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Ah, okay, B5 is cause to recite some silly crap about love showing bullcrap, and Enterprise is bad enough to recite some silly crap about ratings bullcrap.
Egh. Go outside.
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I'm just amazed the Tolien estate never sued the B5 production, considering how many swipes JMS made from LOTR. Mr. Morden of the Shadows, indeed!
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: Yes, because otherwise how would we know he's any good for the job? There's no place for loose ends in Star Trek!
Well, if they ended DS9 midway through season six, you'd say that was a pretty crappy thing to do. (and that's exactly what we got from Crusade- not even a hint in LTOR of a resolution)
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quote:Originally posted by TSN: If JMS does end up working on Trek, for fuck's sake, don't let him write any dialogue.
I tend to agree- but if he wrote plots and someone else did all the scripting.....
Naaa.
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quote:Originally posted by Lee: Yes, because otherwise how would we know he's any good for the job? There's no place for loose ends in Star Trek!
Well, if they ended DS9 midway through season six, you'd say that was a pretty crappy thing to do. (and that's exactly what we got from Crusade- not even a hint in LTOR of a resolution)
You miss the point. There are just as many loose ends left untied in Star Trek as there are in B5. And you can't criticise LoTR for not tying up Crusade's loose ends. That's not what it was there for. It was supposed to launch a whole new series, and if that series had happened I'm sure that over time more characters from both previous shows would have appeared.
Crusade had already tackled a couple of loose ends from B5 anyway:-
They planned to reveal the fate of Lyta - she was meant to be the telepath who destroys their secret base in Matheson's flashback in "The Path of Sorrows" - but there was a scheduling conflict or something
One of the scripted but unfilmed episodes featured Bester
I'm glad that neither of the above happened because that way we could maybe get to see a proper resolution of both, it'd be a lot more satisfying. . .
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Crsade at least had a passable premise: LOTR ws just abyssimal. Kung Fu space battles so bad that JMS has even said they were a big mistake.
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Crsade at least had a passable premise: LOTR ws just abyssimal. Kung Fu space battles so bad that JMS has even said they were a big mistake.
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I always though Captain Gideon looked like Eddie Money: I always wanted him to start singing "Take me home tonight...."
Mabye I'm the only one.
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quote: "I got together [with Zabel] and wrote a treatment earlier this year that specified how to save [Star Trek] and develop a series that would restore the series in a big way," Straczynski wrote. "I actually think it could be a hell of a show. Whether that ever goes anywhere with Paramount, who knows?"
Is that guy just so full of his own self importance or WHAT?
HE thinks he can do it so it MUST be so!?! Gah.
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Admission: JMS's interviews and Usenet postings give me the creeps.
But: Surely part of any creative endeavor is a belief, on behalf of the creator, that the endeavor is worthwhile? I'm not sure that in itself is enough to qualify as being full of one's self.
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