From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: OT: Babylon 5 news/SR TV
Date:	Fri, 1 May 1998 14:44:22 -0400

Tinner crankily wrote:
>>Thought I'd do a service to the list by dropping some news.
>
>How is this a service?
>I know a few members of Gridsec are B5 fans, but please, I for one am sick
>of this clutter.
>I don't watch B5, and have no desire to.

*cough* Um, compared to the massive amounts of traffic recently, I
don't think that half a dozen B5-related posts are going to mean the
end of ShadowRN

>I'm sure there are B5 mialing lists out there, if not, go to
>http://www.coollist.com and start one.
>That way you can keep this OT crap off ShadowRN, OK?

Wrong side of the bed, Tinner?

Dragging this on-topic:
What kind of trid shows are popular in SR? The Odd Coven is the only
one I can really recall (apart from Combat Biking, Urban Brawl and
Desert Wars, but those are really sports).

How would the existence of magic and the matrix affect sci fi, for
instance? Some things (like Power Rangers) are just so far off the
scale of reasonableness that they'd still be around; techno-thrillers
wouldn't change much; mysteries are pretty universal. Space travel
has new dangers for mages - I'd guess a fair amount of speculation
in the area of "is their life in the universe", "is their magic on
other planets". I could see shows about AIs "escaping" the matrix,
probably not too much about dragons (who'd want to get something
wrong and be personally corrected? :-)...

James Ojaste