MOAR BABYLON 5
Aug. 8th, 2009 08:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lizbeeI'm sort of in a holding pattern, because I'm up to "Rising Star", and I've enjoyed season four so much that I don't really want it to end. (Yes, I know there's "Deconstruction of Falling Stars", but I'm a bit scared of that, to be honest.) I'll probably watch it tomorrow night. In the meantime, I'm just pootling around with badfic in my head, which is rather pleasant. I think it must generate endorphins or something. It's doing a moderately good job of distracting me from the fact that I have only two episodes and a season left of the show, plus a couple of TV movies, and then we're into spin-offs and straight-to-DVD releases that don't involve Delenn.
Something else that amused me today:selenak pointed me to an old post of hers, Babylon 5 as written by other showrunners. I think this was a meme a while back? It created thoughts that curdled in the back of my brain as I counted money this morning, and this is the unspeakable result:
Babylon 5 by Russell T Davies
Pitched somewhere between soap, sitcom and cheap West Wing knock-off (in space!), it's a low-budget sci-fi drama with epic pretensions. It starts of following the adventures of the station's dour ninth commander (they don't seem to have names) and his BFF, self-consciously working class security chief Rose Tyler as they try to stop the entire universe from collapsing around them (that's sometimes a metaphor). In the second season, the commander is replaced without warning; the new guy is much more personable, provided you don't mind the odd genocide now and then. And then there's the god complex, which culminates in the end of the Earth civil war storyline: the tenth commander defeats usurping Earth president Harold Saxon by glowing and floating at him. Meanwhile, the mysterious PsiCorp (outside the government, beyond the police), lead by the charismatic and sexually adventurous Captain Jack Bester, has brainwashed Chief Tyler so that her negative traits -- jealousy, selfishness, a certain ruthlessness -- become dominant. No one notices.
It all sort of falls apart in the fifth season, but RTD insists he had planned it this way all along, and he's got a twenty-year-plan and some prime real estate in central Australia if you're interested.
Babylon 5 by JJ Abrams
In which Susan Ivanova balances her military career with her second job as a double-agent for the PsiCorp. Or maybe she's a triple agent? It seems to change on a regular basis, which is probably why they chucked that arc entirely and concentrated on the torturous family dynamic. Susan finds out that her late mother was actually a Minbari agent in the war, and the valuable and curiously shiny relics of Valen promise that she has a destiny. Every European actress who can get a visa eventually turns up as one of Susan's relatives. Yugoslavian and French accents are totally interchangable, right? No one, least of all the writers, are totally sure where this is going. They're sure they had a plan around here somewhere, honest, it'll turn up eventually. The scripts are great, but the lens flare is blinding.
Babylon 5 by Ron Moore
You were saying? Or, to bring it up to date: it's a lot like the show we actually got, only Sheridan spends more time vomiting, and Talia exists only in Ivanova's head.
Something else that amused me today:
selenak pointed me to an old post of hers, Babylon 5 as written by other showrunners. I think this was a meme a while back? It created thoughts that curdled in the back of my brain as I counted money this morning, and this is the unspeakable result:Babylon 5 by Russell T Davies
Pitched somewhere between soap, sitcom and cheap West Wing knock-off (in space!), it's a low-budget sci-fi drama with epic pretensions. It starts of following the adventures of the station's dour ninth commander (they don't seem to have names) and his BFF, self-consciously working class security chief Rose Tyler as they try to stop the entire universe from collapsing around them (that's sometimes a metaphor). In the second season, the commander is replaced without warning; the new guy is much more personable, provided you don't mind the odd genocide now and then. And then there's the god complex, which culminates in the end of the Earth civil war storyline: the tenth commander defeats usurping Earth president Harold Saxon by glowing and floating at him. Meanwhile, the mysterious PsiCorp (outside the government, beyond the police), lead by the charismatic and sexually adventurous Captain Jack Bester, has brainwashed Chief Tyler so that her negative traits -- jealousy, selfishness, a certain ruthlessness -- become dominant. No one notices.
It all sort of falls apart in the fifth season, but RTD insists he had planned it this way all along, and he's got a twenty-year-plan and some prime real estate in central Australia if you're interested.
Babylon 5 by JJ Abrams
In which Susan Ivanova balances her military career with her second job as a double-agent for the PsiCorp. Or maybe she's a triple agent? It seems to change on a regular basis, which is probably why they chucked that arc entirely and concentrated on the torturous family dynamic. Susan finds out that her late mother was actually a Minbari agent in the war, and the valuable and curiously shiny relics of Valen promise that she has a destiny. Every European actress who can get a visa eventually turns up as one of Susan's relatives. Yugoslavian and French accents are totally interchangable, right? No one, least of all the writers, are totally sure where this is going. They're sure they had a plan around here somewhere, honest, it'll turn up eventually. The scripts are great, but the lens flare is blinding.
Babylon 5 by Ron Moore
You were saying? Or, to bring it up to date: it's a lot like the show we actually got, only Sheridan spends more time vomiting, and Talia exists only in Ivanova's head.
