If you listened to the last episode of Citations Needed, you heard that the CIA funneled money into into cultural institutions like the Iowa Writers Workshop and the Paris Review to win the cultural war against communism. Much of this led to the emphasis on first-person writing and a focus on individual experience.
I don't know about you comrades, but I got Ds throughout secondary (high school) in English. I fucking hated 20th century lit. Are there any pretentious and overly individualistic writers that you blame on the CIA?
That's Babylon 5 with an actual production budget
Does Babylon 5 have a baseball or casino heist episode?
No, their production budget was whatever they could find in between Ted Turner's couch cushions.
That seems like it could be a huge budget. Ted Turner strikes me as someone who would keep a lot of cash in couch cushions.
I mean, they did have enough money to reveal to the world what cutting edge special effects you could generate on an Amiga 2000 with a Video Toaster in glorious 320x240 resolution.
Nice. I was really put off by the pilot but wanna check it out
It's pretty good overall, if you're into gritty space opera. The low-budget production quality adds kind of a "space capitalism in decay" aesthetic, if you can get past the CGI. Like every damn sci-fi show, it starts to hit its stride more in the second season. And yeah, that pilot episode is freaking rough.