Babylon 5, faith

[angiedub]

I'm going to watch some Babylon 5 because I have all the seasons now. It's funny because I used to believe in B5 the same way that I believed in the Bible. Which may explain why I no longer really believe in the Bible. It was another set of stories that I tried to find meaning in, not realizing that mostly we make our own meaning by how we live. I

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[tigerweave]

*phew!!!*

Yup yup, makes a lot of sense. And I never felt that ... like it was obvious in star trek that even though they thought they had (or Roddenberry thought he had created a series thinking he had portrayed that) they reeeeelly hadn't at all.

I think coz I was a next generation trekky first, (Age thing I think. Too young to have grown up with the original) and only went back to the original out of curiousity, to be confronted with the likes of Uhura and checkov, the Black Woman in a *gasps* position of power and the *gasps* Russian on the bridge too...

Well hey, if that is transending our petty idiocies, we have a loooooong way to go!

I might suggest to mum we try watching B5. She'd probably like it. She loves ST. She's the biggest sci-fi fan in the universe until she produced my brother, who I think, pips her at the post on that one. Just!

To be honest I always thought they didn't do that beginning, middle, end thing because hey! if it is really popular they might get another season thus more $$ out of it!

It takes a strong er, writer/storyteller to put their foot down and go "NO!!! the story has finished, get over it" in a commercial environment I think.

Yup yup about the meaning of stories. I think the meaning I get out of books now is often very different to what it was like as a kid.

But every so often I find a book that is kinda giving me meaning and helping me understand things in the way they used to as a kid. But not so often now. I figure it is coz I have a life and head full of my own meaning now, there are less places that are still developing in understanding compared to when I was a kid when I was a total sponge!

[angiedub]

What I'm thinking of is how everyone on board would have sexual relationships (implicit and explicit) with each other and when they ended, there wouldn't be any lingering hard feelings. Almost as if it had never happened except in a way to have a laugh over later on. As if no one ever really had a broken heart. I'm not so sure that's an improvement. Because sometimes the disappointments in life are what help along growth, if we'll see it that way.

Of course serious situations, such as you and I have dealt with aren't 'disappointments'; those are abuse. I think maybe he didn't see any difference between the two.

Hm. Yes, you could be right about the getting more $$$ out of a continuing show. Not sure about previously, but it seems that shows in the 90s started to change that, be more character-driven by people like Joss Whedon, Chris Carter and Joe Straczynski. Like they took the soap opera concept and started to apply it shows of other genres, because there were night time soaps that did that. But not everyone is interested in soaps.

Yes, that's it. A total sponge. I was like that still as an adult though, as if I wasn't fully developed yet. Until I was about 40.