I'll get excited sometime after I know what it is. Getting excited about Legend of the Rangers and Lost Tales turned out to be the setup for some massive disappointments.
Babylon 5
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I mean, the real problem is that the basic premise of the show was solved within the series itself. Spin-Offs really don't matter because we literally saw how the future turns out 1 million years down the line.
Well, we saw how things were in medias res a million years later, and there was clearly A Situation going on, with someone having apparently sabotaged Earth’s Sun to kill it billions of years early. I’d have very much liked to see a series about the Vorlon-level future-humans and whatever plot that Sun-killing would lead to. (I’ve also always suspected that the individual future-human we saw was supposed to be
David Sheridan, having been affected by whatever Lorien did to his father in the opposite mannner, and become all but immortal.)
Seriously??? After all, you saw that Londo and G'Kar were going to strangle each other right off the bat. You saw in the first half of the first season that the Station would be destroyed. So by your lights, the rest of the show wasn't worth watching?!?
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At this point, I can really only go as far as being cautiously optimistic.
I think there's the potential for plenty of other stories in the Babylon 5 Universe, but I'm not going to get my hopes up for much. Warner Bros. has never been willing to invest the money it would have taken to make Babylon 5 their equivalent to Paramount's Star Trek, sadly.
Big Finish have an announcement of a new license coming in the next few days. Would certainly avoid the problems of producing new material in a visual live-action format.
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An interesting possibility. And BF's love of elaborate cinematic trailers could explain how the rumor got out that it was for an animated production (and the call for surviving production CG assets), if they're going to announce it with something like this:
Well, this time tomorrow, we'll all know, or at least have a better idea.
Well, this time tomorrow, we'll all know, or at least have a better idea.
Here's the big news!
BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie
And just to be clear, this brand new original animated movie is already finished and in the can. So it's 100% real, happening, and coming out very soon.
Fantastic! I'm very curious to see what type of animation style will be used for this film.
BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie
And just to be clear, this brand new original animated movie is already finished and in the can. So it's 100% real, happening, and coming out very soon.
Alternatively...
But seriously, folks, I've got my fingers crossed that this is the Telepath War movie he was noodling on way back when. Being animated gives the ability to match the scope of a theatrical movie, he still has access (euphemistically speaking) to most of the actors whose characters would be involved, and it's the big remaining outstanding plotline that was never resolved in the show, a comic, or a novel (aside from the end of Crusade, but, of the two, I know which one I'd put my money on).
The way he's talking about it, it doesn't feel like it's, for instance, a straight adaptation of one his existing horror stories (which I liked, but the Lost Tales was a proof of concept that never got that chance to meet its potential).
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Gods, yes, that's the one story I've been waiting to be told for soooo long! Since it's an animated film, Walter Koenig can return as Bester with ease (and we know he still sounds great!). I hope Daniel Dae Kim is also in it if it is indeed the Telepath War.
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As I said elsewhere: Faith manages.
The timing of this news is particularly amazing for me, as I'm currently showing B5 to my wife. Next episode is the season four premiere.
I hope she's enjoying it.
I know you aren't there yet, but I think "Intersections in Real Time" is one of the most perfect examples of a bottle show done right. (Also one of my favorite episodes of the series.)
I don't think it's technically a bottle show. It's just the one set, but I think it was still a new set.
True, but the entire episode took place there, and it was a very minimal set, so despite it being a new one, it likely cost less than, say, a Minbari corridor. Definitely saved money.
Add to that Sheridan was the only regular in the whole thing, except for that one brief vision of Delenn. And the interrogator and the Drazi were the only guest stars, with the guards being just basically extras. Cheaper on casting budget, as well.
A bottle show is really a blanket term for a cost saving episode. Whether it's using only standing sets, only using regulars, or just a single new set for a whole episode. The bottle puts a lid on spending.
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