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Is B5 still the best multiyear single story series?
Sat, 6 May 2006 00:35:37 -0400 rec.arts.tv
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Luke Curtis...
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I have to disagree, IMHO the scripts were OK, but Boxleitner's
delivery was *so* poor, so wooden, he just looked like he was reading off cue card and badly at that!, that is why I ploughed through S1 first time round despite the bad acting of the lead. |
Ian Galbraith...
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Not quite, just because IIRT would have been the season finale doesn't
mean they would have taken only 4 episodes to tell the story of the end of the earth war in S5. Those episodes (in particular BTDATL) are rushed, Luke Curtis...
so much so that I don't believe they would have been told in the same way. Plus you now have 4 extra episodes in S4 part of which would have been taken up with the telepaths, IIRC this came from JMS himself. |
Ian Galbraith...
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That doesn't jibe with what you wrote above. Even if the Earth War was
over 4 episodes into S5 then season 5 isn't after the war it features the end of the war. |
Pete B...
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Not entirely, since he tells it differently elsewhere. He took 4
episodes from season 5 - not the first 4, but 4 that wrapped out the civil war - they could have been from the middle of the season. |
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We are in the second year of Lost and I swear the writers are making it
up as they go along. X-Files the same except story never really got resovled. Did JMS really create for SF the way to do a single story multiyear series? Granted there were lots of problems with B5. The final season seemed like an afterthought. Lets face it the story should have ended at the end of season 4 with mankind joining the Old Ones. But JMS seemed to have done it right in terms of creating a story at the start and sticking to it with small changes and adjustments throughout. In restrospect JMS seemed to have created an outline for what was going to happen with each season and episode instead of just having a premise without longterm storyline outline X-Files and Lost seem to have fallen into the latter catagory. Earth Final Conflict as mediocre as that show was also seemed to have had a longterm storyline besides a premise. Both B5 and E:FC were syndicated shows who for doing a multiyear arc seemed to have understood the concept of long term outline and story. With each episode a chapter line a novel. I expect network show should try to achieve greater then syndicated. Buffy also had good single season story lines that seemed to have been created with each season at the start and longterm storyline planning was used. How is it that JMS and Whedon got it right on how to do longterm storylines but Abrams hasn't it. I really think the next SF show with a long multiyear storyline needs to use JMS or Whedon as their models. Maybe its because both were storytellers to begin with who know about plotting long term. Maybe its nostalgia that it appears JMS got it so right with mulityear storylines. PastaLover...
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