Watching Babylon 5 for the first time... *Spoilers, duh*

[kathleensd]

I don't see anything about the set dressing.

Yeah, me neither!

 

[Forbin]

Well, I already sent her a link to a pic of a friend and me as Lyta & Garibaldi from S5. She liked it enough to ask me to post it publicly on the fan page. I think one item is enough for right now. Maybe I'll post it later. After all, it's HER page, not mine.

Pretty sure she welcomes fan contributions without limitations. After all, for an actor, knowing the public knows they exist is important.

 

[JoeD80]

Richard Compton's lack of directing skills meant his episodes took more work

Awww, hey, now! That's kinda harsh. Compton directed all my favorite episodes of The Equalizer!
In fact, it was the combo of Compton and Stewart Copeland's music that hooked me on B5 with the pilot movie. Kinda like an Equalizer reunion of sorts. Made me hanker for a series.

His directing for the Equalizer was actually what got him hired on B5 in the first place, but the thing is, he was fired from Babylon 5 because he couldn't direct the way Joe needed for the show:

The problem with Compton is he would always distance the actor from the camera and the actor from the actor. It was always across the table or across the observation dome
...
What we had in the editing room was what was shot, so the most common question was, "Do we have any coverage of this?"
"No."
"All right, move on."
...
The only one that was worse than "Grail" for editing was "Believers," where we also came up short and we had to shoot a B-story. We did a lot of re-shoots on "Believers," because he hadn't gotten the performances. We had to go back over the course of a couple of days and shoot a scene again, because it just wasn't there on film.

edit: (also, to add a little bit not directly related to Compton but related to directors, JMS also had issues with Mario di Leo's directing on "And Now for a Word" and Kevin James Dobson's directing on "Into the Fire" according to interviews in the Artifacts from Beyond the Rim book)

 

[Chris_Johnston]

^ Ahhhhh! Well, okay then. I was not aware of all that. Thanks for the info.

 

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