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Posted: 1/22/2021 12:10:35 PM EDT
Mira Furlan (1955–2021), actress in “Babylon 5,” “Lost”

I always thought Babylon 5 was maybe the only sci fi series that came close to the quality of the first two seasons of the original Star Trek.

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The cause of death is unknown to the public, however in his post Straczynski wrote that the cast and crew of Babylon 5 had “known for some time now that Mira’s health was fading.”
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Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:12:12 PM EDT
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Someone here has her as their avatar iirc
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:18:36 PM EDT
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Sounds like cancer took her
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:21:30 PM EDT
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Babylon 5 is one of my all time favorites.



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Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:24:02 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:25:38 PM EDT
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actors and actress from this show are all dying way below the normal life expectancy
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:26:43 PM EDT
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Man that's sad, Babylon 5 was the first scifi show I got into as a kid.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:31:37 PM EDT
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The Wisdom of Delenn: No Goodbyes
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:31:56 PM EDT
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Someone here has her as their avatar iirc
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@gitarmac

I knew her as Rousseau from Lost. RIP
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:32:04 PM EDT
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RIP



Excellent show.

Now there's only 4 left.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:32:45 PM EDT
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Actually it's the french chick from lost.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:33:19 PM EDT
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Nuts to that... B5 is one of my all-time favorite shows. Top three for sure. Rest easy Delenn.
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Actually it's the french chick from lost.
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Same actress also played Rousseau
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:36:35 PM EDT
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I told her not to go to Z'ha'dum...
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:54:45 PM EDT
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RIP



Excellent show.

Now there's only 4 left.
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That sucks.  RIP.

I was scrolling though the cast on IMDB trying to figure out who the 4 you're talking about are and it reminds me of the scene where Vir apologized to G'kar about the war between the Centauri and Narn...dead, dead, dead, dead....
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:54:59 PM EDT
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Someone here has her as their avatar iirc
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Gitarmac, I believe.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 12:56:14 PM EDT
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That sucks.  RIP.

I was scrolling though the cast on IMDB trying to figure out who the 4 you're talking about are and it reminds me of the scene where Vir apologized to G'kar about the war between the Centauri and Narn...dead, dead, dead, dead....
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RIP



Excellent show.

Now there's only 4 left.


That sucks.  RIP.

I was scrolling though the cast on IMDB trying to figure out who the 4 you're talking about are and it reminds me of the scene where Vir apologized to G'kar about the war between the Centauri and Narn...dead, dead, dead, dead....

Sic Transit Vir is one of the best episodes of the series.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:10:54 PM EDT
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Always loved this clip with her in it.

Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:13:16 PM EDT
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But Zathras said she is the one that is.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:13:26 PM EDT
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I knew her as Rousseau from Lost. RIP
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Same.  I didn't realize she was in her 60s.
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:20:28 PM EDT
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I didn't know they were the same!
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:22:42 PM EDT
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Loved the character, Delenn but I wasn't a huge fan of the actress.

Downright freaky how many Babylon 5 cast members have passed away. Steven Biggs and Michael O'Hare had well known health issues, but... Wow.
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Not the one, not the one....


RIP D'elenn and Zathras...
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:25:24 PM EDT
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I didn't know they were the same!
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I didn't watch much Lost, but I recognized her immediately when I saw her.

I wonder what happened to that character? Wound up in the sideways "every single religion is right" afterlife with everyone else on that show?
Link Posted: 1/22/2021 1:30:51 PM EDT
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Not many alive now from the main cast.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:23:39 PM EDT
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Such a great but cursed show
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:32:33 PM EDT
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B5 was my favorite sci-fi series. The cast has had a rough run lately.

Met Patricia Tallman once. Super nice in person. Loved her voice.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:34:31 PM EDT
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I went to IMDB... It looks like close to 20.... damn
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:35:39 PM EDT
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Sorry to hear that. B5 was my favorite SciFi series.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:37:28 PM EDT
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Loved the character, Delenn but I wasn't a huge fan of the actress.

Downright freaky how many Babylon 5 cast members have passed away. Steven Biggs and Michael O'Hare had well known health issues, but... Wow.
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Richard Biggs.

He died of aortic dissection at 44.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:37:54 PM EDT
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Any chance of Babylon 5 getting released on high def?  Everything I've read indicates not.  
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:38:16 PM EDT
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Again?  How many times has she died?
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:40:56 PM EDT
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I liked her as Rousseau....

RIP
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Any chance of Babylon 5 getting released on high def?  Everything I've read indicates not.  
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That may not be a good thing.

When you go back and look at how bad the early seasons' CGI is, I'm not sure you want to visit that in high def.

Leave the fuzzy edges to allow for the fact you were watching this show on maybe a 32" TV when it came out, not a 75" HDTV45678K ultra def thing.  You're going to see things that weren't really part of the show, and you'll start to see things that will distract from the story because you couldn't see them before.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 5:59:52 PM EDT
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One of my favorite shows of all time, full stop...if there's an episode on whatever TV channel I happen to scroll past, even if the world's ending outside, I'm stopping and watching the rest of that episode.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:28:33 PM EDT
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actors and actress from this show are all dying way below the normal life expectancy
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If you look at their personal medical histories, the mortality rate is normal. Also remember none of these people were young when they did this show 20 years ago. Most were in their 30s-40s.

