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ultrafilter posted:Yes. Graphics technology has improved since 1998. 
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I wonder what he's going to keep the same and what he's going to turn on it's head - that's going to be the most interesting part for veterans. Following his twitter he's basically said he's writing the story he wants to write now, and CW came to HIM, not the other way around, so it could be really interesting.
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Nov 28, 2021 23:09
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I hope they keep the practical makeup effects and dont try and cgi the vorlons or whatever and make it look like poo poo
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Nov 29, 2021 00:28
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Jows posted:I wonder what he's going to keep the same and what he's going to turn on it's head - that's going to be the most interesting part for veterans. Following his twitter he's basically said he's writing the story he wants to write now, and CW came to HIM, not the other way around, so it could be really interesting. *Vorlon voice* Expect the unexpected.
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Nov 29, 2021 03:19
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All the aliens will be 100% CGI, only the humans will be played directly by human actors.
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Nov 29, 2021 03:23
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OR: All the aliens are practical prosthetics, humans are only depicted via CGI.
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Nov 29, 2021 04:58
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C'mon son, this is Covid Times All roles are CGI except Kosh, whose costume noticeably features a a HEPA filter.
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Nov 29, 2021 05:04
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Vorlon suits are CGI but their true form is practical. Episode ends with return of Rebo & Zooty.
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Nov 29, 2021 05:35
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MikusR posted:Vorlon suits are CGI but their true form is practical. Episode ends with return of Rebo & Zooty. I really hope he doesn't bring back Penn & Teller for this.
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Nov 29, 2021 05:39
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Rooty Tooty Rebo and Zooty
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Nov 29, 2021 11:55
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I really hope he doesn't bring back Penn & Teller for this. Penn and Teller, Scott Adams, all your favorites will be returning!
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Nov 29, 2021 12:44
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Horizon Burning posted:pretty much all the B5 novels are really bad and there's a reason why JMS does not consider them canon. one was infamously written in a week, if i remember correctly, and a lot of them feel like they were written by people who'd never seen the show and had only been told about it briefly. of the ones that are considered canon: the shadow within is generally considered decent, as is the psi corps trilogy. the technomages trilogy depends on how much you like technomages and weird retcons. the centauri prime trilogy appears to be okay but rarer than the others. the psi corps trilogy is my favorite set of all the b5 novels. i think all of them are pretty hard to find. they were rare when they first came out and i don't think were ever reprinted. Really I got both the technomage and centauri trilogies. I liked both of them tbh. Edit: Oh I also got the psi-corps one, I remember really liking it. His Divine Shadow fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Nov 29, 2021 |
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Nov 29, 2021 12:54
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I really hope he doesn't bring back Penn & Teller for this. I just saw them in an ad for some online casino. It was the saddest loving thing
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Nov 29, 2021 13:30
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All aliens will be played by actual aliens imported to Earth specifically for that purpose. Fans and watchers will immediately complain about the poorly handled alien effects and how fake and cheap they are. Edit: Penn and Teller will be CGI.
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Nov 29, 2021 15:46
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Angry Salami posted:Penn and Teller, Scott Adams, all your favorites will be returning! 
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Nov 29, 2021 18:43
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Absurd Alhazred posted:I really hope he doesn't bring back Penn & Teller for this. They have a show on CW
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Nov 29, 2021 19:34
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Penn and Teller got the guest spot because they were popular in the 90s. Same with Scott Adams. I don't think we'll see any of them on this version.
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Nov 29, 2021 19:37
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We could add Dennis Miller and Bill Maher for that real 90s feel!MikusR posted:They have a show on CW Actually, just having Reebo & Zooty on in the background, muted, in one episode or another would be a nice little reference. Get P&T for like, half a day, record a few skits, and just sprinkle them into the background of the show. Never let it be the focus, just let it be some texture to "what do people watch in the future" compared to the original's, uh. ISN and Looney Tunes?
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Nov 29, 2021 19:42
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Data Graham posted:I just saw them in an ad for some online casino. It was the saddest loving thing They’ve been a Vegas exclusive show for like two decades now. I don’t think they care about what kind of casino is paying them as long as it’s paying.
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Nov 29, 2021 20:36
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ultrafilter posted:Penn and Teller got the guest spot because they were popular in the 90s. Same with Scott Adams. I don't think we'll see any of them on this version. I've been trying to think of who the modern version of Penn and Teller is and keep drawing a blank, maybe because their weird niche is mostly gone now, or maybe because anyone else trying that schtick these days is on YouTube somewhere and my cursed algorithm just hasn't caught up yet It feels way more likely to me that none of those old cameo characters will return even with different actors. If there are any similar guest spots they should be new, written from scratch for a new set of people
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Delsaber posted:I've been trying to think of who the modern version of Penn and Teller is and keep drawing a blank, maybe because their weird niche is mostly gone now, or maybe because anyone else trying that schtick these days is on YouTube somewhere and my cursed algorithm just hasn't caught up yet Ooh, ooh, ooh: a musical episode featuring Rachel Bloom!
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Nov 29, 2021 21:20
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Oh god that reminds me of how a UPN exec had an idea to have a new band appear on Enterprise every week.
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Delenn: Elon Musk! What are you doing here?!
