Honestly it’s gonna be an Audio Drama I’d bet. Easy to do with a far flung cast in secret. High fan impact. Completely unaffected by anything other than licensing deals. Hell depending on the weird B5 contracts involved it might not have even needed approval.
And old scifi stuff having a long legacy of audio dramas fits right in with the kind of old school scifi nerd JMS is. It just makes too much sense.
Londo and g’kar in character podcast
in a better timeline the trump/obama/biden gamer spoofs going around atm would be supplanted by the above
We’ve gone from Is Babylon 5 Any Good to Babylon 5 is Ani Mated…
Well dang. I will say JMS assuming it’s being released because it’s been animated and finished while at WB is comically optimistic but I hope it is.
Shit, I’ll take it.
does the Babylon 5 curse extend to this production? WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE REAL ISSUES HERE BEFORE MOVING FORWARD. all of these peoples lives are in potential danger!!! aiieeee!!!
Babylon 5: The Road Home will continue the story he started in the 1990s, with the logline stating, “Travel across the galaxy with John Sheridan as he unexpectedly finds himself transported through multiple timelines and alternate realities in a quest to find his way back home. Along the way he reunites with some familiar faces, while discovering cosmic new revelations about the history, purpose, and meaning of the Universe.”
Returning Babylon 5 castmembers include Bruce Boxleitner as John Sheridan, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanova, Peter Jurasik as Londo Mollari, Bill Mumy as Lennier, Tracy Scoggins as Elizabeth Lochley and Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander.
Fucking terrified we’re going to see the first footage of this and it’s gonna look like that god-awful Short Treks about the tardigrade.
God how did I know it was gonna be this style
https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1667243664802717697
Well if the writing is good, shouldn’t matter too much I guess.
ugh looks awful. I mean visually I have no idea how to calibrate my expectations regarding a Babylon 5 animated movie’s plot and acting and writing and etc
is it supposed to be muted in the first five seconds also the audio keeps desynching but i dont know how hard i should be trying to see horrible cheapo anime delenn aieeeeeeeeeeee
GOD EVERYONES LINES ARE SO PHONED IN AHHHHHH UGH
Over under on this being a backdoor explanation of the differences in the Babylon 5 the original series vs the hypothetical might happen reboot?
How did I miss all the SeaQuest/earth2/space above and beyond talk in here!?
Many many years ago when our weird music podcast was really losing its way and one of the regular hosts wasn’t available we did an episode where the pretense was we were “The Internext,” the world’s longest running SeaQuest DSV podcast and we couldn’t help but talk shit about our rival Earth2 and Highlander The Series podcasts. The whole thing unfortunately came off as totally sincere except where the nasally voiced Earth2 rival calls in at the end to complain about factual inaccuracies.
One day I’ll finish my X-Files lead in show zine and the world will wake up to how good Space… and Vr5 were.
The best part about SeaQuest was the oceanographer guy that would talk about how some aspect of the episode was grounded in real science over the end credits. When they shifted season 2 to be all about fighting aliens and Poseidon and whatnot, you could tell he did not want to be there anymore.
There’s a really shitty season 2 episode mostly about the crew playing volleyball that’s probably the first depiction of a mech on network tv. It’s a direct line between that and the Ghost in the Shell crab tank giving baby Yoda some grief.
so was that new movie any good or not?
I mean, overall, no, but it was entertaining and fairly charming. I bought it to support the franchise, not because I wanted to watch it, honestly.
It is essentially a comedy, and it’s definitely played mainly for laughs? Which I genuinely liked a lot, I thought the actors (both returning and replacements for the actors who’ve passed away) had great banter. Peter Jurasik and Bruce Boxleitner are particularly great.
That said, like, completely pointless. Sheridan gets stuck in a machine, gets teleported to a bunch of random points in the timeline that we’ve already been to (he warps to the moment the Icarus awakened the Shadows, for example, for some reason), gets out of the machine.
You can pretty neatly divide this thing into segments that are okay ideas, and segments that are dumb. Sheridan meeting Sinclair during the dark future glimpsed in S1’s B4 ep? Kinda fun. Watching them do third-person shooter segment to overload the reactor by hitting 4 key clamps? Holy shit, why are you wasting my time with this?
So yeah I dunno, I enjoyed it as just fanservice, but it really drives home what we already know about Babylon 5 after Babylon 5: This story has been told, and there’s nothing left to do here - apparently - than go back and watch scenes from the original show.
I am looking forward to the Grey Sector episode on this thing though. I’m caught up!
Saw this a second time, did a Letterboxd review on it.
This time around I really appreciated the the character moments between returning actors a lot more. There is a lot more warmth and life to interactions between Lennier and Sheridan, Ivanova and Londo, etc than you get with the guys trying to play Garabaldi or Sinclair. Delenn’s actor is very good, though, she somehow nails the Croatian affect to Mira’s voice.
Anyways, I was also again struck by how hollow this movie was. It’s just a clip show wrapped around an SB-Battles-ass sequence where 500 shadows charge mindlessly into battle at melee range and try to stab you with their spikey hands, as if First Ones would put themselves into any kind of physical danger ever instead of sending their legions of followers to do it.
Ah well, hopefully this gets another movie, and hopefully that one’s better. I think the end of this movie was trying to set up a new universe for the new movies or something?
