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I think I've noticed a Cunning Plan about showing us that promo stuff from The Source at the convention.
All over my f-list, and probably the web in general, people are seeing the really bad spoilers and going *facepalm* and planning how to ignore the film.
And my first reaction is, against all logic and reason, to leap to the defence of the film
purely because the convention was cool
so the promo acquires cool by association.

Cunning.


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Okay, that all comes out contradictory. How to rephrase...

I went in to the weekend with absolutely zero interest in The Source. I sat through the promo and thought *peeks through fingers OMG no*. But then I listened to the guys talk, and decided to bother finding out what people thought of the film once it was out, and consider watching it.
That's how good a promotional tool that weekend was.

The trouble with Highlander is the writers seem to think its all about the Highlander.

Whereas of course its all about Methos.

*nods*



actually the trouble is the factioning that happens when you know the writers are going to kill off characters regularly. Everyone so busy flagwaving for their guy, some of them start dissing the other guys, and their fans, and then it gets mean.

I like Richie. I like Methos. I like Connor. I usually like Duncan, except when the writers use him to do something really stupid. I like Amanda. I like some characters we only got to see the once, like Cory Raines.

Why can't the writers write it as if we like all of them?
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It amuses me that two of my favourite shows have the same name for their first episode.

I just watched this on DVD, and while the disc is unwrapped, I'm not sure I've ever actually watched that version before. The one in my head is shorter.
So, the DVD version is smoother, less jumpy, with better transitions and more little character moments. In some places this is the difference between 'makes sense' and 'never did quite make sense', so yaays.

There are a lot of things about the look of it that got changed before the series proper. Thank goodness. The Minbari kind of look like a lighter Narn with a bone on their head. Chin thing, strange. And all those flashing lights? Nobody chooses to work in a room full of strobe lights. Except DJs. Generally, flashing lights are not useful.

One moment I noticed this time through - Kosh called Sinclair "Entil'za Valenn" ??? (I probably spelled it wrong, but it was in the subtitles). Thats his title and name, right? Talk about big time give away! Nifty. Because its all alien gobbledygook at the time, so its quite safe to give it out.
:-)

I now want to watch more B5. Which is the purpose of the pilot, so yaay for them.

I actually also want to know what happened to all the vanished people. I know we got Lyta again later, but what about the doctor and the lt commander?
They probably got squished somehow, but I wants to know.
*sigh*

Stories! Always more of them than TV has time to tell!

Which is what fanfic is for.
But I don't think I've ever gone there for B5.
Hmmm...