Absolutely 110% this.
Yeah, those were just my personal opinions. I don't claim that they're correct or even commonly shared with other viewers. I hope any new show makes the advanced alien races feel more terrifying in a Lovecraftian sense, whether they are notionally on the side of humanity, indifferent to humanity, or adversarial toward humanity. If they are a million or a billion years more advanced, I'd like us to feel proportionally insignificant.I didn't say they were good or evil...I actually get annoyed when people inherently associate Chaos with Evil...just that that's how they tried to spin themselves and perhaps how the show itself spun them to some degree (to set up audience bias?). As you noted, if you make a race of aliens that's pitch-black spiders and killed (or worse) the captain's wife, you're going to have to do some pretty heavy lifting to make them seem anything other than malevolent. While we later found out via Lyta in particular that the Vorlons were just as bad, perhaps their badness was painted with a softer brush.
Both races had lost their way to the point that the younger races were just tools to prove their dogma superior, and I wouldn't say either had the moral high ground in the end.
I wouldn't say the Shadows were overt (TBF you did say "more" overt). They used proxies rather than present themselves openly through mid-S3 or so, and Londo was certainly manipulated and didn't realize what he was setting his people up for, even if the deals he thought he was making were ones he made of his own free will.
They also killed Londo's girlfriend and allowed him to believe someone else was responsible.
I think the poster may be referring to the rumors of an animated movie that was going around a while back.
I think the prospect of humanity allying with some unknowable Lovecraftian enigma portrayed in a more visceral horror slanted manner appealing.
Yeah, I don't know how to achieve that but I'm sure people exist with the requisite talents similar to what H R Giger did for the original Alien.
They're unknowable and incomprehensible.
Supernatural's fifteen year run wasn't planned. Supernatural was in fact only planned for a five year run, and indeed many of the writers and producers (including the show's creator) who were there in the first season left after the fifth because they did everything they wanted with the show. It's only because the ratings were so great and there were other writers and producers who still saw life in the show that it continued another ten years.
I don't think it's hard locked to a 5 year plan or any # of years.
