1) It seemed to me like they're unhappy with the general lukewarm praise the Chibnall era got (altho I thought the ratings stayed pretty good?) and they want to go back to the Source of all the success with the reboot. I hope this doesn't mean we go back to a white guy doctor. I hope RTD treats his women a little better (FOREVER MAD about Donna) this time around. I am sooo tired of the "At least RTD has a heart/At least Moffat has a brain!" fandom type wars. I think they both wrote brilliant eps and great seasons and they both have enormous flaws. Neither Christ nor the Devil as my grandma used to say. And didn't Moffat write for RTD anyway? I don't think they're as diametrically opposed as fandom wants to make out.
2) My reaction is a huge enormous DNW which is probably totally emotional, but I loved B5 the way it is (was?) and can't imagine a "complete reimagining" but keeping the same station and maybe the original plotline. The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race. That just sounds....weird. I don't want it.
And frankly I personally would be sitting there really heartsick thinking of all the actors who weren't there, too.
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2) My reaction is a huge enormous DNW which is probably totally emotional, but I loved B5 the way it is (was?) and can't imagine a "complete reimagining" but keeping the same station and maybe the original plotline. The new take revolves around John Sheridan (originally played by Bruce Boxleitner), an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a 5-mile-long space station in neutral space, a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. His arrival triggers a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined, as an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting Sheridan and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race. That just sounds....weird. I don't want it.
And frankly I personally would be sitting there really heartsick thinking of all the actors who weren't there, too.