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Nov 30, 2021 08:23
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Re: the "don't post spoilers in the spoiler thread", I don't see how Alhazred posting a picture of Ulkesh is fine and me saying "Don't post a picture of Ulkesh" gets me jumped on
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Re: the "don't post spoilers in the spoiler thread", I don't see how Alhazred posting a picture of Ulkesh is fine and me saying "Don't post a picture of Ulkesh" gets me jumped on Showing a different encounter suit in the show doesn't mean anything without knowing who's in it. Saying it's not Kosh reveals things. I agree though, Alhazred shouldn't be posting that pic.
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Nov 30, 2021 14:46
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But also, “there is more than one Vorlon” isn’t a spoiler on either count for fucks sake and people who become whiny pissbabies over that level of information constituting a spoiler are insufferable.
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Next time just post "dont post x in yonglings thread" in a mod report reason
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Nov 30, 2021 15:31
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Did you know that there are additional Minbari and Narn characters in Babylon 5, who only appear in season 5?!?!?!?
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Chevy Slyme posted:But also, “there is more than one Vorlon” isn’t a spoiler on either count for fucks sake and people who become whiny pissbabies over that level of information constituting a spoiler are insufferable. Not nearly as insufferable as people who like to post "very clever" spoilers and titter behind their hands.
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CainFortea posted:Not nearly as insufferable as people who like to post "very clever" spoilers and titter behind their hands. Can we just shove both groups out of an airlock.
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If you want to discuss, just discuss what they saw, for fucks sake Dont post pics, don't go balls deep in obscure lore etc It's actually simple! "You missed a funny detail in the psi corps ad" vs "You missed an important thing" are not the same Erulisse fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 15:56
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Although this is a distraction from how great it is that someone is powering through the programme in the newbie thread
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Nov 30, 2021 16:08
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Although this is a distraction from how great it is that someone is powering through the programme in the newbie thread Yeah, has anyone actually made it to S3 before?
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Nov 30, 2021 16:10
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I think the doctor did
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Jedit posted:Yeah, has anyone actually made it to S3 before? A few people but no one has posted reactions to Grey 17 so far.
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I watched the pilot last night, and it's still weird how all the aliens stayed on for the show, but none of the humans did except for Sinclair and Garibaldi. Takashima's acting was...very not good, she pauses in weird places in the middle of her sentences and can't quite express emotion well. I'm a little prone to wonder how much of acting issues in Babylon 5 are the result of weird directing, since there's some otherwise talented actors in the show that give...weird performances. Sinclair though has some of his best acting in the pilot, from his passionate running from the exploding Minbari to his haunting recount of the Line, and he even has better chemistry with his pilot girlfriend than he does with Catherine Sakai. Possibly that's a sign of how mental illness impacted his ability to perform. There's a lot of elements that got changed for the show. I think one of the worst was how the pilot had its guns that it called "PPGs" that were these big ridiculous long flat tubes with two handles that the actors never could figure how to hold instead of dinky pistols. Delenn had her gravity ring and G'kar had his gills, the doctor had a laser in medbay that maybe Franklin would've found handy. The alien sector Sinclair shows off at the beginning looks more like a zoo from the alien puppets being behind glass. Takashima's bridge felt like a smaller set than Ivanova's (maybe it had less dressing like how medbay looked pretty bare, or maybe it was because there were less extras and more camera angles to show the size of the set), but Takashima's bridge actually seemed more dynamic from how she had two subordinate extras playing a more active role in running the station. The flashing warning lights were pretty bad though. It was a pretty dramatic moment when they had to re-stabilize the station after the explosion, it's weird they never did that again in the show. The mostly dropped all the different-atmosphere bits later in the show, which I can see as a real practical decision. They didn't really build any plots around the alternate-atmospheres, it was just another obstacle to blocking scenes. It looks neat to have all those fog machines going, but there just doesn't seem like a point to it. It helped for hiding some deficiencies in the praying mantis crime boss puppet, but they didn't really use any other puppets on the show. It ended up as just kind of a superfluous decision, and the station seems better without having big chunks people needed gas masks for. It's more dynamic if anyone could go anywhere without being funneled through airlocks. Chevy Slyme posted:But also, “there is more than one Vorlon” isn’t a spoiler on either count for fucks sake and people who become whiny pissbabies over that level of information constituting a spoiler are insufferable. It sort of is. Like in between learning about Vorlon biotechnology and the death and replacement of Kosh, it's plausible that Kosh is the only Vorlon left in the galaxy and the rest of Vorlon civilization is just their extremely advanced living technology ticking away. That's not the case, but it was a possibility.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I watched the pilot last night, and it's still weird how all the aliens stayed on for the show, but none of the humans did except for Sinclair and Garibaldi.
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MikusR posted:Also Morden and Lyta That's Morden's brother, Fred Morden.
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Nov 30, 2021 17:14
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You know, I thought that guy on the bridge seemed like Morden, but that hair threw me off. Lyta definitely didn't "stay on", but there would've been plenty room to bring all the other characters back somehow or another in a similar way. My brain actually told me that the president's doctor was the doctor in the pilot, but nope, I had that wrong.
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Vavrek posted:That's Morden's brother, Fred Morden. The character is actually called Guerra.
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