Pages Tagged “Babylon5”
Reviews
- Babylon 5: The Lost Tales ★★★½☆ It’s mixed. The first segment is essentially a bottle episode. The second is much stronger, and feels like a real return to Babylon 5
Blog Posts
- I made my final post on Google+ yesterday
“Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future … and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future … or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we […]
- Vorlon in Wonderland
The caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland is totally a Vorlon. He’s always asking “Who are you?”, has a short temper, speaks cryptically…
- Cynicism in DS9 vs. B5
In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode, Accession, an ancient Bajoran ship comes out of the wormhole with a single passenger who claims HE is the Emissary of the Prophets.
- What the Hell Happened To Crusade: What the Hell Happened?
I stumbled on “Crusade: What the Hell Happened? vol.1” while packing, and wondered what happened to book 2. Apparently I’m not the only one wondering that.
- Whatever Happened to B5: Crusade?
Ever since J. Michael Straczynski started selling his Babylon 5 script book series, I’ve been hoping we’d get a book with the scripts from the spinoff Crusade. Especially the scripts that were finished, but never produced, and would have set up the real story. That whole thing about finding a cure for the Drakh plague […]
- Drazi Peeps
Green! Purple! (For an explanation, read up on the Drazi effect.)
- More B5 Books: Babylon 5 Chronology
Wow. The Babylon 5 Scripts team keeps finding more ways to get my money. The latest: The Chronologies of Babylon 5. And it includes every single piece of B5 canon, down to the six short stories JMS wrote after the series ended and even the unproduced Crusade scripts. The script books have mostly been interesting for […]
- B5 Script Series Shutting Down
I just got an email with the reminder that J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Script Book Series is going out of print at the end of the month. Monday, June 30 is the last day. It’s hardly a surprise, since the series was always advertised as a limited edition. The weird thing is that they’re […]
- Babylon 5 Scripts: The Bonus Volume
Hard to believe, but J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 Script Books are almost done. Volume 13 of 14 just shipped (my copy arrived today by UPS), and it’s time to talk about the bonus volume 15, only available to people who’ve bought a complete set. This is the book that has alternate versions of several […]
- Londo/G’Kar in 2008!
This just showed up in my email from Babylon 5 Scripts: From JMS’s Cafe Press store (the same site through which he’s selling his script books with commentary): With the coming 2008 elections, there aren’t a lot of candidates we can agree upon. So as a public service, we are now providing a slate of […]
- Exit stage left, pursued by a Claire.
Yeah sure, Heroes X-Men blah blah blah, but wait, there’s more. I’m getting a distinct vibe from the latest episode that has less to do with mutants than with good TV. This makes me very happy, all the more because I didn’t pick up on it until the third-to-last ep of the season. Of course, […]
- LOST Renewal / Story Arcs vs. TV Scheduling
Here’s a surprise: Lost has been renewed for a three-season deal… but each season is only 16 episodes long. The writers are glad that they have an endpoint, because now they know how long they have to tell the rest of the story they have in mind. (Call me credulous, but I’m inclined to believe […]
- Sci-fi mommy
I can’t believe nobody’s made this comparison yet……it looks like the producers of “Lost” picked the wrong SF TV-show lead to be Alex’s mom: Of course, it’s entirely possible that they might be able to land Claudia for a recurring guest spot as her “mother” (flashbacks maybe?), and thus call into question through visuals alone […]
- Drazi Drinks
Last week, after going out to see Superman Returns, we wandered over to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. I ordered the new honeydew ice blended drink. Katie ordered the pomegranate-blueberry drink. When we picked them up from the counter, though, the combination struck us both as funny: Yes, they were green and purple.
- The Drazi Effect
Despite growing up in Orange County, I never managed to go to Medieval Times. It’s a dinner show with knights on horseback staging a medieval tournament. Last month in Las Vegas, Katie talked me into going to the Tournament of Kings at Excalibur, which is the same type of show. When you purchase your tickets, […]
- This is very good title
Lately I’ve seen an interesting pattern emerge in the comment spam logs here. Along with the usual collections of links to pills, porn, and watches, there are a bunch of trackback spam attempts using innocuous websites like Google and Yahoo and the phrase “this is very good,” over and over. Title? “this is very good” […]
- B5 Scripts
JMS’ new site is getting more interesting all the time. Or rather, what he’s selling through the site. It started out as a 15-volume set of all of JMS’ Babylon 5 scripts, but it’s turned into, in Straczynski’s words, the definitive “Making of B5,” complete with production notes, backstage photos, introductions to each episode, etc. […]
- His people are coming
You know that new site selling JMS’ Babylon 5 scripts? Within 48 hours, fans subscribing to the announcement list filled up the database. The remark in that message is a variation on a line JMS would use when he told stories about trying to get a big enough room for B5 events at conventions: “My […]
- Spoo!
Our friend Jason spotted this partial sign over the weekend: As you may or may not be aware, an alien foodstuff called spoo was a running joke in Babylon 5. The first time it was mentioned in the show, someone asked what it was, and JMS replied with a long, humorous explanation. (Thanks to Wayne […]
- Cancellations: Fallen Angel & B5
Fallen Angel is ending with #20, and Babylon 5: The Memory of Shadows has fallen through. However, JMS has always said, “If they can do a Brady Bunch movie, you can be sure that sooner or later, somebody’s going to do a B5 movie.” Even better, it turns out that while Warner Bros. owns the […]
- One door closes…
Since we’ve started showing Babylon 5 to a new group, I’ve been surfing the Lurker’s Guide and other sites. I came across an interesting tidbit about the spinoff series Crusade that I had forgotten. At the point that TNT cancelled Crusade (13 episodes into filming, and months before it aired), Warner Bros. tried to sell […]
- Flashback Blog: Sanding doors
So my computer dumped my “Recent Items” list again and I had to go digging through my WP files to find the writing bits I was looking for. And I found some stuff that would have made great blog material if I’d had one at the time I wrote it. This one is from the […]