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gently caress, time to watch it all again I guess. Curse you op
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Indy posted:Or when londo nukes his own world to kill the shadows on the island. Awesome dialog with morden right there. Londo is the poo poo Yeah that owned. The look on morden's smug face was priceless. I also liked when vir got to wave at his head on a pike as promised.  What a great present. Mollari ia a true bro.
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Indy posted:gently caress, time to watch it all again I guess. Curse you op Heh heh. 
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LegoPirateNinja posted:voted zathras which one?
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FunkyFlashman posted:which one? Zathras is zathras. Idiot. 
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Lyta and Lennier were mostly boring characters as I recall though.
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Indy posted:Or when londo nukes his own world to kill the shadows on the island. Awesome dialog with morden right there. Londo is the poo poo But Londo, there's still someone here who's been touched by the Shadows, and you just told the Vorlons!
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Nathilus posted:Or londo for that matter. Or delenn and her weird as gently caress but pefectly fitting accent.
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I watched the whole lot (complete with awful short films and the abruptly aborted Crusade) earlier this year. I'd always meant to catch up on it, having only seen the odd episode or snippets before and I wasn't disappointed. Some of the shorts were amazingly terrible and the whole order vs chaos thing wore thin but one thing made the whole great. G'kar and Londo - their roles and dialogue were almost spot on all the time and the actors carried them off beautifully . Seeing G'kar evolve from a one dimensional hate filled revenge seeker into the space pope at the end was just superb. The cancellation and network hassle made a mess of the 4th and 5th seasons though but that seems par for the course with scifi shows. I get they want to finish telling their story but trying to snip off all the threads nice and tidily makes for very wooden episodes.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I did a double take when I realized she was Rousseau on Lost. What!    Seriously, I'm gonna go back and finish watching b5 *proceeds to watch all of Lost a 4th time*
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Nathilus posted:True that. It feels like buying an SA account in TYOOL 2015.
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Ratzap posted:I watched the whole lot (complete with awful short films and the abruptly aborted Crusade) earlier this year. I'd always meant to catch up on it, having only seen the odd episode or snippets before and I wasn't disappointed. I was a kid when this was still coming out, and it was the same for me. I saw some snippets but always flicked away through channels when londo came on because his hair was ridiculous, his accent was ridiculous, and he was always yelling about bullshit. How wrong I was. ;.; I'm so sorry londo.
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Dreddout posted:It feels like buying an SA account in TYOOL 2015. There there. Pat pat.
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Dreddout posted:It feels like buying an SA account in TYOOL 2015. still more entertainment for your buck than CBS
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People actually watched that show? I mean, like, on purpose?
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CaptainSarcastic posted:People actually watched that show? I mean, like, on purpose? I never wanted it to end.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:People actually watched that show? I mean, like, on purpose? This show was so ahead of its time it's mind boggling. It took what another 15 years or something before networks figured out people like a big involved story without having to hit the reset button every week? The side effect of this is it takes a loooong time to really hit its stride but not having the back story of some of the earlier "eh" episodes leaves blanks when they suddenly bring back some plot thread 3 seasons later and you're all  Also yeah some of the actors on the show were quietly AAA quality
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CaptainSarcastic posted:People actually watched that show? I mean, like, on purpose?  Bad opinion alert
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LethalGeek posted:This show was so ahead of its time it's mind boggling. It took what another 15 years or something before networks figured out people like a big involved story without having to hit the reset button every week? The side effect of this is it takes a loooong time to really hit its stride but not having the back story of some of the earlier "eh" episodes leaves blanks when they suddenly bring back some plot thread 3 seasons later and you're all As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal. Yes, but better in every way, sry trekkies
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I was legit mad when Sinclair was replaced. I liked his relatively dark, depressed, PTSD-infused manner, and when happy puppy Sheridan showed up it stank like something network suits would have pulled to make the central character more upbeat and heroic and ratings-friendly. Of course, this was without knowing the real situation with Michael O'Hare at the time. Thankfully, as the show progressed Sheridan/Boxleitner worked out really well.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal. It's way smarter than any trek. Even ds9 is a cartoon compared to babylon 5. Trek is more of a space romp, they don't seriously explore how various characters are affected by their space issues often. Such is the backbone of b5.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal. B5 is awesome you just have to accept it has the budget of community theater
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Pick posted:B5 is awesome you just have to accept it has the budget of community theater After a while you stop even noticing. It works really well within the budget it got.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal.
