Babylon 5 is probably the biggest, most ambitious television science fiction series ever made. It's one big novel told over five years with 110 different stories told within it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.
One of the things I've been most excited by is U.S. television drama. For my money, it's some of the greatest narrative art of our time. Each series is like a 19th-century Russian novel: you need to do a lot of work in the first few episodes, just as you do in the first 50-60 pages of those books.
I was doing Babylon 5 season two and I was in all 22 episodes of that.
It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.
Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
'Doctor Who' is the most original science-fiction television series ever made. It is also one of the longest-running television shows of all time.
I'm not so interested any more in how a great deal of science fiction goes. It goes into things like Star Wars and Star Trek which all go excellent in their own way.
There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an adventure and solve it before the last commercial, and there are books that once you've read, you never look at the world the same way again.