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I’m cautiously optimistic about the B5 reboot because JSM is involved.

Also - the B4 sub-story arc is some of the most incredible TV moments ever created.

Zathras can never have nice things.

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I hope there is a reboot of "Crusade". I would love to see what story he was going to tell in that series.

And Zathras did have nice things. It was Zathras who did not have nice things.

I don't know; much of what has been done with Babylon 5 after the main series ended (season 4) ranged from "meh" to "wow that's bad". I found Crusade unwatchable, and the less said about that "legend of the rangers" thing the better. The Lost Tales was kinda okay from what I recall, but not all that great and mostly underwhelming.

Sometimes all the stars align just right to make something really great for a while and it's hard to recapture that later on.

Most of the things after B5 had a fraction of the budget and so many layers of bad luck (actors passing just before or in the middle of filming, production companies going bankrupt, TV channels getting cold feet). Crusade had a ton of studio meddling, so much so that they had to write it into the show (the multiple uniform changes for no reason other than studio execs wanted it, for instance).

The bad luck part has always been my biggest concern for the current reboot. They started that at The CW just as The CW entered into "will they or won't they sell/break up/destroy The CW" drama.

Remember the first season episode of Babylon 5, Signs and Portents, that kicked off the series-long plotlines? In addition to the meddling from the sibling comment, Crusade didn't even get that far before cancelation, its version of that episode was still coming.

Also because of that meddling, episodes aired completely out of order, so a lot of things made no sense. For example, using the nanotech shield before it was invented.

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