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SlothfulCobra posted:The alien sector Sinclair shows off at the beginning looks more like a zoo from the alien puppets being behind glass. The updated version of the pilot edits that scene in the only way possible, so it's basically: Sinclair: "We can cut through the alien sector." *cut* Sinclair: "Well, that was the alien sector."
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I've been rewatching this on HBO and noticed an alien that occasionally pops up in the background that I do not recognize. There's one at the start of the episode where they're passing out telepaths after discovering they can be used to fight Shadow ships. He's got like a gray, ridged, angular head. Anyone have any clue what that's supposed to be?
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Polaron posted:I've been rewatching this on HBO and noticed an alien that occasionally pops up in the background that I do not recognize. There's one at the start of the episode where they're passing out telepaths after discovering they can be used to fight Shadow ships. He's got like a gray, ridged, angular head. Anyone have any clue what that's supposed to be? The Drazi?  Could be gray, but look more purple to me.
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tribbledirigible posted:The Drazi? Green!
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tribbledirigible posted:The Drazi? Definitely not the Drazi, I said I was rewatching this. I know who the Drazi are  There's one at the start of And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place, just over Garibaldi's right shoulder. Kind of a bug-looking thing.
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Jedit posted:Green! PURPLE!
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gently caress IT, LET'S GO BLOW UP CENTAURI PRIME!
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Polaron posted:Definitely not the Drazi, I said I was rewatching this. I know who the Drazi are Oh, a Gaim. 
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No, not a Gaim either. Whatever it is isn't in any of the League meetings that I can recall. It also isn't the praying mantis.
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Polaron posted:No, not a Gaim either. Whatever it is isn't in any of the League meetings that I can recall. Pak'Ma'Ra?
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Polaron posted:No, not a Gaim either. Whatever it is isn't in any of the League meetings that I can recall. Are you sure it isn't a Gaim with their helmet on?
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These guys on the left? I couldn't find any name for them; apparently fans haven't even come up with something non-canonical.
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Action Jacktion posted:These guys on the left? That's them! quote:I couldn't find any name for them; apparently fans haven't even come up with something non-canonical. How is that possible??
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I just realized that the reason I didn't have a real memory of Keffer was because I kept confusing him with Zack. I can kinda see what Talia's actor might've been complaining about if she said that she wasn't in enough episodes, she's barely in season 2, and when she does show up, her plots are pretty isolated from everyone else, while Vir and Lennier can just kinda hang out even when they're not relevant to what's going on. I feel like the show didn't particularly know how to connect the telepath plots to the rest of the show, and it makes me wonder whether the remake would even have it. SlothfulCobra fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:I just realized that the reason I didn't have a real memory of Keffer was because I kept confusing him with Zack. They do both have remarkably good hair.
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tribbledirigible posted:PURPLE! GREEN!
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Say what you will about their methods, but let it never be doubted that green went super hard.
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Wibla posted:GREEN! PURPLE!
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Action Jacktion posted:These guys on the left? They match the description of the Cascor on the B5 wiki, which comes from Other Voices volume 3 (the books containing the 18 scripts not written by JMS).
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like the show didn't particularly know how to connect the telepath plots to the rest of the show, and it makes me wonder whether the remake would even have it. I kinda hope not. Telepaths seem to have mercifully died out from TV sci-fi since the 90s. I think the way they were situated in B5 was pretty good, but they just feel like a 80s/90s concept, like organic spaceships.
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SlothfulCobra posted:I just realized that the reason I didn't have a real memory of Keffer was because I kept confusing him with Zack. Given that telepaths are a critical weapon in the Shadow War, it's seems like the idea of a telepath underground smuggling humans away from Psi Corps should be plot point where human telepaths would have joined B5 in the Shadow War and worked with Sheridan when the Earth Civil War started.
