Ooo, I haven't heard that. I think I'll go on the hunt for it!

That's what I'm hoping we get when this is all over. A streamlined edition edited from the bloat.

That's the movie I wanted. I WANTED A REAL HOBBIT MOVIE! *sobs*

Yeah. It all went to his head pretty damned fast back in the day. He's just gross now.

It is quite terrible, and I usually am the one thinking, "Oh, now, this isn't so bad" when people get up in arms about stuff like this. But seriously it just doesn't sound like it was done by professional people on the producing end of things. It's the "Waiting for Guffman" of earnest, self-important charity songs.

I…

It's just that Sir Paul and I are so very close after so many years together.... Bitch. :)

Honestly, Paul's better off not being involved with that self-congratulatory piece of dreck. I do believe everyone involved's intentions were good, but that kind of naive condescension was where the West was in knowing anything about the rest of the world in the 80s. Now everyone — especially someone who's been…

I see you don't argue about the end of season 4 and season 5 though. ;)

That is just very wrong. I recently rewatched the whole thing again and it has a very strong through-line from the show's first episode on. The first season is somewhat more episodic but it's already dealing with very complex politics that change and develop and grow as things go along all throughout the series. And…

I heard JMS talk a lot throughout that time period, several times in person. To hear him tell it, he was always somehow being wronged, so whatever.

Yes, that's it! And iMDb tells me it also premiered in 1965 like Lost in Space.

*points for Sandbaggers reference* Such a fucking great show.

I loved it immediately. I love all the Craig Bond movies, but QoS was just hitting such different notes in such an original way. Love love love it.

This really was the game-changer, from my perspective of having lived through the transition. TV as a whole just changed completely after this. This was where the massive arcs, the idea of show mythologies, really took root outside of the genre. This was also the first big genre cross-over show. Without X-Files, you…

Not true! Also, when did B5 ever get ratings?

Considering DS9 was on for a full year before B5, no, I don't think he does mean that.

Nope. Lost in Space premiered the year before and I'm not sure that was the first one either. I seem to recall some kind of puppet-based SF show before these two.

Deep Space 9 premiered a full year before this (1/93 vs 1/94) and set up its seven-season arc in the first episode.

Why do people keep staging this terrible play? I know we all like to pretend it isn't terrible for some reason, but it is so creepy and exposes so much of Mr. Barrie's unexamined repression that it's pretty much a live-action HIPAA violation.

Yep, they are a thing. And I completely love that they are a thing.