I thought you were talking about the other one at first, and thought, "Yeah, he was more of a hardass sometimes after he came back, but 'evil and soulless' is a bit harsh."

Plus, the Shadows do have a life outside of the show. Marcus's mining colony was destroyed sometime during season 2 by the Shadows, and they were apparently quietly attacking different races as they supported their various "allies" (including Lord Refa) in mentioned-but-never-seen League Wars of Season 3.

@avclub-9ef2b3a0cbd8bc049616e0855bff05fb:disqus Didn't it take you a bag full of diamonds to get on board in this one? Granted, you got them back, but even having access to the proverbial suitcase full of cash isn't insignificant.

I'm pretty sure each character identifying themselves was in one of the trailers.

It would appear we have a winner for the Land of Chocolate, according to this YouTube Page:

@joaquinstick:disqus To heard PAD tell it, his idea when he brought it up was that Wolverine's skeleton would've been pulled out of his body in one solid unit. His chief complaint when the others took it seriously was that it would kill Wolverine.

@avclub-ccc525184d694d883090fca453c06718:disqus I only saw one episode of Crusade first-run, but when I finally got to watch it when the DVDs came out, I was very fond of it (except for "Warzone," which I may actually hate more than JMS does). I'd have liked to see more of it. It'd be nice if there was some sort of…

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus @avclub-bbb04f2a70775131fa0397bbdb4c03de:disqus Didn't JMS once confirm that ACTA/Crusade was intentionally modeled after the same sort of quest stories as D&D? As TVTropes puts it, "A Running Gag amongst the fandom was to refer to the show as 'Dungeons & Dragons In…

@avclub-0eaa23f018166c6f46ba350f6064de2d:disqus Yes. Yes, there is. http://www.trekbbs.com/show…

@avclub-fd172dda9796767557675385e915cab4:disqus Anna was a recurring character in the Technomage novel trilogy (as one of the first fresh brains the Shadows got, she had the dubious distinction of being one of the ships involved in many of their early attacks). In the last one, there's a subplot where she gets cracked…

I think it might've stuck in my mind because I always thought of the docudrama conceit as being a fun way to get the crew on-screen for the finale, and not as any kind of metafictional trope that should apply when reading the series as a whole, and I thought that it would be kind of a dick move to *make* it a…

So, the B5 reboot. IIRC, Warner Brothers was going to be getting into first-run on-line content, a la "House of Cards" and the other new Netflix shows, and a B5 remake would've been one of them. JMS didn't say a lot about it before the whole initiative was shitcanned (it's like he's learning about the dangers of…

@Automocar:disqus One of JMS's postings, about how much the bonus pay for joining Nightwatch was worth. http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx…

A credit was supposed to be about equal to a british pound. I think $200 shipping for $40 of groceries (never mind whatever markup the vender put on to package them so they'd ship well through space) is enough that I probably wouldn't bother with bacon and eggs for a while. It's not like I go down to the fancy cafe…

“When I’m around you, I kind of feel like I’m on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them.”

I hadn't noticed him doing any political tweets. All the stuff I've seen from him is generally just kind of boring (like, 90% of what I remember is, "Good morning everybody!") I'm not one of those people who reads every tweet on his stream, though. I dip in and out.

On B5, at least, no one wore Earthforce blues after the secession. The crew was in the contractor uniforms (like the security guys) or made like Corwin and wore regular button-up shirts to work with B5 patches stitched onto them.

The VMAs are truly the Grammys of our time.

The holodeck is only dangerous during holodecks-gone-wild episodes. If it just turns up incidentally, it's safe as a house, while the Jefferies Tubes have people jumping out of them and stuff exploding even in episodes that don't center around Jefferies Tube malfunctions.

@avclub-cf50b28ef624912ff106c57ca9be41dc:disqus Look at how Nicholson reacts at the beginning when the owner tells him about the other caretakers murdering their families. That was a man who desperately wanted to kill his wife and son and had been looking for an excuse.