Interesting JMS Facebook Posts & Tweets

[Satai with Punsch]

This is kind of raising my expectations.

[Jan]

A new post from JMS:

[Looney]

I just don't understand why people even think they need to be redone. I mean maybe touched up a bit, but other than that I wouldn't change a thing. They are such a wonderful part of the series. People just need to learn to accept them as part of the story. I hear people throw the term "dated" around. What the hell does that mean in the big picture?!?!?!?! KING KONG (1933) is dated so does that mean we need it to be redone with the effects from KING KONG (2005)?! It makes no sense. The effects are such a wonderful part of the show. Why mess with it?! While their at it why don't they take the animated action from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988) and replace it all with more up to date realistic looking modern animation? Ridiculous. If Babylon 5 needs to look different with different effects then that is what we'll get with a reboot.

[LateArrival]

I just don't understand why people even think they need to be redone. I mean maybe touched up a bit, but other than that I wouldn't change a thing. They are such a wonderful part of the series. People just need to learn to accept them as part of the story. I hear people throw the term "dated" around. What the hell does that mean in the big picture?!?!?!?! KING KONG (1933) is dated so does that mean we need it to be redone with the effects from KING KONG (2005)?! It makes no sense. The effects are such a wonderful part of the show. Why mess with it?! While their at it why don't they take the animated action from WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988) and replace it all with more up to date realistic looking modern animation? Ridiculous. If Babylon 5 needs to look different with different effects then that is what we'll get with a reboot.

Could see possibly cleaning/upscaling, but if there is excess Time and Money to go around, better to devote those resources towards a New B5. The updated graphics for Trek TOS are certainly pretty, but that could just as easily be random stock footage (BSG/Space Mutiny) since the space effects for Trek weren't as linked to the show as they were with B5. And if the effects were replaced, would it be the same show? Part of why B5 is B5 is how they were able to accomplish what they did with what they had at the time.

[Jan]

This is interesting.

https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1599203338939424769

[Jan]

NOT trying to re-open the discussion again - mostly just putting this here so I can find it again. For some time now, folks have quoted one of the actors saying that WB sued over DS9 and that there was an out-of court settlement. This lays that to rest:

[Jan]

Two fun tweets from JMS last night and just now. After many, many, MANY discussions over the years, JMS seems to have posted a rank listing for Earthforce.



And ripped from today's headlines:

[Jan]

So a couple of nights ago Joe tweeted that he'd been looking for a Tshirt for ages and finally had one made.



Cute. But then! Last night he mentioned that the next day he found no less than five sellers selling that exact shirt. I did a quick search, didn't find anything and decided he was just playing. Until this morning and my standing Google search searved me no less than SIX tshirt sellers selling the Official J. Michael Straczynski shirt! One of them seems to thave gone up so fast that the 'description' is still placeholder text:

ABOUT
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I've always heard that if you post 'that needs to be on a t-shirt', that it would be shortly. Now we know that it's true!

[Jan]

JMS posted a hint as to when news might come out regarding "B5-A":

[AstroBoy]

This in this morning:



If I were to guess, it's either
A: More comic news
B: B5 remastered coming out on Disc (My hope)
C: ?

[Jan]

This in this morning:



If I were to guess, it's either
A: More comic news
B: B5 remastered coming out on Disc (My hope)
C: ?

Given that it's just before SDCC, I'm guessing it's comic related. That seems to be the trend just before the con.

[AstroBoy]

Joe just posted this. So definitely B5 related.

[Looney]

WaHH- Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!! [end communication] 😁😁😁😁😁😎

[Jan]

Here we have it! (yes, I"m double posting here and the Blu Ray thread)

https://twitter.com/straczynski/status/1681333005082820608

[AstroBoy]

Here's what he had to say on his FB page about it:
"ATTENTION BABYLON 5 FANS! YOU WANTED IT, YOU ASKED FOR IT, AND IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED! To celebrate B5's 30th Anniversary, Babylon 5: The Complete Series will be released ON BLU-RAY December 5, '23. Pre-orders can be placed STARTING TODAY via the retailer of your choice. (Just waiting for some of the online sites to catch up.)

To address some of the obvious questions: I wasn't directly involved with the release, so I don't know much more than you do or what's in the release/at the retail sites but I can add what little I do know: the release includes The Gathering (but not the movies or Crusade) because TG was our pilot (technically the first) episode, so it's a legit part of the series which fits the title mandate; the other movies were separate, and Crusade is a completely different series, so it doesn't belong in this box set.

This is essentially the same as the very nice 4:3 remaster done for HBO-Max, which matches the original broadcast, but putting it onto Blu-Ray increases the bitrate so it should look even better than it did there. WB wanted to include the commentaries but with everything else involved with this, it apparently wasn't feasible (that's the extent of what I was told, so I've no idea what that entails).

Since I'm not directly involved with the release, as with all things related to B5's distribution plans, I do not have any inside information concerning foreign releases or other languages. That's all on the Warners side, so please direct any inquiries in that direction.

Finally, for folks asking where they can find *a* link to where this is available...like all major studio releases, this will be made available to all the usual online places where you normally buy Blu-Ray disks. It will be rolling out to those sites starting today.

What matters most in all this is that after years of asking for a Blu-Ray release, which will make this show look more beautiful than it ever has before. Fans can now own the full series in pristine form on physical media without being held hostage by the whims of streamers. I'm very excited by this release, as it further assures the legacy of Babylon 5. Onward!"