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Quote:They can always say that Dr. Franklin is busy in Earthdome Medical doing the cross species disease research project that he started in S5 for the Alliance. As for G'Kar, JMS did state that when Andreas died so did G"kar, and that's fine. He could still be flying around the galaxy helping Lyta cope with the loss of Byron, or again they could still do the fall of Centauri Prime, mention G"kar in it and then add in the remastered footage of him and Londo killing each other.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
Doing the series without Richard Briggs and Andreas Katsulas just seems like... sacrilege.
But if JMS were willing to helm a new round of B5, I'd go with it. Just please please PLEASE get Christopher Franke to do the music again!
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Quote:I wouldn't mind a well written TV movie or mini series that gives us the telepath war or the fall of centauri prime that led to Londo and G'kar's mutual death. Their death scene is long since filmed so they should be able to compensate for the loss of actor Andreas Katsul'as as G'kar.Originally Posted by Lothic
To me seasons 2-4 were obviously the solid "core" of the show but there were a few season 1 and 5 episodes I liked as well. I figure roughly half of season 1 and half of season 5 were weak/questionable, but the rest was worthwhile.
Bottomline it's hard for me to say an entire season of a show is simply all good or bad in a binary way.
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Quote:Wasp, Mockingbird and She-Hulk should be the easiest to get in. Sersi would mean the Eternals, Crystal the Inhumans....Originally Posted by Inazuma
Wasp and Mockingbird would be logical candidates.
I heard somewhere that they had the rights to use Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch in an Avengers movie, as long as they don't mention Magneto or anything relating to the X-Men movies.
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Quote:Once upon a time I was a comicbook/sci-fi convention. There were many Browncoats gathered all around talking about the show and Serenity.Originally Posted by Grae Knight
Lets hope not. There is a good reason it got canceled and the movie flopped.
Then along came a soul that saw them and yelled "Firefly sucked!"
Suddenly the soul found himself surrounded by Browncoats.
The converged all around him and closed in on him.
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Quote:It was cancelled due to Fox being shortsighted and the movie was more for fans then non-fans.Originally Posted by Grae Knight
Lets hope not. There is a good reason it got canceled and the movie flopped.
Also in some areas, those words of yours would be fighting words amongst the Browncoats.
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Quote:Season 1 as with many new shows started rough but started picking up steam as it laid the ground work for the rest of the series.Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I'd probably pick it up were it available.
Though I don't know that I'd say it was 5 mostly great seasons. Seasons 2-4 were quite good. Season 1 had some pretty serious issues, and Season 5 was close to incoherent.
I'd go with 3 great seasons and leave it at that.
I agree on Crusade and the TV movies.
A particular favorite S1 ep of mine is the one where each planet demonstrated its dominant religion. Sinclair's solution to show Earth's "dominant" religion was classic. A long line of people, each from a different religion of Earth.
Also the episode where Sinclair's girlfriend had that "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" with that First One vessel and was saved by Narn sent by G'kar who warned her previously not to go there.
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Quote:Kaylee in engineeringOriginally Posted by Energizing_Ion
But...where's Kaylee? In the engineering room of the heli-carrier?!
Jayne a grizzled SHIELD soldier
Simon in the medical unit
River a super agent similar to Black Widow
Shepard a wizened veteran agent
Wash a helicarrier pilot
Zoe another shield soldier
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Quote:Sure the hammer weighs a lot and that per legend it was so heavy only THOR can lift it. But in Marvel it is the enchantment of ODIN that has changed it from strength of limb to strength of character.Originally Posted by Vitality
Could be played off in the movie that Odins "power of Thor" words were specifically made for Thor...and the Hammer just can't be picked up by the unworthy...but only Thor gets his powers from it.
If you recall...Thor knew exactly what the men in the restaurant were talking about right when they said how heavy it was...alluding to the fact the even without Odins "enchantment" no one else could pick it up.
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Quote:Also the Mark 7 armor rocketed to him and enfolded/encased Tony ala the Iron Man armor from Volume 3 of the comic, the suit that became sentient.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
I noticed that too.
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Quote:Then we are in agreementOriginally Posted by Lothic
Yeah I'm not really talking about whether you have good DVD transfers or not. I'm talking about the fundamental CGI itself.
At this point the show could really use the TOS "remaster" treatment on the space CGI scenes. I'm not suggesting they change the overall design of any of the ships but they could use plenty of detail/texturing work to make it all look much more "realistic" than it does now. Right now it -looks- like CGI. It would be cool if those scenes were re-rendered to look photographically real the way CGI in 2012 can look. Can you imagine how the Shadow ships alone would look with a CGI overhaul? Whew......
