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CainFortea posted:Splooge tanks.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 02:30 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 21:21 |
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I finished watching season 1 on Google play, and started season 2 on Vudu. I see the difference in the cg, it is very noticably better to me. But I noticed right away that all the non cg stuff was better on Google play. I did a side by side of one episode, and the non cg on Google is actually legit widescreen and I think it's also less grainy. So no matter what we have to lose something to watch depending on choice. Why the hell is there no fully decent version of this drat show?
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 02:34 |
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WB, or specifically someone high up at WB, still detests it, according to JMS.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 04:17 |
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abrosheen posted:I finished watching season 1 on Google play, and started season 2 on Vudu. I see the difference in the cg, it is very noticably better to me. But I noticed right away that all the non cg stuff was better on Google play. I did a side by side of one episode, and the non cg on Google is actually legit widescreen and I think it's also less grainy. So no matter what we have to lose something to watch depending on choice. Why the hell is there no fully decent version of this drat show? That is absolutely true. Here's an explanation on why the widescreen version is such a mess (at times great, other times dogshit): https://www.engadget.com/2018-06-22-babylon-5-digital-video-quality.html Or for a more technical description: https://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/Babylon5/DVD/DVDTransfer.html The gist of it is: "The main problem is that while the complete series (except The Gathering) was shot in a widescreen aspect ratio, special effects shots were not properly prepared in order to create a good-quality widescreen presentation. Even worse, [...] the current methods of making effects widescreen are far from ideal." Zat fucked around with this message at 09:09 on Jul 26, 2020 |
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Iymarra posted:I really, REALLY wonder if the doctor is playing a long game here, given the comment about 'Grey' sector. Still, a nice synopsis. He was attentive to details before, even slightest ones. Maybe he's too good at watching sci-fi and he's got a great memory, idk. But are there really a lot of 'grey' things going in other shows so 'grey' becomes a namesake for 'something shady'?
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 09:05 |
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AntherUslessPoster posted:He was attentive to details before, even slightest ones. Maybe he's too good at watching sci-fi and he's got a great memory, idk. He only uses the word "grey" in the context of Grey Sector, so that's not an issue. Also, if he's got a great memory then why is he referring to the Babylon Triangle as the Grey Sector Triangle? The only person with a worse memory for names than that is Garibaldi himself, who in G17IM refers to Grey Sector as being like the Centauri Triangle.
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# ? Jul 26, 2020 09:42 |
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Ayin posted:Same, except I'm going to barrel on past Just finished 2x22 Yesterday I watched the first episode of season 3 as soon as TheAdvaark posted his review and... I couldn't stop there, I wanted more, I'm weak.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 16:06 |
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The vinging has already started. It’s too late for the watchers to vote.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 17:25 |
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Streaming Services are a 3 edged sword.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 17:30 |
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Dr. Franklin is kind of a creep in The Long Dark. He is SUPER handsy with a patient that is physically and psychologically at his mercy.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 21:30 |
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Franklin is a daytime soap opera doctor who fell through a wormhole and ended up in a serious sci-fi space opera.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 21:38 |
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He got better after he got stabbed.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 21:42 |
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Seriously I liked him a lot better after walkabout and realized that all that arrogant self righteousness is actually A Thing in his character and he hates himself for it.
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# ? Jul 27, 2020 23:50 |
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I just rewatched The Long Dark an hour ago and I think it was well intentioned but something happened that caused a scene to drop or the direction was off. While it definitely has Franklin being really inappropriate, I feel that the intention was that during the shock of her sudden grief she leaned toward Franklin and he bought into it hook line and sinker, forgetting what proper decorum should be for a doctor, likely due to his own loneliness which wasn't foreshadowed. If there was one more scene where she was seen processing the loss or highlighted his loneliness it may have worked. I can see that being more of what JMS intended than what we got. Instead we get creeper Franklin.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 01:52 |
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You kinda got a little of that in some of the first season episodes, but yeah, it's not a good look.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 02:20 |
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I feel like by TV standards, the relative appropriateness of a relationship was much less of a concern at the time. Especially since most TV was episodic and if there is going to be a romance with a non-regular character, you gotta get the whole thing done in 45 minutes. Although admittedly the only other adult show from specifically around that time that I watched was DS9, and it's theoretically possible that in the alleged original pitch that DS9 stole half of its grand plan from, maybe there was a note that the doctor was just extremely horny.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 02:20 |
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Doctor Zero posted:Seriously I liked him a lot better after walkabout and realized that all that arrogant self righteousness is actually A Thing in his character and he hates himself for it. You should probably have realised that in GROPOS, but yeah. As for The Long Dark: Cobra's pretty much nailed it. Before B5 it was very unusual for any romance on a genre show to not be bottled, so it wasn't remarkable when it happened here. I don't want to say that Franklin's loneliness wasn't foreshadowed, though; after all, he's the only major human character who didn't have their ex show up in S1. Come to think of it, I don't recall Franklin ever discussing a past relationship. He strikes me as the kind of person who focuses on what he's doing and doesn't notice the lack until it intrudes.
