Yes, and one million per episode is clearly a pittance.
It's amazing to me sometimes how B5 fans seem to live in some sort of isolated bubble world where they don't realize that the majority of sci-fi TV is made on that exact type of budget, and they are not the exception.
ROFLMAO!!! You're the one who's living in the bubble. It's isolated you from reality.
It also amazes me how to most B5 fans that isn't a great deal of money, when it is, it's more than enough to tell any story that JMS wanted to tell within his universe, and hey, what do ya know, he did!
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after much of the infrastructure was built for "The Gathering," and more and more of it was built up over the course of the FIVE YEARS of making the show.
And hey, I never held that opinion of JMS until he himself came out and said it. He is the one that came out and said that he couldn't tell a story about B5 unless he was given major money to do it, .
The infrastructure that Warner Brothers let slip through their fingers needs to be REBUILT. It's their fault that the stuff is no longer there. To ignore that, and say that the loss of all that should have no effect on the stories that could be told, is utterly ridiculous.
and it's amazing how this is okay with B5 fans, simply amazing, and very revealing about the fan base.
Oh, yeah, all of the rest of us who have been paying attention for these past 15 years have it all wrong and you have it right.
You write like a studio shill/crony who would never let the actual facts get in the way of a false conclusion.
Please show your figures, Cell. The budget figures I can find show that other SF shows have *far* greater budgets (DS9 had a a budget of 2 million per episode according to IMDb Pro. Voyager had 2.2 million. SG-1 had 1.4 million X Files 1.5 million). All of them had at least half a million more than B5 Not to mention that most shows, SF in particular often go far over budget where B5 didn't.
Exactly, and that flies right in the face of the nonsense that Cell is spewing.
In the case of Lost Tales, though, there's no real comparison with the series. TLT had no head start that the costumes and sets built for a pilot would have. It also was a complete stand-alone so everything spent on it was expensed to it as opposed to sets or costumes being ammortized over a number of episodes as happens on a series.
Exactly. Not to mention the sets, costumes, props that were added or enhanced over the course of the five plus years of making Babylon 5 and Crusade. Without "pilot money" B5-TLT wouldn't have that stuff available.
Want to tell Cell what the Voyager pilot cost? IIRC, it was around $20 million in what, 1995?
I look forward to seeing which shows you were referring to.
I have the feeling you'll be waiting for a long time.
