Re: B5 Trivia (WAS: RE: No Singularity?)

From: Jim Fehlinger (fehlinger@home.com)
Date: Sun Nov 21 1999 - 00:48:37 MST


EvMick@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 99-11-17 19:40:19 EST, it was sagely and correctly written
> that......
>
> << but to me that is just a sign that
> B5 is a fantasy story dressed up in SF trappings. >>
>
> I agree....

I'm afraid I was never seduced by Babylon 5, but I was well and
thoroughly
seduced 35 years ago by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and the few times
I've watched B5 I have always winced in pain at the thinly-disguised
allusions to Tolkien -- "It was the third age of mankind...", the
Rangers,
the Shadows, etc. Sets my teeth on edge.

Jim F.



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