How would you bring back Babylon 5?

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Apparently, speculation here is fine.

Speculating here is fine. All he asks is that no story ideas are posted where he hangs out - his Twitter feed and Facebook page. Not so hard at all and a matter of courtesy, not censorship.

I treat anything @Jan posts as definitive on matters to do with JMS.

 

[somebuddyX]

I hope while it used the setting and themes and background that it's not a straight adaptation of the original series. I don't think you need to bring back any of the original characters so people aren't wondering when Sinclair is going to become Valen or Sheridan is going to die at Z'Ha'dum. I hope they don't have Babylon 4 as a time travelling space station and maybe Babylon stations is just some generic name for the class of space stations. I kinda hope he does stories told in a season but only because as we saw in the original series and even with modern series you can't always count on a series being renewed for five years anymore. I think you can do new stories that still stay true to B5'S core tenets of morality and ideology and manipulation and all those cool things that made it more than just a space war story. The only thing I think they need to keep more or less the same, kinda like what the reboot Battlestar Galactica did, is probably the Starfury and definitely the space station itself.

 

[FreezeC77]

So the main chars of the show are all going to de-aged and now be mid 20 somethings(or younger) I guess

 

[EmoBorg]

Babylon 5 done in nuBSG style but eveyone is revealed to be cylon except for Lorien (the first one). Each reveal for each character and races will be done with the opening riff of You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

They don’t need to have Babylon 4 play out the same way but I hope they don’t shy away from the kind of ambitious story where you see two halves of the same story seasons apart from each other.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

They don’t need to have Babylon 4 play out the same way but I hope they don’t shy away from the kind of ambitious story where you see two halves of the same story seasons apart from each other.

It'd be interesting if they did the original Babylon 4 storyline where it replaces Babylon 5 in the present rather than going into the distant past. Now that'd be a twist mid-series.