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[thebitterguy]

Played some X-Men Legends today. Almost finished. If you mess up the final mission, you get to see New York destroyed by an asteroid impact. Cool.

Noticed an amusing co-incidence. Cyclops is played by Robin Haircut Downes, who's been doing a lot of videogame work since he ruined Babylon 5.

What's amusing is that during the game I was playing "make fun of the dry dialogue" and said "sure, just ask my redheaded super-powerful psychic girlfriend", which I realized applied to both characters.

Anyway, it amused me.

Comments

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Tracy Scoggins ruined B5. RAD just helped.

[thebitterguy]

I pick Downes, because I don't want to do him.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't want to do either of them.

Robin sang me happy birthday. Tracy was very nice to me. But she can't act.

Robin's character was badly written. That means JMS ruined B5.

[creativedv8tion.livejournal.com]

Tracy can't act? Say it ain't so!!!!!

(Nah, I wouldn't want to do either of them, either.)

I come not to praise Straczynski, but to bury him

[thebitterguy]

Oh, the blame lies primarily on his shoulders, no doubt.

But I don't doubt a better performer could have made Byron somewhat palatable.

Re: I come not to praise Straczynski, but to bury him

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, only a better plot could have made Byron palatable.

Re: I come not to praise Straczynski, but to bury him

[thebitterguy]

Unfortunately, we'll never find out.

At least, I won't, since my hat of RAD/Byron know no limit

[tenzil.livejournal.com]

Aw, I think we can give the guy a little bit of a break. He shot his wad on the end of the fourth season, thinking that was the end. He was as surprised as anyone when the fifth season was approved.

I mean, I really didn't enjoy the fifth season at all, but I don't think it "ruined" the show.

To clarify

[thebitterguy]

Season 5 was much below the standards of the first four season; it had two story arcs that were either mediocre or just bad, and failed to live up to the standards of previous seasons.

And, I hate Byron.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Well, I won't watch it again, but it doesn't stop my enjoyment of previous seasons.

I believe 'ruined' was thebitterguy's word.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Here's where Doug the Heretic earns his stripes.

I think the Centauri Arc ending with S520 Wheel of Fire, and S522 Sleeping in Light are the equal of anything else JMS did for the series.

A View From The Gallery and Day of the Dead, both off-beat shows (and featuring some Robin Downes moments) are two of my favourite non-Centauri episodes in season 5.

So there.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

I agree with you 85%. The Centauri arc was the highlight of the season, and SiL was a good wrapup to the series (if the destruction of the station was completely gratuitous).

However, A View from the Gallery was just dumb. The actual 'plot' (mysterious alien race attacking to see if the ISA is tuff enuff? Where the hell did THESE guys come from?) was annoying, and the Mack & Bo structure grated on my raw nerves. Bad, bad, bad.

Day of the Dead was interesting, but wasn't a B5 script, more a Twilight Zone story; that sort of "magic thing" just doesn't fit in the B5 milieu.

[gnaremoob.livejournal.com]

Mack and Bo were cool