damn the costumers are lazy

Word, ita. The fact that they're supposed to be thousands and thousands of years separated from Earth humans makes their cultural similarity (down to the upholstered chairs in the doctor's office!) utterly implausible. Not just lazy costumers, then, but lazy production design overall. Pfeh.

I never saw any Boomtown. Maybe it'll come out on dvd?

One can only hope. The first season really had some great stuff.

Word, ita. The fact that they're supposed to be thousands and thousands of years separated from Earth humans makes their cultural similarity (down to the upholstered chairs in the doctor's office!) utterly implausible. Not just lazy costumers, then, but lazy production design overall. Pfeh.

(Grudginly acknowledges the point) My fandom remains intact though.

I hope it does too -- season 1 was great. What they did to it to make it "popular" messed it up -- so what little we saw of season 2 was less good.

(I found myself falling in love, to my shock and horror, with a former New Kid On The Block. It was a thing.)

Both Donnie and his brother actually have quite a bit of acting talent. Who could have known back then. I'm very glad my wishes for their early demise never came true back then.

(Also, still sitting in the "I actually liked the BG miniseries with Thomash, even if the costuming point is valid)

Hee. Jamie Bamber (Apollo in the new BG, also known as Archie Kennedy from the Horatio Hornblower movies):

Interviewer: Speaking of the original, I want to ask you the same question I asked Kate about her approach to Starbuck. In the original series, there were buckets of love and affection between Apollo and Starbuck, enough that even now we've got fanficers exploring that more sexual side. I love Ron Moore's work, because he's the best writer for Picard and Q, one of my all-time favorite duos. Moore said that he envisions Q as being in love with Picard, and certainly the way he writes them together creates a love of sparks. Do you think perhaps Moore saw some of that in Apollo and Starbuck and sort of resolved it by making Starbuck a woman?

JB: Well, we did a boot camp before we started shooting, and they showed us a couple of episodes, and I have to say that Starbuck and Apollo were definitely in love. There are so many scenes where Starbuck is talking with some women and Apollo gets so pissed off, and then when Starbuck is in trouble Apollo is giving a hard time to his wife. I mean, there's just obviously something going on there.

Guy/guy buddy relationship have been a staple in movies for so long. Think of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- and in that movie, they share a woman, and there's definitely a similar thing going on with Apollo and Starbuck. And there's Top Gun with Tom Cruise - that movie is just homoeroticism on the screen. All these pilots in suits and they just want to play volleyball and rub baby oil on themselves.

Hey, Babylon 5 posited a future in which all furniture came from Ikea. Which, okay, is probably not far from the truth.

I really like the idea of an alternate/futuristic society in which, say, pants were never invented. Think of the hijinks!

(Truth be told, Donnie won me over with his role in The Sixth Sense. Because I didn't recognize him, I forgot I was supposed to hate him, and actually got a look at him acting without knowing it was him, and liked what I saw. Yes, I didn't recognize him at all.)

He lost about half his body mass for that role, so it's not surprising he was hard to recognize.

Both Donnie and his brother actually have quite a bit of acting talent. Who could have known back then. I'm very glad my wishes for their early demise never came true back then.

They also serve to remind me to be thankful that the stupid, arrogant and immature behavior of my teens and early twenties is not preserved for all time on videotape somewhere in the bowels of Hollywood.