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> The CW

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.

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You’ll be pleased to know, then, that JMS is showrunner and actively writing the pilot:

> “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.

That is great, but knowing how much of an grumpy old man I am (although I am younger than the series itself), at best I will reluctantly like the reboot, at worst I will hate like some people hate ST Discovery.

I ignored Sense8 for some reason, maybe I will watch this time.

I'm with you. It was a great counterpoint to the ST universe 'we're all going to get along, because space-faring races don't have grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals' ethos that you had to wait for DS9 to get. B5 is one of those that IMHO does not need to be 'rebooted'.

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.

I agree that it should be left as it was, it told everything that wanted to tell.

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.

> we're all going to get along, because space-faring races don't have grudges/ulterior motives/conflicting goals

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.

There's Comic Book Guy! Someone said Star Trek on the Internet and you just know someone was gonna beam in to enforce Cannon.

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