Ami AngelwingsDec 21, 2022

Question of the Day: what's an opinion/take on a media thing you care about (#TV #movies #videogames #anime #manga #books #comics #music #sports #ttrpg, etc) that's pretty common among people not into it that bothers you a lot?

(it doesn't have to be on a specific property it can be just on the genre/hobby as a whole too, etc)

#questionoftheday

Show threadRobin Renée (she, her)Dec 21, 2022
@ami_angelwings Babylon 5 is a Star Trek rip-off.
Show threadJenn DolariDec 21, 2022
@robinrenee @ami_angelwings - Especially given the growing (admittedly single (very trustworthy) source) evidence it was the other way around....
Show threadRobin Renée (she, her)Dec 21, 2022
@dolari @ami_angelwings Apparently JMS went into some detail, with receipts, of how the Trek people did what they could to copy or sink B5 in his autobiography, which I still have to get.
Show threadJenn Dolari

@robinrenee @ami_angelwings - I have that biography and absolutely, he goes into detail about that.

It wasn't so much the DS9 production that was doing it (and in fact, many of the DS9 production folks and B5 production folks were friendly at the time), but was more Paramount's corporate folks doing it.

Dec 21, 2022 at 11:12pmWeb
Show threadRobin Renée (she, her)Dec 21, 2022
@dolari @ami_angelwings That figures.
Show threadJenn DolariDec 21, 2022

@robinrenee @ami_angelwings - That book has some stuff in it. The Crusade cancellation was really WOW.

Basically TNT trying to get JMS to kill Crusade by asking for more and more ridiculous things until he finally did.

Show threadRobin Renée (she, her)Dec 21, 2022
@dolari @ami_angelwings Wow, I’ll have to get the autobiography now. I hadn’t heard any backstory on what happened to Crusade, so I want to check that out. Thanks for the info.