So I’ve heard a few references to this on the net. Might be a theatrical feature, or maybe another made-for-television film. JMS says it is going forward despite the death of Richard Biggs, though he said that loss definitely “took the wind out of our sails,” and left him with no desire to think of anything to do with the project for a few months.
So, anybody out there who is ultra-deep geeky into B5 know any spoilers (boxed, if you do, please, for those who might not want to know).
I will assume the Shadows return after Sheridan told them, rather purply (is that a word?), to “Get the hell out of our galaxy!”
As far as I know, JMS hasn’t said a damn thing about it except for the title. Arrrgh! (Not that I blame him, I’m sure there are multiple good reasons, but is it ever annoying.)
There has been exactly one good B5 tv movie. I’m a big fan of the series but at some point JMS is just going to have to put it down and walk away. Stop, before it starts going so far downhill that we get sick of the original series. Stop, before it goes the way of the Star Trek franchise.
^^^You talking about Byron and those goofy guys singing goofy songs in Season 5?
The TeleGoths.
“The low spark of long-haired boys”
That arc (that season) is fairly unwatchable, to me.
Seriously, if it is a feature, I’d think it would “need” a bigger (read: space battles, explosions) canvas than a telepath war to appeal to the masses.
The third book of the Psi-Corps trilogy describes Bester’s life after the telepath war, and judging from what little they said about it in there, it was a pretty major conflict. If you haven’t read that series, I strongly recommend it, as well as the technomage trilogy–both are canon, and both are very good stories in and of themselves.
[spoilers]The only real specifics given in the books are that Garibaldi doesn’t know what happened to Talia, that Bester is the biggest war criminal in that time period, and that Lyta was “scary as hell at the end.”[/spoilers]
ultrafilter, sorry, I was trying a little too hard to be clever in my response to you, and should have said that I personally would see a feature built around Bester, et al., but most people would expect a grander space opera.
I agree with MGibson, though. It ain’t '93-'97 (good B5 years). JMS should let it lie. Which telefilm do you like, btw?
Didn’t Bester say that Talia had been dissected in a third season ep?
