Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-28 (Tuesday)

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

On 1/29/2025 10:21 AM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

Babylon 5: The Gathering (blu-ray) 1998 pilot movie for the TV series.
About half the cast from the series is in this and the other half will
get replaced.  The plot follows everyone awaiting the arrival of the
mysterious Ambassador Kosh.  Kosh is poisoned upon his arrival and the
episode focuses on figuring out who poisoned him and why, while also
keeping the Ambassador's people from blowing the station up in
retaliation.  It was an OK pilot, but it was weird seeing G'Kar played
as a mustache twirling villain.

Hey! Lyta came back!

I forgot she left until the pilot episode and there was someone else there.

Andrea Thompson got Tamlyn Tomita's hidden personality story line.
Straczynski claims he'd expected her to go on to better-paying roles and
wouldn't have stayed with the series, hence the story arc.

I've never read why Patricia Tallman wasn't hired for the series.

Vir hit the ground running.  I keep seeing Bill Mummy in the opening
credits, but so far I haven't seen him on screen.

He's introduced in episode 5 "The Parliament of Dreams". Sinclair's
second girlfriend, also with initials C.S., is also introduced.