I can't believe how incredibly sad this is that Turner should cave to these Boston lunatics. Are the other nine cities going to each get a couple million dollar present as well? Of course not, because, only the Bostonians made a fuss and a silly one at that. There comes a time when you have to be responsible for your own reaction to a situation and clearly Boston's response to this "threat" was way over the top. Its the Mayor and Police Chief who should be fined for causing a panic and thrown out of office on the principle of simple stupidity. And you know where that 1 million in "good will" funds will go. The many local Duncan Donut shops around Boston than you Ted Turner.
I think the enduring quality of B5 is not in the production values, which for the time were outstanding, but in the telling of a coherent story arc spread out over 5 seasons. And from that perspective I think B5 has all Star Trek series, Firefly, Stargate and any other long running Sci-Fi series I can recall beat. If you view all five seaons and then go back and look at pretty much any main story line episode in B5 you see how well it maintains canon. And the story is a good one too. So for my money, I'll be first in line to pre-order the new Direct-To-DVD productions of B5. Go MJS!!!!!!!!!!!
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I can't believe how incredibly sad this is that Turner should cave to these Boston lunatics. Are the other nine cities going to each get a couple million dollar present as well? Of course not, because, only the Bostonians made a fuss and a silly one at that. There comes a time when you have to be responsible for your own reaction to a situation and clearly Boston's response to this "threat" was way over the top. Its the Mayor and Police Chief who should be fined for causing a panic and thrown out of office on the principle of simple stupidity. And you know where that 1 million in "good will" funds will go. The many local Duncan Donut shops around Boston than you Ted Turner.
I think the enduring quality of B5 is not in the production values, which for the time were outstanding, but in the telling of a coherent story arc spread out over 5 seasons. And from that perspective I think B5 has all Star Trek series, Firefly, Stargate and any other long running Sci-Fi series I can recall beat. If you view all five seaons and then go back and look at pretty much any main story line episode in B5 you see how well it maintains canon. And the story is a good one too. So for my money, I'll be first in line to pre-order the new Direct-To-DVD productions of B5. Go MJS!!!!!!!!!!!