And better people than TV producers, e.g., Clarke, frequently fell back
on, "the universe loves to create bipedal intelligent life," even when he
didn't have to show them to an audience.
That was of course after a period where all of his aliens ran around on
many, many tentacles. He recanted that for some reason.
> Again as an aside, there are truely alien creatures but their all minor
> npc
> stuff or backgroup extras on B5.
>
> The fact that all major races are bipedal in-vertebra formed creatures I
> think is a budgetary thing for TV.
>
> Personally I really enjoyed the personal story arc of J'kar the Narn rep
> on
> the station, but that is entirely a person like situation.
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:50 AM, <> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> I had been watching them by downloading one at a time from Amazon,
>> because
>> I wasn't sure if I wanted to invest in a big DVD set, but obviously I
>> miss
>> all the goodies that way.
>>
>> One thing about B5. I think one needs to be understanding when skewering
>> ST too badly over "aliens with seafood glued to their foreheads" (as I
>> always do), because on a TV budget there is only so much you can do. B5
>> also leans heavily on head appliances for the same reason (but it does
>> add
>> really, really tiny ears), but adds "they're aliens because they have
>> really weird haircuts." Nothing really wrong with that, it just makes
>> you
>> stop and think, "if this had been a movie, they'd probably have done
>> that
>> differently" a lot.
>>
>> > As an aside the B5 series box set has some great explanations about
>> > classical story telling techniques in special features sections of
>> each
>> > season's disks.
>> >
>> > cheers.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, waynes_books <>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> **
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
> would have been deserved.
>
on, "the universe loves to create bipedal intelligent life," even when he
didn't have to show them to an audience.
That was of course after a period where all of his aliens ran around on
many, many tentacles. He recanted that for some reason.
> Again as an aside, there are truely alien creatures but their all minor
> npc
> stuff or backgroup extras on B5.
>
> The fact that all major races are bipedal in-vertebra formed creatures I
> think is a budgetary thing for TV.
>
> Personally I really enjoyed the personal story arc of J'kar the Narn rep
> on
> the station, but that is entirely a person like situation.
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:50 AM, <> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>>
>> I had been watching them by downloading one at a time from Amazon,
>> because
>> I wasn't sure if I wanted to invest in a big DVD set, but obviously I
>> miss
>> all the goodies that way.
>>
>> One thing about B5. I think one needs to be understanding when skewering
>> ST too badly over "aliens with seafood glued to their foreheads" (as I
>> always do), because on a TV budget there is only so much you can do. B5
>> also leans heavily on head appliances for the same reason (but it does
>> add
>> really, really tiny ears), but adds "they're aliens because they have
>> really weird haircuts." Nothing really wrong with that, it just makes
>> you
>> stop and think, "if this had been a movie, they'd probably have done
>> that
>> differently" a lot.
>>
>> > As an aside the B5 series box set has some great explanations about
>> > classical story telling techniques in special features sections of
>> each
>> > season's disks.
>> >
>> > cheers.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, waynes_books <>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> **
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> If the world was fair then every bad thing that has ever happened to you
> would have been deserved.
>