I could see it as more like a Commonwealth of planets. A former Earth colony world that is now independent, similar to UK nations that used to be UK colonies. The head of state would be the president of the EA.
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That's not an accurate analogy. The Commonwealth isn't a formal military and political alliance, it's basically little more than a social club of nations. There are no legal or political authority involved.
Mars being an independent EA member is much more like the "not England" states of the UK following devolution. They all still recognise the same central executive and legislative authority, they all share the same military and head of state, but they each have prescribed powers of self governance and representation within Parliament.
Yeah, Mars as an equal member of the EA rather than a colony subject to it was what I thought.
It's one thing to be politically independent, it's quite another to entirely go it alone.
I mean just how tenable would their position be in that instance? The EA still controls the rest of the Sol system and more importantly, the Io jumpgate, so it's has a strangle hold on all interplanetary and interstellar commerce. As a colony, Mars doesn't have a military of it's own; just a bunch of freedom fighters with small arms, and MAYBE a small cobbled together fleet of armed freighters and shuttles. For the Earth Alliance it'd literally be like having a rogue state *within* it's borders. The only thing preventing Earthforce from rolling right back in is the agreement with the ISA to respect Mars' wish for independence, so they'd effective have to blockade the planet just as a matter of security.
As an EA member on the other hand, it gets representation in Earthdome (did ordinary Martian civilians even have the voting franchise following the riots?), the protection of Earthforce, access to the jumpgate and (in theory at least) favourable trade terms with the other EA members and major alien trading partners.
(Yes, this is all sounding eerily familiar to me too...)
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I watched "In The Beginning" Saturday night, then last night I watched "Atonement" followed by "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", which I belatedly realized means I think I saw Delenn at her youngest followed by her oldest.
I may watch "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" next as I like Delenn's playfulness with Sheridan in that episode.
I also love her breaking of the Gray Council in "Severed Dreams", but overall it's not exactly a Delenn episode?
What are other folks' favorite Delenn moments/episodes?
I may watch "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place" next as I like Delenn's playfulness with Sheridan in that episode.
I also love her breaking of the Gray Council in "Severed Dreams", but overall it's not exactly a Delenn episode?
What are other folks' favorite Delenn moments/episodes?
"COMES THE INQUISITOR" is a great Delenn episode.
‘Babylon 5 Remastered’ now available to buy or stream on HBO Max
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Huh.. Didn't see that coming.. 6 years? did they have like 2 people working on it? I'll take what I can get!
And.. When the TOS remaster happened, they redone the Vfx, and it didn't look clunky, You don't have to use a 10 million an episode Vfx, just better than what was done.
Honestly, WB, give me a number, how much to redo the Vfx for the whole series, and do a Go Fund Me even its it per season, I'll donate for it!
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Too many.I kept it together until the montage of all of those we've already lost.
I mostly use my TV, but I don't have Max. My cousin does, he hates Amazon's app
You know, seems to me the main problem with the old CG aside from the low res textures (which can't be helped) is the low framerate animation. There's AI programs these days that can render interpolated frames to smooth out exactly that kind of jerkiness. That could make a world of difference here, especially in some of the more crowded battle scenes.
I want it on BluRay, with updated CGI
I saw some of the potential fan rendered updated CGI, so it can be done, just for how much $$$ is unknown.
I saw some of the potential fan rendered updated CGI, so it can be done, just for how much $$$ is unknown.
IIRC it was something to the effect of the film stock the original composite elements was shot on was of such low quality, no amount of processing would have made it look acceptable at 1080p, let alone 4K. Ideally they'd have liked to have done as they would later do with TNG, which was separately rescan all the original motion control footage and soundstage, the recomposite and re-colour grade them in HD. And apparently even that was deemed disappointing in terms of sales (hence little movement on the DS9 & Voyager fronts.)
Keep in mind that TOS had relatively few effects shots per episode, and indeed some had 100% recycled stock shots. While the investment of time, money and resources was hardly trivial, it's orders of magnitude less than what it would take for a show like B5 staring from scratch. The models are more complicated, the effects are more complicated, the number of effects shots (composited and otherwise) per episode is FAR greater, and there's like 40% more episodes to deal with overall (not counting the movies and Crusade.) Plus, B5 just isn't the juggernaut Star Trek is and so not such a great motivator for investment...and then there's that old "WB factor".
The only way B5 gets a full wide screen HD remaster is if Jeff Bezos's wife suddenly comes out as a massive B5 fan.
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