Text 15737, 57 rader
Skriven 2007-06-30 22:33:48 av John W. Kennedy (2159.babylon5)
  Kommentar till text 15713 av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (2135.babylon5)
Ärende: Re: Shouldn't We Be Getting Hyped Up?
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Mac Breck wrote:
> "John W. Kennedy" <jwkenne@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:Lyhhi.96$Un2.22@newsfe12.lga...
>> There are two fundamental problems here:
>>
>>     I. JMS never even /began/ the story of "Crusade". The episodes
>> corresponding to "Signs and Portents" and "Chrysalis" in B5 proper
> were
>> never filmed, and the hints to be found in the new matter in volumes
>> 1-11 of the B5 scripts rather suggest that even what was introduced in
>> "To the Ends of the Earth" and "End of the Line" was no more what
>> "Crusade" was really about than B5 was really about a war against
>> insectoid space Nazis, no matter how many of us (especially those of
> us
>> who knew our "Doc" Smith) thought so in autumn of 1994.
>>
>>     II. "Crusade" was conceived as a 110-hour dramatic epic, to be
>> realized by the various crafts of actors, set designers, costume
>> designers, cinematographers, etc., etc., etc.. "Hamlet" makes a sucky
> novel.
>=20
> I'm not talking about novels.
>=20
> Do you think he had all 110 hours planned out, even the major plots of
> each and every one of the 110 episodes of Crusade?  Couldn't they
> piggyback on the existing Crusade episodes, film the three unfilmed
> scripts as B5:TLT DVDs, and hit the major points of the rest of what
> would have been Crusade in a series of B5: TLT DVDs?

And do you think that "Babylon 5" could be sensibly reduced to a dozen=20
episodes from the first season, plus a dozen (I'm being generous) added=20
hours?

>> We know from "Sleeping in Light" that the plague was cured, and we
> know
>> (from "Final Reckoning", I believe) that the Excalibur was given the
>> credit. Since JMS didn't actually want the plague story in the first
>> place, I suspect that's all we're getting.
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> I'm not talking about only the plague story.  I'm talking about the
> plague story, the Earthforce Black Projects/Shadowtech connection, the
> technomages, and wherever else JMS intended to take Crusade, and tellin=
g
> the major points in a series of B5:TLT DVDs.

And how many DVDs, /at/ /best/ can we expect to be produced in a year?=20
(And the actors are already nine years older than they were.)


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John W. Kennedy
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Marcus Aurelius is as na=EFve as the fear that ultimate power inevitably=20
corrupts."
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