Jumpgate #91 - Thirdspace
Added 2024-04-23 13:00:10 +0000 UTCYou have some Eldritch Horror in my sci-fi. You got some scifi in my eldritch horror! ITS TIME for Babylon 5 to basically a made-for-TV movie version of Event Horizon meets Dead Space, which is a big compliment, as we watch the movie THIRDSPACE for the Jumpgate podcast.
Comments
Goodness, I had both Avengers, Vol. 1, No. 200, and Avengers Annual, Vol. 1, No 10, back when they were fairly new issues, and Vera skipped a lot in that retelling to keep the focus on the whole roofied-gaslighted-and-assaulted thing. I know Jim Shooter said in every single interview about Avengers 200 that they fired or otherwise encouraged the issue's writer to leave before it was done, and editorial was stuck desperately trying to fix it before the issue went to press. However, I've read a couple comics where Shooter wrote Ms. Marvel. I don't think he liked the character much.
Keith D. Jones
2024-04-25 22:17:24 +0000 UTCI'll say something about a broader narrative reason why I really dislike "Thirdspace"--it ultimately seems to contradict the lore in a way that "In the Beginning" doesn't. Once Babylon 5 breaks away from Earth, it is no longer getting resupplied with starfuries or any kinda of replacement parts. This serves a problem the crew has to deal with in both season 3 & even more so in season 4 after President Clark orders a blockade. "Thirdspace" presents a huge battle where B5 loses many ships, has Whitestars damaged (I think some were destroyed too) & the station itself is damaged. If we don't assume that magical underpants gnomes build new starfuries, repair the station, & clone new pilots, replacement crew, & civilian occupants for those killed then B5 in season 4 would be take on Clark's regime in a very weak position indeed. That is not what we see. Because B5 was mostly pretty consistent in presenting a world where consequences of actions & event play out long term, this film seems jarringly out of keeping with the main plot. The only way I can enjoy it at all is if I regard it as like an elseworlds non-cannon film. If I do that, I still don't like it at all, but it no longer grates on me in the way it does if I try to place in the middle of the 4th season.
Conrad
2024-04-23 20:40:46 +0000 UTC
