On Oct 8, 3:05 am, Moo  wrote:
> Brian Stinson wrote:
> > "Hank Arnold (MVP)"  wrote in message
> >news:sX2Oi.1$F44.0{at}newsfe12.lga...
> >> Captain Infinity wrote:
> >> The guy is a raving idiot.
>
> > I don't agree with his opinion of the show, but his description of us is
> > pretty funny.
>
> It is also pretty accurate.  I mean, someone writes one thing about the
> B5 community and you all get in a foamy mess over it.  He's also right
> about one other thing, Crusade was shite, there were 2 or 3 good
> episodes, the rest were pap with terrible CGI.
>
> The majority of things he wrote are right, Robocop 2 & 3 were crap, the
> flashing lights sequence of 2001 was FAR TOOOOOOOOOO long but the rest
> of the film was (on the whole) good but slow, the chair that kills...
> hardly the Cybermen now is it and that DAMN Kilrathi Hobbes, that
> son-of-a-bitch, I stuck up for him....

I'd have put the move with Hobbes up higher on the list. That was an
evil day. :(

> I also find it strange how no-one replied to Captain Infinity's recent
> review of TLT, I'm guessing as it was a slightly negative review
> everyone's eyes glazed over to protect them from the possibility that
> JMS could write something bad (and seriously, did he write something
> bad).  I was really hoping for something good from TLT but there's
> nothing there, a lack of story, a lack of serious direction, a lack of
> people on the station (was it a national holiday on every single planet
> in the known universe and everyone had to leave B5 the previous day?),
> sadly there was an excess of wobbly camerawork, an excess of frankly
> poor writing, some bad acting from Scoggins and a severe lack of tension
> overall (I mean, come on, who REALLY thought Sheridan would shoot?).

The lack of people on B5 in The Lost Tales was probably a budget
thing. I noticed similar things recently when I picked up season one
and season two of a show called "Sledge Hammer!" In Season Two (Which
they were lucky to get actually) the network cut their budget. The
differences are noticable in scenes where crowds are required, and
what could have been decent gets hurt by not having as many people,
props etc. Otherwise the leads are still solid and scenes with just a
few people work fine, but scenes where more stuff or extras are needed
suffer a bit.

One thing about the series they always did well was the wandering
groups on the station, who really brought it to life. Whether Humans,
Drazi, Narn, Centauri, whaetver. Maybe in the production for the movie
they just couldn't get as much of that and had to concentrate
elsewhere.

As for would Sheridan shoot someone, he's had some rough years where a
person might come to think shooting a person early might save worse
trouble later, so maybe that's what was coming into play there.

> Bah.
>
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