Babylon Podcast #126: The Illusion of Truth (Season 4)
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Great, I can download the show before I head for DC tomorrow morning!
B5 will come back in some fashion. With the way Hollywood is recycling everythng it’s inevitable.
I would hope there is some way to get the short stories reprinted. They’re going for ridiculous prices on ebay.
Its great that there were professors inquiring about this episode for use in their courses. It makes a good cautionary tale. Unfortunately its also a good “how to” example and apparently some of the students went on to work in television “news”.
I’m with you there on a short story collection, Gary.
I just wonder if that B5 graphic novel that JMS has been working on forever will ever get published.
Re: the gunnery room in Legend of the Rangers–it wouldn’t have been as lame (or at all) if they had had the budget to do what jms originally imagined. She was supposed to have a seat and guns (kinda like in the original Star Wars I think), in the same room so she’d have a complete spherical view. See http://tinyurl.com/5bwpjz
If it was supposed to be a chair with a view similar to what Sheridan saw for the first time when leading the first fleet assault on the Shadows, that’d be a really huge difference.
Imagining that kind of 360 visual tracking system with the kind of gunner’s chair from The Last Starfighter really changes things… and the fact they didn’t have the budget to build that truly saddens me.
Great news, Summer! I also have the dubious pleasure of having all the novels from first printing.
Paul – thanks for the link; I read through most of those posts. Interesting – I wonder, if indeed the “ball turret gunner” setup had been shown, if fans would be grousing about how much it resembled the gun turrets on the Millenium Falcon.
Gary – if Hollywood recycles everything, then I’m looking forward to the big screen adaptation of “Quark” with Simon Pegg as Quark and Keanu Reeves as Ficus.
Great job on the analysis of this episode. Tim’s point about the misdirection of the “commercial” is one I’ve always appreciated. This part of Joe’s approach made me feel a bit closer to him as a writer, in the same way as Rod Serling would answer questions sent to him. Joe has moved away from this approach, evidently, but the ISN bits are among my favorites.
Cheers!
Michael
I thought the weapons system in Legend of the Rangers was one of the best things it had going for it. Think Delenn was in some sort of place where she could stand and watch the battle for Earth in 360 degrees. Kind of assumed the system was an expansion on that
Thanks for playing the promo for Codename: Starkeeper guys! Much appreciated!