Amph For Justice, For Peace, For the Future- We Have Come Home: Babylon 5 (The Road Home animated film)

OK, I have read the PsiCorps Trilogy, and am finishing up the Centauri Trilogy presently, I have not gotten to reading the Techno-mage trilogy, so I didn't know of the references to the Shadow tech.

It is not that I don't believe what you are saying, but can you point to an article, interview, or website that discusses this? I thought that when Crusade was cancelled by TNT, that it was pretty much dropped and that the books that refer to the plague simply brush over it and say that the cure was found, but don't go in any detail of the Excalibur going rogue or that the initial "cure" was inevitably detrimental.

I find it odd that since the disease was given a 5 year timetable to completely adapt to the human physiology that the sure would be found sooner than the planned length of the show. Heck, TNT's Crusade site even had a 5 year count-down.

 

OK, I'll have to see if my Crusade DVD set has the commentary on it. Hopefully it does, but I think I might be out of luck since I didn't buy it when it first came out.

Due to finances and just plain forgetting sometimes, I don't have any of the script books after #7, looks like there's more reason to catch up than I originally thought.

Too bad that TNT had to be that way about Crusade, I really wanted to see it succeed. Sci-Fi didn't exactly put out it's best when they did Legends of the Rangers, so I'm not sure that moving Crusade there would have been very good anyways.

I'm just glad to be finally getting the novels read and that the first new B5 in a long time will be coming out this summer!

 

One aspect of the Rangers situation that's been occasionally misinterpreted throughout fandom over the years is that it wasn't that Sci-Fi offered JMS a two-hour movie, and he decided to try to sell them a new series -- they asked him for a pilot for a new series, period. He gave them a number of possible stories for the project, including a continuation of Crusade, and Rangers is the one they picked, so that's the one he wrote.

As 2ndQuest mentioned above, the reason why they *didn't* go forward with the Rangers series -- and also why the pilot was not adequately funded, and couldn't get a budget-bump or schedule-extension to deal with the weapons system problem -- was that WB and Sci-Fi couldn't reach an ownership deal at the pilot stage, and never did later. SFC simply passed on the whole idea of doing Crusade, because at the time they commissioned the Rangers pilot, Crusade had not yet been broadcast on Sci-Fi. They wanted the Rangers series based on B5's ratings, and didn't want to consider anything Crusade-related until they saw how the series did "on their air" -- that is, with SFC's base audience.

By the time the show did run on Sci-Fi, they were haggling with WB over ownership of Rangers. Obviously, if WB was not going to share ownership on a new series developed for and with Sci-Fi, they were not going to do so with a proprety they already owned, but I doubt if SFC even asked at that point. The fact is, SFC turned down Crusade for reasons of their own, initially (while leaving the door open, should they make a deal for a Rangers series, and the ratings justifying a second B5-universe show).

Obviously, Warners' stance on the ownership of Rangers tipped the balance away from doing that series (although if the ratings had been great, they probably would have gone ahead with the show, despite not owning a piece). But of course, that was really a separate matter from the whole Crusade fiasco.

 

Thanks for all the info, guys! I appreciate it. I have no intention of getting Script Book #10, just for the Crusade piece, I would love to have the whole collection to really be able to see what JMS was thinking throughout the series and get an inside look at the struggles and successes that he had as a creator/writer.

After I am done reading the last of the Centauri trilogy novels (have to do it slowly and carefully - never had to pay $24 for a paperback novel before) I plan to read the Techno-mage trilogy to get a little more info on them.

I didn't realize all the difficulties there were surrounding Sci-Fi/TNT/WB and the Crusade/Rangers. I wasn't aware that the WB had much to say in regards to where B5 went as I thought that JMS held all the rights and that the WB was just the distributor.

 

Like the mini - films in production?

 

Nice... very nice!

 

Very very nice.

 

Thank you, Borat.

Anyways, yeah, it does look nice.

 

That is very good/exciting news.

 

Cool, I'll be keeping an eye out for it.

I just finished the Legions of Fire trilogy, and I have to say that it was a fantastic set of books. If you want to know what happens after the end of the series from Vir's and Londo's viewpoints, I highly recommend these books. Peter David caught the feel and tone of the characters perfectly.

I am about to start the Techno-mage trilogy. I've really been in a B5 mood for a while now!

 

These would have been great as a TV mini-series! And yes, it was actually sad to read the parts with G'Kar in them knowing that we will never see Andreas again in the role. He was such an integral part of everything B5, I imagine that it was difficult as a writer for JMS to have to work around not having G'Kar in any future visual projects and for the cast and crew to return without Andreas and Richard Biggs must have been very hard.

I'm now going to start on the Techno-mage trilogy since I got them for a steal on eBay, less than retail cost for the books, and the second one normally goes for big bucks for a paperback on the secondary market!

 

Great maker that is a tragedy. We need the trailer now.

 

You need not wait any longer, for there is a trailer on the Bab5 site!

 

Thanks for the heads up.

I just watched the trailer and it looks pretty interesting to me. Seeing B5 and Starfuries rendered with more moder CGI technology is really cool looking too. It could be because I haven't watched and B5 episodes in a couple years, but I felt slightly giddy when I heard the old music. This DVD needs to come out now.

 

Just watched the trailer, and I have to say that this DVD can not get here fast enough!

I wonder if the rift between JMS and Claudia Christian has been fixed, as I would love to see Ivanova in a future Lost Tales storyline.

I'm going to have to track down all my old B5 watching college buddies to make sure that they know about this DVD release!