DBWI: Babylon 5 cancelled after first season
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It was promising but the storylines were so disjointed it was hard to get into the program for a casual viewer.
I had heard that JMS had a grand vision of a multi-year story arc which would have been cool if it had happened.
It would have been interesting to see if it could have matched up to DS9
(OOC that was soooooooo hard to write!)
I had heard that JMS had a grand vision of a multi-year story arc which would have been cool if it had happened.
It would have been interesting to see if it could have matched up to DS9
(OOC that was soooooooo hard to write!)
Eh, if you ask the fabled "Five seasons and a movie!" Babylon 5 wasn't in the cards. If JMS HAD gotten a second season, my guess is that the suits at Warner Bros. would have him push the overarching story to the back burner (the denseness of the plot was cited by TV Guide as one of the reasons the show got canned). I think it had potential, but it was never going to match up to DS9.
Though if (somehow) B5 didn't get axed, what would the effects on Star Trek have been? Would PATH (OOC: Star Trek: Pathfinder, analogous to OTL's Voyager) turned out differently? Ron Moore said that a lot of his ideas for PATH were a reaction to what he saw of B5.
Though if (somehow) B5 didn't get axed, what would the effects on Star Trek have been? Would PATH (OOC: Star Trek: Pathfinder, analogous to OTL's Voyager) turned out differently? Ron Moore said that a lot of his ideas for PATH were a reaction to what he saw of B5.
Michael O'Hare's breakdown during the filming of the first series and later diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic was difficult to overcome, and the fan theory that this gave PTEN just enough rope to hang the underperforming show is horribly plausible.
There is a minority fan theory that if JMS had filmed B5 in 1989 in Vancouver then it would have worked out better. But obviously that's a stupid idea.
I didn't care for it. I didn't watch it when it came out, but I did get the boxset for Christmas (for some reason).
It had terrible CGI graphics, and the writing was terrible and expositional, and it felt like it had a pomposity about it being a living, existing universe rather than being something like Star Wars, where you were told why everything was and it did feel like an actual expansive reality beyond what you were seeing. It felt like how a 17 year old who is really interested in Science Fiction would write a story in his early attempt to become a writer.
I'm not even a fan of Deep Space 9 all that much; I feel like it's a post-modern comment on Star Trek rather than a Star Trek series, and it decimates Roddenberry's intent of Utopia. But DS9 is much better than Babylon 5, and was more successful in what Babylon 5 was trying to accomplish than B5 was. And I know that will rustle some feathers because DS9 was probably the biggest reason Babylon 5 was cancelled, but it is the truth.
It had terrible CGI graphics, and the writing was terrible and expositional, and it felt like it had a pomposity about it being a living, existing universe rather than being something like Star Wars, where you were told why everything was and it did feel like an actual expansive reality beyond what you were seeing. It felt like how a 17 year old who is really interested in Science Fiction would write a story in his early attempt to become a writer.
I'm not even a fan of Deep Space 9 all that much; I feel like it's a post-modern comment on Star Trek rather than a Star Trek series, and it decimates Roddenberry's intent of Utopia. But DS9 is much better than Babylon 5, and was more successful in what Babylon 5 was trying to accomplish than B5 was. And I know that will rustle some feathers because DS9 was probably the biggest reason Babylon 5 was cancelled, but it is the truth.