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Quatermass and the Pit

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Saturday, August 02, 2025 - 04:00 pm: Edit

I would like to respectfully add "Fantastic Voyage" to the movie list.

By Burt Quaid (Burt) on Sunday, August 03, 2025 - 02:01 pm: Edit

Them!

burt

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, August 03, 2025 - 06:32 pm: Edit

Aliens.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, August 03, 2025 - 07:49 pm: Edit

The Thing.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Sunday, August 03, 2025 - 09:00 pm: Edit

To get a little away from the action films,

Moon (2009), puts the spotlight on cloning from the clones perspective.... A bit dramatic at points, Psychological through most of the movie but not a thriller.....

Sci-Fi with a plot and writing is actually imaginative...

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Monday, August 04, 2025 - 09:25 am: Edit

Moon was absolutely fantastic (and surprisingly scientifically plausible, at least for the lunar facilities).

By Gary Carney (Nerroth) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 11:38 am: Edit

Netflix is officially aiming to acquire the "Warner Brothers" part of Warner Brothers Discovery. Whether it passes regulatory oversight remains to be seen, however.

I note this here since it'll be interesting to see what, if anything, might happen for the Babylon 5 franchise in all of this.

On the one hand, might one expect to see the current back catalogue of B5 series and features show up on Netflix?

And on the other hand, could Netflix be open to supporting a relaunch of this IP at some point in the future?

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 11:42 am: Edit

Given the way B5 ended, it can stay dead for all I care. The ending ruined the show and convinced me to never watch it or anyone by those guys again.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 12:15 pm: Edit

I should know better than to ask this, but curiosity overwhelms me. Steve, at what point did they make a wrong turn in the story arc / plot line? And if Steve Cole was running the production back then, how should it have ended??


Garth L. Getgen

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 01:02 pm: Edit

I'm interested as well. I liked B5 generally:

Seasons 1: Bleh. I didn't take it seriously.
Seasons 2-4: quite good
Season 5: Tacked on, a little weird
Movies: Generally fine. Not the best.
The other things like Legend of the Rangers and that new animated movie: WTF is this??

So if they remade 1-4, expanding the timeframe to 5 seasons (as originally intended) to get better pacing, I think they have a hit. If they gave the full commit they could even film the 5 seasons in a compressed schedule to save money. Just don't totally rewrite it to give it a "modern feel" and make it unwatchable.

If Netflix runs with continuing the latter stuff I'm not interested.

--Mike

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 04:02 pm: Edit

You're not alone in disliking Season 5, Steve.

Long story short: the network that was showing it was shut down while Season 4 was under production. Because it looked very much like there wouldn't be a Season 5, Straczynski rewrote the season to wrap up storylines (which it did). Production had wrapped and the season was part way through airing when TNT picked up the show and ordered a 5th season...but with the storylines already wrapped up and the original scheme for the show compressed into four seasons, they were stuck having to pull out scratch material for Season 5. The result? Yeah.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 04:57 pm: Edit

I didn't mind 5, but I hated the way it ended.

By MarkSHoyle (Bolo) on Friday, December 05, 2025 - 06:15 pm: Edit

Then they just shutdown Excaliber, just as it was getting interesting.....

By John L Stiff (Tarkin22180) on Saturday, December 06, 2025 - 05:56 pm: Edit

I liked the Bester character and the actor playing him! It was a perfect match!! Straczynski explored the powers of mind control and how far Bester could go.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Saturday, December 06, 2025 - 06:56 pm: Edit

"You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Sunday, December 07, 2025 - 09:19 am: Edit

"Cannot run out of time. There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This is wrong tool."

By Robert Russell Lender (Rusman) on Friday, December 26, 2025 - 08:32 pm: Edit

I've been binge watching "Space 1999" lately on Youtube under the Youtube Movies & TV channel. A great show which mirrors Star Trek in many ways. The primary difference being the Alpha Moonbase crew being stuck on their moon "searching for a world to call home" as it hurdles uncontrollably through space, while the original Enterprise crew is crewed by volunteers "Exploring Strange New Worlds" on their five year mission.

Currently on S1, E9 - "Force Of Life".

I was trying to find a formal listing of seasons & episodes and went to the wilipedia page for Space 1999. Unfortunately, it doesn't list things in the same order or as seasons. It only lists things as Series 1, 2, Canceled Series 3 and under Episodes, Year One & Year Two.

The order of episodes listed doesn't match the order shown in the Youtube line and I'm a little confused which to go on. Anyone able to weigh on this so I can better understand?

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 06:31 pm: Edit

IMDB lists them by air date.

It only had two seasons or series by UK terminology.

I assume the date on IMDB for breakaway is wrong.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Saturday, December 27, 2025 - 06:52 pm: Edit

I enjoyed it as a kid, Rusman.

First season was pretty good. Second season... Well, let's just say "Less so" to be kind about it.

By Garth L. Getgen (Sgt_G) on Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 12:53 pm: Edit

As I recall, season on was closer to hard sci-fi. Season two went more fantasy sci-fi after they met aliens.


Garth L. Getgen

By Mike Erickson (Mike_Erickson) on Sunday, December 28, 2025 - 03:35 pm: Edit

Season 1 was more horror. I vividly remember being pretty young and being terrified by S1. S2 was more my cup of tea at the time. It was lighter, more fun, and had a certain creature-of-the-week vibe.

Now, when I watch, S2 is somewhat cringe, while S1 shines as darker and deeper. S1 really captures the "we're all alone on the moon, hurtling through the great galactic unknown" vibe.

Most of the S2 stories are easier to understand as well. S1 had some head scratchers in there.

--Mike

By Jason E. Schaff (Jschaff297061) on Monday, December 29, 2025 - 05:25 pm: Edit

S2 was pretty much the "rubber monster of the week show" :-( S1 included a lot of, IMO, very well written deep stories.

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, January 02, 2026 - 07:48 pm: Edit

Some time ago, a fan made a rather cheesy animated film about the start of an adventure after the classic movie "Forbidden Planet." It's called "Children of the Krell."

Part 2 was released on YouTube the other day.

Angle shows promise, in my opinion.

Any of you who are fans of the classic movie may find enjoyment in this fan film, despite the cheesy animation and wooden voice performances.