XPost: alt.startrek, alt.tv.star-trek, alt.tv.star-trek.enterprise   
   From: fluidNOstatesSPAM_REMOVECAPSTOREPLY@mindspring.com   
      
   Jak  wrote in message   
   news:vtmp97dk2m3r94@news.supernews.com...   
   > I'm going to disagree with that.  Granted, I just started renting B5 discs   
   > from Netflix recently (I'm in the middle of season 3), but so far I have   
   two   
   > problems with the show: the acting, and the truly crappy production   
   values,   
   > both in effects and in things like costumes and scenery. The principals in   
   > the show are decent for the most part, but the guests every week are   
   > uniformly abysmal, with few exceptions (Michael Ansara, Paul Winfield,   
   Majel   
   > Barret and a few others).   
   >   
   > It was clear to me that B5 didn't have ST money to work with from the   
   first   
   > episode, and in fact, I made the same comment to my partner when he said   
   the   
   > show looked cheesy. The saving grace for me was/is the writing, which I   
   find   
   > to be of good quality.  The story is solid and moves along very nicely,   
   but   
   > the show just doesn't look good.  St always had the ability to make me   
   > forget I was looking at effects shots, but I never get that from B5.   
   Every   
   > time I see exterior shots, I can't help thinking how fake that looks.   
      
   Ah, but you are looking with the hindsight of 20/20.  When it was first run,   
   syndicated on broadcast TV, it looked fairly reasonable.  Not "State of the   
   Art" but quite livable considering the time, and it was *very* easy to allow   
   for foibles in the look because the story was excellent, and the Londo /   
   G'Kar situation could almost carry the show on its back alone sometimes.   
   Let's not forget the //incredible// story arc of Babylon 4 which took *1 &   
   1/2* real-time years to explain!  You thought you knew what happened,   
   then...wham!   
      
   Talk about story continuity!!   
      
   With story arcs that went on for *weeks*, Enterprise could learn the   
   universe from Babylon 5's story planning.  I'm _so_ tired of "happy ending"   
   episodic weekly adventures I could just puke.   
      
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