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V-Men posted:Given that telepaths are a critical weapon in the Shadow War, it's seems like the idea of a telepath underground smuggling humans away from Psi Corps should be plot point where human telepaths would have joined B5 in the Shadow War and worked with Sheridan when the Earth Civil War started. Psi-Corps is its own little box. It takes the side of Earth in the civil war because it's not in a position to influence alien races or even Sheridan; meanwhile they have EarthGov in their pocket. In the Shadow War they work with the Shadows because all the Shadows ask for is some inconvenient Blips and they almost certainly don't know that the Shadows culled the Narn telepaths.
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Reboot Bester needs to be played by a cast off star trek bridge character, like Garrett Wang.
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Chef Boyardeez Nuts posted:Reboot Bester needs to be played by a cast off star trek bridge character, like Garrett Wang. Jeffrey Combs or Robert Picardo. Preferably Combs.
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Blindeye posted:Jeffrey Combs or Robert Picardo. Preferably Combs. Agreed. Andrew Robinson would do the role well, too
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Mooktastical posted:Agreed. Andrew Robinson would do the role well, too Andrew Robinson is well into his 70s if not his 80s. Remember that he was in Dirty Harry in 1968.
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Jedit posted:Andrew Robinson is well into his 70s if not his 80s. Remember that he was in Dirty Harry in 1968. drat. That's right. 
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Didn't JMS say something about not being able to use ideas anybody else comes up with? What if he's reading this thread right now? 
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Yeah, if he sees the idea that guarantees it won't be used, especially after the Passing through Gethsemane thing. But I'm pretty confident he's not reading this thread.
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I hope at least that the gap between the pilot and the series is quite so large this time I also hope the Minbari power rings make a comeback.
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Gnome de plume posted:I hope at least that the gap between the pilot and the series is quite so large this time He actually talked about this, B5 was apparently one of the last shows where they produced a pilot as its own thing and there was a huge length of time for a series order off it. He says that is never done anymore. CW will look at the scripts and decide whether or not to produce a season off that, there's no chance of one episode and that's it.
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Mooktastical posted:drat. That's right. Well, technically it's not because I misremembered the year of Dirty Harry - it was 1971. But I looked and yeah, Robinson turns 80 in February. He's also been almost completely retired apart from VO work since 2005.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Didn't JMS say something about not being able to use ideas anybody else comes up with? What if he's reading this thread right now? He actually addressed this when someone asked! As long as you’re not sending him your Great Idea on Twitter or somewhere you know he hangs out, theorycraft away. It’s a liability thing, nobody’s going to accuse him in court of stealing ideas from the B5 thread on SA. Ed Wasser looking and sounding exactly like Rod Serling gave JMS the biggest boner possible, second only to anything involving Patrick McGoohan.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Ed Wasser looking and sounding exactly like Rod Serling gave JMS the biggest boner possible, second only to anything involving Patrick McGoohan. Honestly, same.
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He’s also said he doesn’t mind if people say “You should get Jeffrey Combs on the new show!” (Or rather, I’m sure he finds it annoying, but it doesn’t set off the same alarms as “you should get Jeffrey Combs to play Bester on the new show”. The specificity is the problem there.)
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Thing is... if Combs played Bester with the same intensity as Shran, patience as Weyoun, and confidence as Herbert West it’d be basically perfect for that character. It’s entirely in his wheelhouse.
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He already played a member of psycorp on Babylon 5, it was just forgettable because it was an extremely not his normal type of character.
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SlothfulCobra posted:He already played a member of psycorp on Babylon 5, it was just forgettable because it was an extremely not his normal type of character. That character also wasn’t Bester who is much more like the character’s Combs plays. I also wouldn’t say he was forgettable. Just a different thing. It was a clear gay segregation allegory. I thought he was pretty great.
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Super Deuce posted:Thing is... if Combs played Bester with the same intensity as Shran, patience as Weyoun, and confidence as Herbert West it’d be basically perfect for that character. It’s entirely in his wheelhouse. Okay sure. Just don’t make that pitch to JMS is the point.
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