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Wasn’t that story forced to be 2 parts because the suits wanted a 2 part story so they could market it in Japan (or something like that?)
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think im gonna rewatch "in the beginning" in a little bit. thats always been my favorite of the tv movies.
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One thing that I've always wondered, CGI-wise, is the Omega-class destroyer's hangar. In every appearance before or after Severed Dreams, they do not have the big red lighting in the hangar bay. Was it something to do with the amount of CGI work they did for that episode? In every other appearance, they are lit only by the running lights. Edit: And just as I go looking for reference pictures, I found the reason from one of the artists -- they wanted to make the destroyers look more adversarial. Well, okay. I think it looks worse because it's so stark. Milkfred E. Moore fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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Eyes is such a wild episode when I remember about it. It's a shame that there's not much that builds on it later. I guess it just shows that Earth has got Problems. Maybe it would've been nice for Zayn to show up again as one of Clark's officers in the civil war. He's such a wild character. Jeffrey Coombs plays very against type as the one nice psycorp guy, but is kinda forgettable in all that.
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From the blind watch thread:Tom Guycot posted:s3e15 interludes and examination 
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Tom is a fantastic newbie, just excellent
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sebmojo posted:Tom is a fantastic newbie, just excellent He just got to War Without End, and he's finally seeing the resolution of payoffs set up years ago. I think he gets it now.
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Mar 25, 2023 10:00
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Oh man this two parter just won't end.
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I absolutely love that all the bad guys in Babylon 5 always look like they are about to storm Nakatomi Plaza. Just peak early nighties aesthetic, before pop culture had decided on the definitive look of the new henchmen.
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I've started watching B5 with one of my friends who has never watched it before and she was dying at Catherine Sakai's makeup in Parliament of Dreams, said it was "very 80s."
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Newbie thread going well.Tom Guycot posted:s3e22 Z'Ha'Dum F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:1x21: Babylon Squared. I don't know who would be reading this thread that's not reading that one. But you love to see it.
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Winifred Madgers posted:I don't know who would be reading this thread that's not reading that one. Me for one, I gave up on reading the newbie thread a long, long time ago.
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Q_res posted:Me for one, I gave up on reading the newbie thread a long, long time ago. I think it might be more fun now than it's ever been. Especially Tom Guygot's arc has been great.
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Zat posted:I think it might be more fun now than it's ever been. Especially Tom Guygot's arc has been great. It's definitely been a trip watching Tom get caught up in the narrative. At one point I thought he was going to quit. That said, I got particular entertainment from "Where did they find that Einstein looking guy, he's awful". They found Jeff Corey in the Professional Actor's Workshop, which he founded after he was blacklisted for refusing to give names to HUAC. In the 50s and 60s he taught half of Hollywood. Kirk Douglas came to him for advice on how to play Spartacus and Jack Nicholson acknowledged him as the man who taught him how to act.
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Jedit posted:It's definitely been a trip watching Tom get caught up in the narrative. At one point I thought he was going to quit. That said, I got particular entertainment from "Where did they find that Einstein looking guy, he's awful". They found Jeff Corey in the Professional Actor's Workshop, which he founded after he was blacklisted for refusing to give names to HUAC. In the 50s and 60s he taught half of Hollywood. Kirk Douglas came to him for advice on how to play Spartacus and Jack Nicholson acknowledged him as the man who taught him how to act. This is the sort of thing that is cool and good to post as a reply over in the newbie thread imo.
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Justin! Justin was great, really jolly and not at all creepy or evil
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Jedit posted:It's definitely been a trip watching Tom get caught up in the narrative. At one point I thought he was going to quit. That said, I got particular entertainment from "Where did they find that Einstein looking guy, he's awful". They found Jeff Corey in the Professional Actor's Workshop, which he founded after he was blacklisted for refusing to give names to HUAC. In the 50s and 60s he taught half of Hollywood. Kirk Douglas came to him for advice on how to play Spartacus and Jack Nicholson acknowledged him as the man who taught him how to act. If you want a real trip, before watching him in B5, watch him in "The Night Off" in Night Court S3.
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Narsham posted:If you want a real trip, before watching him in B5, watch him in "The Night Off" in Night Court S3. ''Narsham''... that name rings a bell from the distant past, B5 Wars perchance?
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The end of the shadows/vorlon plot is going to absolutely blindside him
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Wibla posted:That blind watch thread is so good
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I've read every post he's made about season 4 in the same tone of voice as the wrestling announcer. "Baww gawd the vorlans destroyed that whole planet!"