Jeff Conway Addict dead
Andreas Katsulas smoker cancer dead
Stephen Furst complications from diabetes dead
Jerry Doyle chronic alcoholic dead
TIm Choate motorcycle accident dead
Michael O'Hare widowmaker heart attack at 60 dead


Kinda weird but not out of the realm of possibility
Richard Biggs Aortic dissection dead
Mira Furlan West Nile complications dead

William Shatner :: You'll Have Time


Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:34:57 PM EDT
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Great show.  Everyone who enjoyed it should read the OG space opera stories / novels B5 was based on, The Lensman Series.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:47:33 PM EDT
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That may not be a good thing.

When you go back and look at how bad the early seasons' CGI is, I'm not sure you want to visit that in high def.

Leave the fuzzy edges to allow for the fact you were watching this show on maybe a 32" TV when it came out, not a 75" HDTV45678K ultra def thing.  You're going to see things that weren't really part of the show, and you'll start to see things that will distract from the story because you couldn't see them before.
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Apparently WB is rolling out a half-assed remaster:


Fans have been using AI interpolation to clean up some important scenes as well, live action looks great but it doesn't do much good for the low res space combat.  The original computer models are long lost so it would be quite a chore to redo them.  Only Star Trek TOS and TNG have had the fan base to justify an effects update, and I've heard they were unprofitable.

Fan made Severed Dreams 4K upscale:


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Babylon 5 is one of my all time favorites.



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Same here. B5, "cheap" graphics and all will always be the best Sci Fi series in my mind. Seeing the actors go is rather painful.

Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:54:54 PM EDT
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If you look at their personal medical histories, the mortality rate is normal. Also remember none of these people were young when they did this show 20 years ago. Most were in their 30s-40s.

Jeff Conway Addict dead
Andreas Katsulas smoker cancer dead
Stephen Furst complications from diabetes dead
Jerry Doyle chronic alcoholic dead
TIm Choate motorcycle accident dead
Michael O'Hare widowmaker heart attack at 60 dead


Kinda weird but not out of the realm of possibility
Richard Biggs Aortic dissection dead
Mira Furlan West Nile complications dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uol6HRMryoo

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Michael O Hare also was schizophrenic which was why he left the show early on. Luckily Strazynski had trap doors written into the script for the entire series, just in case any actors had to leave the show.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:55:03 PM EDT
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I need to watch B5 at some point.  Never got around to it.  I don't know why I didn't watch it when it first aired.  It's probably exactly what I would have liked at the time.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:57:45 PM EDT
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That may not be a good thing.

When you go back and look at how bad the early seasons' CGI is, I'm not sure you want to visit that in high def.

Leave the fuzzy edges to allow for the fact you were watching this show on maybe a 32" TV when it came out, not a 75" HDTV45678K ultra def thing.  You're going to see things that weren't really part of the show, and you'll start to see things that will distract from the story because you couldn't see them before.
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When they released TNG on BluRay, they redid the special effects, so they'd be highdef.  The original effects were all done in 480p.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 6:58:55 PM EDT
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Michael O Hare also was schizophrenic which was why he left the show early on. Luckily Strazynski had trap doors written into the script for the entire series, just in case any actors had to leave the show.
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He really had a rough life. Schizophrenics generally have a much reduced life span.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 7:05:50 PM EDT
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Loved the character, Delenn but I wasn't a huge fan of the actress.

Downright freaky how many Babylon 5 cast members have passed away. Steven Biggs and Michael O'Hare had well known health issues, but... Wow.
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Space Radiation is a thing.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 7:23:13 PM EDT
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If you look at their personal medical histories, the mortality rate is normal. Also remember none of these people were young when they did this show 20 years ago. Most were in their 30s-40s.

Jeff Conway Addict dead
Andreas Katsulas smoker cancer dead
Stephen Furst complications from diabetes dead
Jerry Doyle chronic alcoholic dead
TIm Choate motorcycle accident dead
Michael O'Hare widowmaker heart attack at 60 dead


Kinda weird but not out of the realm of possibility
Richard Biggs Aortic dissection dead
Mira Furlan West Nile complications dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uol6HRMryoo

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actors and actress from this show are all dying way below the normal life expectancy

If you look at their personal medical histories, the mortality rate is normal. Also remember none of these people were young when they did this show 20 years ago. Most were in their 30s-40s.

Jeff Conway Addict dead
Andreas Katsulas smoker cancer dead
Stephen Furst complications from diabetes dead
Jerry Doyle chronic alcoholic dead
TIm Choate motorcycle accident dead
Michael O'Hare widowmaker heart attack at 60 dead


Kinda weird but not out of the realm of possibility
Richard Biggs Aortic dissection dead
Mira Furlan West Nile complications dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uol6HRMryoo


O’Hare lost his mind long before he passed away.
Link Posted: 1/23/2021 7:28:16 PM EDT
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I was truly sorry to hear that. She played one of my favorite characters of all time.
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