[Info-vax] OT: Babylon 5 Reboot

[Rich Alderson]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:

> On 2021-09-27, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> > Looks like it might be real now.
> >
> > https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/babylon-5-is-getting-a-reboot/ar-AAOSI3s?ocid=uxbndlbing
> >
> > Posting here because the show has lots of fans in here.
> 
> Let's just hope it doesn't get interfered with by clueless so-called
> executives (with checklists in hand) who completely screw it up. :-(
> 
> Even by the time of Crusade, I remember one interview he, or someone else
> close to him, gave afterwards and said that executives were on the bridge
> of the Excalibur set and were asking clueless "how would the crew know
> this or that ?" type questions.
> 
> B5 worked because JMS was left alone for the first 4 years and even in
> the final year, after he had been forced to adjust his plans, it still
> mostly worked.
> 
> Having "shades of grey" personalities for the main B5 characters was also
> a really good move and having characters move between lightness and darkness
> was also another really good move.
> 
> I wonder if that would be allowed these days.

Never watched B5, but this sounds like the sort of character interplay which is
a feature of "The Expanse".

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