I've felt that way about most things that have gotten a reboot, including at least one thing I ended up rebooting myself, so, there's that. :)

But yeah, I dunno, I'm kinda not feeling it at the moment. The original was so self-contained that even spinoffs (hell, even the fifth season of the actual show!) felt kind of unnecessary to me.

On the other hand, having read JMS's Twitter-thread explanation of why he's doing it, I don't get the vibe of a cash grab. What it does have the ring of to me is George Lucas's explanation for the Star Wars Special Edition, back when he first announced that he was doing it in the mid-'90s. Lucas didn't start completely over--people might have been more accepting of the result if he had, assuming in that timeline he didn't try to erase the original version in the process--so the parallel is not exact, but the whole thing about how the tools have advanced and whatnot feels very familiar, for good or ill.

So, I'm not sure. I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand before they've even done anything, but by the same token, I'm not feeling the hype this early on either. (I wouldn't be seeing it first-run anyway, since I haven't had TV service at the Fortress of Magnitude for years.) I guess we'll see!

Please note I'm not saying you (that's the royal "you") shouldn't be excited about it. Just that I'm not particularly.

--G.
On the other hand, in the timeline where the JMS show that unexpectedly got a reboot is Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, I have to assume that I am all up ons, as the young people no longer say.
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who to cast as Garibaldi? Bruce Willis?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3w6Lf4Um6Q This here video tells a tale of why remastering shows of that vintage is....difficult. Possibly moreso, considering what we know about how much trouble the DVDs were to make, aside from being filmed in widescreen all along.

The problem would almost certainly be more pronounced in the case of Babylon 5, because the show's production leaned so much more heavily on digital effects. It was one of the show's big talking points at the time, but it came along at exactly the wrong moment, technologically speaking.

(This is as opposed to, say, why there's no Blu-ray version of Ultraman 80, much to the annoyance of people replying to Mill Creek's Twitter account--which is because Tsuburaya either can only find the SD broadcast videotapes now, or didn't shoot that series on film in the first place.)

--G.
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He could walk away from the project, but WB owns the TV rights and could plow forward without him if they wanted. Given that he owns the movie rights, this might be an effort to try to get them to finance the B5 movie projects he's been trying to get off the ground for years.

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