season series and then a sequel series also planned to run 5 years with a much smaller core cast.
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https://twitter.com/apbattman/status/1442614248459288582 Stellan Skarsgard accurately diagnosis what the "problem" with the film industry is today. (and why that's benefited TV)
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Milo and POTUS posted:So how did that own him This was still back in the halcyon days where people still thought chuds had the minimum amount of self-awareness and shame required to be owned.
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Cojawfee posted:Mostly because you watch it and you think "Ah, ok, this is a scam. Wait, now it's real? Oh, it really was just a scam. Wait, wtf it's real again?" I've been trying to figure out how much we're seeing is actually real. There's been a lot of things such as character spoiler Lexis' tail which I'm like this can't be what's actually happening here. I think most importantly, they've set up the show in such a way that I don't care what's real and what isn't- I'm absolutely along for the ride.
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Watched Squid Game and Alice in Borderland recently. Both pretty good deadly-gameshow shows. I think I liked the latter more since I hadn't guessed the twist at any point, or rather, the big reveal of what's behind it all wasn't revealed whatsoever. Unfortunately I looked it up and it's based on a manga and the manga ending is basically exactly the one thing I think would retroactively make sour on the whole thing. Dunno if the Netflix version will keep that ending, so I'll still check out season 2.
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