[Info-vax] OT: Babylon 5 (way OT)

[Neil Rieck]

On Sep 12, 11:20 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> Neil Rieck wrote:
> > I have just started a high-def blu-ray (or higher-def DVD) petition
> > here:
>
> >http://www.petitiononline.com/B5HiDef/petition.html
>
> Your mention of B5 got me to seach on iTunes. And I found there is a
> short movie that was produced a couple years ago.
>
> Babylon 5, the lost tales.http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMovie?id=289894...
>
> It happens between the time of the last B5 episode and the time when B5
> is shutdown and destroyed.
>
> Not the full original cast, but succesfully recreates the look/feel of
> the original ones. It is 2 short stories that don't quite end.
>
> Your petition should also include "Crusade", the 13 episodes that
> followed Babylon 5.
>
> http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0149437/

Thanks for this tip but I already own it.
http://www.amazon.com/Babylon-5-Tales-Bruce-Boxleitner/dp/B000PHX8RA/
Back in 2006, I put myself on the pre-order list at amazon.com in
order to convince JMS (J. Michael Straczynski) and his backers that
there was still a market for stuff like this.

I'm not knocking other forms of sci-fi, music, art, religion or
whatever. They are all forms of cultural expression and, like food,
everyone has their personal favorites. That said, although I have been
a HUGE Star Trek fan since it first appeared in 1966, I don't own any
personal copies of any Star Trek movies or TV episodes. But I do own
two copies of the 5-year set of Babylon-5, as well as all the
Babylon-5 movies, the Crusade series, and The Lost Tales.

As an aside, my 23 year old niece and 25 year old nephew have told me
that I'm a lost cause because young people would rarely watch a whole
60-minute TV program but would never watch a whole TV-series for one
year let alone five. Seeing (but not watching) reality TV programs on
the low TV channels makes me think that their generation might be lost
(would they engage in TEXTing during a live performance of Hamlet or
an operation to remove your appendix?). On the flip side, lots of new
subscription-based television series have appeared on HBO so maybe the
younger generation is just temporarily drifting. In the mean time I
have come to the conclusion that, like the patrons of Beethoven,
working people need to support the arts. You vote for the stuff you
like by opening your wallet.

BTW, were any of you fans of TRON? If so, check out this preview of
"TRON Legacy" which will be shown in 3d

http://www.apple.com/trailers/disney/tronlegacy/hd/

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/