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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 8418452" data-attributes="member: 6799660">I'm going to say even further -- Babylon 5 was amazing... when it was amazing. The other times... we usually gloss over them, or there's always an excuse -- actors stopped being available, network interference, the show was cancelled and then un-cancelled (of course there's no reason to believe that a reboot wouldn't have some or all of these things, or other similar issues). Babylon 5 is not unlike Buffy the Vampire Slayer in that every time I run into a super-fan, their response is something akin to, &quot;I love that show, except for...[something different for each one, but always something].&quot; It is a flawed gem, with some really great pieces and some low parts as well (just less worst than other genre shows, where the low point is 'that one super-racist first season episode' or 'that one where a supposed good guy does something unforgivable but it's kinda forgotten later'). Perhaps worst of all for a reboot is that some of the most universally acclaimed parts of the original are the cast chemistry, individual actor talent, and specific moments or speeches (all things that could show up in a new project, but there's no specific reason to think so simply because it is nu-B5). Much like Firefly, it isn't the premise or the plot that was earth-shakingly brilliant, it was the particulars of the execution, which is a lot harder to replicate in a reboot (or at the very least, are not inherent to the property).More power to JMS in getting this off the ground. I hope it does well. If it doesn't, it will not for me detract from the mostly-brilliant series he gave us in the 90s. I will always have that for which to thank him.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 8418452, member: 6799660"] I'm going to say even further -- [I]Babylon 5[/I] was amazing... when it was amazing. The other times... we usually gloss over them, or there's always an excuse -- actors stopped being available, network interference, the show was cancelled and then un-cancelled (of course there's no reason to believe that a reboot wouldn't have some or all of these things, or other similar issues). [I]Babylon 5[/I] is not unlike [I]Buffy the Vampire Slayer[/I] in that every time I run into a super-fan, their response is something akin to, [I]"I love that show, except for...[something different for each one, but always something]."[/I] It is a flawed gem, with some really great pieces and some low parts as well (just less worst than other genre shows, where the low point is 'that one super-racist first season episode' or 'that one where a supposed good guy does something unforgivable but it's kinda forgotten later'). Perhaps worst of all for a reboot is that some of the most universally acclaimed parts of the original are the cast chemistry, individual actor talent, and specific moments or speeches (all things that could show up in a new project, but there's no specific reason to think so simply because it is nu-B5). Much like Firefly, it isn't the premise or the plot that was earth-shakingly brilliant, it was the particulars of the execution, which is a lot harder to replicate in a reboot (or at the very least, are not inherent to the property). More power to JMS in getting this off the ground. I hope it does well. If it doesn't, it will not for me detract from the mostly-brilliant series he gave us in the 90s. I will always have that for which to thank him. [/QUOTE]

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