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Luigi Thirty posted:From the bowels of YouTube I present a camcorder copy of a one-hour Q&A with Michael O'Hare - after he left B5 but before they shot War Without End. "I'm running around in the jungle shooting Shadowmen!" This is absorbing, thanks for posting it - he seems like such a lovely guy.
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Jul 4, 2018 19:46
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Action Jacktion posted:JMS posted his memories of Harlan Ellison (too long to post here): That's a pro click, thanks.
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Jul 6, 2018 22:42
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Timby posted:Boxleitner is a one-note actor who, in a show filled with low-rent actors, somehow stood out as being the worst. I mean, poo poo, he made Scoggins look competent. I get that people love lines like "NOW GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR GALAXY!" but he delivers them with a level of cheese that would make the entire state of Wisconsin go, "Wait, God drat." Yeah he has his moments but he's a fine block of teak in a uniform most of the time.
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Aug 5, 2018 20:18
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Oh you have such wonders ahead of you
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Aug 15, 2018 22:22
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B5 guns were a revelation
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Aug 25, 2018 13:29
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Vavrek posted:Complete tangent off of those words, but: Has anybody read any of Alfred Bester's work? I first heard of him because of Babylon 5; I'm a fan of that era of SciFi writing and have been meaning to read The Demolished Man since I learned of it. it's dated but good, in the sense that its approach got widely copied so what was new and amazing about it probably won't register. It's innovative pulp, basically.
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Sep 19, 2018 13:39
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Nicely put.
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Pick posted:I intend to, once things calm down a little at work. Thanks for the recommendation! they're making season 4 atm, so it's a good time to get into it - season 3 was a cracker. don't read up about it though, there's a nice bit in s3 that's fun to come upon blind.
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Oct 26, 2018 00:04
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:B5 gets pretty stagey and theatrical at times, it rules. WHO ARE YOU
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Platonicsolid posted:I wouldn't call Strazynsci a hack or a one hit wonder - he did yeoman's work on TV scripts for decades - but I do tend to think he had one great idea, B5, which he's been recycling or attempting to recapture since. NINJA ASSASSIN not a ninja who is an assassin, mind AN ASSASSIN... OF NINJAS...
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Nov 5, 2018 02:48
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Isn't JMS left-handed? It could just be a by-product of him being so involved in the production that he set things up himself, and did it the way that was natural for him as a left-hander. I really like this insane theory for some reason, please keep developing it. Which way does b5 rotate?
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Nov 9, 2018 20:12
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They aren't funny, which is actually hilarious
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Nov 12, 2018 10:34
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I think Talia's actor jumped ship.
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Nov 15, 2018 23:41
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:yessssssss Yes they are amazing, i'd spend money on them.
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Dirty posted:Looking forward to seeing reactions to the rest of season 3 since it contains possibly my all-time favourite "holy poo poo" ending to a season. It's not even really a cliffhanger, it's just a "yup, everything just went to poo poo" ending. refresh my memory? it's been a while
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Nov 30, 2018 18:38
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McSpanky posted:/\/\/\ To be fair, Kosh was right about that one. But there's plenty of other examples, like telling Sinclair to just take his hands off the wheel and let the Centauri and Narn destroy each other. I like that delenn is embodying the minbari motto at the beginning there
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Dec 1, 2018 20:33
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Baron von der Loon posted:So I recently started my first rewatch of Babylon 5, about twelve years after I saw it for the first time. Due to Stellaris and having gone on a binge through some old sci-fi books(Dune, Foundation, Hitchhiker's Guide) as of late, I decided that it was about time to pick it up again, and trying to average about one episode per day. Saw 'Believers' last night, and I still remember that this episode was what really put Babylon 5 on the map for me and made it clear that this wasn't a Star Trek rip-off. How neat! Nice work, looking forward to diving back into this.
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wizzardstaff posted:I am at the point in season 4 where the Internet says I should watch Thirdspace. So I watched Thirdspace. It felt like a 90-minute rehash of Infection. Are the other movies better? not to my understanding, it's all very optional.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:If you ignore all other opinions in this thread, heed this one. punch! kick! punch punch! SUPER KICK!!!!
