I went through public highschool not so many years ago and I remember first hand the lack of authority and discipline in the school system. The kind of harassment that goes on inside highschool walls would land people in jail if it happened anywhere else.
This is by no means an endorsement for anyone's actions. The individual is ultimately responsible for everything she does, but if the institution isn't going to proffer justice, should you really be surprised when some nut students take a deranged version of JUSTICE into their own hands?
I wasn't.
Seriously, can iD be responsible for the actions of two insane kids if those kids didn't actually *BUY* iD's games, but instead pirated them?
Because honestly, what are the chances that they actually bought the games?
Yes... there was a lot of bad things about Battlefield Earth. More than are worth trying to list... but I have one undeniable good point.
It was better than <b>Batman and Robin.<b> If I were strapped down with my eyelids held open, akin to <i>a Clockwork Orange</i> I'd much much rather be forced to watch Battlefield Earth over and over again than <B>Batman and Robin</B>. Sorry Joel, I know you were responsible in some measure for <i>the Matrix<i>, but I still hate you.
I don't think it's entirely fair to claim that Crusade failed because we knew they found a cure. Babylon 5 has never really been about keeping the endings from you... it's how you get there that's more important. We knew from the first episode, ("Midnight on the Firing Line") that G'Kar and Londo were going to kill each other 20 years in the future. We knew Londo would be Emperor of Centauri Prime pretty early on but that didn't make his innevitable journey to the throne any less interesting, (I would argue it made it _more_ interesting). We knew Londo was going to get a keeper. We knew G'Kar was going to lose his eye. We knew the Shadows would come to Centauri Prime. We knew these things were going to happen but we didn't know how or why or the reasons they did. When it comes down to it, Babylon 5 has always been more about the characters and the way the journies they take effect them than the journies and events themselves. So I don't think it's fair to say that Crusade failed because we knew the crew would succeed. Personally I think it failed because it wasn't all that good an idea to begin with, but the Babylon 5 series prejudiced me toward a more political and character driven type of show and Crusade was basically Xena in outer-space.
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I went through public highschool not so many years ago and I remember first hand the lack of authority and discipline in the school system. The kind of harassment that goes on inside highschool walls would land people in jail if it happened anywhere else. This is by no means an endorsement for anyone's actions. The individual is ultimately responsible for everything she does, but if the institution isn't going to proffer justice, should you really be surprised when some nut students take a deranged version of JUSTICE into their own hands? I wasn't.
Seriously, can iD be responsible for the actions of two insane kids if those kids didn't actually *BUY* iD's games, but instead pirated them? Because honestly, what are the chances that they actually bought the games?
Also, I really wish I didn't FSCK up my HTML tags, because now I look like a total sod. But at least I'm cooler than BE.
Yes... there was a lot of bad things about Battlefield Earth. More than are worth trying to list... but I have one undeniable good point.
It was better than <b>Batman and Robin.<b>
If I were strapped down with my eyelids held open, akin to <i>a Clockwork Orange</i> I'd much much rather be forced to watch Battlefield Earth over and over again than <B>Batman and Robin</B>.
Sorry Joel, I know you were responsible in some measure for <i>the Matrix<i>, but I still hate you.
I don't think it's entirely fair to claim that Crusade failed because we knew they found a cure. Babylon 5 has never really been about keeping the endings from you... it's how you get there that's more important. We knew from the first episode, ("Midnight on the Firing Line") that G'Kar and Londo were going to kill each other 20 years in the future. We knew Londo would be Emperor of Centauri Prime pretty early on but that didn't make his innevitable journey to the throne any less interesting, (I would argue it made it _more_ interesting). We knew Londo was going to get a keeper. We knew G'Kar was going to lose his eye. We knew the Shadows would come to Centauri Prime. We knew these things were going to happen but we didn't know how or why or the reasons they did. When it comes down to it, Babylon 5 has always been more about the characters and the way the journies they take effect them than the journies and events themselves. So I don't think it's fair to say that Crusade failed because we knew the crew would succeed. Personally I think it failed because it wasn't all that good an idea to begin with, but the Babylon 5 series prejudiced me toward a more political and character driven type of show and Crusade was basically Xena in outer-space.