Thread: Re: Grudge Match? -->B5

Sort of like if Fox renewed "Firefly" after "Serenity" came out. A lot of
sitting around saying, "Well, if Wash and Book were here..."

> Problem with Season 5 was the very real threat of cancellation so season 4
> became a compressed season 4 and season 5 and season 5 was kind of the
> left
> over hanging bits. It's a letdown and change in tone because they kind of
> ran out of Plan. :D
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> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:43 AM, <> wrote:
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>> I like the sound of how you describe Season 5. Too often a really
>> gripping
>> show or movie builds to its big conclusion and then cuts you off, cold
>> turkey. It's nice to have a "cool down" period afterwards where you can
>> savor what you've experienced.
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>> > Exactly.
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>> > B5 Season 1 can be such a slog I have mixed feelings about what to
>> advise
>> > people. It has a lot of stand-alone episodes of sub-par quality even
>> to a
>> > die-hard like me. But there are a few gems in the rough that help
>> > illuminate things later. So I advise patience with season 1 knowing
>> the
>> > payoff comes later (I rate the seas 1 episodes here:
>> > http://waynesbooks.com/B5Season1.html), or skip seas 1 and depend on
>> the
>> > flashbacks that come later.
>> >
>> > Season 2 introduces Sheridan, and is a mix of stand-alone and arc
>> > episodes. Seasons 3 and 4 are all arc and are like reading chapters in
>> a
>> > book.
>> >
>> > Season 5 is more relaxed - It was thought that B5 was going to be
>> > cancelled after seas 4. Some folks find seas 5 to be a letdown; I find
>> it
>> > enjoyable viewed in perspective.
>> >
>> > -Wayne
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>> >
>> > --- In , John Potter <johnapotter@...>
>> wrote:
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>> >> Yes, B5's commander in season one was necessary for season 3 or
>> perhaps
>> >> 4
>> >> to make sense.
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>> >> Why the Minbari stop short of wiping out humanity at the Battle of
>> the
>> >> Line
>> >> is the crucial story point for B5's original CO. The next CO is who
>> is
>> >> important for the next 4 seasons, with 2 later episodes which are
>> >> directly
>> >> impacted by season 1's CO.
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Yes, and the spacecraft as well. The CGI spacecraft FX from season 1
really date it badly.

Maybe George can come in and remaster and re-release it. And digitally
erase season 1 captain and replace him with Sheridan because that makes
sense to him.

And that's another reason why I have not a whole lot of respect for Lucas.
SW (the real SW, the original one) could proudly stand on its own, its FX
were ground-breaking masterpieces, and did not need to be redone. For him
to show he was embarrassed by them just encourages me to be embarrassed by
everything he has ever done.

> Yeah, the aliens in ST and B5 suffered from FX tech of the time. At the
> time B5 was filmed, TV CGI was pretty much limited to large-scale
> "scenery-type" FX, rather than CGI aliens walking next to actors.
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> --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> > 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 <wayne@...>
>> > wrote:
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