Babylon 5 Theatrical Movie Falls Through

duck2ducks writes "According to a post from JMS, the Babylon 5 feature film has been cancelled. This is sad news indeed for all fans of one of the best sci-fi stories ever produced." From Straczynski's post: "In the end, however, the deal could be put together, and it did not look as if that was going to change at any point in the foreseeable future. So the option has reverted, and to all intents and purposes, the project has dead ended."

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B5 writing was sub-par and acting was frozen ham

[tekaugur]

Really.

The special effects were great for the time. The characters, setup and arc were intriguing.

But I cringed each time I watched an episode.

I kept watching until the second season when I figured it wasn't getting better.

It was just too painful.

Cliched, hackneyed writing with college level actors. Really.

I was disappointed.

I checked in every so often and was shocked when I saw that Harlan Ellison was involved later. My brief glimpses of later episodes produced slightly fewer cringes per episode, but were still below par.

I saw that J. Michael Straczynski was a writer and sometimes producer for He-man and the master s of the universe, Murder She Wrote, and other such pap.

Then I understood.

Then came Farscape and there was much rejoicing.