B5 S1 
Perhaps all modern SciFi directors should watch it and learn that you donāt need Oscar winning cinematography, locations, CGI, Nor even actors capable of acting to tell a great story.
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Hmm.
Look What Ifā¦? Ends brilliantly, great story. Love Thor the dork.
But.
Did it need to be āanother big production?ā Couldnāt it have just been alternate stories?
Great and exciting stuff but maybe MCU are gonna become a bit cliched if all the phases āLead to somethingā¦ā
Much enjoyed all the same
Viva Las Vegas!
New/final series dropping like flies this winter.
Really looking forward to this. Good story to the reboot and Will wasnt TOO annoying
Dec 1st S3
That link looks disgusting. I refuse to click it.
Hmmm.
No idea why it is like that!
That looks more useable. Same story, different article
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I think Season One is a bit pants in places. I also think they made the best season one they could under the circumstances. Michael OāHare was going through what weād now term as mental health issues. Not all of the cast members were sympathetic. Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi) in particular roasted him without knowing what was really going on.
As Iāve said before, the reboot should get both Sinclair and Sheridan in from day one, splitting the roles of Earth Ambassador and Station Commander, with Sheridan made out to be a rule following mouthpiece at the start. Great opportunity for some conflict between the characters, a potential love triangle with DeāLenn, and the setup for a good character arc for both.
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We never had a regular provider back in those days.
Caught random episodes on the sandpitās terrestial TV.
I now realise we never saw any of S1 as Sheridan was always in the episodes we saw!
Certainly felt S1 cast were wooden & strained at times but was great to get through.
Waiting on Mrs P_F to bugger off to BFF for the evening so I can binge into S2 ep2 onwards with a bottle of decent plonk
SIX!
Only 6 episodes?
Jeez.
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Iāve been watching this War of the Worlds lark on Disney+, a joint British-French venture retelling the H.G. Wells story in a contemporary setting, sort of.
There are changes I really like. The aliens are no longer from Mars, which makes sense given we havenāt seen any Martians yet (despite sending things there) and the aliensā main method of killing is pretty clever (if very cheap to do on TV!).
I think my big problem with it is the difference between the stakes the exposition rattles off versus the execution. There is probably no better example than the aliens themselves.
Iām not that far in yet, but this is what I expect from a War of the Worlds adaptation.
Big fucking tripods terrorising Thunder Child (or a ship of your choosing).
This is the main alien depicted in the show so far.
It is knee-height, not scary at all and in danger of being crushed by the cast.
I canāt help wondering whether some mistake of Spinal Tap Stonehenge proportions has been made.
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I watched the whole thing a few weeks ago, there were a couple of things that annoyed me but I will wait til youāve watched all of it before I put those worms in your head.
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Iāve seen that robot somewhere else before, wasnāt it in one of the Black Mirror episodes??
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It was in B&Q, holding an outside security lamp.
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Yeah, Iām guessing that War of the Worlds was able to save a few bob on creature design.
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https://twitter.com/TrekCore/status/1448299908751138816?t=Nlmihhp9Do1tI5gdw90QNw&s=19
On his way back hopefully
Iām giving up on this War of the Worlds malarkey. Iām one episode into the second season, can see where it is going and have decided I donāt want to go there.
More than anything else, it is so fucking dull, and Iām a bloke that can handle stuff at a slower pace. The other real problem is the plot. I wonāt go into too many spoilers, but the invaders need humans, or at least some of them. This was their plan all along, yet their opening gambit is to launch an attack that has the potential to wipe them all out, especially the ones they need.
So much happens off-screen. Very little decent happens on-screen.
If this is what the French call science fiction, they can stick it up their fucking Channel Tunnel.
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Foundation continues to recover from a poor Ep 3.
Some real scifi shit this week in Ep 5