I’m honestly glad what happened with Star Wars and Star Trek. Now I don’t have to care about those properties anymore. I don’t even get upset anymore because I’m so apathetic towards the properties.
The bright side is it makes it easier to recommend Babylon 5 to people since I think it’s 100x better anyway. Londo and G’Kar are probably the best sci fi characters ever and the actors made them believable and sympathetic.
Supposedly JMS is/was working on this abortion. The original show was great and done right the first time. We don’t need a retelling of Sheridan’s story or the Shadow War. I’m not really worried about it being woke as much as the Marvelification of the story. B5 worked because it was a character driven show and all the characters were complex and showed growth from Season 1 to 5.
In a from-the-ground-up reboot of the original series, John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.
But in the current environment(never mind the monstrous shoes they'd have to fill for some characters - Londo and G'kar? Good fucking luck there), I can only hope it never sees the light of day.
...and for the record, I'm still salty as fuck that Crusade was canceled.
It's still dead in the water, last I heard. WB doesn't seem interested in taking any risks while it continues attempting to plug its financial holes.
Not that they're really doing anything smart with their approach. They've been cancelling good shit and bad shit alike, and try to pick up the slack with shitty cheap reality show-tier shows and the occasional DEI dip.
Yeah, maybe not too popular, but my love for Star Wars disappeared the minute I saw the very first preview of Force Awakens. I remember my childish excitement fading away and thinking "welp, there goes another one" and pretty much wrote the whole thing off. I do recall being semi-interested in the black trooper's deprogramming that was implied in the preview (obviously they skipped all that to focus more on Mary Sue fucking around in the desert and slapping male helping hands away like a grrlboss should).
I eventually did watch it because some friends had it on in their house while I was staying over and I wasn't into it at all, except maybe the nostalgia-berries with the original cast (that weren't ever put in the same scene).
The Star Trek "soft" reboot films prepared me, somewhat, for how other franchises would be rebooted and ruined. Granted, I had no way of predicting just how badly they'd fuck it up.
Yeah those disappointed me when I realized that it was a soft reboot with an alternate timeline. I didn't even know that going in and was annoyed at the laziness of the writing. Who wants to do all that research and keep it consistent when they can just give us a time travel scheme so they can just make shit up...
Well, you were more perceptive than me. I was over the moon at the visual innovations of blockbuster setpieces (Star Destroyer wreck, X-wing scenes) and thought the way the trailer was structured proved that JJ understood the spirit of Star Wars. By the time I walked out of the theater I had already realized I would have to cover up my disappointment and confusion in front of friends. Then the horror of it sunk in pretty quickly after that.
For me it was the moment Leia did the Mary Poppins in Space. Only reason I didn’t walk out was I had taken my son to see it. He was 7 and was just having a good time being at the movie theater in general so I didn’t want to ruin his fun.
I’m honestly glad what happened with Star Wars and Star Trek. Now I don’t have to care about those properties anymore. I don’t even get upset anymore because I’m so apathetic towards the properties.
The bright side is it makes it easier to recommend Babylon 5 to people since I think it’s 100x better anyway. Londo and G’Kar are probably the best sci fi characters ever and the actors made them believable and sympathetic.
Let’s hope they don’t remake Babylon 5
Supposedly JMS is/was working on this abortion. The original show was great and done right the first time. We don’t need a retelling of Sheridan’s story or the Shadow War. I’m not really worried about it being woke as much as the Marvelification of the story. B5 worked because it was a character driven show and all the characters were complex and showed growth from Season 1 to 5.
Leave it alone!
I can see how this might have been a good thing.
Once.
But in the current environment(never mind the monstrous shoes they'd have to fill for some characters - Londo and G'kar? Good fucking luck there), I can only hope it never sees the light of day.
...and for the record, I'm still salty as fuck that Crusade was canceled.
*subtly hides Back to the Future DVDs and posters
If they ever redid Back to the Future it would be a black or Hispanic girl and the 80s and 90s would be portrayed as extremely racist
It's still dead in the water, last I heard. WB doesn't seem interested in taking any risks while it continues attempting to plug its financial holes.
Not that they're really doing anything smart with their approach. They've been cancelling good shit and bad shit alike, and try to pick up the slack with shitty cheap reality show-tier shows and the occasional DEI dip.
Yeah, maybe not too popular, but my love for Star Wars disappeared the minute I saw the very first preview of Force Awakens. I remember my childish excitement fading away and thinking "welp, there goes another one" and pretty much wrote the whole thing off. I do recall being semi-interested in the black trooper's deprogramming that was implied in the preview (obviously they skipped all that to focus more on Mary Sue fucking around in the desert and slapping male helping hands away like a grrlboss should).
I eventually did watch it because some friends had it on in their house while I was staying over and I wasn't into it at all, except maybe the nostalgia-berries with the original cast (that weren't ever put in the same scene).
The Star Trek "soft" reboot films prepared me, somewhat, for how other franchises would be rebooted and ruined. Granted, I had no way of predicting just how badly they'd fuck it up.
Yeah those disappointed me when I realized that it was a soft reboot with an alternate timeline. I didn't even know that going in and was annoyed at the laziness of the writing. Who wants to do all that research and keep it consistent when they can just give us a time travel scheme so they can just make shit up...
Well, you were more perceptive than me. I was over the moon at the visual innovations of blockbuster setpieces (Star Destroyer wreck, X-wing scenes) and thought the way the trailer was structured proved that JJ understood the spirit of Star Wars. By the time I walked out of the theater I had already realized I would have to cover up my disappointment and confusion in front of friends. Then the horror of it sunk in pretty quickly after that.
For me it was the moment Leia did the Mary Poppins in Space. Only reason I didn’t walk out was I had taken my son to see it. He was 7 and was just having a good time being at the movie theater in general so I didn’t want to ruin his fun.
Vir says hi, Mr Morden. He's waving at you while wiggling his fingers
We shouldn't celebrate the malicious destruction of cultural icons by our enemies.