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power crystals posted:Yeah in completely unsurprising news that never showed up. Oh well. Thank you for your sacrifice good sir. 
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Jun 11, 2020 21:11
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Jedit posted:One picture of the Babylon Station, as requested. Apologies for the quality, it was photographed from a book. Thanks for posting and satisfying curiosity I've had about this since I was a kid
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Jun 11, 2020 21:18
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TraderStav posted:Oh man, that sucks. I was hoping by mentioning that the poster who dropped the coin for it would chime in with a sweet pic. Hope you were able to do a claim on your credit card. I'm planning to get a set of instructions and list of bricks, and source it domestically later this year. After my gunpla backlog gets cut down some.
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Jun 11, 2020 21:32
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Gah, why are they not posting more! Watch more episodes you lazy first timers!
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Jun 11, 2020 23:04
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Oh man, they really do not like Franklin at all. Maybe because he had very little stuff to actually do during the first season
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Jun 12, 2020 03:22
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It makes sense to me. He’s stiff and more than a little sanctimonious in season 1.
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Jun 12, 2020 03:24
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Watching them watch Season 2 is going to be fantastic.
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ConfusedUs posted:It makes sense to me. Biggs was always stiff. I get that it's in large part because he was almost entirely deaf, but he was not a particularly talented actor. He's daytime soap-opera level at his very best. Timby fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jun 12, 2020 |
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Jun 12, 2020 03:41
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Yeah...if they ever get their rear end in gear 
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Jun 12, 2020 03:41
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TraderStav posted:Watching them watch Season 2 is going to be fantastic. I've only watched the show once and that was years ago. I also think I stopped at the end of 4 without watching a single episode of season 5 for whatever reason. The blind watch thread makes me want to binge season 1 this weekend and continue watching along with them. It would be a good time too since I only remember the basic plot points. I'm also a sucker for terrible scifi media and could enjoy even The Legend of the Rangers. The only problem for me right now is I'm currently halfway through season 2 bsg rewatch binge.
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Jun 12, 2020 04:25
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Stanley Tucheetos posted:I've only watched the show once and that was years ago. I also think I stopped at the end of 4 without watching a single episode of season 5 for whatever reason. The blind watch thread makes me want to binge season 1 this weekend and continue watching along with them. It would be a good time too since I only remember the basic plot points. I'm also a sucker for terrible scifi media and could enjoy even The Legend of the Rangers. I was halfway thru Season 2 of DS9 and the new thread made me drop it and now I’m rewatching B5 again.
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Jun 12, 2020 04:38
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McCloud posted:Not to mention the plague episode Was that season 2 or 3? I know it got a callback when Sheridan used the Markab jumpgate to blow that Shadow ship straight to hell.
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Jun 12, 2020 04:56
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From the blind watch thread:Vavrek posted:I worked out the numbers once and found that Babylon 5 has about the same population density as Hong Kong. Neo Rasa posted:I never knew this, I too thought the entire station was five miles. Vavrek posted:I only learned it reading an interview a few months ago, from a very spoiler-heavy website that I'll link in the main B5 thread. quote:We built EVERYTHING to scale, with the station at the centre of our universe. I'd have to see the original ship in lightwave to tell you how big it was. The
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Jun 12, 2020 04:59
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Timby posted:Biggs was always stiff. I get that it's in large part because he was almost entirely deaf, but he was not a particularly talented actor. He's daytime soap-opera level at his very best. He got a lot better when he got scenes to do out of MedLab. Steve & Mark's Excellent Adventure is fun, and I rather enjoyed the payoff to Franklin's Walkabout.
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Jun 12, 2020 05:18
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Vavrek posted:From the blind watch thread: Oh man, this makes the EA Explorer class and the Excalibur even more impressive.
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Jun 12, 2020 05:42
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Polaron posted:Was that season 2 or 3? I know it got a callback when Sheridan used the Markab jumpgate to blow that Shadow ship straight to hell. I think it was the later half of season 2, but I wouldn't swear on it
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Jun 12, 2020 06:46
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^^^ 2X18 Confessions and Lamentations jng2058 posted:He got a lot better when he got scenes to do out of MedLab. Steve & Mark's Excellent Adventure is fun, and I rather enjoyed the payoff to Franklin's Walkabout. Walkabout was always Franklin's best episode. The confrontation with himself is one of my favourite scenes in the show, and it's not a show lacking in great scenes.
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Jun 12, 2020 08:42
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"So did you meet yourself?" "Yeah, actually, I did." "What did you learn?" "I'm a real prick."
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Jun 12, 2020 08:57
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Jedit posted:^^^ 2X18 Confessions and Lamentations Walkabout, or Shadow Dancing? Walkabout is the one with Franklin and the singer, while Shadow Dancing is the one where he is stabbed and has the conversation with himself.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:16
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Zaroff posted:Walkabout, or Shadow Dancing? The latter. It's been a long while since I last watched and I got the titles muddled. But Shadow Dancing is a top 10 episode, so Franklin standing out in it means more.
