Will probably be 3 or 4 years before see anything but good to know that something is happening with the best Sci-Fi IP

Dang, thought this was going to announce By flight path system. I'm good with a new movie too!

I only recently picked up the series and movies. Still a good watch all these years later.

Time to start re-watching it. Barely remember most of it from childhood.

Will probably be 3 or 4 years before see anything but good to know that something is happening with the best Sci-Fi IP

IDK about that It would have been in the news if Nathan Fillion actually won the lottery and bought the Firefly rights like he said he would

Oh great another, lets throw everything out the window and it didn't mean anything and anything you liked means nothing now.

I HATE REBOOTS for series. Battlestar Galactica was an interesting way of doing it. It took me years to get into it, because as I said, I hate reboots. When I finally did watch it, I liked it, shockingly for me. It didn't make the original obsolete at all, as I feared it would do. It payed homage to it.

So maybe there is hope. BUT how do you make a reboot in 2 1/2 hour move and do it justice? These take time and the move will not be able to accomplish what the series did if it is going to be a reboot. I see another Star Trek coming.

Maybe everything will like Apple products? Maybe it is Babylon 5 90210 just like Star Trek so the General Audience will get into it? Worried. Really worried. Reboot on TV, they can get away with it, and do justice to it. 2 1/2 hour move? Be scared. Very scared.

"There is a hole in your mind..."

With that out the way, the article says we may see familiar faces, I hope this is a side tale and not a true remake.

I don't get the hate for reboots. The design space gets limited when everything has to roll forward. Also, thanks to the plague and an unsuccessful follow up series, B5 did not end at all well.

I say the trek reboot was great, my problem with Galactica was their refusal to blow stuff up in space, and a poor understanding of human nature.

If a reboot clears room to make a great story I'm all for it, it's not like they can steal, or tarnish, my memories, or my DVD.

People don't like reboots because there already is a great Story, it doesn't need to be retold.

That great story won't go away it is alive and well.

Heard some rumours about this a while ago. I'm a huge B5 fan (even more than Star Wars *gasp*) but there have been so many false starts I will only get excited when the Great Maker announces that the film has started principle photography.

Re: the reboot. Well the original cast are either too old or have passed beyond the rim. A reboot is the only feasible option right now.

Faith manages.

I don't really see the point myself. B5 told its story, and told it well, there isn't really any reason to do a reboot, your never going to manage to tell the story as well as the original did. And a movie reboot is a terrible idea, the B5 story is a very long format story, it needs several years to unfold.

Just don't see a point to it.

I don't really see the point myself. B5 told its story, and told it well, there isn't really any reason to do a reboot, your never going to manage to tell the story as well as the original did. And a movie reboot is a terrible idea, the B5 story is a very long format story, it needs several years to unfold.

Just don't see a point to it.

Do you really think it's going to be that type of reboot, though?

I imagine that it's going to be a new story in the B5 universe. It might be more like the Star Wars reboot we're getting, rather than the Star Trek reboot.

I don't really see the point myself. B5 told its story, and told it well, there isn't really any reason to do a reboot, your never going to manage to tell the story as well as the original did. And a movie reboot is a terrible idea, the B5 story is a very long format story, it needs several years to unfold.

Just don't see a point to it.

I'm willing to give it a chance, especially with J. M. at the helm. The original can be inaccessible to some people I've found. The pilot is particularly slow to grab you. "I" soldiered through no problem - I'm a sci-fi fan. But other friends I have struggled. The story might actually benefit from cutting out some of the more silly filler episode story arcs, like the one with Lando's three wives, or the Knight of Arthur episode.

Reboots get hated on because as a general rule they suck and manage to entirely miss what made the original so good.

It's rare to get one that works more often you get something like the total recall remake or the robocop one which never needed to be made.

If it's new stories about the alliance it could be good, if it's a total reboot though there's a good chance it'll blow.

So it is still nothing more substantial than JMS standing up at SDCC...

Despite reboots have a bad reputation and B5 was good in its run (I'm a huge fan; only eclipsed by my fandom Volition's Freespace-francise, which sadly is in the hand of Interplay), B5 might get a lot from a reboot:

There are concepts that didn't work out due to technical limitations and budgets; certain make-up effects and concepts had to be scrapped after/during the production "The Gathering" (Deleen's change of sex during the Chrysalis), there was stuff (most notably the character of Warren Keffer) forced upon the series by WB execs and there were developments in the story that simply responded to actors becoming unavalible for the show or worked out due to the impact some actors had on the production (Andreas Kutsulas did his share of changes to the character of G'kar during the production; the character of Bester was updated from a minor background role to a major story player due the friendship of Walter Koenig with JMS).

Seeing the story unfold differently might be a worthwile watch; and if it doesn't work out the original won't be gone.

The original might not be going anywhere but prequels and sequels can ruin a franchise for people , for nine years after rots I lost all interest in star wars I read no books played no games and could not even watch the OT it was all tainted and dirty.

Silly it may be but I'm not alone in this kind of reaction.

I also thought this was a flightpath announcement, which would have disappointed me greatly. B5 space combat is much more spacy than Star Wars or Star Trek combat, and they recognize, much as BSG does, that your ship doesn't have to point in the direction it's moving. This makes B5 combat really fun and dynamic, but hard to simulate. It's not a good candidate for flightpath.

I'm excited for the new movie. The old series was enough for that first run, and felt complete to me. So really, even if this new one screws up, I'm still happy with the original.

Come on, by now, with all of the trouble that went on in that quadrant, this has to be Babylon 21 by now !

Babylon 5's a big pile of ****!

I actually disagree. During its time/run, it had pretty **** good special effects, and the writing was coherent, given that it involved 5 years of planning a head of time - and it did it well. Think of all of the story lines that dealt with past-current-future events, how they all interlocked.

This is especially true when you take into consideration the story lines with Babylon 4. I thought it was well done.

Spaced - what a show.

I'm trying to think of a sci-fi franchise return that was actually successful in doing justice to the original IN MY OPINION...

The only ones I can think of are Dr. Who, Flash Gordon, The Prisoner, and Star Trek.

I didn't like the SW Prequels, I didn't like New BSG post founding New Caprica, didn't like Prometheus.

That video hurt my feelings. Babylon 5 was great. [cries]

Flash Gordon

honestly? I know it's your opinion, but that show was bad, it they used to walk from the mountains to the city in 30 seconds and other such mental stuff.

Mind you it was worth watching for Gina Holden.

I meant the original show -> 1980's Movie.

Flash Gordon

honestly? I know it's your opinion, but that show was bad, it they used to walk from the mountains to the city in 30 seconds and other such mental stuff.

Mind you it was worth watching for Gina Holden.

I meant the original show -> 1980's Movie.

oh right, fair enough. my bad.

Is Babylon 5 on Netflix? Sounds like it's worth a watch.

Not at the moment, but I can't see how anyone who likes Star Trek, Star Wars, BSG, Stargate or Farscape, could dislike B5. It's just such a good show with such deeply explored characters.