How 'bout Babylon5?
POSTED BY: PlainJayne
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 18:38
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OH YEAH a remake would be a very bad thing without GKAR and the origial cast. has anybody read the novels. they fill in alot of backstory, esp. the bester ones.
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Like many shows, (Blakes 7, Macross, etc.) I think B5 would benefit from re-doing the special effects, but leaving everything else alone. No adding stupid comedy sketches in the background, and definitely no cartoonish song-and-dance routines. But some state-of-the-art CGI would go down a treat.
Not that it would ever, ever happen.
I've seen all of B5 except crusade, but I'm about to buy season 1-4 on DVD. I don't consider the rest worth re-watching (and, in some cases, they were not even worth watching). Nevertheless, the B5 universe is one of my favourites, possibly a close second to B7.
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I watch it with eggs.
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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Yeah, G'Kar & Londo were the center of the show, AFAIC.
Before DVD, I taped every episode when it ran on TNT... and then my VCR gave up the ghost!
Oh, and if anybody's interested, there's an amazing freeware simulator available from some folks in Russia...
Babylon 5: I've Found Her — Space Dream Factory
http://ifh.babylonfive.ru/
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Originally posted by Vile:
Like many shows, (Blakes 7, Macross, etc.) I think B5 would benefit from re-doing the special effects, but leaving everything else alone.
The effects in B5 were pretty cutting edge when it was shown - one of the first shows to go CGI - and it used far more effects shots per episode than any SF show before it.
Unfortunately, in the DVD version, most of the live action was remastered as nice, sharp widescreen from the 16mm film, but all the effects sequences and composite shots had to be zoomed and cropped from video.
Its a real shame they couldn't re-render the effects from the original data. OTOH, they could have just done a grotty transfer of the 4:3 version, so we shouldn't grumble.
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A new Babylon 5 movie will be appretiated:)
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I've just been watching some DVD copies that a friend gave me - Season 3; I have to say that playing them on an upconverting HDMI DVD player in 16:9 format on a 1080p TV, the external shots (the CGI parts) look MUCH better than the live-action shots.
Maybe it's just me, but the live-action stuff just really isn't holding up well to the ravages of time. The hair, the costumes, the color palette... it all looks VERY late-80s, early-90s.
I'm just sayin'.
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Originally posted by Kwicko:
the external shots (the CGI parts) look MUCH better than the live-action shots.
Well, the CGI was improving all the time while they were making it - the live action, not so much. The season 1 DVDs in particular were not kind to the CGI, even worse to the live action/CGI composite shots.
They were working on a fairly low budget c.f, say, Star Trek TNG and DS9, but doing far more effects shots, more regular cast with full-face prosthetics (at a time when trek was at the height of its "slap some nose putty on their foreheads" phase) and a full musical score for each episode.
Maybe they cut costs on sets and costumes...
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B5 was wonderful series. Few days ago, I have seen In the Beginning movie, again and after X-time (X=∞-1).
I must tell Peter Jurasik was the best actor in the entire show including movies.
Is here a chance they will create another movie?
Peter Jurasik (right):
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