[HN Gopher] A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner ...
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       A mysterious new Babylon 5 project is coming sooner than you think
        
       Author : cpeterso
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-09-07 20:35 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | joaomacp wrote:
       | Babylon 5 is a well made SciFi show and I'd recommend it!
       | 
       | I'm currently on season 3, started watching it because of Casey
       | Muratori's (video game programmer, author of "Handmade Hero"
       | educational streams) series of interviews with Jonas Kyratzes
       | (video game designer, writer of "Talos Principle"), where they
       | discuss the show: [0]
       | 
       | The distinguishing point about the show is that it features a
       | coherent world, where some small detail happening in one episode
       | can come back 6 episodes later. It's also coherent in between
       | seasons, since it was pre-planned as a 5-season show spanning
       | exactly 5 years on the Babylon 5 station.
       | 
       | Also, it features early computer animated 3D art made on Amiga
       | computers. It hasn't aged that well but gets the job done.
       | 
       | [0]: https://youtu.be/iASsvQ8sX9w
        
         | midasuni wrote:
         | B5 was one of the first non soaps to have a continuous
         | narrative. Stargate followed, and later seasons of ds9 copied
         | it too. Was a great time
         | 
         | Later shows went for a single narrative spread over a season --
         | 24 pioneered that, but before that Buffy had championed the
         | "big bad" each season, although with Buffy you didn't have to
         | watch every episode in order for it to make sense.
         | 
         | Even in the 2010s the new Star Trek series (Picard, Discovery),
         | and especially the CW arrowverse are prime examples of how poor
         | that structure is.
        
         | wvenable wrote:
         | Season 1 is a bit rough but there is some pay off in terms of
         | foreshadowing/continuity in later seasons that make it better
         | in retrospect.
         | 
         | Unfortunately for the 5 year arc, they weren't sure they'd get
         | a Season 5 so much of plot ends in Season 4 and Season 5
         | suffers for it.
        
       | gigel82 wrote:
       | Do Stargate next :)
        
         | Keyframe wrote:
         | Or continue SGU. It just got started being interesting before
         | it was cancelled!
        
         | midasuni wrote:
         | Brad Wright keeps teasing with a continuation.
         | 
         | It's tricky. Part of the appeal of SG1 was it was based in
         | todays world, with contemporary relatable characters playing on
         | a galactic stage. the credibility of that got stretched as it
         | went on, especially once they started doing things like
         | building spaceships. I worry some of the original appeal is
         | lost with a continuation, but a straight reboot of the concept
         | would be very hard to replace the chemistry
        
       | smeagull wrote:
       | I mean, I'm excited - loved the original. But, I've seen to many
       | reboots crap all over their source material. I don't know what
       | has changed about how tv shows and movies are made per se, but
       | something definitely has. I think SNW has been the only show in
       | recent memory that I've liked.
       | 
       | Is this just me, or do others feel similar?
        
         | jandrese wrote:
         | Babylon 5 was excellent. Crusade was killed off way too soon.
         | The B5 movies however... Legend of the Rangers was really bad.
         | 
         | Also: "All of the main cast still around participated" makes me
         | feel sad. Andreas Katsulas is a hard act to follow.
        
         | paganel wrote:
         | > Is this just me, or do others feel similar?
         | 
         | Same feeling here, but in my case I'm blaming it on me getting
         | slightly older (passed the 40-year mark recently).
         | 
         | I'm also looking at past TV series that I definitely liked back
         | in the day (and which I still do) with different eyes. For
         | example, when watching The Office (the US version) I've started
         | to take Dwight's side more and more, while hating on almost any
         | common action taken by Jim and Pam. Also, the more I re-watch
         | Seinfeld the more I feel as one with George Costanza, and even
         | with his dad (played by Jerry Stiller).
        
         | midasuni wrote:
         | Battlestar Galactica's reboot was very well received.
         | 
         | Personally as a fan of the original supermarination
         | Thunderbirds, I loved the CGI reboot too.
         | 
         | SNW wasn't release in the U.K. so I only saw the first episode.
         | My understanding is it's much more episodic, unlike Picard and
         | Discovery which are a single 10 hour episode each season.
        
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