Babylon 5

[Ray Hardgrit]

More Babylon 5 was definitely a good idea on paper, but it hasn't worked out so great in practice. Though I suppose part of the problem is that they were never able to continue the threads that had been set up, with each new project ignoring what the last had been doing.

 

[FredH]

More Babylon 5 was definitely a good idea on paper, but it hasn't worked out so great in practice. Though I suppose part of the problem is that they were never able to continue the threads that had been set up, with each new project ignoring what the last had been doing.

I personally think that slightly too strict control over the property probably had something to do with it. Trek and Wars and Who were very much kept afloat during their “fallow years” by both is-it-canonical-who-cares tidings continuations and, at least in their base fandoms, increasingly prolific fan-generated stuff, fanfics and fan audios and films. B5 had almost no post-series tie-ins after the three book trilogies, and while there was and is fanfic, my understanding was that early fan productions in other media were fairly quickly shut down (I can think of one quite good audio continuation with Julian Bane that definitely was). So it wasn’t allowed to “percolate” the way the other IPs did.

Or I could be completely wrong, of course.