Anyone see G’Kar’s speech responding to “What is Truth, and what is God?” I used that in a theatre class as a monologue. Wore my tape thin trying to transcribe it.
Good for SciFi for picking it up, but, for those of you asking about “Crusade,” I followed the birth and death of that puppy closely, and pretty much the only thing that stood in the way of Crusade getting a full five-season contract was that SciFi had already assigned its budget for the year, and had no room to snatch up a sequel. So TNT let it die.
I believe I mentioned this in another thread, but if you like B5 try Rising Stars, a finite comic book series written by JMS, on about issue 6 now, I believe it will go 24 issues. See: http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/risingstarsr/index.htm
More superhero and less science fiction. Very well-written, a damn good read.
In the “Picard v. Kirk” thread, the topic of best captains overall came up (I posited Ivanova v. Janeway).
So, out of all the sci-fi genres, which captain kicks butt? Which alien species? Which Number One? Which space ship? Which space station? Which planet?
Sheridan is a kick-ass captain, but so was Adama (Man was Greene a HANDSOME devil…)
Aliens? The Pak’ma’ra.
Number one… got me. They’re all kinda lame, with the exception of Ivanova…
Gimme a white star any day. Or a vorlon ship. AND I kinda like the fact that the B5 earth ships weren’t all clean-cut, smooth-lined. They looked like… well… what we WOULD build
Planet? Hmmm… it’s a toss-up between Minbar (gotta love all those glass buildings) and that “spa” planet Riker used to go to all the time… Risa?
And Esprix - tell all those other women who’ve already spoken you that they don’t stand a CHANCE against my iiiiirish charm.
E.
“Black holes were created when God divided by 0” ~Wally
I got hooked on B5 sometime in the second season. Sadly, after I left college, I lived for a couple years w/o TV, so I never got to find out how it all ended.
Last thing I remember is that the Shadows and the Vorlons went at it, kicking A** and taking names, and Garibadi betrayed Sheridan to Earth-Nazi #1…
There’s not much I missed about TV, but that was definately it! I sometimes think about looking into the videos…
Well, we could spoil it for ya, but suffice it to say that you should definitely at least ask someone who taped them all to borrow more. It’s worth it, if for nothing else Sheridan saying, “Get the hell out of our galaxy!”
If you were at the Marcon a few years back (96 I think?) JMS was relateing the bear experience and saying something about the joy of holding the stake that was shoved up the bears rear, rotating it for the FX shot of it floating out there. And of course Peter Davids response…‘What kind of monster would space a teddy bear.’ and ‘The Strazyn, They would conquer the universe, but can never get the budget needed.’ All and all enjoyable.
I’ve got a ‘Severed Dreams’ script from that Marcon. It was also the infamous Klingon Prisonor Lyta’s revenge Marcon.
>>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.<<
JMS used to co-host Hour 25, a Los Angeles radio show devoted to SF and real science before B5. It was on every Friday night at 10 PM for two hours. His buddy Larry DiTillio was also co-host. (He was story editor for seasons 1 & 2 and wrote one or two episodes.) And Harlan Ellison was on a couple of times. (He was also once a host, but that was before I moved to L.A.)
When B5 was approved, The Group Mind (Hour 25 listeners) was the first to know.
My favorite feature of Hour 25 was the listener call-in. I called EVERY Friday! But the show has been cut back to only one hour and they rarely do call-ins anymore.
Oh, and one time I was at Dangerous Visions bookstore to see Harlan and Walter Koenig showed up, unannounced. (They’ve been friends since the 50’s when Walter was in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents written by Harlan. It starred James Caan. The episode was based on Harlan’s book, Web of the City, which was, in turn, based on Harlan’s real-life experience with a New York gang. Walter played a gang-member. Harlan thought Caan should’ve been a gangster and Walter should’ve played Harlan.)
Feel free to correct me at any time. But don’t be surprised if I try to correct you.
By the by, for those who don’t frequent it, there is a neat thread in Great Debates that poses which would win - the Enterprise or an Imperial Star Destroyer. Check it out for some amusing stuff.
