Ruts in the road…

I admire J. Michael Straczynski for his screenwriting associated with Babylon Five, the TV series. He considered the five years of episodes just chapters in a novel, but I considered them five novels forming a series of books (yeah, some would have cliffhangers, something I eshew). In any case, he set out with a finite constraint in mind. That’s wonderful restraint that Hollywood rarely exhibits with TV series or franchise films like Mission Impossible or Star Wars, as they try to extend a go...