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Well, given this outpouring of support for Babylon 5 I have to say that I will continue to ignore its existence pretty much the same as I did previously.
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Two pages and no one's mentioned Marcus the amazing smart witty strong ranger who is cool as heck and wise and from Lord of the Rings and dies in the stupidest way possible because he's a clown
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Babylon 5 is sci-fi and community theater combined? Well why didn't you say so!
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We'll probably lose the few remaining actors over the next five years, while William Shatner lives to be 130 years old without visibly aging past 49. RIP Mister (that's his first name) Garibaldi, Zack Allan, doctor Franklin, G'kar and Sinclair. Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head that have passed on. Edit: Peter Jurasiks ritual to get into character as Londo was to say very loudly "MISTER GARIBALDI". Then he was ready.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal. paramount made DS9 in response to seeing JMS' pitch and not buying it sheridan owns B5, as a whole, is this series that does so much with the meagre budget it had which gives it this theatrical feel. they have the same half a dozen guest stars playing EVERY guest role, each set can be made into three or four different locations based on set dressing and such, and everyone has a fair bit of melodramatic flair. you have to be a certain person to appreciate it but it was so far ahead of its time that it's really quite amazing. walter koenig was an amazing guest star - Bester is just a fantastic character but yeah, so many of the cast have died. it's kind of funny because the titular babylon stations had a 'babylon curse', and now there seems to be one haunting the various actors. a lot of them died young or were struggling with substance addictions or mental illness. michael o'hare (sinclair) is easily the most tragic one because, as others have pointed out, he was literally losing his mind. while playing a character who had a whole episode where he couldn't tell fiction from reality and hallucinated his war PTSD. and the secret was so well kept that until JMS came out with the truth, everyone thought o'hare was kicked from the show for being a sexual harassment guy. richard biggs (stephen franklin) was basically completely deaf and gave some of the best performances on the show. he learned everyone's lines and lip read to know when he was supposed to do his. the show is incredible because they all overcame so many weird difficulties.
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evobatman posted:We'll probably lose the few remaining actors over the next five years, while William Shatner lives to be 130 years old without visibly aging past 49. Zathras (Tim Choate) is dead, too. Motorcycle accident.  "Zathras is used to being beast of burden for other people's needs...very sad life. Probably have very sad death; but, at least there is symmetry."
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Capntastic posted:Two pages and no one's mentioned Marcus the amazing smart witty strong ranger who is cool as heck and wise and from Lord of the Rings and dies in the stupidest way possible because he's a clown Probably because his character was a little too 'larger than life' and the way they killed him off was just loving puerile. The networks just didn't fathom that B5 is just a soap opera with a funky setting. People get invested in them and enjoy the story arc. Some soaps have been running for decades, they could have milked that poo poo forever.
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Post Londo ITT https://youtu.be/b_sBNX9dP-M
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CaptainSarcastic posted:As far as I could tell Babylon 5 was like Deep Space 9 only with a lower budget and less appeal. Deep Space 9 is a literal rip off of Babylon 5. JMS pitched B5 to paramount first and they turned him down, took his notes and made DS9 to compete with B5.
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Milky Moor posted:paramount made DS9 in response to seeing JMS' pitch and not buying it I think that's a lot of what made it fun, is that it was weird but authentic and it really did feel like everyone involved was incredibly invested in it and doing their best. And sometimes they were stage actors who had just escaped persecution in Yugoslavia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22aMIOa35ko
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FunkyFlashman posted:G'kar and Molari. Like Batman and Joker. But whos the Joker and who of them is Batman. Mortal enemy,rival,friend,bro all in one. The episode where they get locked in a busted elevator is the best edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD-SJh8szjA edit 2: beaten on the vid link Filthy Hans fucked around with this message at 16:23 on Sep 1, 2016 |
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Filthy Hans posted:The episode where they get locked in a busted elevator is the best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NsdQzoIXIE
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Indy posted:Post Londo ITT "Ahhh, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package...how efficient of you." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF27OtzAslY&t=124s
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DrBouvenstein posted:"Ahhh, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package...how efficient of you." And the result. https://youtu.be/DeNBJ5o-b7s
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