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Jun 12, 2020 19:31
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McSpanky posted:Oh man, this makes the EA Explorer class and the Excalibur even more impressive. Probably something about the model/texture quality that makes them not feel so big, but it always boggles me a bit when I remember that the Omega-class destroyers are supposed to be about a mile long.
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Jun 12, 2020 20:54
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I started my B5 rewatch again. Not going to start up the commentary again unless I see something I really missed before - that was mostly to keep the thread rolling, and we have the Blind Thread to keep us entertained in that respect now - but I am inspired to burn through it now I'm past Believers.
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Jun 12, 2020 23:26
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Probably something about the model/texture quality that makes them not feel so big, but it always boggles me a bit when I remember that the Omega-class destroyers are supposed to be about a mile long. I don't think Foundation had the right virtual lens settings going on, even up close shots rarely had that looming/stretched perspective that said "this goes on for miles", which is really important when you don't have the typical cues like atmospheric haze or known scale objects to fall back on. That shot of the Q girl standing on the back of the Enterprise-D makes it look bigger than anything in B5 ever seemed.
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The White Star's supposed to be the size of an Excelsior?! 
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Jun 13, 2020 07:13
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Polaron posted:The White Star's supposed to be the size of an Excelsior?! Babylon 5 sizing has always been ...weird.
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Jun 13, 2020 07:20
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If I remember right it was originally intended to be a lot smaller - like the bridge is supposed to take up that whole bulb protuberance on top - but then it wound up needing to be a whole lot bigger in order to accommodate the interiors as shown.
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Jun 13, 2020 07:44
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Also I'm not sure 467 meters really fits with the scene where a White Star slams into Pollux's hangar bay in No Surrender, No Retreat.
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Jun 13, 2020 07:47
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Impossibly huge ships that a whole bunch of people work and live inside are very hard to keep track of the scale of. All your frames of reference end up being fictional. And then that big huge ship only has one room in it because it would be a waste of time building extra sets.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Impossibly huge ships that a whole bunch of people work and live inside are very hard to keep track of the scale of. All your frames of reference end up being fictional. Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Also I'm not sure 467 meters really fits with the scene where a White Star slams into Pollux's hangar bay in No Surrender, No Retreat. Yeah, the hangar bays and general fighter-ship comparisons really show up some of this size creep. As long as something has a window and there's a person in that window, you have at least one real frame of reference. The Explorer, Omega, White Star and B5 really don't match in relation to each other in that image, for example.
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Timby posted:Babylon 5 sizing has always been ...weird. Seems about right to me. I figure the wings and fins don't have people in them. That center cylinder is a bit bigger than an Ohio class submarine, those are 170m long and 13m wide with a crew of 155. And they don't squish the crew at all in the white stars so that makes a bit more sense.
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Jun 13, 2020 10:08
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jng2058 posted:He got a lot better when he got scenes to do out of MedLab. Steve & Mark's Excellent Adventure is fun, and I rather enjoyed the payoff to Franklin's Walkabout. Biggs liked to run lines with other performers to get his timing and reactions down. Pat Tallman mentions doing that with him because she liked running lines, too. It sounds like most of the actors playing humans weren’t much interested. So that’s a factor. The other factor is that he gets a lot of medical technobabble and he’s playing the calm ER doctors a substantial fraction of the time. That leads to a fairly flat and calm affect. That’s part of why he’s “better” outside MedLab.
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TheAardvark posted:I just started a new D&D campaign as a charismatic paladin. I made it half way in to the first session before I realized I had been, basically, roleplaying G'Kar.  If it hadn't been a spoiler I would have suggested one of his friends roleplay as a warlock with strange hair and a weird accent
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Jun 13, 2020 15:32
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McCloud posted:
Reading the watch thread is so nice. I’m amused by the loathing of Garabaldi but overjoyed at the love for Vir, Londo and G’Kar. Londo is going to break their hearts. Still waiting for one of them to wonder about Lennier’s printer carrying skills.
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Jun 13, 2020 21:02
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Probably around mid season 3, that's about the time Delenn and Sheridan really start knocking boots and when it really starts to go off the rails for Lennier. The actual exact point is probably "Woohoo?!".
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Jun 13, 2020 22:19
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McCloud posted:Probably around mid season 3, that's about the time Delenn and Sheridan really start knocking boots and when it really starts to go off the rails for Lennier. The actual exact point is probably "Woohoo?!". The boots knocking is s4, they have an innocent night together at the end of Shadow Dancing
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Jun 13, 2020 22:29
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The boots knocking is s4, they have an innocent night together at the end of Shadow Dancing I stand corrected. But being cucked by a midwestern yokel is probably the point his love for delenn went from innocent puppy love to creepy nice guy obsession. Oh wait, actually, it might be an earlier episode when he's talking to Marcus about how his love is more pure and stronger than mere romantic love 
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Jun 13, 2020 22:56
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McCloud posted:Probably around mid season 3, that's about the time Delenn and Sheridan really start knocking boots and when it really starts to go off the rails for Lennier. The actual exact point is probably "Woohoo?!". Oh god...: season 3 intro. “It failed.” Boom boom baaaaa boom boom baaa. Love that intro. First time I saw it my mind was blown.
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