The VOYAGER pilot is *$23 million*?! The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
Daaaaaaaaamn.
I agree with you on Delenn. I mean, when I was looking at the pilot, I thought that's what they were trying to do (make a sexually ambiguous character), but she seems a lot more badass being a girl, I think. :)
He has a thing for titles, whereas I'm more or less ambiviant towards them.
Aw man, I love titles. I frequently agonize over them, and I never feel like I've got a story in my grasp unless I have the perfect title for it. Same goes for naming characters; if I haven't found their name, I haven't found them yet. There's a certain significance and shaping when one names something, I think. ...And then there's original series Star Trek, which does NOT know how to name their episodes at ALL. I think I even have a post on that somewhere...
Reading on the bit about Ivanova that you have there, she kinda reminds me of the lead role in a Canadian radio drama called "Afghanada," basically about 3 Canadian solders shipped out to Afghanistan. Sergeant Patricia "Coach" Kinsella was the commanding officer for these two other guys, and she was awesome. At first a lot of people were like "A WOMAN COMMANDING OFFICER?! WHAT?!" but then later everyone was like, "Man, that's like the awesome-est thing." It did rather well as a series; it lasted for five seasons, right up until the date when the Canadian troops withdrew in 2011. It also won awards and things. ...Long story short, hurrah for badass female military characters!
"Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari? Yes."
Damn it, this man is my father.
"What I want is not to hit someone with a MORAL, or a message, or "This is what a soul is," or "This is what makes it an SF series," I want to start discussions. Arguments. Preferably a bar fight or two.
This is what makes it a "literary" show, as opposed to a "popular" one. And that's a good thing. :-)
The Vorlons......are.
lol. XD
Picard not being able to go on half the missions always annoyed the hell out of me. It's like... really?
It annoyed me too. I mean, why did Kirk get to go gallavanting around all the time, and Picard was just stuck in the captain's chair! X(
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The BABYLON 5 pilot was $3.5 million.
Daaaaaaaaamn.
I agree with you on Delenn. I mean, when I was looking at the pilot, I thought that's what they were trying to do (make a sexually ambiguous character), but she seems a lot more badass being a girl, I think. :)
He has a thing for titles, whereas I'm more or less ambiviant towards them.
Aw man, I love titles. I frequently agonize over them, and I never feel like I've got a story in my grasp unless I have the perfect title for it. Same goes for naming characters; if I haven't found their name, I haven't found them yet. There's a certain significance and shaping when one names something, I think.
...And then there's original series Star Trek, which does NOT know how to name their episodes at ALL. I think I even have a post on that somewhere...
Reading on the bit about Ivanova that you have there, she kinda reminds me of the lead role in a Canadian radio drama called "Afghanada," basically about 3 Canadian solders shipped out to Afghanistan. Sergeant Patricia "Coach" Kinsella was the commanding officer for these two other guys, and she was awesome. At first a lot of people were like "A WOMAN COMMANDING OFFICER?! WHAT?!" but then later everyone was like, "Man, that's like the awesome-est thing." It did rather well as a series; it lasted for five seasons, right up until the date when the Canadian troops withdrew in 2011. It also won awards and things.
...Long story short, hurrah for badass female military characters!
"Who's right, the soul hunter or the minbari?
Yes."
Damn it, this man is my father.
"What I want is not to hit someone with a MORAL, or a message, or "This is what a soul is," or "This is what makes it an SF series," I want to start discussions. Arguments. Preferably a bar fight or two.
This is what makes it a "literary" show, as opposed to a "popular" one. And that's a good thing. :-)
The Vorlons......are.
lol. XD
Picard not being able to go on half the missions always annoyed the hell out of me. It's like... really?
It annoyed me too. I mean, why did Kirk get to go gallavanting around all the time, and Picard was just stuck in the captain's chair! X(