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"Babylon 5 on DVD"
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7. "RE: Swami, Deonna and Augie:" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-01-04 AT 00:47 AM (EST)>As Deonna can back up, Babylon 5 is one of the
>best written sci fi series on TV. Its creator
>Stracynski sold the network a preconceived narrative with a definitive
>series endpoint. He layed out a complete blueprint that
>outlined the events of every episode right up until the
>series finale. (Five seasons)
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>This blueprint ensured consistancy throughout the
>series and allowed Straczynski to use foreshadowing and allusion
>to great effect during the course of the series.
>Season One is called "Signs and Portents". Actually, compared to the subsequent seasons, Season 1 actually was kinda slow -- things really got going in Season 2 and kicked ##### through Season 4. The biggest problem with JMS's five year blueprint (speaking as someone who watched the show week-to-week in real-time for five years) was that every year was a struggle to find out if the show would be renewed... I mean it was literally year-to-year for four years... and finally things got so bleak that JMS shot and filmed the end of the series as the last episode of Season 4, expecting the show to be cancelled. Then, at the last minute, TNT (yes, TNT of all networks!) stepped forward and picked up the fifth season (the first four seasons had aired in syndication) but unfortunately that turned the fifth season into a bit of an afterthought (or at least it seemed that way to me at the time), with a new female commander, and less "sexy" storylines (thinking the show was a goner, JMS actually altered his original "blueprint" and completed both the Shadow War and the Earth Alliance Civil War during Season Four -- when in fact the Civil War conflict would have occupied the lion's share of Season Five.) Basically Season Five was a good news/bad news thing -- fans were glad to see the show still around, but the "hurry up and finish" push of Season 4 resulted in there not being a hell of a lot of original Season 5 story to tell. The additional good news was TNT signing on for some additional TV movies and a spin-off series ("Crusade"). But while a couple of the movies were pretty good, JMS quickly had a falling out with TNT, and I believe Crusade was a cancelled lame duck before it even premiered on TNT, with several of the 13 episodes airing out of order or never airing at all until the show washed up in repeats on the Scifi Channel a few years ago. According to JMS, B5 isn't dead yet, a "Rangers" pilot movie for Scifi when no where a couple of years ago, but JMS, who was one of the earliest creators on any entertainment industry to interact online with fans and was posting via Compuserve and Usenet newsgroups back in the early 90's, has been setting cyberspace afire recently with talk of a secret new "B5:TMoS" that he has in development. Btw, for fans of his work, JMS also started his own line of comic books several years back, and they have been excellent. He also started writing Spider-Man's flagship "The Amazing Spider-Man" comic book title for Marvel a couple of years ago. -SB
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8. "Showtime's Jeremiah" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-01-04 AT 01:21 AM (EST)I forgot to note one important detail -- anyone interested in Babylon 5 should also probably be watching Showtime's Jeremiah series, whjich represents JMS' first major return to TV after Babylon 5. It premiered on Showtime a couple of year's ago and is unfortunately in the middle of a very erratic second season schedule that has resulted in the show being off the air for several months, but supposedly its coming back soon. The show is based around the idea that a military biological weapon got out and killed every human on Earth who'd entered puberty, leaving nothing but a world of children behind. Set about ten years after the plague hits, it features a scavenger society where the oldest kids are now 20/30-something and in a journey to determine what's left of the world -- with a group of idealistic good-doers struggling against various rising forces of evil as well as dealing with the apparent return of a secret military organiztion that managed to survive the plague -- while also attempting to do some nation-building and revive a crumbled civilization. So far its been pretty much an Earth-based version of the Babylon 5 storyline (and I mean that in a good way.) The worst part of the show was the cheesy casting of 80's actors Luke Perry and Malcolm Jamal Warner, but they are actually turning out to be pretty good. A bit more over the top was a guest star appearance by Jason Priestly...  Anyways, for any B5 fans, it's worth a look, I'm not sure if it's already been canned, but if not maybe its not too late to convince Showtime to keep a show with a harder scifi angle than "Dead Like Me" on it's original programming slate (which is a pretty sad downfall for a network that brought us "The Outer Limits" and "Stargate: SG1" for nearly a decade... but that's another story.) -SB
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14. "RE: Wow!" |
>You really do know everything, Webby! Na, just a bit of rather unimportant info on this particular subject. I tend to follow the creative talent behind things I like (whether that be books, TV, movies, music, comic books, etc.) from project to project and JMS spans across a couple of the entertainment mediums I follow, plus he did make himself freely available online in the early 90's and I did meet him in person a couple of times back during the first couple of years of the show, so I have an unusually high knowledge of his work... similar to David E. Kelley and Mark Burnett. If you want real, practical knowledge, go see AyaK >I don't get Showtime on my DISH package, and I've never
>paid the extra for it. Already, I have more
>TV I want to watch than I can watch.
>Altho that it is why I was late to StarGAte
>fandom. Maybe I should ante up! When I first subscribed to Showtime, it was specifically because I'd been a huge Richard Dean Anderson/MacGyver fan as a kid (I'd even watched his UPN "Legend" series) and despite never having seen the Stargate movie, wanted to check the (then) new show out. Until then 'd never known The Outer Limits was a Showtime show repeating in syndication about 6 months later... Similarly I added HBO the next year right before its "From The Earth To The Moon" miniseries was about to premiere... and I've had both since. >Have you heard anything about the new StarGate Atlantis? I
>sure hope it is good, because I will be very
>bummed when SG-1 ends. Even though I thought the
>first part of their final season was disappointing. I haven't heard anything about Atlantis other than probably what you've read. I hope its good because I've been bummed that Stargate was going to be ending for some time (originally the series was supposed to end after only one season on Scifi but they later changed their minds, so there's been talk of it ending for some time now.) But NBC and Universal recently merged, and Universal owned The Scifi Channel, so going forward I should now have easy access to all Scifi's press releases, etc. via their new merged media relations site, so I'll let you know if I see anything. -SB PS I do have to give Scifi kudos for not destroying "Stargate" like they did with "The Outer Limits" (did anyone else notice all the episodes of the Scifi "Outer Limits "episodes were based around simple, Earth-based plotlines that didn't involve any expensive exotic sets, special effects, etc.?) We'll soon see if this is a sign of things to come with "Atlantis" and the upcoming "Battlestar Galactica" regular series (I'm not charging them with ruining "Andromeda" because that show was well on its way to sucksville before it moved over to Scifi, if I remember right, I think the lead writer left sometime last year -- although I don't follow the show close enough to know if the dropoff was directly related to his departure.)
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11. "RE: Sad News" |
Dabo...that was news to me and it blew me away! There must be no royalties what so ever from the show, because on Richard Biggs' Official Website his family is asking for doantions to the Biggs childern college fund in lieu of flowers...
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18. "RE: Hiya furball" |
... 7 of 9's boobs... Yeah, that was one healthy Borg alright.
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27. "RE: Babylon 5 on DVD" |
Hey Mookiemeister...We have a "Nookiemeister" on the boards somewhere! Season one was good, but the storyline really takes shape in season two. Welcome to the boards! I am not sure we have had the honor to banter!
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