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Just Another Lurker posted:I never forgave Sierra for cancelling the first attempt. I'm glad they are dead, they deserved it for this.
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I actually enjoyed Midnight Nation! That came out right after Rising Stars which was also great. RS was abandoned and then picked back up, wasn't it? MN was just abandoned? I can't remember it was so long ago, just my positive feelings towards those books
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Soonmot posted:I actually enjoyed Midnight Nation! That came out right after Rising Stars which was also great. RS was abandoned and then picked back up, wasn't it? MN was just abandoned? I can't remember it was so long ago, just my positive feelings towards those books There was some dispute that led to the last three issues of Rising Stars being delayed for almost two years, but it and Midnight Nation were both completed.
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Yeah, I have the Midnight Nation collected graphic novel and it's a complete story. I should reread it; it's been a while and I like it a lot. You definitely see some of JMS's commonly used and explored ideas.
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staying true to the original series there at least
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Didn't the news to renew after Season 4 come late because of all the drama with PTEN falling apart and the last minute move to TNT? Seems like a similar thing is happening at WB and CW where everything's on fire and nothing is certain.
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Feb 8, 2023 08:29
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The ending of that post really works if you kind of read it in Zathras's voice.
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Feb 8, 2023 09:33
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Well, the man obviously knows more about the TV biz than I do (and probably than anyone here), so I have no reason to disbelieve him. Still, it strikes me as odd that his point boils down to "there's no such thing as a project getting stuck forever in development hell". Maybe that's more of a movie-biz thing? 
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Powered Descent posted:Well, the man obviously knows more about the TV biz than I do (and probably than anyone here), so I have no reason to disbelieve him. A project stuck in Development Hell is still technically in development. JMS is right, if only pedantically so, that a project is ultimately either completed or abandoned and until it's been abandoned it may yet be completed.
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Feb 8, 2023 19:15
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I can believe JMS when he talks about like standard business practice, but I also don't think you can trust Warner/Disco to act according to standard business practices because it's being run by a lunatic. But also we will know when the project is sunk because JMS will go on a loving tirade.
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Just Another Lurker posted:I never forgave Sierra for cancelling the first attempt. Didn't that get released? I remember playing a B5 game. It had real physics and it was an absolute monster to play. You were a psi cop I think?
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Incelshok Na posted:Didn't that get released? I remember playing a B5 game. It had real physics and it was an absolute monster to play. You were a psi cop I think? That was probably the fan made Babylon 5: I've Found Her (flying is hard). Psi Corp never caught me. 
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Happy 30th!
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30 years of hanging out with my friends londo and vir
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I never thought i'd see it but someone hates the S3 opening sequence in the blind watch thread.
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CainFortea posted:I never thought i'd see it but someone hates the S3 opening sequence in the blind watch thread. 
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CainFortea posted:I never thought i'd see it but someone hates the S3 opening sequence in the blind watch thread. A statistical anomaly at the least.
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Feb 27, 2023 15:55
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It was their last, best hope for good taste. They failed.
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Watched Moments of Transition yesterday, which in addition to being a big Plot Episode is also memorable for being the episode where Scott Adams, at the peak of his nineties comic stardom, makes a cameo as a guy paranoid about his dog and cat trying to hire Garibaldi. I bet him and Jerry Doyle had some fun politics conversations once the cameras were off.
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https://twitter.com/_mrpussy/status/1629950604838678530 The condition he had the surgery to address didn't show up until 2004 so they probably didn't have much to talk about.
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ultrafilter posted:https://twitter.com/_mrpussy/status/1629950604838678530 Deleted already - what idiocy was that?
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Zaroff posted:Deleted already - what idiocy was that? Well, he was saying that Scott Adams's friends noted that Scott Adams only started down the road to the right wing after getting experimental brain surgery for a strange rare neurological disorder. He also linked an article about the surgery that's still up, although that article didn't comment on any political views. https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/spasmodic-dysphonia-rendered-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-nearly-speechless-for It's an interesting possible explanation for why he went so far off the deep end, and apparently it's not uncommon for people to end up drifting to the far right after brain injuries. Although there are plenty of people who went off the deep end at around the same time without brain damage as an excuse.
