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It has a feeling of audio drama - maybe he got involved with Big Finish? As to the TV series, he’s still adamant it’s coming (apparently there’s someone high up at the CW who is really fighting for it)…
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Zaroff posted:As to the TV series, he’s still adamant it’s coming (apparently there’s someone high up at the CW who is really fighting for it)… The person JMS says has been fighting to make the remake happen is CW CEO Mark Pedowitz, and he's staying as CEO when the Nexstar takeover goes through
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Seemlar posted:The person JMS says has been fighting to make the remake happen is CW CEO Mark Pedowitz, and he's staying as CEO when the Nexstar takeover goes through And to mr bad name’s credit; the nogo order last year was apparently specifically to protect the B5 pilot from the great ongoing tax slaughter, and make sure it got bought post-merger when it had a clear landing spot and wasn’t likely to be a victim of or merger murder.
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Grand Fromage posted:https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1564802437055033344 It's a group photo, signed by five of the eight cast members present, prints available on etsy.
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Something that occurred to me as I rewatched the show is that while Londo is responsible for the deaths of millions, he is also deeply responsible for the forming of the alliance, and it could be argued that without him there would be no alliance. It was him, first coming to G'kar with the idea of having both support Sheridan's war, and then him and G'Kar getting the other worlds to agree, that helped pave the way for the alliance. Without those actions, it's possible no alliance would have been formed. Or at least it would have been more of a struggle. It's a tragedy when we watch the future talk about the history of the alliance in DOFS, and the two people that were hugely instrumental in the formation of it, Londo and G'Kar, are not mentioned.
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theblackw0lf posted:Something that occurred to me as I rewatched the show is that while Londo is responsible for the deaths of millions, he is also deeply responsible for the forming of the alliance, and it could be argued that without him there would be no alliance. It was him, first coming to G'kar with the idea of having both support Sheridan's war, and then him and G'Kar getting the other worlds to agree, that helped pave the way for the alliance. Without those actions, it's possible no alliance would have been formed. Or at least it would have been more of a struggle. Londo is an absolute case study in how to create and portray a deeply complex character. As for being pivotal players forgotten by history, well - who but historians would know anything about Alexander Hamilton if 1.) His wife and children hadn’t spent decades advocating for his legacy and 2.) if Lin-Manuel Miranda hadn’t written a smash musical about him? History is rough. Some people are lucky and get their parts reexamined. Some people will get forgotten completely, even if we are still feeling the impact of actions they took. Gyrotica fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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In regards to the Earth Alliance and Clark, we don't really know enough about the former to infer much about the latter. What we do know is that, similar to the Republic in Star Wars, Clark didn't so much corrupt the Earth Alliance as enable the darkness within it. If we go into some of the EU materials, such as the Psi Corps trilogy which details the earlier days of the Earth Alliance, we know that the EA is the sort of state that was rather eagerly invading and subjugating nations on Earth who refused to join. The thing about Clark (and Bester, really) is that pretty much everyone we see in the series lived through the Earth-Minbari War. Yet it's never detailed what it meant to Clark. He's older than Sheridan -- what was he doing during that existential conflict, how did it relate to who he became? Similarly, what did Bester do? Sometimes, for such a major (and recent) conflict, I feel like the ramifications of the Earth-Minbari War were never really explored beyond, like, some humans are racist now and some Minbari don't like Sheridan because they think he's dishonorable.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:The thing about Clark (and Bester, really) is that pretty much everyone we see in the series lived through the Earth-Minbari War. Yet it's never detailed what it meant to Clark. He's older than Sheridan -- what was he doing during that existential conflict, how did it relate to who he became? Similarly, what did Bester do? Sometimes, for such a major (and recent) conflict, I feel like the ramifications of the Earth-Minbari War were never really explored beyond, like, some humans are racist now and some Minbari don't like Sheridan because they think he's dishonorable. The second book of the Psi-Corps trilogy spells out what Bester did in the War, and it's as nice as you'd expect. It was also how he successfully argued for the formation of Black Omega Squadron, if you ever wondered why he has a personal Starfury when telepaths were barred from military service.
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Jedit posted:The second book of the Psi-Corps trilogy spells out what Bester did in the War, and it's as nice as you'd expect. It was also how he successfully argued for the formation of Black Omega Squadron, if you ever wondered why he has a personal Starfury when telepaths were barred from military service. Did it? I thought it basically skipped over all of that, just telling us that Bester scanned Minbari prisoners. I know pallasite had some more fanon-esque interpretations, but I don't think the Psi Corps trilogy ever spelled out how and when Bester was placed in command of the Black Omega squadron nor why it was allowed form, leaving the reader to think it was a secret Psi Corps squadron when the series itself indicates it's a recognized Earthforce outfit. I think the most we get is that Bester argued for "years" to form it, and then Psi Corps let him have it to keep him busy. But is there more than one Black Omega squadron? Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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Jedit posted:My greatest fear is a crowdfunded pilot. Don't even joke.  I would think such a thing would be off the table considering this is by Warner Brothers. Unless something happened that I might have missed.
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I said come in! posted:At least give me a AAA Babylon 5 video game.  I'll take a Star Fury simulator
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Iron Crowned posted:
I wonder if they still have the stuff they filmed from when they tried to do that with Sierra. If it was just 6 months away from completion, you could probably upscale that bit and build a new game around it.
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I said come in! posted:That or an adventure game with all of Babylon 5 explorable. Bug report: Gray Sector has only 29 levels instead of the expected 30.
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I said come in! posted:That or an adventure game with all of Babylon 5 explorable. The monkey's paw curls and it's made by Bethesda or CD Projekt Red, so it's an unplayable mess until after three years of patches and DLC.
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Timby posted:The monkey's paw curls and it's made by Bethesda or CD Projekt Red, so it's an unplayable mess until after three years of patches and DLC. Bethesda would make me never want to play it.
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Leisure Suit Larry 8 was supposed to be set in space, but never got made. Babylon 5: Keepin' it sleazy
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Pat Tallman is plugging the reboot campaign via Facebook.
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Gyrotica posted:I wonder if they still have the stuff they filmed from when they tried to do that with Sierra. If it was just 6 months away from completion, you could probably upscale that bit and build a new game around it. Wing Commander: Prophecy had a couple of ships that kept inertia and those were my stand ins back in '98.
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