Well, if it is indeed true he's done most of the heavy lifting to date--and it does make more sense with a limited series than with a 22 ep run, maybe it's reasonable. And it's not like he's going to do the whole next season by himself, either.
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§ ita § - Dec 01, 2010 6:06:05 am PST #15043 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 01, 2010 6:10:05 am PST #15044 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't know, though. I'd think an actual writers bullpen would work more cohesively than hiring freelancers on a per-script basis, even if he's going to heavily revise each script himself.
Also, very strange to respond to having an unexpected huge hit by making such a sweeping change to its formative process.
Jon B. - Dec 01, 2010 6:22:37 am PST #15045 of 30001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
If this means that the dialogue gets better, I'm all for it!
le nubian - Dec 01, 2010 7:39:22 am PST #15046 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm with Matt. I find his actions puzzling. Think about all the great tv shows of the past 20 years. Didn't they all have a stable group of writers, not a lone wolf?
The only show I can recall that had a lone wolf writer and some other writers here and there for 80-90% of its run was "The Tudors" and well, that was not. good.
Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2010 7:44:58 am PST #15047 of 30001
hwæt
JMS wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of Babylon 5, including all of season 3 and 4.
Ginger - Dec 01, 2010 7:49:58 am PST #15048 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
JMS wrote 92 of the 110 episodes of Babylon 5, including all of season 3 and 4.
And the other writers were, iirc, freelancers.
Tom Scola - Dec 01, 2010 7:51:42 am PST #15049 of 30001
hwæt
He was pretty burned out by season 5, to put it mildly.
le nubian - Dec 01, 2010 8:31:00 am PST #15050 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I have not been able to get through a full episode of B5.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Dec 01, 2010 8:32:33 am PST #15051 of 30001
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
One of the best sci-fi shows of all time. With really quite appalling dialogue.
beekaytee - Dec 01, 2010 8:42:05 am PST #15052 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Much to my own surprise, I stuck it out with Caprica...in a form where I could ff freely. I have to say that the finale was pretty darned satisfying with the loose ends tying-pitching 'forward' into the BSG storylines.
Not that I need 'tidy' per se, but it was much better than the BSG finale in that it made marginal sense.
I'm actually glad that the series wasn't renewed. I'm not sure how much farther they could have gone with the available world.
So yeah. RIP Caprica.