I’m currently on season 2 and I’m really enjoying it. I wish I could binge it but don’t have the time. I was wondering if there are any books or comic books I can read once I’m finished. I really hope no sequels are in the works. Well I would love sequels but not in the current era. I don’t want any articles talking about how problematic the show is.
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Instead they immediately jumped to after the Telepath war skipping the entire series of events which included the in universe deaths of several characters.
Speaking of, RIP Jerry Doyle and everyone else from B5 that has now since died;
Richard Biggs, Stephen Franklin. Stephen Furst, Vir Cotto. Andreas Katsulas, G'Kar. Jerry Doyle, Michael Garabaldi. Jeff Conaway, Zack Allan. Michael O'Hare, Jeffrey Sinclair. Tim Choate, Zathrases.
WTF Mira Furlan [Delenn] died at the start of this year from West Nile virus!
Holy hell I didn't know about like half of those.
Going to go be sad now.
It's one of those really surprising contrasts with Star Trek since DS9 being the obvious series to compare with B5 only has Rene Auberjonis [Odo] at 79 and Aron Eisenberg [Nog] at 50 no longer around and in the case of Eisenberg he was only born with 1 kidney hence his short stature so had existing health issues throughout his life.
Even if you go back to the earlier ST series none of the core cast of TNG have died at this point and only 3 of the core TOS cast have being Deforest Kelly [Bones] in 1999, James Doohan [Scotty] in 2005, and most recently Lenard Nimoy [Spock] in 2015.
It's unfortunately a lot worse if you look into some of the reasons why they died.
Biggs died of an aortic dissection, which is almost impossible to save from. Same thing killed Dermont Morgan [Father Ted].
Furst had a startling weight loss during the show from s1 Vir to s5 and eventually died due to complications from diabetes.
Katsulas died of lung cancer because he smoked pretty much his entire life.
Doyle had a massive drinking problem to the point he had a stroke/was in a coma for some time which likely took years off him even though he woke up.
Conaway had a history of drug abuse similar to Eddie Guerrero that caused complications in treating pneumonia that eventually claimed him.
O'Hare has had quite a few speakers [including JMS himself] talk about his severe mental health issues and the depression he was struggling with for years which led to him willingly being written out of the show so he could seek help. Suffered a heart attack then died 5 days later after being a coma.
Choate was killed in a motorcycle accident in 2004 when he was only 49.
From what I read Mira Furlan had some other health issues for some time.
It has a bigger body count than a 1950s western in both onscreen and offscreen deaths. Never film in a place they tested atomic weapons!