B5 Fans, Good News - Page 3

AgentZero · #21 March 14th, 2007, 08:57 PM

Oh well. I'm younger than he is, so in all likelihood he'll die before me, which means I can have hope that one day there'll be more good sci-fi on TV.

Atrocities · #22 March 14th, 2007, 09:05 PM

One can always hold out hope.

Raapys · #23 March 14th, 2007, 09:13 PM

B5 is simply ingenius. As a whole, it's definitely the best show I've had the pleasure of watching. And unlike many other shows( like BSG for instance ), they managed to cut a great balance when it came to story-progressing episodes and stand-alone episodes.

It'll be great with some more stuff to watch.

GuyOfDoom · #24 March 14th, 2007, 09:20 PM

George Lucas is the satan of the Sci-Fi industry, with the current writers for Star Trek not far behind him.

AgentZero · #25 March 14th, 2007, 09:29 PM

And they're all older than me! Mwaha! Victory will be mine!

Right around the time I retire.

Atrocities · #26 March 14th, 2007, 09:32 PM

Ya, Enterprise really dropped the ball with the whole Romulan thing. They really and quite definitively stepped on fans toes there.

However, Manny Cotto did try and save the show, but to be honest, unless it was a show filled with rap stars, it was doomed to fail on UPN. And note, UPN went the way of the Arseno Hall Show. When you cater solely to one class of people, you alienate all others. Enterprise was simply to intelligent for the viewing population of UPN and thus its ratings tanked and the show died. This, more so than the writing, killed the show.

Stepping on the toes of fans by destroying accepted historical cannon was simply to insulting for most fans to allow to slip by without a hissy fit. Brandon Braga and Rick really enticed a huge fur-ball when they pissed on the fans and TOS.

Baron Munchausen · #27 March 14th, 2007, 09:57 PM

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Atrocities said:
Rumor had it that Ted Turner tanked the show when it was on his network because JMS didn't subscribe to the same political POV that Ted is famous for.

Kinda petty if you ask me but that is the way people have reported Ted to be.

It is well known that if George Lucas dislikes you, you aren't going to find funding for your projects. And that has seemed to have been the problem with all of JMS's projects since the mid 90's.

Then again, I cannot think of a single reason for George Lucas to hate JMS, so I have my doubts about this rumor.

B5 wouldn't have been finished if TNT hadn't picked it up. What you are probably remembering is the end of the sequel series "Crusade". It was killed because someone within TNT wanted to turn it into Star Trek with lots of stupid alien sex and JMS would not allow this.

Lucas has a lot of clout in the movie industry but I don't think his reach extends very much into television (except where television is produced by companies that also produce movies). The main problem with television is the requirement for everything to be suitable for the lowest common denominator and zero attention-span audience. And that's why B5: Crusade was killed. JMS wouldn't let them dumb it down.