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Post by nucleusofswarm on May 3, 2023 18:44:55 GMT
Well, there he is.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on May 3, 2023 20:11:18 GMT
So my understanding is that the specific announcement won't come until tomorrow, BUT: Called it LOLZ AUDIO DRAMAS!!!!YES.. I got wind yesterday from a mate yesterday Australia time..
The creator of Babylon 5 is apparently a huge BF fan !
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Post by Ian McArdell on May 4, 2023 8:57:22 GMT
Haha - not quite! It's a B5 animated movie... apparently more details coming next week - but it successful, it could be the first of many.
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Post by anothermanicmondas on May 4, 2023 19:48:54 GMT
If you read the post from JMS he said there would be an announcement on Wednesday with "more announcements soon about comics, audio dramas, the reimagining (post-WGA strike) and more" which suggests that the audio dramas are (probably) coming but to be announced later
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Post by Kestrel on May 4, 2023 22:27:57 GMT
More interesting to me than the news of an animated(!) movie(!) is the fact that JMS and Boxleitner apparently got together to record a commentary track. I love those! And (according to JMS) Boxleitner was very happy with the movie, which maybe bodes well? My excitement on that front is somewhat tempered by the fact that animation is a difficult medium to do well in (in terms of both storytelling and presentation) and the fact that out of the several B5 movies we already have... only two were any good. Still, I love to be surprised. And if there's any IP that deserves my unconditional support, this is the one.If you read the post from JMS he said there would be an announcement on Wednesday with "more announcements soon about comics, audio dramas, the reimagining (post-WGA strike) and more" which suggests that the audio dramas are (probably) coming but to be announced later I certainly hope so -- to my knowledge it's one of the few mediums JMS hasn't written for (yet). After that, the only thing left would be video games. .... In related news, Ben Robinson has been teasing all sorts of things on Twitter, and I'm not inclined to trust him very much on those hints, but he did state that Eaglemoss approached WB about licensing rights for B5 ships and that they made some headway before the deal fell through. He seems to think that B5 being an active IP again now would've (again) reversed the WB's stance on licensing. Shame there's no one left to make the damned things.
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Post by nucleusofswarm on May 6, 2023 10:31:14 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on May 6, 2023 14:50:28 GMT
Well....
Writing two different audio drama series and visiting the U.K.? Hrm....
EDIT: makes me wonder, if JMS were to write a Doctor Who story, which Doctor would be the best fit?
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Post by anothermanicmondas on May 6, 2023 19:34:56 GMT
Well.... ... EDIT: makes me wonder, if JMS were to write a Doctor Who story, which Doctor would be the best fit? If he did write a Doctor Who story he would probably insist on giving the doctor the initials J.S.
maybe {click to reveal} John Smith
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Post by Kestrel on May 11, 2023 2:37:26 GMT
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Post by mark687 on Jun 15, 2023 22:10:54 GMT
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 16, 2023 8:28:53 GMT
!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ian McArdell on Jun 17, 2023 7:59:46 GMT
I was excited for this already. Then the trailer landed. Roll on August!
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Post by enofa on Jun 20, 2023 15:03:32 GMT
Well, it’s not the new series, but it’s something!
Still got my fingers crossed for the new TV version. The timing with The CW was so disastrous - it’s now being rebranded as a channel for reality TV and golf, scrapping pretty much all its scripted material - that I’m worried it’ll just go the way of Crusade, but hopefully the film will help keep things on track.
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Post by Kestrel on Jun 24, 2023 19:27:40 GMT
Yikes. Well, who knows, maybe WB'll wind up selling the rights to someone else, or maybe (if TRH does well) they'll consider an animated series. Adult animation is certainly in a much healthier spot than it's been at any other point in my lifetime, and isn't affected by the WGA strike, even if it does seem to be mostly limited to adult-oriented comedies.
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Post by mark687 on Aug 4, 2023 9:17:49 GMT
Regards
mark687
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Post by Kestrel on Sept 19, 2023 1:48:28 GMT
Hrm, well...
Anyone have any thoughts on the movie?
I'm a pretty big B5 fan and I thought it was... just okay. Kinda weirdly discongruent with the TV show. Just speaking personally, what struck me the most was the theme -- love being this universe-shaping, reality-warping power -- kinda flying in the face of what was, to me, one of the most profound lines from the show (unusually not one of Londo's lines, but Lorien's brief musing on love).
I get where it came from and understand the parallel to the Z'ha'dum thing, but it just didn't quite work for me this time. Sheridan's whole raisin d'etre revelation there worked because, well, it was so deeply personal -- it only affected him. That's about as far in the opposite direction from where the movie went as it gets.
So I'm left thinking pretty much the same thing I thought of Crusade, and all the other movies (sans ITB): it was fine, but I don't really think it adds anything to the story.
And maybe that feeling is stronger now, after seeing what Disney and Paramount have done with Star Wars and Star Trek: more isn't necessarily better, and maybe sometimes stories just need to be over.
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