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I loved season 4, but I think season 3 is still my favorite. As far as pacing and structure, S4 reminded me a lot of S1, a lot of seemingly-disconnected stories that kept having indications there was a larger plot below the surface connecting them a…
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Funny you should mention Unreal, I saw someone mention doing just that on the Babylon Project forums last year. Wow, things move slowly in an aged fandom. https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=93783.0 I'm not super-comfortable redistri…
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As a general rule, sure. I wanted to lock down that jump point a little more before I put it up for download, but I've been distracted by another project. Is there anything specific you have your eye on?
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A couple more years, and I'll probably be able to drop the change for a complete scriptbook set. So, you know, I probably jinxed it and this is the last one.
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I never saw ITF on broadcast, but I did get the VHS release of it, and that version also had weird sound (though I felt like it was just the teaser that was really bad on the tape, and the DVD was muffled throughout, but I never did a direct compari…
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Huh. I can post in the "archived forums," but it doesn't show up in the "recent discussions," which I assume is the only thing anyone ever checks on the forum. Well, I'll start a new topic once there's something a little more exciting to show.
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It's back! So, a month or so back, I decided that I was unhappy with my progress on my personal projects. Pretty much, they were all big ambitious things, and I was mostly ending up just doing the creative version of pushing your vegetables around …
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The time-travel element does seem like another use of the same trick was Sheridan's flash-forward in War Without End, to provide more information on events outside of the scope of the series. I wonder if B5 was made a little later, once serializatio…
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That's pretty awesome.
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Well, Valen's body was never found. And there was this tidbit JMS mentioned around when SIL aired: "Garibaldi's death (a much quieter passing than he would have imagined waiting for him), Franklin's final fate on a distant, unexplored planet, Delen…
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Well, SyFy took a pretty bad deal on the show because they wanted a BSG-style prestige program. I don't think they even had rerun rights, just the initial airings in the U.S., so to make back their money, they needed the show to do tremendously in l…
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Well, I assume we've all heard that The Expanse was canceled and then uncanceled, right? Also, with regard the end of the last episode; ew.
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I vaguely recall seeing things about a turn-based strategy engine that pen-and-paper wargames could be adapted to. Speaking of B5-ish games, Tacoma recently came out, an environmental-narrative game set on a L3-Earth/Moon space station. Looking out…
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I enjoyed it. I have to agree with the review that said the opening sequence alone was worth the price of admission. The biggest issues I have with the casting. I found Valerian himself charmless and unlikable (but, luckily, there was surprisingly l…
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“I’ve found a way out— there’s a maintenance crawl on the other side of that wall; it should lead us to the elevator shaft.” “That is not going to work” “Right, you’d never make that climb.” “Jesus Christ, not because I’m old!” It’s going to be a …
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Agreed about preferring a Crusade revival of some sort compared to a remake of Babylon 5. I realize all the business reasons why it's harder sell (though, apparently, whatever new incarnation is floating around for B5 also isn't that exciting to stu…
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I like your idea of Takashima as an unknown-to-the-characters villain throughout the second season (sort of a Boomer in BSG thing). I definitely don't think that she would've been found out in early season two. The way Jack was discovered as-is is r…
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I'm not sure what I'm saying myself about the Babylon 4 design. I suppose I'd expect that if JMS expected it to be more important down the line, he would've given a heads-up to the VFX team to include a fairly major detail like visible engines. On t…
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I remember that fanfic. I don't think it's the WWE alternate timeline; IIRC, the divergent point is that Sinclair was killed at the Battle of the Line, and Earth was destroyed. There were no Babylon stations (though I think Babylon 4 did pass throug…
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I think it was more that nobody suspected JMS would be audacious enough to plan a ten-year arc, and then sell it as a five-year arc. The other issue is that Babylon 4 and Babylon 5 aren't really that different. Sure, B4 can move (though, despite bei…
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There was another recent example of a mass delusion along these lines, with a Reddit community inventing and elaborating on a terrible '90s kids movie which is clearly an amalgam of several real terrible '90s kids movies. One thing to remember is t…
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I figure it has to be intentional that the Legacies device is the Triluminary. One would think the more logical choice would be one of Delenn's magic rings from "The Gathering" if you needed to knock someone out (assuming you weren't going to use a …
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I'm a little curious about how the Triluminary is supposed to work. In some cases, they seem fairly useful (Delenn gets one because she's going it alone, but it's ambiguous if it's because it's a powerful device, or if her friend knows exactly what …
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It was certainly my kind of fan service. I'd be spoiled on a couple of the "cameos," but the obscurer ones delighted me even more than the big-tickets. I agree about that corridor scene. The first Vader scene kind of disappointed me a little (his s…
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I'm pretty sure the first time we hear the name "Valen" is in the late second season, when Delenn has Sheridan over for Minbari dinner. I had to check it out when I read the part about G'Kar's gills being a part of his regular makeup. I checked out…
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Steve Burg posted a lovely tribute image to Ron on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10205907974138218&set=pcb.10205908045259996&type=3&theater
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That's the plan. A Star Wars movie every year, alternating between the "saga" (Episode #) and "Anthology" films that take place in the Star Wars universe, but aren't part of the main storyline. So in 2015 we got Episode VII, and in 2016 we're gettin…
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Right, the casino set was converted into the War Room (I've never seen it said officially, but I strongly suspect it also doubled as Earhart's, though they apparently could still switch back and forth at that point). Since the War Room was next to S…
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I was thinking about it when I was watching the video. I said "$30" in my head, because I knew it would be more than that, and it is. I'm still thinking about it, though. I've only gotten the 20th anniversary art book, which was good, though not qui…
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I like the part where Dooku is badly characterized because he was a last-minute fill-in for Jar Jar. Was Jar Jar also originally going to be taking Qui-Gon, Windu, Palpatine, Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Padme's roles, too?