[HN Gopher] A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner ... ___________________________________________________________________ A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner than you think Author : cpeterso Score : 24 points Date : 2022-09-07 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.inverse.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.inverse.com) | joaomacp wrote: | Babylon 5 is a well made SciFi show and I'd recommend it! | | I'm currently on season 3, started watching it because of Casey | Muratori's (video game programmer, author of "Handmade Hero" | educational streams) series of interviews with Jonas Kyratzes | (video game designer, writer of "Talos Principle"), where they | discuss the show: [0] | | The distinguishing point about the show is that it features a | coherent world, where some small detail happening in one episode | can come back 6 episodes later. It's also coherent in between | seasons, since it was pre-planned as a 5-season show spanning | exactly 5 years on the Babylon 5 station. | | Also, it features early computer animated 3D art made on Amiga | computers. It hasn't aged that well but gets the job done. | | [0]: https://youtu.be/iASsvQ8sX9w | midasuni wrote: | B5 was one of the first non soaps to have a continuous | narrative. Stargate followed, and later seasons of ds9 copied | it too. Was a great time | | Later shows went for a single narrative spread over a season -- | 24 pioneered that, but before that Buffy had championed the | "big bad" each season, although with Buffy you didn't have to | watch every episode in order for it to make sense. | | Even in the 2010s the new Star Trek series (Picard, Discovery), | and especially the CW arrowverse are prime examples of how poor | that structure is. | wvenable wrote: | Season 1 is a bit rough but there is some pay off in terms of | foreshadowing/continuity in later seasons that make it better | in retrospect. | | Unfortunately for the 5 year arc, they weren't sure they'd get | a Season 5 so much of plot ends in Season 4 and Season 5 | suffers for it. | gigel82 wrote: | Do Stargate next :) | Keyframe wrote: | Or continue SGU. It just got started being interesting before | it was cancelled! | midasuni wrote: | Brad Wright keeps teasing with a continuation. | | It's tricky. Part of the appeal of SG1 was it was based in | todays world, with contemporary relatable characters playing on | a galactic stage. the credibility of that got stretched as it | went on, especially once they started doing things like | building spaceships. I worry some of the original appeal is | lost with a continuation, but a straight reboot of the concept | would be very hard to replace the chemistry | smeagull wrote: | I mean, I'm excited - loved the original. But, I've seen to many | reboots crap all over their source material. I don't know what | has changed about how tv shows and movies are made per se, but | something definitely has. I think SNW has been the only show in | recent memory that I've liked. | | Is this just me, or do others feel similar? | jandrese wrote: | Babylon 5 was excellent. Crusade was killed off way too soon. | The B5 movies however... Legend of the Rangers was really bad. | | Also: "All of the main cast still around participated" makes me | feel sad. Andreas Katsulas is a hard act to follow. | paganel wrote: | > Is this just me, or do others feel similar? | | Same feeling here, but in my case I'm blaming it on me getting | slightly older (passed the 40-year mark recently). | | I'm also looking at past TV series that I definitely liked back | in the day (and which I still do) with different eyes. For | example, when watching The Office (the US version) I've started | to take Dwight's side more and more, while hating on almost any | common action taken by Jim and Pam. Also, the more I re-watch | Seinfeld the more I feel as one with George Costanza, and even | with his dad (played by Jerry Stiller). | midasuni wrote: | Battlestar Galactica's reboot was very well received. | | Personally as a fan of the original supermarination | Thunderbirds, I loved the CGI reboot too. | | SNW wasn't release in the U.K. so I only saw the first episode. | My understanding is it's much more episodic, unlike Picard and | Discovery which are a single 10 hour episode each season. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-09-07 23:00 UTC)