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CainFortea posted:If that chronology is right then Londo was born 50 years after the peak. So he probably "remembers" the glory in the way that his family molded him. Also he was in one of the big families where the glory would still be all around him. There are plenty of mid-40s Tories in the UK who can't shut up about how great the empire was
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TIL that some of the crew from B5 made a blues band called "The Be Fives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuDCaVXwEw
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A View From the Gallery comes out bad because honestly, other than a very small number of exceptions B5 is not a show equipped to be carried on the back of guest stars
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Eighties ZomCom posted:Just saw A View From the Gallery. Yeah. Gallery is also one of Harlan Ellison's episodes, and the first break in the JMS writing consecutive episodes streak. On that basis alone it's going to stand out from the tone and style you'd gotten used to in the last two whole years.
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mllaneza posted:Yeah. Gallery is also one of Harlan Ellison's episodes, and the first break in the JMS writing consecutive episodes streak. On that basis alone it's going to stand out from the tone and style you'd gotten used to in the last two whole years. The actual script was JMS wasn't it, with the story by HE?
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I think the main thing I don't like about it is that it's set up as a story about some random nobodies having to deal with the consequences of the choices main cast but it quickly turns into a  about how great the main cast are and only seems to approach what it was set up for at the very end with Steven dealing with bodies of everyone who died in the battle.
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CainFortea posted:TIL that some of the crew from B5 made a blues band called "The Be Fives" Some of these songs are great, thanks! You can certainly tell that most of the cast are emphatically not pro singers, but they definitely don't suck and they put so much heart into singing that it doesn't matter, it's really enjoyable. It helps that Bill Mumy is a pretty drat good songwriter so they've got good material to work with.
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Anticipating TheAardvark posting his The Fall of Night review any moment now any moment... 
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Some of these songs are great, thanks! I really liked Katsulas hamming it up in his parts. Really stood out.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Some of these songs are great, thanks! It's really weird to hear Peter Jurasik without the Londo accent though.
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ultrafilter posted:It's really weird to hear Peter Jurasik without the Londo accent though. Watch the Tron movie, he’s Flynn’s first opponent in the disappearing ring game.
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Midjack posted:Watch the Tron movie, he’s Flynn’s first opponent in the disappearing ring game. He was also a recurring character on Hill Street Blues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAvZX93yazU
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Absurd Alhazred posted:He was also a recurring character on Hill Street Blues: Makes you wonder if he's ever played a role with normal hair.
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Can someone remind me what the best season 1 episodes are? I'm attempting a rewatch, trying to remember what to look forward to before season 2.
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abrosheen posted:Can someone remind me what the best season 1 episodes are? I'm attempting a rewatch, trying to remember what to look forward to before season 2. I've mentioned an essential S1 list before. Filter for my posts, you should find it fairly quickly.
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"Eighty pounds!" "Of spoo." "Ugh! Take it away."
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Okay maybe The Doctor is pretty good. Still waiting to see about the Gaim though. quote:Either he’s a non-Euclidean mass of extra-dimensional nature and a mere sight would make anyone go mad, or it’s a form that would be instantly recognised (a la Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End), and the wrong ideas taken.
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He's always killing it and there's a non zero chance he's playing a long con on us.
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There's a lot of foreshadowing in B5, and a lot that's inspired by previous work. Someone who's watching the episodes slowly and knows a lot about sci-fi in general can pick up on it. And now TheAardvark is speculating about Kosh's form, and is clearly not expecting what he's going to see so very soon.
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I couldn't remember if that happens at the end of S2 or S3. Nice
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Doctor Zero posted:Okay maybe The Doctor is pretty good. Still waiting to see about the Gaim though. Embarrassing to admit as I've only just watched most of S2, but is this not the episode in which Kosh says that he can't leave his encounter suit because he'd be recognised by everyone?
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ultrafilter posted:There's a lot of foreshadowing in B5, and a lot that's inspired by previous work. Someone who's watching the episodes slowly and knows a lot about sci-fi in general can pick up on it. He's like 9/10ths of the way there, I can't wait to see if he feels vindicated or deceived when he reports back after Fall of Night.
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Jedit posted:Embarrassing to admit as I've only just watched most of S2, but is this not the episode in which Kosh says that he can't leave his encounter suit because he'd be recognised by everyone? It is. And that’s a pretty astute guess. The thing that threw aardvark off was the assumption that the other races wouldn’t have the same concept of angels or devils. Sure it shows up in sci-fi quite a bit so it’s not a total Hail Mary but it’s more spot on than most of us were when the show first aired.
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I feel like that moment really echoes the Trial of Galactus. Although there's more thought about it in Babylon 5, since I don't think the idea that Galactus looks somehow different to different alien cultures has ever come up since that moment.
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Also i'm pretty sure that the vorlons implanted that idea specifically to make it easier for them to be accepted by the younger races when it came time to face the shadows again.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Although there's more thought about it in Babylon 5, since I don't think the idea that Galactus looks somehow different to different alien cultures has ever come up since that moment. It came up in Unbeatable Squirrel Girl! 
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TraderStav posted:He's always killing it and there's a non zero chance he's playing a long con on us. There's a chance he's the Lorien to our Shadows/Zorlon, trying to teach us something...
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CainFortea posted:Also i'm pretty sure that the vorlons implanted that idea specifically to make it easier for them to be accepted by the younger races when it came time to face the shadows again. This is explicit.
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⅔ through another rewatch I got my hands on the Vudu versions, and these are so much better than the DVDs. It's huge to have the composite and CG shots not be distracting and obviously zoomed in and cropped anymore. I'd almost forgotten this is how I saw the show on TV. Zat fucked around with this message at 16:19 on Jul 19, 2020 |
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I'm going to prepare a celebratory photoshop pic for first time watchers like The Doctor. Witty and attentive minds like him amuse me. They are going to be a finest addition here, among elder races
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Zat posted:⅔ through another rewatch I got my hands on the Vudu versions, and these are so much better than the DVDs. watching it this way now too and i agree
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Pick posted:I love Kosh We all love Kosh
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"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." He's a pretty big rear end in a top hat in season 1.
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My favorite Kosh moment is a scene cut from episode 1. JMS describes it like so:quote:>
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abrosheen posted:"The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote." When does he say that? I just finished season 1 on my rewatch and cannot remember him saying something more than four syllables.
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