Re: To jms: Babylon 5 and other science fiction shows

 Posted on 2/17/1998 by jmsatb5@aol.com to rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated


>You have mentioned on many occasions
>that one of the things you wanted to do with this show was deviate from
>more "traditional" American science fiction, such as Star Trek. Do you
>actually not like these shows, or did you just want to make
>something different?

It's the latter. To do something differently isn't to say that it wasn't done
right before. It's not a good/bad issue. I wanted to do something that
nobody'd done before, in part BECAUSE nobody'd ever done it before...where's
the challenge otherwise?

jms

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