Babylon 5

JMS has said the pilot won't be landing on CW any longer and is now being 'shopped around', several reasons for this had to do with the recent company mergers and the strikes.

I don't think so? It's been a while since I read it, but I thought it was more like some sort of weird psychic echo from the end of humanity and the 'demons' involvement therein being misinterpreted by past humanity. Though it certainly wasn't any sort of deliberate manipulation, the way Vorlons are implied to have been doing.

Obviously the "G'kar's Dad" that appears in the vision is a projection of Kosh.

But my point is that, with reincarnation, Kosh could have been G'Kar father in a past life! It's a totally crazy suggestion, but it's not actually *impossible* in the setting.

I hate to say it but that may have been a blessing.

CW doesn't have the best track record.

I have to admit that I'm not looking forward to a reboot of B5. JMS seems to be looking for a sure bet; considering how his projects have been treated in the past, I sort of can't blame him, but I also can't get behind returning to a completed project.

A truly new show set in the B5 universe would be awesome, but I don't think he has any ideas regarding that.

Straight up, that's not how reincarnation works in the setting. The triluminaries aren't actually measuring souls, which is made more obvious by how they're not actually Minbari technology.

The show plays with whether reincarnation is actually a thing, just as it plays with whether there is actually an afterlife.

The only thing that can be pointed to as reincarnation turns out to just be the presence of DNA. It genuinely does not make sense for Kosh to reincarnate as G'kar's father.

The postulate was that G'Kar's father could have reincarnated as Kosh.

Yeah, that makes even less sense.

The show includes Vitalism, souls, reincarnation, telepathy, telekinesis, alien space gods, and a secret hidden level of the station on which a cult sacrifices outsiders to a monster.

It never cared all that much about making sense. I became a lot more comfortable with it after I realized it's basically a live-action comic book.

I want to know who decides who counts as a "dying race".

The Vorlons are very good at determining it given their history of genocide.

I was hoping at the end of "Ceremonies of Light and Dark" Delenn would learn a lesson about not pushing her beliefs onto other people and learn to respect the beliefs of others.

Honestly I'm cautiously optimistic about the reboot mainly because it's JMS. He's got a pretty good track record with his writing decisions, and I'm interested in seeing where he goes with this, especially after The Road Home.

But even then, I haven't really had much of a problem enjoying reboots in other franchises either (Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Battlestar Galactica, Lost in Space, the MCU version of Norse Mythology, etc.) I just accept that it's a different story using a similar premise and roll with it. Like eating pizza from two different pizzerias. I'm not gonna dislike the second pizza because it didn't remain faithful to the other pizzeria's pizza canon, I'm gonna be hyped because it's more pizza.

I think what helps is that JMS isn't approaching it like "oh, I get to redo it", it's like "so, how would I have done it the first time around if I was writing it today?" He's made it pretty clear he's not interested in just following the original plan before the actor shuffles damaged some of it.

It was very satisfying to watch Sheridan chew Kosh out.