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Zaroff posted:Deleted already - what idiocy was that? A claim that Scott Adams had some kind of neurological(?) condition which made it incredibly difficult to speak without extensively rehearsing what he was going to say, and that he had some kind of brain surgery to change this, and that his slide into whacko politics only really happened after that. There was some allusion to the surgery being akin to a lobotomy, but no details about the name of the procedure or the condition, so I can't really look anything up. (I'm very curious about cognitive things like that, but also very distressed by ... you know, cognitive things like that, when we're talking brain surgery to alter behavior.) eta: Thanks for the link!
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The tweet also mentioned that Adams went to a lot of doctors and none of them would do it. Some even suggested that the condition was physiological in nature. However, Adam’s kept going to different doctors until he found one to do the surgery.
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Kept going to different doctors until he found one that didn't go "You know, when I can't talk, you know what always makes me feel better? Reading some good old Dilbert strips"
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Vavrek posted:A claim that Scott Adams had some kind of neurological(?) condition which made it incredibly difficult to speak without extensively rehearsing what he was going to say, and that he had some kind of brain surgery to change this, and that his slide into whacko politics only really happened after that. He made no secret of being a libertarian whacko in his books long before the surgery.
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Data Graham posted:Kept going to different doctors until he found one that didn't go "You know, when I can't talk, you know what always makes me feel better? Reading some good old Dilbert strips" I liked Dilbert  it was one of the better crappy mass market comics. I also like his rubric for comedy, which was something like 'pick two out of cute, clever, recognisable, mean, bizarre, rude', and I use his advice for writing dialogue all the time (roughly, people often don't talk to each other, they talk around each other). It's a pity his brain exploded
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Timby posted:He made no secret of being a libertarian whacko in his books long before the surgery. I was attempting to recount what I remembered of the deleted tweet, nothing more.
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he was always a libertarian whackjob prone to magical thinking but he did turn meaner as he's gotten older, and i've seen people take hard right turns after head injuries so it's not outside the realm of possibility
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CainFortea posted:I never thought i'd see it but someone hates the S3 opening sequence in the blind watch thread. I think the opening sequence is one of the best, with that memorable line from Ivanova just being very iconic. I didn't like that the second half didn't feature the B5 music we heard in the openings of seasons 1 and 2 (and later season 4). Season 3 had the second best first half of all openings, but the weakest second half. Personally, I'd rate the season openings 5>4>3>2>1.
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neongrey posted:he was always a libertarian whackjob prone to magical thinking but he did turn meaner as he's gotten older, and i've seen people take hard right turns after head injuries so it's not outside the realm of possibility He said in a later tweet that he'd lost two pre-Dilbert jobs because of racism, so if the surgery did anything it only made him less able to shut up
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Torrannor posted:I think the opening sequence is one of the best, with that memorable line from Ivanova just being very iconic. I didn't like that the second half didn't feature the B5 music we heard in the openings of seasons 1 and 2 (and later season 4). Season 3 had the second best first half of all openings, but the weakest second half. Personally, I'd rate the season openings 5>4>3>2>1. That's the first time anyone's rated B5 S5 ha the best for anything.
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Jedit posted:That's the first time anyone's rated B5 S5 ha the best for anything. Best show ending/final episode?
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So, yeah, I've been watching B5 on Tubi, it's been pretty great TBH
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Iron Crowned posted:So, yeah, I've been watching B5 on Tubi, it's been pretty great TBH We have a no-spoilers thread if you’d like to chat about it without having yourself spoiled. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3925635
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Chevy Slyme posted:We have a no-spoilers thread if you’d like to chat about it without having yourself spoiled. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3925635 Oh, I've seen it before, but it's been a while, other than the odd episode here and there when it was on Comet a few years back.
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