B5 - what was the turning point for you?

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From: jjs at gte.net
Date: 15 Jun 2000 22:29:34 -0600
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Kurtz wrote:
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> "Flameholder" <nirot at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4JP05.10132$hp4.277065 at newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> > Babylon Squared
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> > That's when I realized the show was actually going somewhere.
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> I never thought we'd ever see it again. The story in "Babylon Squared"
> led you to believe it was needed in the *future*, especially with the
> old Sinclair appearing. So I figured it was just one of those things -
> B4 vanishes, and re-appears way in the future in the final battle
> against the Shadows, just in the nick of time.
> 
> You know, before Babylon 5, I was just so used to story lines along
> the style of Trek. You know, story lines getting dropped, aliens you
> meet once and never again, technology appearing for one episode
> and the reset button. Characters who can be relied upon to never
> change, major players who will survive (because you know they can't
> die) and the major episode conflict resolved for the better of everyone.
> It was one of the things I liked the most about B5 - characters *change*,
> people can die, you can't depend on your friends or allies, and sometimes
> how you deal with failure and defeat and catastrophe is more interesting
> than always winning out in the end.

The way I described B5 to those who hadn't seen it was "Star Trek is
the idealized future we would like.  Babylon 5 is the future we are
more likely to get."

Jon


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 15 Jun 2000 23:04:54 -0600
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>The way I described B5 to those who hadn't seen it was "Star Trek is
>the idealized future we would like.  Babylon 5 is the future we are
>more likely to get."

I once got an email from somebody at the Fermi Lab, who saw on a bulletin board
there, "Never apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."

 jms

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