You know I think JMS was more hopeful that Sense 8 would be the ticket to a B5 revival. It clearly hasn't been, but I don't think that is any reason to give up hope. I imagine he has something that he is keeping under his hat until he feels the time is right, or for as long as he thinks he can keep it under his hat.
Unfortunately as good as I expect his future projects to be, in this day and age there are just too many things out there. It just seems like pure luck if a show or movie succeeds. Don't get me wrong, there has to be some kind of quality there, but there also has to be some luck in getting viewers to watch. We all know there are plenty of quality shows and movies that didn't achieve success because people didn't choose to see them. Most of us know how good the Rising Stars and Midnight Nation comics were, but the reality is they are not known in the mainstream. This fact could actually help them succeed with some positive word of mouth. Does anyone know if there is anything really negative out there about those comics? As far as I know they had some acclaim, but maybe not the biggest fan bases ever. I look at The Watchmen (2009). I know that graphic novel was VERY acclaimed, but does that mean people outside comic circles had ever heard of it? Someone convinced a studio to put major money into marketing and making a big movie. Positive word of mouth about the quality of the graphic novel spread and a successful ad campaign convinced all kinds of people to go see it.
The point I am making is that we should hope that the end results are an excellent entertainment product. After that it becomes cross our fingers that we're all VERY lucky and millions of people decide to give these projects a chance. Then they fall in love with them. There is tremendous success and JMS is vaulted into the mainstream spotlight enough to give him cart-blanch over a massive Babylon 5 movie.
Here is another project I look at, Stranger Things. I love Stranger Things, but before it premiered can you imagine anyone thinking it would be as big as it has become?! To me that show would have seemed like a huge risk for any network to take on, but Netflix got lucky. People decided to give it a shot - and KAAPLOWEE! - it is a huge hit. We all know JMS has been on the edge of that kind of success in the past and there is no reason he couldn't have the same luck a show like Stranger Things or any big show or movie franchise has had.

Unfortunately as good as I expect his future projects to be, in this day and age there are just too many things out there. It just seems like pure luck if a show or movie succeeds. Don't get me wrong, there has to be some kind of quality there, but there also has to be some luck in getting viewers to watch. We all know there are plenty of quality shows and movies that didn't achieve success because people didn't choose to see them. Most of us know how good the Rising Stars and Midnight Nation comics were, but the reality is they are not known in the mainstream. This fact could actually help them succeed with some positive word of mouth. Does anyone know if there is anything really negative out there about those comics? As far as I know they had some acclaim, but maybe not the biggest fan bases ever. I look at The Watchmen (2009). I know that graphic novel was VERY acclaimed, but does that mean people outside comic circles had ever heard of it? Someone convinced a studio to put major money into marketing and making a big movie. Positive word of mouth about the quality of the graphic novel spread and a successful ad campaign convinced all kinds of people to go see it.
The point I am making is that we should hope that the end results are an excellent entertainment product. After that it becomes cross our fingers that we're all VERY lucky and millions of people decide to give these projects a chance. Then they fall in love with them. There is tremendous success and JMS is vaulted into the mainstream spotlight enough to give him cart-blanch over a massive Babylon 5 movie.
Here is another project I look at, Stranger Things. I love Stranger Things, but before it premiered can you imagine anyone thinking it would be as big as it has become?! To me that show would have seemed like a huge risk for any network to take on, but Netflix got lucky. People decided to give it a shot - and KAAPLOWEE! - it is a huge hit. We all know JMS has been on the edge of that kind of success in the past and there is no reason he couldn't have the same luck a show like Stranger Things or any big show or movie franchise has had.

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