The Occasional Solipsist

Now if Babylon 5 isn't one of your favourite all time shows (which it is, at least for me), you might not know who the hell Richard Biggs is (which is too bad for you, because he was really good on that show).

I just finished watching 'Dawn of the Dead' and if you don't know or can't guess, its a zombie movie. And Richard Biggs isn't in it. Well not really. But we'll get to that.

Superwife and I watched the movie tonight; my one sentence review is that it was pretty good, but the ending where everybody died anyway totally sucked ass. Now, to Richard Biggs. Maybe I'll call him Franklin from now on. Much cooler.

Anywho, I very rarely watch any of the extras on DVDs, because honestly, they're really fucking boring. "Here's how we set up this scene.." and "It took us 28 hours to set up for this stunt. Let's walk you through it." These fucking things add up to be way longer than the movie, and are way less fun to watch, unless I guess if you're a film student or something.

So in spite of my better judgement, I waded through the extras on this to see if there was anything at all to explain why the fuck everybody started turning into zombies in the first place. I hate movies that don't even try to set up the main plot. So I'm skimming through them and I come across this fantastic vignette that has Franklin behind a news desk as the hours pass during the crisis. They cut away to a few scenes with doctors, a white house news conference, etc, but the thing I kept thinking about was that I thought that the last thing this guy had done before he died (May 22, 2004) was Babylon 5, but then here he is on this extra footage thing that no one will watch, commenting on a worldwide attack of the undead, the irony that he himself is dead now not being totally lost on me.

I guess it just hit me funny seeing something 'new' from someone who has no business making new stuff anymore. Too bad. Even in the vignette Franklin was really good.

And btw, the audio message at the end of the scene by none other that Bruce Boxleitner (Captain John J Sheridan for all you B5ers again!) was truly an inspired touch.

Labels: Babylon 5, scifi