OFF: Re: HW: Question for Dave regarding use of music for Dr. Who

[Arin Komins]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, M Holmes wrote:

:I can't go with that 1-D thing.  Babylon 5 was very good in having good
:guys that had faults (Delenn started the Minbari-Human war out of
:revenge for a human mistake, G'Kar was simply a speciesist bastard until
:his slow redemption, Garibaldi was an alcoholic, Vir did good mostly by
:mistake, and Lennier crosses the line through jealousy of Sheridan) and
:bad guys who were just trying to do their best by their own lights
:(Londo wanted what was best for his planet and fell in with Morden who
:was simply too clever for him - the rest is Londo's struggle to do some
:good in the middle of the galaxywreck that he's causing while trying not
:to let his own people suffer the fallout).

:OK, the acting was often bad, but the main characters were rarely
:plotted as one dimensional. I liked Blake's Seven, but they all acted as
:if they were in a xmas pantomime.

yes, there was semidecent backstory, but the acting.....ugh.

of course, being on this side of the pond, I don't know if I've
ever seen an xmas pantomime.  Or any pantomime, ever.  What am I missing?

Arin
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