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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > TV IV > Babylon 5: Reboot and Zooty
 
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Waffles Inc.
Jan 20, 2005

 I'll always really, really love B5 not just because of its quality, but because when I was a kid (like under 10) my mom would tape both B5 and TNG and I would hang out and begrudgingly watch TNG with her in order to get to B5. As a kid I couldn't stand Star Trek, I thought it was all boring as hell, but I was immediately hooked to B5.

It also helped that I had a tremendous preteen crush on Delenn

As far as great episodes of Science Fiction go, I think "Passing Through Gethsemane" is one of the best sci-fi morality plays out there

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Waffles Inc.
Jan 20, 2005

Data Graham posted:

Watched the first episode, and hahaha holy gently caress this is terrible

I don't mean the story, the story's pretty good. And the characters. And I don't even mind the super-low-budgetude of the sets and music or the primitive CGI. I mean the acting, I mean jesus christ. And the writing too! I had been under the impression that JMS was some kind of screenwriting royalty, but this is some of the clumsiest hi-I-am-the-first-episode exposition dialogue I have ever heard. "Hello Londo, let me recap the shared history of our two races in a completely organic manner." "Why yes Meester Bruce Willis Stunt Double, that is fine plan."

(I suppose it'll be explained why Londo has this ludicrous scenery-chewing accent but Vir sounds like some white-bread guy talking through prank vampire fangs.)

But yeah, I know it gets way better, and I can see there's the seed of some great storytelling here. It's just, I know I was supposed to expect something dated and flawed, I guess I just wasn't expecting those particular parts to be so glaring.

The folks in the thread telling you not to skip anything are overreaching a bit. Season 1 is incredibly rough and there are some absolute dumpster-fire episodes.

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