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Quote:The only problem with that is that the instant a worthy person touches the hammer they will receive the power of THOR. So Cap and THOR will definitely know what has happened.Originally Posted by Rabid_M
I'm hoping that in A2, Cap just picks it up and hands it back to Thor. Thor can take it, then do a double take as Cap walks away, unaware of the true implications of what he just did.
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Quote:Maybe Tony could go to an A.A. meeting and Hasselhoff would be there.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
The next Avengers also need more David Hasselhoff!
Also I am now picturing Iron Man's movie armor with J.A.R.V.I.S voice damaged or replaced and now sounds like KITT...... -
Quote:My nephew recently expressed interest in the show, stating he heard a lot about it. So, since I happen to have it all on DVD with a nice 5.1 sound system and a 55inch hi def TV.....ah good old B5. We are now at the point in B5 S5 where Byron has learned the origins of the telepath species, he still needs to watch the rest of S5, plus the other movies (we started with The Gathering of course) and then Crusade. He's loving it, especially the season 3 two parter that wrapped up the Sinclair/Valen plot.Originally Posted by Lothic
Wow it has been almost 20 years since B5 started... where does the time go.
Anyway for what it's worth I wouldn't mind seeing a B5 with the CGI scenes updated the same way they "remastered" the Star Trek TOS episodes. To be honest the original effects were almost crude and outdated even by mid-90s standards.
As for a new movie it would almost certainly have to be some kind of "reboot" at this point and it's just hard to imagine it happening today. They'd pretty much have to gear it towards some kind of trilogy to do the story justice and sadly if the first one tanked the rest of the trilogy probably wouldn't get made.
As to the CGI being crude/outdated even then, nah it still looks pretty good despite DVD transfer issues. But I wouldn't be against a faithful CGI overhaul. There is no need to update the design of the station or the ships, just shine them up with new CGI.
I still also wouldn't mind a movie or TV series that tells the chronicles of B4 and Valen. -
Back in 1993 a pilot movie called THE GATHERING premiered.......and the rest as they say is history.
We got 5 mostly great seasons, some TV movies most of which were good, a good spinoff series that wasn't given a fair chance imo.
Along the way, we read up and hear all about the technical problems it took to get B5 to DVD and that at the time it would be nearly impossible to put B5 on Blu-Ray due to the same technical problems, the fact that some of the CGI source material is lost, and of course.....the MONEY needed to make it happen.
Yet rumors from WB are that they are planning something for B5's 20th anniversary in 2013 and they are supposedly approaching JMS about a big screen movie for B5 (sadly I suspect that would be a reboot movie if it happened)
So, what do you all think? Has WB and JMS worked out the technical and especially the FINANCIAL problems? Will they do to B5 what they have done to Star Trek TOS and completely reconstruct the CGI to get this series to Blu Ray? I would trust JMS to ensure that such reconstruction is as faithful and accurate as possible without going overboard with pointless reconstruction of scenes such as the infamous change to the Han/Greedo scene in Star Wars.
Also at Amazon if you search using Babylon 5 and Blu Ray as keywords you get a page that lets you sign up to be notified when the product is available. No release date of course, but still.......a sign of wishful thinking by Amazon or is this Amazon's way of showing WB fan interest in such a thing?
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Quote:I'd expect them to bring in the Wasp before Ms. Marvel, also now that HULK's movie popularity is skyrocketing thanks to this, perhaps we will get......SHE-HULK?Originally Posted by DLancer
Well the idea was to have more female cast members, though I suppose the two Marvels could come as a package deal.
Also I sadly expect the villain for the next HULK movie to be the Red Hulk...... -
Quote:Before Ms. Marvel there was Captain Mar-Vell. Carol Danvers gained her powers when she was exposed to energy from a Kree device as Captain Mar-Vell rescued her. This made her part Kree and she gained her powers based on Mar-Vell's.Originally Posted by DLancer
They should introduce Ms. Marvel with the next movie, if only to make the Avengers less of a sausagefest. Give her the scarf thing that she got in Avengers: EMH. As she's got a cosmic origin, it'd be fairly easy to tie her into the Thanos arc.
Also Mar-Vell is one of Thanos' main arch-enemies, to have Thanos and not Mar-Vell....no. Bring on the Captain! -
May the next Avengers movie have cameos by the cast of Firefly/Serenity
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Quote:Last I heard was that the FF movies are due to be rebooted, if this is the case then the Surfer rights won't be available.Originally Posted by SuperOz
We are going cosmic in the next movie with Thanos most likely, but that leaves it open to involve the Surfer, depending on how the FF rights are sitting at the moment.
