SpaceChampion Posted October 8, 2021 Share Posted October 8, 2021 Ran and Corvinus85 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 Missed a trick by not calling it Babylon 5: Brotherhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 2 hours ago, Werthead said: Missed a trick by not calling it Babylon 5: Brotherhood. No women? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 18 hours ago, Zorral said: No women? That's a reference to the only time anything like this has happened before: the anime Fullmetal Alchemist, which was produced in 2003 based on an incomplete manga. Because the anime outpaced the manga and the original writer was unwilling to provide a detailed breakdown of how it ended (because she didn't know at the time), the studio made up their own (distinctly weirder) ending. Then, seven years later, they decided to remake the original series with the complete manga to use as source material and more or less the exact same creative team to hand, and they created a new version of the exact same series with a very similar art style. After considering leaving the title the same, they got enough feedback suggesting they needed to differentiate them, so they called the new series Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. I do think the new series needs a better title. BSG was more or less acceptable because the original show had become fairly obscure by 2003 and was very short, but B5 is better-known now, and will probably have far more episodes than the new version even if it runs multiple seasons and has a great ending. I'd call it The Babylon Project personally. Kyoshi 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) I doubt the series will be called anything other than Babylon 5 but perhaps CW will want a distinction. Note the above tweet is about the name of the pilot episode, not the overall series title. So compare it with "The Gathering" or "Midnight on the Firing Line". Edited October 11, 2021 by SpaceChampion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fez Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 I say he should name it Babylon 6. Add an extra layer of mystery to what exactly is going to be different about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorral Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 (edited) No matter the background; the "Brotherhood" implication erases women, doesn't it? Which is particularly pernicious considering the multiple vivid, essential female-sorts characters that made the original B-5 an sf work that left behind so much of the wretched tropes of 'golden age' sf, particularly leaving women out as anything but just-this-side-of-porn cover 'art' renditions, screamers and prizes. Or just not there AT ALL. Edited October 11, 2021 by Zorral Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Has Babylon 5 always been on HBOMax? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Ser Scot A Ellison said: Has Babylon 5 always been on HBOMax? Since about February. https://www.engadget.com/babylon-5-remastered-hbo-max-digital-download-080058907.html Quote A Warner Bros. spokesperson told Engadget that Babylon 5 Remastered has been scanned from the original camera negative. The film sequences were scanned in 4K and then “finished,” or downscaled, back to HD, with a dirt and scratch clean-up, as well as color correction. The show’s CGI and composite sequences, meanwhile, have been digitally upscaled to HD with only some minor tweaks where absolutely necessary. In order to maintain visual quality and fidelity between the show’s filmed and effects-heavy sequences, the new version is only available in 4:3. That’s the same format that the show was originally broadcast in, rather than the widescreen DVD releases. But it does avoid the issue of image inconsistency that have plagued those DVD releases when they launched. Edited October 13, 2021 by SpaceChampion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser Scot A Ellison Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 10 hours ago, SpaceChampion said: Since about February. https://www.engadget.com/babylon-5-remastered-hbo-max-digital-download-080058907.html I just noticed yesterday that it is “trending”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 10/13/2021 at 3:05 AM, SpaceChampion said: Since about February. https://www.engadget.com/babylon-5-remastered-hbo-max-digital-download-080058907.html The big success is the colour correction and the purely live-action footage, which now looks excellent. The upscaled CG is pretty meh, but it's nice to see the full frame CG images again, which hasn't been possible since the original TV and VHS release of the series. There are some hopes that they did all that work for the full-frame images as well, so that if they redo the CGI in the future they can integrate the two pretty easily (JMS was tracking down some of the surviving original CG team a while ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 It feels that if this reboot of B5 goes forward and gets some traction that that might encourage the bean counters to consider going all out on the restoration front, justifying it as part of their multiplatform content strategy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Ran said: It feels that if this reboot of B5 goes forward and gets some traction that that might encourage the bean counters to consider going all out on the restoration front, justifying it as part of their multiplatform content strategy. Yup, the 1978 BSG got a HD restoration off the back of the reboot so that would certainly be possible. Ran 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 When the Drew Carey show cosplayed B5. Ser Scot A Ellison, Ran and Lord of Oop North 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 I had no idea that ever happened. Funny. Ser Scot A Ellison 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Word of the reboot could come very soon... Corvinus85 and Ran 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calibandar Posted January 26, 2022 Share Posted January 26, 2022 Would be so awesome to see a reboot of this. SpaceChampion 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted February 3, 2022 Share Posted February 3, 2022 JMS update. Reading between the lines here, it sounds like the sale of The CW introduced some caution to the network and they decided to proceed with more shows in the vein of their core brands, whilst not proceeding with more experimental and off-brand ideas. Unfortunately, that included Babylon 5. The good news is the The CW has also not cancelled the project, and has in fact rolled its development forwards into the 2022-23 development season. That gives JMS an extra year to flesh out the pilot script and for everyone involved to discuss further ideas etc. Babylon 5 will get a second shot at being greenlit a year from now. If that happens, it would debut in autumn 2023. That may end up being more appropriate, since 2023 will be (screams loudly) the 30th anniversary of the original show debuting. Personally I think they should forget the CW and move the whole thing over to HBO Max, but there we go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted February 4, 2022 Share Posted February 4, 2022 Agreed that it should be on HBO Max. Right now Max only has Raised by Wolves as a niche space SF show, and that one is kinda strange. Personally not even sure I'll bother with season 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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