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DuracellEnergizer
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What stories/intellectual properties (other than Star Wars) would you like to retell/rewrite?
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23-Jan-2020, 11:19 PM

ColanderResponse said:

If I could redo any show, it would be Babylon 5. I only watched it in the past year, so I wasn’t as enamored of it as some of my friends who watched it more or less when it originally aired. However, I do see what attracted to them it.

While I haven’t thought too much about how to approach it (the watch is still fresh in my mind), it’s obvious that a lot of things that were not working were simply from the fact that the show was breaking so much ground. We know so much better how to approach the long arcs that show put in place, and the prestige TV era is primed for the greater flexibility in episode length and season length that the show would have benefitted from. I think there’s a strategic point to so many of the side stories the show explored, but at the same time, there were a lot of production issues that obviously forced the show to be done in specific ways.

If I were to tackle a B5 reboot, I’d cut down on the amount of extraterrestrial species. Keep the core races like the Centauri and Narn, of course, and some of the more exotic beings like the pak’ma’ra, but dispense with the background/one-off aliens whose presence adds nothing to the universe.