Or the Vorlons are the Russian Communists and the Shadows are the Americans and Babylon 5 is Vietnam.

He seemed cool in the books.

I thought there was a bit of a discordant note when Sheridan was not altogether impressed with Kosh as an angel.

Now that would be pertinent if any was talking about jailing Beau Bridges for the farts.

So what do you think? Is Jeff the more successful brother? Can we call that now?

Of course, the best thing about Xmas is that they put out the most depressing movies that day. For the Jews.

I think Crusade shows one of the great examples of the JMS ambivalence. On one hand, it COULD have been a great show (Hell I bought the show Bible and was really excited by the prospect of the captain becoming a technomage) and it had some great actors who went on to do bigger and better stuff.

That's really not the point at all. JMS had many great points and many bad points. He could plot a show like no one's business and he actually planned things out which is more than we can see for many of the shows that came after him where the writers pretended that they had plotted everything out but then were…

Despite what you think about the qualities of the three actors (I personally think that Liev Schreiber is the best of the bunch - but maybe I have seen too many hammy Olivier performances) the fun of watching them say bad dialogue and hamming it up for all its worth is a joy to behold.

Yeah, that's harsh. I'm not wishing death on JMS here, but a reboot would have to be objectively different (like BSG or even V) to be remotely interesting for me. It can't just be a Knight Rider. (And I hated the new V but it was still a new show).

I really don't see JMS doing that. Part of what made B5 so awesome and lame simultaneously was just how much of a control freak he was.

Ok. I don't see it below, but a B5 reboot - good idea or bad idea?

Good actors spouting bad dialogue is always a thing of beauty.

It's one of those JMS bits that seemed like a good idea at the time.

There are a lot of good songs with dumb lyrics. I guess pop music is like Mormonism.

The first day I wore a yarmulke (I converted to Judaism but I started wearing the yarmulke abotu five years before I finished) a guy yelled Heil Hitler and I look up and the douchebag is riding a bike, twisting around and giving me the Nazi salute.

In very rare cases, some anti-Zionists aren't anti-Semitic. They are just incredibly stupid and ignorant of history. Most of the time they are. If you think that Israel is the worst nation in the world when Syria is RIGHT THERE next door, you are either anti-Semitic or incredibly stupid.

That's because the anti-Semitic pricks at the UN spent the 70s shitting all over it. And leftwing asshole college students and rightwing David Duke types agree on Israel being evil - because Jews.

It means that Jews need a homeland of their own and shouldn't be the guests of other nations that will use them as their scapegoats and murder them by the thousands.

Why yes. SHe was a Nazi AND a Commie Rat Bastard.