I do think JMS tried hard with his female characters

There was a very vibrant B5 fanfic community while the series was running. I knew of two major fanfic mailing lists, each run by different people but generating about the same amount of traffic.  One list was for general fanfic and the other was Delenn-Sheridan specific.

There's a bit of a definitional problem with something that's been described as destroyed leaving behind much of any useful pieces.

There are so many unfired Chekhov Guns littering the continuity that everything set before the pilot or after the end of the Shadow War needs a UXO warning.

She at that moment remembers not only that Sheridan spoke of this moment in their past after he comes back from his flash-forward, but also that he specifically addressed her warning to not go to Z'ha-Dum as a reason TO go there, and therefore she is issuing the warning in order to ensure that he DOES go there.

The usual purpose for reboots—BSG excluded—is to take advantage of a pre-existing fan-base that had been built by an already successful franchise instead of taking a risk by building a new franchise from scratch.  Reboots are very little more than a marketing ploy.

My problems with Atonement are the framing technique (Woman must seek permission to marry her outcast boyfriend from her sceptical parents!  Classic fun for the whole family ever since 1597!) and the fact that the series does nothing with the revelations it sets up.

I don't think Lennier's behaviour went over the edge of what was appropriate for a loyal servant and disciple until Atonement. It was down hill from there as both sides did things that they really shouldn't have.

Word of JMS is that Delenn had no prior lovers and was completely innocent about sexuality.

The transition between Severed Dreams and CoLaD demonstrates one of B5's major problems in a nutshell: the series worked very hard to break out of the limitations of 1990s genre TV, but instead of taking what it had done to its logical end, it more often than not ran back to the safety of very formulaic writing as…

Don't worry, intelligence failures happen even to the best of us. It's not like there were a thousand years of warning that someone didn't notice because they fell asleep on the job.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus — Almost every show has some form of CGI in it these days, even if only simple stuff like removing boom mics or overlaying video the screens of TVs and monitors.

@avclub-fd172dda9796767557675385e915cab4:disqus — Wars of the Ancients, which IIRC is nominally canon, states that the FOs had/have time travel at some point.

I've just discovered that Mira Furlan has a very low traffic blog:

I think TNG's basic mistake with sex and relationships is that it didn't want to (or, given the market it was aimed at, couldn't) address sexuality positively but still wanted to do traditional 'evil aliens out to steal our women' plots.  The result is that TNG is very heavy on antagonists of the week using sex and…

@avclub-ee01b547a72364a94b3f38bb419cf203:disqus — I've always wondered why the Shadows didn't respond to the Vorlon telepath challenge by migrating their software off wetware and onto traditional computers. It seems like a much lower risk option as most telepaths don't have an established ability to interfere with…

It's an interesting irony that a genre which set out to champion the benefits of technology spends so much time painting engineers and scientists as lazy incompetents who don't have the motivation to do the best possible job in a life-or-death crisis unless they get bullied by their superiors.

why they also can't have a little chicken farm back there

BOTE in 2013 dollars rather than credits:

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero. (TV Tropes link)