Jerry Doyle, the actor who played Michael on Babylon 5 passed away a couple of weeks ago.
I only recently finished a re-watch of the series, and I have to say I always liked Jerry's portrayal of the everyday man.
Not a hero, not a villain or even central to any of the major plot lines - Just a guy on the side lines, like most of us.
He will be missed.
I first found out about it over at the TrekBBS, so I popped into FIrstones to check for sure.
I can't believe how unlucky the B5 cast have been.
The grim reaper really has been busy this year.
A pretty nice tribute video to his character can be seen @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdp6jBpHWT4
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#2I've watched the series many times, Great Show! I found out about this through my subscription to Babylon 5 Books which has some commentary on Jerry Doyle. Always sad to see another cast from B5 go so early... I like the tribute video, fitting!
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#3I've wanted to get my hands on a number of B5 books over the years. There was also that recently released behind the scenes book, I think? But with a really high price tag. And that CNN documentary... Damn I hate being poor.
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#4I missed that B5 coffee table book and the price tag and that it's one big book! Back when I was working FT I got a dozen+ B5 books when they were on the cafe press site. I stopped buying more cause the shipping to Oz was crazy and in total per book was upwards of $60. When you gotta budget just can't afford to splash out on things like this.
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#5Can you post pics of your collection? Would be nice to see.
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#6Yes I can, I'll have to look through my photos on the netbook or backup hdds cause most of my books are still boxed after moving. I will try and post them by the end of week
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#7Still looking for those books, I didn't think it was going to be this difficult
I'll check there
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#8Not sure if your subscribed to B5 Books but I found this snippet from the newsletter entertaining which I've placed in spoiler tags and I thought I may as well add it to this B5 oriented thread.
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#9I can literally hear the characters voices in my head as I read those lines
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#11I just wish some of that content (scripts, cnn videos etc) was more easily affordable. There is so much I've missed out on simply because I can't afford it.
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#12It does have a hefty price tag. I missed out on that scripts collection, like 15 or 16 books in the series, which works out to about AUD$1k in total which I could not afford at the time.
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#13Even old B5 books are hard to come by. Would it hurt to re-release them for kindle even? Surely people would lap them up
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#14It's got to do with demand and publisher rights, that's what they told me over a decade ago. I'm not sure about electronic distribution for old-er books.
Finally found some B5 ones been packed in a box since 2012 with my trek novels. It's almost a time capsule from my past, somewhat vivid and disturbing
Anyhow some photos. More to come...
Asked and Answered Parts 1 - 5 and that top left book in the photo below is "Artifacts from Beyond the Rim"
Finally found some B5 ones been packed in a box since 2012 with my trek novels. It's almost a time capsule from my past, somewhat vivid and disturbing
Anyhow some photos. More to come...
Asked and Answered Parts 1 - 5 and that top left book in the photo below is "Artifacts from Beyond the Rim"
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#15It's got to do with demand and publisher rights, that's what they told me over a decade ago.
Things were pretty different a decade ago.. They should give it a re-think
Nice collection there!
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