However the Surfer was THANOS' prime foe when he came back in the 90's.
For the movies, given that this is Thanos' first incarnation and that Surfer rights will likely be unavailable, then they will go back to Thanos' classic cosmic foes:
1. Drax the Destroyer
2. Adam Warlock (though he may need an origin movie due to the character being....complex)
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Quote:Well the list of who can lift Mjolnir in the comics isn't that lengthy.Originally Posted by Vitality
While I can appreciate the idea of Hulk having enough pure physical strength to lift the hammer...I definitely prefer the Hammer to be Thor's...and no one else's. I don't even care to see cap lift it.
1. Don Blake but then he is THOR or at least linked to him'
2. Beta Ray Bill
3. Dargo from the alternate future
4. Steve Rogers
5. Eric Masterson, not worthy at first but later proved himself worthy.
Steve Rogers has only wielded the hammer twice in the comics so it is not as if he walks up to THOR asks to borrow the hammer for a bit. But to me it makes sense that he can wield it. -
Comes home from seeing Avengers again.....oh there are other comic movies this year? Hadn't noticed
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Quote:I'm not as familiar with the Ultimate version of THOR but wasn't he more tech based on Earth? I don't think Ultimate Thor's hammer has the same enchantments as regular MU THOR does in the comics or the movies.Originally Posted by BrandX
I don't know. I was hoping to see Hulk rage out enough to lift it just like in Ultimate Avengers.
But when it didn't happen, I thought "Yeah, best to save that for #2."
No matter how mad Hulk gets in the mainstream comics or movies, he should never be able to lift Mjolnir.
I'm hoping that the sequel though shows THOR separated from his hammer and can't summon it back to him due to being pummeled in battle and Captain America picks it up as he is worthy. -
Quote:Indeed. It's simply comes down to what works in the comics does not always translate well to the big screen.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
Quick physics lesson.
- The Cap's inertia is separate from that of his shield.
- And, while the shield might absorb the impact, that's only HALF the equation. We then have two possiblities:
- The shield absorbs the impact and simply becomes identical (from an impact standpoint) with the ground. Think "collision with a tree"
- The shield reflects the impact (like it did with the hammer) and "rebounds" since there's nothing actually bracing it. Think "head on collision of two cars".
Cap would still be traveling at roughly terminal velocity. And while the backside of the shield would absorb/redirect the impact too, it's no better than the ground at doing so. Cap's body would STILL have to find some way to impart all that inertial energy. And it's not going to do it in a uniform way.
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Quote:Two cartoons that also haven't aged that well, imo.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
as the bounty of Netflix streaming continues to grow, my rule of thumb has evolved from OMG I loved that show, MUST WATCH! to Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.
In general, but especially in the case of stuff from my childhood and adolescence. For every show that's still fun, there are ten that leave me shaking my head in disbelieving agony that I could ever like something so awful.
Dungeons and Dragons; anytime I see an episode I want to serve that unicorn up on a barbeque and I want to see Ranger punch Cavalier in his face.
The original Masters of the Universe. Some episodes are still good to watch due to the level of story, like the one where Skeletor tricked He-Man into thinking he accidentally killed a bystander in their fight. He-Man returns to Grayskull and I think this was the only time we actually see how he changes back to Adam and then he drops the sword into the abyss.
The 2002 MOTU cartoon is still fun to watch, too bad we never got the third season with Hordak. -
Quote:Yeah Beast Machines took a few liberties with TF history, but still the whole be at one thing was basically to focus their willpower to transform given that they were now cyborgs instead of just robots wearing animal skins as it were in Beast Wars.Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Beast Machines is in the "WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS" category for me
I just hated the whole "you have to be at one with yourself to transform."
Really? REALLY?!? I'm a robot! grr...
As fun as Beast Wars was, the whole thing of them transforming into assorted animals was like "What do get when you combine Micromaster Transformers with upgraded Pretender armor shells?" You get the Maximals and Predacons of the Beast Wars. -
Quote:Probably a combination of needing to be remastered/shined up and of course licensing fees.Originally Posted by Matthew_Orlock
I'm just waiting for them to put up TMNT,Silverhawks, and Thundercats *original* on streaming.
Honestly there are tv shows and films that are not on streaming that just makes me scratch my head as to why they aren't on there yet.