Not knowing anything about the franchise, the trailer has me interested. I like alien invasion/'today we celebrate our independence day type' movies so I'll probably see this. If only to see jets flying around in the sky and spaceships doing their thing. The only dodgy thing about this is kids.

I couldn't care less about who wrote the books this is based on, or about their personal politics. Most people we meet in life are going to say or think things that we disagree with, and rummage around enough in any closet and I'm sure we'll find something dumbass, racist, sexist or selfish things either said or done. You can't really be absolutionists about these things, and so you end up being selective with your outrage, or worst, obliviously prejudiced.

I don't agree at all that everyone paying money = greater sense of community. Shared interests bring people together and community simply develops over time and frequency of discourse. If the podcast/forum/chat charged you to become a member, would any of us still be here?

This 'new' model sounds like any other club in any other activity, pay us and you'll get stuff or be treated special. And who cares about an 'isolating event'? You still do it and money still gets to where it's supposed to go. Is this therefore going to be about bragging rights - where it shows all the other members that you gave money and how much you gave?

It still looks like a 'fan project', I mean I'm not convinced the execution (acting especially) will be any different or better than the dozens of other low budget sci-fi shows we've seen which have been made for far, far less.  Despite all the money, it won't have the quality look of Firefly or anything we see on proper TV, it'll probably look like ARK (and yet cost a magnitude more) or feel like LOTR: Born of Hope (where acting/directing is cheap).

The Early CGI shots they show on the video are atrocious, to the extent that I'm wondering whether they are making an animated show? No matter how early, I can't imagine anyone thinking that those shots are acceptable for a live action show, when they don't even look good enough for an old computer game.

Oh, and much of the saving of B5 at the time was that they were set in one place (fewer sets) and used CGI rather than models.

Thank you for doing two great choices for D- I mean "What are you doing, movie?" and thanks for announcing it on the forum

You know... there have been so many suggestions I just really, really want you guys to tell the trademark 'owners' of this generic phrase to go fuck themselves.

I loved that!