Mira Furlan has died
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One by one the cast of B5 is leaving us and i am sad to see them go, without another shot at telling another story far superior to most science fiction productions nowadays.
"Why. Not."
The curse of Babylon 5 strikes again...
Not that there really is a curse, but there is an interessting statistical anomaly that an unusual high amount of people involved with bablyon 5 die early. More than half of the maincast has now died (all in the age 40-65). Even IMDB has a page for this: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls023048945/
Interessting part is that the production of bablyon 5 already met some unlucky envents at it's production. And the series itself had the curse of the babylon-project as part of it's lore. Probably from this the meme about a curse leaped over to real world.
One of the twisty roads in that story is that one of the arguments that WB has for how they lost the digital files involves Sierra On-Line's especially cursed attempt at a Babylon 5 videogame and that one argument is that one place that could turn up the lost files is somewhere in the cursed bowels of Activision Blizzard. (Just as WB and Activision Blizzard lost the contracts for NOLF and its sequels somewhere and no one knows who has the rights today.)
In terms of video games, there's the fan-made "I've Found Her" for a taste of what could have been.
There is a “Newtonian physics” button for Elite Dangerous where you can do star fury whip around moves if you want, but it’s not really an effective way to fly.
on a different note. a lot of the digital files have survived, a bunch of different people have provided 1080p rerenderings of many important scenes from B5, can find them scattered over youtube.
She died of consequences of infection from West Nile virus transmitted through mosquito. I read it from my local news paper.