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.
Exactly. I think we're lucky we got both of them heading their respective seasons, my own nitpicks and occasional growlings notwithstanding. I also think that this Whovian tendency to first cast the next showrunner, whoever he might be (and wouldn't it be nice if it was a she? Speak about going back to the beginning and Verity Lambert!), as a savior and then as the ruiner of all things Who is just setting yourself up for fannish misery.
a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war.
That is actually pretty much the s1 of already existing B5 credits description of the station, and the one Sinclair gives in one of the earliest eps. I also assume Sheridan and Sinclair will end up as the same character, given that Sheridan was only introduced out of the necessity of Michael O'Hare's health state. But while I liked Sinclair and came around to liking Sheridan eventually (only to be annoyed by his Great Man of History treatment in the later seasons), the human characters, Bester excepted, weren't the main attractions of the show to me. Centauri and Narn forever, and the Minbari can come, too.
I will say that now that I've slept over it, it occurs to me that I can think of a remix/reboot/reimgaging/whatever we call it where I was invested in the original tale and yet liked the new, very different one (though the ending was getting a big point of the original wrong, so that excepted), which was The Haunting of Hill House (i.e. original novel and first movie version vs Netflix tv series of the same name but with a very different story). In terms of non-visual media, I can think of a German sci fi series published in weekly pulp installments where this applies to me as well since there's an alternate remix in additon to the original continueing. So who knows?
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Date: 2021-09-29 08:14 am (UTC)Exactly. I think we're lucky we got both of them heading their respective seasons, my own nitpicks and occasional growlings notwithstanding. I also think that this Whovian tendency to first cast the next showrunner, whoever he might be (and wouldn't it be nice if it was a she? Speak about going back to the beginning and Verity Lambert!), as a savior and then as the ruiner of all things Who is just setting yourself up for fannish misery.
a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war.
That is actually pretty much the s1 of already existing B5 credits description of the station, and the one Sinclair gives in one of the earliest eps. I also assume Sheridan and Sinclair will end up as the same character, given that Sheridan was only introduced out of the necessity of Michael O'Hare's health state. But while I liked Sinclair and came around to liking Sheridan eventually (only to be annoyed by his Great Man of History treatment in the later seasons), the human characters, Bester excepted, weren't the main attractions of the show to me. Centauri and Narn forever, and the Minbari can come, too.
I will say that now that I've slept over it, it occurs to me that I can think of a remix/reboot/reimgaging/whatever we call it where I was invested in the original tale and yet liked the new, very different one (though the ending was getting a big point of the original wrong, so that excepted), which was The Haunting of Hill House (i.e. original novel and first movie version vs Netflix tv series of the same name but with a very different story). In terms of non-visual media, I can think of a German sci fi series published in weekly pulp installments where this applies to me as well since there's an alternate remix in additon to the original continueing. So who knows?