The First One
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed
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Well, I just saw the nominations for the Hugo award for Best dramatc Presentation. There are five of them, but really it only comes down to two:
Babylon 5's Sleeping In Light versus Dark City.
Now, B5 has done well in the past - two years running, they won with The Coming Of Shadows and Severed Dreams. The main reason they didn't even get nominated last year was that the fanbase that decided nominations didn't get their act together in time, leaving the votes spread between such episodes as Into The Fire, Intersections In Real Time and Deconstruction Of Falling Stars (muchb as the vote for season three was nearly split between the winner, Z'Ha'Dum and War Without End before JMS withdrew them from consideration to give Severed Dreams a chance).
I'll admit it - I want B5 to win, regardless of how good Dark City was. But it doen't look hopeful. . .
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To be quite honest, there is no way in hell Sleeping in Light is a better example of science fiction than Dark City, as much as I might like B5. The problem is that this award is supposed to be solely for what is nominated. While B5 as a whole surely deserves one, its finale, in and of itself, does not.
Of course, looking through past votes, it appears The Coming Of Shadows beat The City of Lost Children, among others. That pretty much puts a nail in Dark City's coffin right there.
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I know nothing of "Dark City", but Sleeping in Light is a poor example of TV sci-fi IMHO. They should give it to a Star Trek!
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I'm afraid I'm with Monty on this one. SitL was not my fav B-5 episode. I kept thinking John would board the station, and go something like Kosh did, taking the station with him.
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