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0 pointsTeMPOraL8y ago0 comments

Have you read the books? I personally don't mind most of the scenes you mention, but that's probably because I know where they're going. Like - minor spoiler - Nagata's mention of her child in last episode. Sounds mostly irrelevant and ham-fisted if you're only watching, but if you've read the books, you know this is introducing a really huge major subplot. So maybe one of the problems of this show is that it's not tuned enough for people who don't know the source material?

> Would love to see a lower budget breakout series of Avasarala just doing her ninja politics stuff -- she is the main reason I kept watching at all. But perhaps that is just the corner of me that misses Babylon 5 :)

Me too. Avasarala carries this show by herself. And I miss Babylon 5 too. I wish someone would remaster and re-release it.

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peatmoss8y ago· 2 in thread

Regarding the remaster of B5: It’ll (probably) never happen.

Star Trek TNG was the first and probably last analogous show to get the remaster treatment. The issue is that, even though the acting was shot on 35mm, post production and VFX all happened at broadcast resolution.

TNG essentially redid the entire post production to bring us updated visuals. By the time CBS/Paramount got around to considering DS9, the financial cost of remastering TNG, plus the move for many people to Netflix, meant expected DVD/Blu-ray proceeds.

DS9 never got the TNG treatment as a result. B5 is in the same boat, needing totally redone postproduction and CG. B5 was a niche show, and the remaster would be an expensive and herculean task. In short, we’ll probably never see it done :-(

TeMPOraLOP8y ago

:(.

God damn it corporations, you aren't making any money off those old shows anyway. Just give them up to public domain, let the fans do the work for free, and find a way to reap the benefits of revived popularity of the franchise.

(Alas, the current owners of Star Trek rights seem to be actively hostile towards fan productions.)

peatmoss8y ago

Yeah, I think it would be AMAZING if the B5 rights holders would turn over the reels to a film archive who could then digitize and release those materials to the public domain.

I have no doubts that the fan base would give B5 the remaster it deserves.

DS9 too. TNG was the Star Trek I grew up with, but having rewatched all of the Treks in recent years, DS9 is the clear stand-out in terms of quality writing. DS9 deserves better as well.

As for fan productions of Trek, it’s true Axanar got some bad treatment. Star Trek Continues, on the other hand, managed to do what they set out to do.

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