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Issaries posted:As far as I'm concerned, swoopy ships are less advanced The "custom CGI" in this is substantially worse than what we get in the show. FAKE EDIT: I just read it was created using iClone, a character animation tool, which I think uses something more like a realtime/game engine renderer. It's actually... not bad considering! Also, you're all wrong, the best space battle is "The Fall of Night". It's short, small-scale, has a lot of tension and a neat story-driven three-sided conflict. And the way the Centauri ship half-crumbles half-explodes is  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPcfQMqcUYY
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Dirty posted:The "custom CGI" in this is substantially worse than what we get in the show. Yeah I really got a "video game engine" vibe from that, felt like it worked as a proof of concept, but needs like another pass to "soften" the hard edges of the polygons or something.
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Just Another Lurker posted:''Narsham''... that name rings a bell from the distant past, B5 Wars perchance? Yes. I’m the guy who fought Todd Boyce’s pak’ma’ra B5Wars tournament fleet with the carrier variant and 24 fighters with a Hyach fleet. Nothing like having to shoot down fighters with medium lasers!
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Narsham posted:Yes. I’m the guy who fought Todd Boyce’s pak’ma’ra B5Wars tournament fleet with the carrier variant and 24 fighters with a Hyach fleet. Nothing like having to shoot down fighters with medium lasers! Plasma.  I was/am Jal on the forum there, nice to run into you. 
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sebmojo posted:The end of the shadows/vorlon plot is going to absolutely blindside him Especially as it's the kind of resolution that most shows would end on. For B5 it isn't even a season closer, and wouldn't have been even if S5 had been secure. The part I always liked most about that resolution is that it's the Shadows who ask if Lorien will come with them. They've always been considered the baddies (up until the Vorlon escalation, anyway) and they're definitely the agents of Chaos, and yet ultimately they're the ones who desire the security of knowing their surrogate father will be there for them as they go into a period of true change.
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Dirty posted:Also, you're all wrong, the best space battle is "The Fall of Night". It's short, small-scale, has a lot of tension and a neat story-driven three-sided conflict. And the way the Centauri ship half-crumbles half-explodes is I respect your opinion, but for me it's still gotta be Severed Dreams
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Cheap Trick posted:I respect your opinion, but for me it's still gotta be Severed Dreams Right initials, wrong episode. Shadow Dancing has a great space battle.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Plasma. LOL, I wonder how many other old B5W players are lurking around here?
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Tyrel Lohr posted:LOL, I wonder how many other old B5W players are lurking around here? I bought the boxed set and a splatbook from a used bookstore back in the day, but I never actually played.
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Tyrel Lohr posted:LOL, I wonder how many other old B5W players are lurking around here?  Looks like not all of us went beyond the rim. Pity i was crap at the game, too many numbers for my intellect but loved everything else. 
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I had all the AoG books and a handful of minis but didn't get to play that much.
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Yeah, same. The A Call To Arms game was much more playable and better suited for fleet actions. Never got to play that though.
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Regarding the Stellaris note someone made in the newbie thread, that event is straight-up called the War in Heaven, it's 100% a B5 reference.
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Just Another Lurker posted:
I went close to probably a decade without playing B5W, but then got back into playing off and on using the Fiery Void web client, so now every few months I'll jump on and play a few games of it before I burn out on it again. I was never a good player, there were others that were FAR better, and even to this day there are a few active B5W players where even at my best I think I could maybe eke out a draw but have no realistic chance of winning a match against them because they plan their moves ahead like it's a Chess match where I'm much more the "play by the seat of your pants" mindset. If I was to sit down at a table and play something, though, I would probably pick Starmada X over B5W, just because I can setup and resolve a battle quickly and then move on to something else.
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Polaron posted:Regarding the Stellaris note someone made in the newbie thread, that event is straight-up called the War in Heaven, it's 100% a B5 reference. There's an achievement for leading the nonaligned powers to victory over the warring ancients. The achievement is named Last, Best Hope.
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Tyrel Lohr posted:I went close to probably a decade without playing B5W, but then got back into playing off and on using the Fiery Void web client, so now every few months I'll jump on and play a few games of it before I burn out on it again. I'm too impulsive for B5W, but was glad to know that Fiery Void is keeping the flame alive. B5 Full Thrust was more at my comfort level. 
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Tyrel Lohr posted:LOL, I wonder how many other old B5W players are lurking around here? I played a little, including a memorable "sink the Bismarck" scenario with two Vorlon ships against a combined shitload of younger races, but I'm sure I played fewer than ten games all told.
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Zorak of Michigan posted:I played a little, including a memorable "sink the Bismarck" scenario with two Vorlon ships against a combined shitload of younger races, but I'm sure I played fewer than ten games all told. They had the entire order of battle for Coriana in one of the books. Sure, let me rent a basketball court for a week and a half.
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