[RANT] Angel's canceled?

[WarLocke]

Babylon 5 was written to be a 5 year series.  I heard that somewhere around season 1 or 2.

True, but it was plagued by problems the entire time. B5 never had a very large budget (and much of what they had went to the then-state-of-the-art CGI exterior scenes) - heck, I remember reading somewhere that the show had exactly 1 bedroom set, which they would add/remove stuff from and shoot from different angles for every character's living quarters!

Also, during the fourth season the show was nearly cancelled, and Straczinsky (I probably butchered that) had to try to tie up all the loose ends of a whole fifth season immediately. Then, when the show wasn't canceled, he had to come up with a whole season's worth of new material. The last season was naturally fairly weak, although by no fault of the writers. :angry:

Crusade had some awesome potential, and I hate the damn execs for screwing with it (insisting Straczinsky rewrite the first episode, then showing them out of order, etc etc). Lumberg was just too damn cool (not to even mention Galen...). :(

The second spin off (Legend of the Rangers) was an abortion, though. I want those two hours of my life back. :blink: