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Babylon 5 - The Lost Tales Trailer Posted
Space writes "The trailer for the upcoming movie Babylon 5: The Lost Tales — Voices in the Dark has been posted at the official Babylon 5 site. The movie's pre-production was mentioned in a previous discussion. For more on the creation of the film, the CG Society has an ongoing series of articles about the production's effects development."
Hrm, for some reason, both the website and the CG in the trailer look like they belong in the late 90's...
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Geez that website reminds me of myspace
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
It's curious that you should deliver such a rant against such a short and fairly light-hearted criticism. It's like a guilty conscience! You know the show has flaws, but you just don't want to admit them, do you?
Bullshit. Authors like Harlan Ellison happily associate themselves with sci-fi (and also write outside the genre) without treating it like a cheap marketing ploy. And there are valid reasons for appreciating that there is a sci-fi genre with different implications to fantasy, the most basic being the idea of genuine speculation on what might happen in the future given current trends, another being the application of science and technology to explore moral issues.
Yes, but in a long running episodic series about a long running voyage, it makes perfect sense that crew members of the Enterprise would find themselves in most of the basic human situations, doesn't it? That's rather fundamentally different to introducing concept and character stereotypes from a different genre as a standard part of the show. It changes things, and when done in such a blatant fashion it's not particularly good writing, because it risks breaking the willing suspension of disbelief.
Note the word here is "stereotype". I do hope you won't argue that thinking excessive use of stereotypes is bad is just yet another rule. I mean it is, but you'd have to be extremely good to break that one outside of comedy!
Hang on, he didn't give a definition. Maybe I would agree with his definition, and many others besides. You're making things up! Or is that just to give an endorsement of introducing fantasy into the online debate genre?