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Originally posted by Jeroen T Wenting:
it should never have been made into a TV show. The movie was nice, but the TV show was rather pathetic IMO.
Constant repetition of the same basic storyline.
Team finds planet with primitive human culture. Culture shows signs of Guaoult tampering. Enemies appear. Team fights. Enemies destroyed and humans freed. Episode ends.
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
The cancellation was also announced yesterday on the Sci Fi Channel website, scifi.com.
[Fletch]: It reminds me of a similar situation with Bablyon 5. The "war" in that series was supposed to be wrapped up at the end of the 5th season.
Mmmm, my understanding was that season 4 would have ended with Sheridan's capture by the Earth Alliance (Shadows and Vorlons having already departed). Removing Clark from office would have occurred within the first four or five episodes of season 5, followed by the formation of the Interstellar Alliance and new problems in the postwar period. In terms of timelines, not that vastly different than what we saw. The main problem is that impending cancellation made them complete the existing plotlines, and omit any setup for the new plotlines. So season 5 began with little in the way of existing plots to address, extra time to fill beyond what was originally planned, and JMS was really pretty burnt out by all the effort spent on the previous seasons. So yeah, we agree that season 5 was mostly pretty sucky - I'm just disagreeing on some of the details.
Mark Fletcher - http://www.markfletcher.org/blog
I had some Java certs, but they're too old now...
It's often the aftermath that holds the greatest interest. The Civil War tells one kind of interesting story; the Reconstruction that followed, which endured for many years longer than the war, tells another, just as interesting story.
There's a line one of the characters will say soon, "The duration's going to be a lot longer than the war." It's a very true comment.
One of my favorite books is "Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, which is about a nuclear war (written in the early 60s). But the war happens entirely off-stage, way in the distance...and the book focuses on one small township dealing with the after effects, and the day-to-day realities of surviving in a changed world. I've always been partial to that kind of storytelling.
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As for the story being over...not by a long sight. Frankly, some of what's coming in the latter part of this season is more intense than anything we've done previously. We really focus in on the characters and the after-shocks of the war, in ways usually ignored.
After all, we all know how nice and calm and civilized Europe was after the War To End All Wars came to an end...we hardly heard a peep from that part of the world thereafter....
"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger:
Yet, the same thing can be said for shows like The Honeymooners, The Flintstones, Home Improvement, Everybody Loves Raymond, Kind of Queens, The Jetsons....
Goofy unattractive man with mediocer job marries young hot wife. Man does something to make wife mad. Man finds someway to apologize. Wife forgives man. Rinse and repeat.
But the shows are still fun to watch.![]()
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Originally posted by Jim Yingst:
Here's a (Mucho snipped Mark F)
[ August 22, 2006: Message edited by: Jim Yingst ]
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I had some Java certs, but they're too old now...
Pounding at a thick stone wall won't move it, sometimes, you need to step back to see the way around.
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