Buying out the Warner stake in the CW wouldn't give Paramount ownership of Babylon 5; that would stay with Warner's TV division.
Babylon 5
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Upon closure of the deal, Paramount and Warner Bros. will continue to produce content for The CW and Nexstar would also look to other studios in hopes of purchasing other content. When Pedowitz took over the reins at the broadcast network, he looked to broaden its appeal and audience. According to this new report, Nexstar has plans of their own to equally broaden that scope to cover older audiences, as The CW currently focuses on young adults. Nexstar will look to put out programming that would match the demographics of its affiliates.
Per Colider 1 month ago.
B5 would skew older..so that would work with there stated goals.
6 week old news so.. Hope for the best
Per Colider 1 month ago.
B5 would skew older..so that would work with there stated goals.
6 week old news so.. Hope for the best
Does that website have what we used to call an index page or home page? I've tried two browsers and I don't see any links to other sections of the site. Doing a Google site search (https://www.google.com/search?q=site:b5books.com) finds other pages, but if they're not linked from the main page, are they just old abandoned pages, or are they supposed to be current? The site doesn't do much to convince me that my old theory that JMS doesn't want the average person to buy B5 books is wrong.
I rewatched some season 4 eps on HBO Max a couple days ago (No Surrender, No Retreat to Deconstruction of Falling Stars). I love this series so much. It is my all-time favorite scifi show.
The Excalibur was a very cool ship but some of the interior details made no sense like the monorail inside the ship.
The Victory-Class Destroyers like the "ISA Exclaibur" has a length of 2,990.31 meters
2.990 31 km = 1.858 miles.
We have lazy people on Earth who would easily take an elevator to cross a few decks instead of taking stairs.
I can see officers needing a Monorail to get to the other end of the ship quickly.
The same applies with TurboLifts in Star Trek.
You try crossing several km to get to your destination, vs taking the TurboLift.
The monorail on the Excalibur makes perfect sense because of how long the ship is. In an emergency scenario, you need to get to places quickly. Never mind going to and from on a regular basis.
"Ship is too long - if I walk, the movie will be over"
The Excalibur's main gun was freakishly huge and required a long time to recharge - more a strategic weapon than a tactical one. Hence the need for all the Starfuries and PDCs to defend it. It was basically a wannabe Death Star but not a planet killer.
It would be interesting to know where Crusade was going over five years. I don't think JMS ever revealed details of the overall plan for the series arc - just bits and pieces about how the first season would conclude and the second would start. I think we'd have seen versions of some events in the Technomage, Centauri, and Telepath book trilogies brought to the screen. Like B5, the outline plan would probably remain intact but the details would differ. It would have finished its run 17 years ago had it lasted five seasons.
It would be interesting to know where Crusade was going over five years. I don't think JMS ever revealed details of the overall plan for the series arc - just bits and pieces about how the first season would conclude and the second would start. I think we'd have seen versions of some events in the Technomage, Centauri, and Telepath book trilogies brought to the screen. Like B5, the outline plan would probably remain intact but the details would differ. It would have finished its run 17 years ago had it lasted five seasons.
The main gun was awesome, but it was a small moon killer, not a large planet killer =D
I hope JMS keeps the long term plans for Crusade close to his chest so he can reuse it when he inevitably reboots Crusade.
Honestly, a reboot of B5 Crusade would be more interesting than rebooting B5.
I guess so on second thought. But is the crew area only the middle part of the ship? The ships main guns were built to function on drama time and that's why it took so long to charge, to build up the drama /s
It literally takes ~7 seconds to charge up and fire and requires ~1 minute cool down / rebuild of energy for the main systems to go back online.
JMS intentionally built the new ship like that due to not wanting a too over powered ship and wanting it to have some weak points.
Also, according to in universe lore, the Minbari was barely understanding Vorlon tech when they made it, so this is basically a prototype weapon. Obviously there will be flaws and draw backs with any prototype weapons.
That ship is like an A10 a flying gun
Indeed. There was a lot of potential there.
If B5 can be considered DS9-like, Crusade would have been more TNG-like and could allow for standalone stories that were loosely tied to the main arc. Of course, any reboot would likely have to be renamed because of the events of the early 21st century in the real world.
People have compared the main gun on the Excalibur to the Wave Motion gun on the Yamato from Space Battleship Yamato (aka Star Blazers). It's not as powerful as that either. It was fine at taking down the Drakh planet killer but it's pretty useless otherwise.
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Really the way that first season of Crusade ended seemed like they were heading into a juicy story.
I suspect Earth would have found a cure for the Drakh plague, although all I've read is that the cure would be double-edged. Say it were based on the alien healing device featured on B5, it would require the sacrifice of a "less-valued" life to save a "more-valued" life - so first to die would be convicted murderers and it would escalate from there. The Excalibur and its crew would have become renegade after exposing EarthForce's experimentation with Shadow tech and be on the run for perhaps a season or two. Gideon would die at the end of season one but be restored by using the Apocalypse Box somehow. I assume the series would have ended with a better cure for the plague being found and the rogue elements of EarthForce exposed.
But if you see the future as shown in the series ending of Babylon 5 it's clear the plague was cured at some point. It's just the process of how it got cured.
The plague was added at the insistence of the network, as a hook. The real premise of the show was going to be about factions vying to use and misuse Shadow technology, hence the early-cure-with-drawbacks that would've let them back-burner that plot and not have quite so much urgency about every episode having to be framed as "a possible lead on a cure." I suppose if Babylon 5 was a version of World War II and the rise of fascism, Crusade would've been nuclear proliferation in the '50s and '60s.
I loved CRUSADE, and I think the episodes that didn't really deal with the plague were the best.
Some personal favorites...
"THE NEEDS OF EARTH"
"THE WELL OF FOREVER"
"APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS"
I have the original, first run version release of the dvds... the one that has the commentary by JMS on one of the episodes where he is not that... kind about TNT. From what I read, future prints of the sets deleted that commentary.
(It's been quite a while since I heard it, and I have the set packed away along with around 700 other box sets. One day, I'll have my sets back out.)
Some personal favorites...
"THE NEEDS OF EARTH"
"THE WELL OF FOREVER"
"APPEARANCES AND OTHER DECEITS"
I have the original, first run version release of the dvds... the one that has the commentary by JMS on one of the episodes where he is not that... kind about TNT. From what I read, future prints of the sets deleted that commentary.
(It's been quite a while since I heard it, and I have the set packed away along with around 700 other box sets. One day, I'll have my sets back out.)
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