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:Also, JMS recollection of the line doesn't seem accurate with what Sheridan actually says in the show, which is very much past tense. i'm gonna say: eh
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You have such wonders before you my friend. Check in often.
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Dec 15, 2018 09:37
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Narsham posted:The script doesn't call for anything at all, beyond saying that G'Kar "nods uncommittally" after Londo suggests they could force their way out through the ceiling, and that he hums to himself after the "up yours. Die" lines. This is a good post (as was the one it quoted)
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You can only ever give people what they expect or what they do not, the artistry is in deciding which at any given moment.
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Jan 9, 2019 12:10
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Psi Corps.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I like Midnight on the Firing Line Me too. I like Sinclair in general, he's got a nice restrained energy - I never warmed to the other guy, thought he was adequate at best.
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last night i realised that I had somehow obtained the entirety of Babylon 5 possibly while drunk and watched a few eps of season 3 for the first time in years (I watched them all when they came out), and had the classic bab5 experience of watching it like a mid-quality space soap opera, dum de doo, then Londo starts remembering a dream of shadow ships flying over him on Centauri Prime and the camera zooms in real slow and suddenly you have to remind yourself to breathe babylong 5... is good...
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Feb 20, 2019 01:21
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Thinking of streaming an ep and commenting on it with a friend, which one do you reckon? I've seen the whole show, she has seen bits.
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Feb 27, 2019 21:24
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Sedgr posted:I'm still a little annoyed that the guy that is teasing that stuff is basically holding the assets hostage and e-begging for a new PC. it's crowdfunding pocket change, so why not.
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speakhard posted:Maybe there's hope if Mojo Lebowitz gets his hands on these... Who's he? E: ooh yes ok sebmojo fucked around with this message at 04:17 on Mar 7, 2019 |
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Absurd Alhazred posted:You know, I'm continuing to watch Season 2, just watched A Distant Star, and I just realized something more deeply than I had in previous viewings: Santiago chose the absolute worst replacement for Sinclair he could possibly find. Clark absolutely did not have Sheridan in mind, that was yet another lie. Sheridan, someone the Minbari not only did not approve of but actively hated for his actions in the war, someone who, as his former mentor Maynard notes, has nothing in his record to suggest that he would be anything other than a disaster in a desk job. They wanted B5 to collapse, it's a failure of theirs that they misjudged him so. that's a good insight, i agree
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:There is a certain irony to the fanbases' displeasure with shadowy WB execs for refusing to restart the project out of spite not wanting to give the guy who is grifting everyone for a new PC the money out of spite. i'm amazed he can even watch b5 with an athlon 2.
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Doctor Zero posted:It’s ironic hyperbole or something. Ty. It is kind of amazing he can do anything to do with video manipulation though.
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Mar 10, 2019 19:43
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I'm curating a goon friend through b5, we've done s1 and she loves it, what are the picks of key eps for season 2? We've seen the first episode and been a little sad about Sinclair going.
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Doctor Zero posted:Skipping around on S1 is acceptable. S2 onward, pretty much isn't. There's too much stuff intertwined in there. hmmmm. To be clear, I've seen it all before, and i don't disagree but our time watching is limited. I will have a look at the ep list. I think we can live without Gropos though.
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ConfusedUs posted:There's that story about how JMS shopped his B5 script around, including the studio that produced DS9, who rejected it. Then mysteriously produced a new Trek that was incredibly similar... I'm introducing a trekkie friend to b5 and she's genuinely mad about how much stuff they stole and how much better b5 is
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Apr 4, 2019 19:18
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My friend bought the entire series on vhs just before dvds came in, I never asked him how it felt
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Yes, that is what I was alluding to. I'm sorry, I should refrain from apophasis, clearly it doesn't carry well in written media. That wasn't apophasis you μαλάκας, it's a sledgehammer reference to a famous event because jms thinks subtlety is a hate crime (bless him)
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Maelstache posted:I guess the question is did JMS write Lennier like that intentionally or did those characteristics come about about as a consequence of his own goonish tendencies (thinking of that time he tried to hit on Claudia Christian and got firmly shut down)? Here lies Lennier, he never scored
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