From: "John W. Kennedy"    
      
   On Dec 2, 2:34 am, deneb...@deepthot.org (Jay Denebeim) wrote:   
   > In article ,   wrote:   
   > >We also hit a B5 panel at Phoenix Comicon this year. It was very well   
   > >attended and excellent.  For whatever reason, Babylon 5 is still very   
   > >much on the minds and in the hearts of fans.  Or maybe we just have a   
   > >B5 fan attraction aura. Not sure but we always seem to run into folks   
   > >who loved B5 and are wistful for those days.   
   >   
   > Well, I think it has alot to do with the way literary fans were in   
   > those days.  B5 was the first show it was 'ok' to like if you were a   
   > reader.  Every rant against media SF was prefixed by 'except for B5,   
   > of course'.  To this day people are really fond of it.   
      
   The thing about B5 isn't just that it's cool sci-fi. The elderly   
   organist at my church loved it, and called it "the most moral show on   
   television". The part of me that is a (very slightly) internationally   
   known Shakespeare scholar loved it. So did the part of me that played   
   the Earl of Gloucester in two different productions of "King Lear",   
   and even the part of me that managed to be a part-time professional   
   opera singer. (If you have never heard "Götterdämmerung", then you   
   cannot imagine how similar are the last minutes of each.) There is a   
   reason that so many actors (and not just the regular cast) speak so   
   highly of the show: it's full of stuff to make any serious actor   
   drool, and lines you can get drunk on.   
      
      
      
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