Posted on 09/29/2012 12:56:27 PM PDT by EveningStar
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We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Wow. They all had short life spans.
When did that happen because he was just on 104.7 in Pittsburgh last night?
It was said that the creators of B5 were told to hold off on making B5 and then the concept was ripped off to make Deep Space 9 before Babylon 5 was in production
Out of the alien cast it is a tie between GKar and Londo.
B5 seemed fair in terms of military life and religion. None of the Star Trek later incarnations weren’t fair at all to either. Isn’t JMS an aethiest?
Bummer, I just started re-watching the series last night.
Damn. He used to live across the street from me on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He asked me out once. On our one and only date- the day of the OJ Simpson verdict, he took me a coffee shop. When we sat down, I said, “What year did you graduate from Harvard?”
He said, “You know, I really don’t feel like talking tonight.” Needless to say it was a very odd date.
Sorry to hear about this. Way, way, too young.
Funny stuff - this month he was talking serious trash about Michael O'Hare. He said that he was a horrible actor and a horrible person. Called him a "tool" several times. I guess they didn't get along too well on the set. He also said O'Hare was so wooden that he and his fellow cast members were all asking the production team if they were "really keeping this guy". They had to keep him for one season due to having so much money and effort wrapped up in him. They couldn't wait to get rid of him, though!
I agree with Jerry about O'Hare being a horrible actor, though. The guy was terribad in B5. I know I have never seen him in anything else - with good reason!
Don't forget Jeff Conaway (Zach). 1950-2011.
....and the Big Guy said “Hello old friend”
One odd trivia bit about B5 is that J. Michael Straczynski had been a writer for The Real Ghost Busters animated series, which had some rather serious undertones for a cartoon. It also had an odd development history, going from a good cartoon, to an awful spinoff, then resurrected as a good serious second generation cartoon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090506/
One thing I noticed about it was the New York had become mostly abandoned and was in decay. There were episodes with apocalyptic themes. The overall mood was that they were slowly losing the war.
In a way it might have paved the way for the serious, dark Marvel comics superhero cartoons that followed.
Nobody expected Shakespearian actors ~ and with a series that long folks who acted "Normal" fit the bill.
GKar and Londo are kitty kats ~ we know all about them.
I thought Real Ghostbusters was a good cartoon. My only complaint was Slimer was a constant comic relief. The writing was good but that is normal for JMS. In the scriptwriting book written by JMS, he writes about an unused script involving Ray, a steamboat, something about a spirit girl and having to stay in this life. It sounded moving. I will have to dig out the book for a refresher.
And so it begins...
;-).
I agree with you about the acting. In the first season (which I didn’t see until we got the DVDs), the acting was a bit wooden and tentative, but by the second season everyone was having fun with it and the characters seemed like “themselves.”
Anoreth wanted to be Susan Ivanova when she grew up.
I’ve met Londo at a few Dragoncon years back and he was a great guy. We had gotten married a few weeks before going to a DC on year.
During our routine walk of fame, we went to Londo’s table and we were making small talk with other people in line. Peter J. overheard us and when we got to him, he congratulated us and said all kinds of words of congratulations and insisted on a free autograph with a very long kind paragraph. We have it framed in the master bedroom.
Max Eilerson from Crusade was beside him and also took a couple minutes congratulating us. Always like Max on Crusade, he was my favorite.
The next few DCs, we would swing by Peter’s table and he always remembered us as the “married kids”.
We were able to see G’Kar at one Con and it was most enjoyable to listen to him at panels. It was hard to tell if he and Peter were playing a game or actually didn’t like each other very much. Andreas struck me as a genuine person who liked acting for acting and money didn’t matter that much based on some of his experiences.
My first DC visit occurred when Claudia Christian was there and the line was murder. She ought to have gotten a medal for the heat, noise, and writing cramps. When we got up to her, she took a break for a minute for water and to breathe. Nobody could blame her. She was only gone a minute or two it seemed. She came back and was very apologetic. We talked for a min and got an autograph. I got my photo with her and just before my wife snpped the photo, she jumped up and gave me a hug.
I was surprised in a very good way. I’m glad it was film and buried in an album. I looked silly and was rather overweight too.
Regards,
GtG
PS Put me down for Sinclair over Sheridan as well.
I had no idea JMS wrote for that show. I remember a couple of episodes with the Boogeyman being pretty creepy. There was another one where the Ghostbusters fought a ghost/demon/whatever called What. That one had some pretty crazy, dark imagery that stuck with me.
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