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 08:28 |
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Jedit posted:You should probably have realised that in GROPOS, but yeah. Interesting you should say that. My B5 Journey began with the airing of The Gathering and the first few episodes of S1. It seemed okay, but bounced hard off Sinclair's early hammy acting (I still cringe at the delivery of the "Maybe the universe blinked..." line, even though I like him a lot more now.) My dad would watch it every week but I saw maybe 60-70% of them, in particular missing out TKO and GROPOS. Luckily I saw all the most important ones, arc-wise (although of course we didn't know that at the time). In between seasons, a friend convinced me to give it a consistent watch by really digging into the mysterious presented so far, and when S2 started I watched consistently and was thoroughly hooked by about episode 3-4 of S2. So, yeah I missed GROPOS first go around (and was a little confused when Dodger showed up again, but still got the point).
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# ? Jul 28, 2020 13:34 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDgWXhuDG_E
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 15:25 |
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That might be the first time I've noticed that the Narn cruiser is visibly damaged.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 15:44 |
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I'm on the verge of wishing harm to an rear end in a top hat. You all know who.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 16:27 |
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The CGI looks great but the contrast between it and the live shots is bugging me. I wonder how the show would look if someone ran it through a neural net upscaler.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 17:36 |
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Jedit posted:I'm on the verge of wishing harm to an rear end in a top hat. You all know who. The Doctor?
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 18:27 |
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Jedit posted:I'm on the verge of wishing harm to an rear end in a top hat. You all know who. ?? I don’t see any new activity in the new watchers thread. What did I miss?
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 19:23 |
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I think they mean the guy who's sitting on all those high-res renders.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 20:59 |
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Polaron posted:I think they mean the guy who's sitting on all those high-res renders. No, I mean the WB exec who won't allow a HD remaster.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 21:32 |
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My god, it's beautiful. Jedit posted:No, I mean the WB exec who won't allow a HD remaster. Also, Zat, thank you for the explanation to my previous question.
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 22:19 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like by TV standards, the relative appropriateness of a relationship was much less of a concern at the time. Especially since most TV was episodic and if there is going to be a romance with a non-regular character, you gotta get the whole thing done in 45 minutes. I kind of feel like it was a product of its time somehow. In the 90's I don't think too many people blinked that this girl hooks up with someone from the main cast, even under those circumstances. I'm sure it happened frequently that the main characters of movies and series were wildly inappropriate by todays standards (A-team, Airwolf, Knightrider, Bond, etc etc)
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 22:33 |
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Jedit posted:No, I mean the WB exec who won't allow a HD remaster. Both of them!
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# ? Jul 29, 2020 22:46 |
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OK, now I'm going to come out and say that The Doctor is a fake newbie. There is absolutely no way that anyone legitimately calls Anna Sheridan being alive in 2X16.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 09:46 |
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That post made me suspicious, too, but maybe if you watched enough other shows one could pick it up?
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 09:59 |
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He knows because TheDoctor is with them The Shadows They are here
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 10:05 |
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Jedit posted:OK, now I'm going to come out and say that The Doctor is a fake newbie. There is absolutely no way that anyone legitimately calls Anna Sheridan being alive in 2X16.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 11:55 |
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Bell_ posted:That post made me suspicious, too, but maybe if you watched enough other shows one could pick it up? I was wondering if it was this. Could it be that with the way modern shows work and try to build up reveals, that these are more predictable to modern viewers in the way that they may not have been on the 1990s?
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 12:44 |
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I mean, it is sort of the next logical gutpunch after learning there were any survivors at all.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 13:29 |
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I don't see why he'd be a fake newbie but if Morden survived then it's entirely possible other people survived, and the Captain's dead wife not being dead would be a pretty standard thing to see. Like Mook says, people are probably 'better' at seeing twists coming.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 13:37 |
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Mira Furlan having gone on to star in might predispose the viewer to look for hints of twists, as well.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 13:42 |
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Sheridan literally says, in a season 2 episode I recently watched, that his wife could still be alive for all he knows. This is when Kosh and Delen are trying to get him to release Morden. They set it up for viewer speculation.
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# ? Jul 30, 2020 13:43 |
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About halfway through the series a discussion came up online about the predictability of the series. JMS's response is worth reading. From the guide page for Messages From Earth:quote:"We already knew everything this episode revealed." Somebody's who's familiar with science fiction, fantasy and story conventions in general is going to see a lot of what's in B5 coming because it's a fairly typical saga. The details are novel, but the story structure isn't, and it's not trying to hide where it's going from the audience.
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Yeahl, I called that one too when I was first watching. Plenty of other stuff surprised but that one really isn't hard to call.
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