Sad news.
B-5 was one the best sci-fi series ever.
Sorry to hear that. I liked Sinclair better than Sheridan; he was so ... opaque ... in a good way.
Zathras honors the One.
That’s too bad. He was one of the only B5 cast members who seemed to understand acting is a skill and not a quality you automatically inherit when a camera’s pointed at you.
That being said, I grew to respect several of the cast members - like the guy who played Sheridan and the female officer - when I watched a commentary track on one of the B5 DVD’s where they all acknowledged their acting in the show was horrible and made fun of their performances.
I thought, “You guys are OK.”
I thought he wasn’t dead.
Sinclair's last words, of the last episode ("Chrysalis") of Season 1, were "Nothing's the same anymore."
No, it isn't.
RIP Mr. O'Hare.
Damn, another one beyond the rim.
It was said that the creators of B5 were told to hold off on making B5 and then the concept was ripped off to make Deep Space 9 before Babylon 5 was in production
Bummer, I just started re-watching the series last night.
....and the Big Guy said “Hello old friend”
One odd trivia bit about B5 is that J. Michael Straczynski had been a writer for The Real Ghost Busters animated series, which had some rather serious undertones for a cartoon. It also had an odd development history, going from a good cartoon, to an awful spinoff, then resurrected as a good serious second generation cartoon.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090506/
One thing I noticed about it was the New York had become mostly abandoned and was in decay. There were episodes with apocalyptic themes. The overall mood was that they were slowly losing the war.
In a way it might have paved the way for the serious, dark Marvel comics superhero cartoons that followed.
And so it begins...
Dang! Another B5 cast member gone.
Yes, there's a story here:
I, along with two friends, were standing outside the ballroom in the hotel where "Meet the Pros" was going on. None of us had ever actually gone to meet the pros before and we didn't know if we could just walk right in and walk up to the man. Yes, we were just three fanboys gawking in the hall.
Then, someone I won't name except to say that he was the "least" among us, among our contingent of friends sharing rooms at the con, breezes right past us, walks across the room, and plops himself down into the seat next to O'Hare.
Well, if *he* could walk in, *we* could, too. So we did. That's when I found out that our friend was sitting there, chatting away, with a little Sony TV/video player in hand, bothering the hell out of O'Hare, who was too polite to tell him to beat it. And yet when he handed me back my book and my pen, he had a vacant stare in his eyes that pled, "For the love of God, kill me now! Please!"
(There are details that I save for in person tellings because you have to see how animated I get. Let's just say...) when the three of us left the ballroom, we said that we had to get (youknowwho) away from him. "But how? We don't want him with us!" Sadly, a very valid point.
We waited two minutes, ran back in, out of breath, and told him, "Quick! Ronnie needs you downstairs at registration!" And the four of us ran from the ballroom and down the stairs. My two friends doubled back on the other side of the staircase, while I led him to Ronnie and then ducked out the side door and made my escape.
And O'Hare never knew how we saved him.
Sci-fi list ping?
OHHH ES I read Deadline Hollyweird
RIP Valen aka Commander Jeff Sinclair
Garbaradi be heartbroken
OH YEAH Garbarari that his main homey
RIP.
RIP, Michael O’Hare.