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A post by JMS on rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
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The SciFi Channel has indicated that it's moving away from space shows, with
all the hardware/alien stuff that goes with it. (This as per its recent
announcement about upcoming shows.)
So it looks like Rangers isn't going to go ahead. They haven't said it
directly, but networks never do.
jms
(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)
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[quote]
The SciFi Channel has indicated that it's moving away from space shows, with
all the hardware/alien stuff that goes with it. (This as per its recent
announcement about upcoming shows.)
So it looks like Rangers isn't going to go ahead. They haven't said it
directly, but networks never do.
jms
(jmsatb5@aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd.,
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine
and don't send me story ideas)
[/quote]
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Are you sure the date for that post wasn't April 1st?
I wouldn't be surprised if the Rangers part were true...but Sci-Fi not doing space shows???
[This message has been edited by samuelk (edited 04-05-2002).]
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It didn't start very well, got miserable ratings, and really wasn't accepted by the masses (who really wanted a B5 show).
Also, he is working full-time on Jerimiah now. How would he have the time to do B5LR AND Jerimiah, and keep both great?
I don't think JMS is ashamed of Rangers any more than he's ashamed of any of his other projects.
He's never been one to hide behind lies--I don't think he's about to start now.
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The network's statement was that they were reducing reliance on space
shows, not eliminating them altogether.
Farscape is going to be on the network through 2004 and they are doing
Battlestar Gallactica again. But, that's a Universal property and Sci
Fi soon will be partnered with Universal.[/quote]
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[b]I don't think JMS is ashamed of Rangers any more than he's ashamed of any of his other projects.
He's never been one to hide behind lies--I don't think he's about to start now.[/b][/quote]
Absolutely. He was very proud of how it turned out.
Also, BS-ing doesn't require lies. It's just pushing the truth behind a more complicated, often factual, story.
Now that I think of it, I have not seen the west coast ratings. I'll investigate those. (oops. Forgot a whole half of the country there. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img])
Edit:
I just checked through the news bites floating around. Perhaps there is some pretty strong truth to this. Scifi certainly is taking up quite a few space shows, but could it be that they've seen a possibility of oversaturation and want to diversify a bit?
They'll have Farscape, Dune, Lexx, Stargate SG-1, and a few other shows whose names escape me. They can't be the space channel. That's already taken. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/wink.gif[/img]
Edit 2: Checking through the newsgroups, this post was made on the fourth. It's not April fools.
Edit 3:
Edit 4 removed edit 3. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
[This message has been edited by Sanfam (edited 04-06-2002).]
I might be the only one around here, but I DO think that B5 was a great show, [i]A[/i] great show, not one that should be poisoned with spinoffs.
I'm all a go for letting JMS work on other things, and letting us remember him for delivering us a piece of programming that was darn excellent.
* Plus a hint for any big-shot that could possibly look into our little nest of insanity here: Boxed Season DVDs = Me buy *
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Sanfam: BS'ing may not require lies, but I really don't think that JMS would stoop to anything even resembling BS'ing.
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Never eat anything bigger than your own head.
The Balance provides. The Balance protects.
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[b] Edit 2: Checking through the newsgroups, this post was made on the fourth. It's not April fools.
[This message has been edited by Sanfam (edited 04-06-2002).][/b][/quote]
Dont you think that was the first thing I checked????!?!?!???!
But I recall jms himself saying that there is so much more in the B5 universe he had written down before even doing the B5. And that he would like to explore that a bit more.
I would have loved to see the second year of Crusade. As in B5 the prequel and the first (and quite a bit of second) seosen was a bunch of unconnected bits introducing us the universe and the characters. It was later it went ballistic. And I would have loved to see the Rangers - and I have faith in jms that it would have been better then the really weak prequel (but I still loved it [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]).
anyway... it kind of makes an empty feeling. as if we are living in a dead world. as if all that is left for us are memories..
As Delenn sayd in the "Rising Star":
"It was the end of the Earth year 2261 and it was the dawn of a new age for all of us. It was the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. The next 20 years would see great changes, great joy and great sorrow. The telepath war. The Drakh war. The New Alliance would waver and crack, but in the end it will hold, because what is built endures, and what is loved endures. And Babylon 5, .. Babylon 5 endures."
...well there is no B5 any more. only memories. in there it will always edure..
maybe it is just my spring depression in Estonia that is yet to see proper spring.
"A good story is 1 part story to two parts backstory."
[b]I heard this is the last season for Lexx.[/b][/quote]
Woohoo! At least Sci-Fi does SOME smart things. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/smile.gif[/img]
Guess not.
It really should end. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
Suppose we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
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[This message has been edited by Falcon1 (edited 04-09-2002).]
[b]It was also said last season was the last season for lexx. From someone producing it. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img]
Guess not.
It really should end. [img]http://216.15.145.59/mainforums/tongue.gif[/img][/b][/quote]
No, this current season is the final one. (Thank goodness. That show is about as bad as that OTHER series that I refuse to name because of its horridness.)
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