'Babylon 5' is getting a reboot
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Oh no...
> original creator J. Michael Straczynski is attached to the project.
Ok, maybe not that bad, but I am sure the copyright holders says this to grab the older fans.
I love B5, and probably will dislike the reboot, but I will watch it anyway.
Besides the great plot and storytelling, B5 is great because of it's characters and the casting decisions, I'm not a film buff, so I do not know ho is the best actors to play G'Kar or Delen, but I surely miss Andreas and Mira (RIP).
I hope for the space combat scenes, the visuals on the original are dated but the seeing it is awesome to this day. (I simp for the starfuries and the narn heavy cruiser)
Lets hope it does not turn into an teenager drama.
Delen was awesome and all, but too, I dunno, Galadriel for me. I'm team G'Kar all the way. Andreas really lit that part up, and just played up all the grubby backstabbing political games to perfection.
As for being the counterpoint to ST, the elevator scene between G'Kar and Londo is the last nail in the coffin. Not only that, it showed great dissent and conflict inside the human race (mars went though a secession, the telepaths are creepy like X-men's Magneto).
As for Delen, you right. But every sci-fi will have space elfs, plus I liked the Minbari being Zen buddhists from space.
Star Trek never said that.
It said that Earth and some other planets within the Federation reached a level of evolution that didn't leave much room for grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals.
Outside of the Federation, it was chaos as usual.
> “You cannot step in the same river twice, for the river has changed, and you have changed.” In the years since B5, I’ve done a ton of other TV shows and movies, adding an equal number of tools to my toolbox, all of which I can bring to bear on one singular question: if I were creating Babylon 5 today, for the first time, knowing what I now know as a writer, what would it look like? How would it use all the storytelling tools and technological resources available in 2021 that were not on hand then?
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1442621159221043202?s...
If you haven’t seen his recent work Sense8, I highly recommend it (though practically all content warnings apply in spades). It’s a show about many things, but most relevant to potential success on the CW, it’s a show about young adults from different walks of life coming together to do heroic things and understand themselves through empathy with others. If anyone can find the balance that Babylon 5 deserves, and find a way to make it maximally relevant in a time we need to hear stories of heroic empathy, it’s JMS with everything he’s learned. I’m incredibly stoked.
I ignored Sense8 for some reason, maybe I will watch this time.
Use everything he’s learned, etc… but pick up the story a hundred or three years in the future. What are the new challenges they face?
What secret things did the Shadows leave behind that we are only finding out about now?
What if everyone’s a telepath now, and they all have telepathic defenses, so being a telepath now just means you’re normal? What happens to those who aren’t telepaths?
What if there was a technological reversion, and there are now problems that could be easily solved if you had Whitestars, but there aren’t any Whitestars left?
What if some of those problems come about because now the ships that were sentient have decided they don’t want to be slaves any more, and maybe it’s a crime to have sentient ships now?
There are so many new problems and questions that could come up.
The only thing that gives me hope is JMS himself as showrunner and writer.
Had to explain the backstory a bit but she loved the banter between G'Kar and Londo and their respective story arcs.