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Ratzap posted:Probably because his character was a little too 'larger than life' and the way they killed him off was just loving puerile. B5 was best when it was Garibaldi as a rent a cop on a lovely space station full of shoplifters
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My fav part of b5 was the season one opening when Sinclair is talking about the station and he says in an extremely true-crime show narrator voice "it can be a dangerous place..." while they show him creepin around with a lil gun Then season 2 happens and some dick with tv movie good looks is the new Sinclair and the opening doesn't say anything about it being a dangerous place 
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Gatekeeper posted:2nd favorite thing is anything with lizard tomalak Whoa whoa, Narn aren't lizards, they're technically more like marsupials. quote:Though somewhat reptilian in appearance, the Narn actually have more in common with Earth marsupials and felines than reptiles. As with many species, Narn sexual reproduction is heterosexual and viviparous, beginning with a direct male-to-female mating in which the female carries the young until birth. After this they are transferred to the male's abdominal pouch where they are nurtured for the next three months, until they are strong enough to survive outside of their father's body.
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Gatekeeper posted:My fav part of b5 was the season one opening when Sinclair is talking about the station and he says in an extremely true-crime show narrator voice "it can be a dangerous place..." while they show him creepin around with a lil gun They actually did this partly on purpose (yeah i listened to the commentary's so what). JMS knew the fans were going to hate Sheridan no matter what so he didn't even try to make him likeable, he was to be this happy positive character drawn into the not so happy world of B5.
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I utterly hated the poo poo out of him at first, but he nutted up and therefore really grew on me. https://youtu.be/2w4nxVUhydk (bad video quality, hella sheridan) https://youtu.be/M5FZhyULRis
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The actors who played G'kar and Lando were miracle workers. I'm still convinced they got lost on the way to a better show and ended up on B5.
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Typical Pubbie posted:The actors who played G'kar and Lando were miracle workers. I'm still convinced they got lost on the way to a better show and ended up on B5. Wow, rude.
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Volcott posted:
[skreeeeeeeeee] Yes yes I KNOW. In space no one can hear you skree. Their psychic thats how it works. The medium they skree into is not a near vacuum it's your head. (well ok maybe it is still a near vacuum).
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Ever since I watched the show (airing in 1997 here in Finland), B5 has remained my favorite science fiction show. To this day, only a few have come even close to portraying such a well formed world and story.Nathilus posted:Also, drat, talking about those bookend eps has reminded me of how good the episode naming in this show was. Besides the ones I've mentioned, "deconstruction of falling stars" and "meditations on the abyss" come to mind. Someone had a poetic streak. But "falling toward apotheosis" is my favorite episode title. It's just clever and classy as hell. Harlan goddamn Ellison was part of the creative team and instrumental in building the core concepts of the show. Considering his love and flair for the English language, I've no doubt he came up with those and many more.
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Quill posted:Harlan goddamn Ellison was part of the creative team and instrumental in building the core concepts of the show. Considering his love and flair for the English language, I've no doubt he came up with those and many more. Or maybe it was his herpes that was responsible.
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Volcott posted:The Geometry of Shadows was good, too. And Passing Through Gethsemane. Yknow just in case the jesus angle has continued to escape you by that point.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Or maybe it was his herpes that was responsible. Or the comic book collection.
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DS9 never had Jack the Ripper show up. Are you even trying, Berman?
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Volcott posted:DS9 never had Jack the Ripper show up. Are you even trying, Berman? Darkness in the Light, everything about Judzia's inner seriel killer and that Vulcan with the telaporting bullets.
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b5 is the goofiest show to ever have top notch tv writing. it's like Jim Henson presents Gene Roddenberry's Breaking Bad
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Ches Neckbeard posted:Darkness in the Light, everything about Judzia's inner seriel killer and that Vulcan with the telaporting bullets. Jadiza's inner murderer was dumb, but the teleporting bullet Vulcan murder mystery was so bizarre I can't really decide if I like it or not. The one where a certain lovable Cardassian gets a bit kill crazy on an empty DS9 set is a pretty good one.
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dookifex_maximus posted:b5 is the goofiest show to ever have top notch tv writing. it's like Jim Henson presents Gene Roddenberry's Breaking Bad it's like a theatrical production more than a tv series, IMO like, every week, you go down to the theatre and see the babylon 5 players put on a new episode
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Unironically my favorite TV show ever. The pervasive stage style of acting takes some getting used to and was a little out of place even in its time, at least for a show that took itself mostly seriously. As for the thread title, I respect Sinclair but I would follow Sheridan into the gates of hell.
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This week: Ivanova upset; yelling at people in CIC.
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CaptainSarcastic posted: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. move along home, pal
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dookifex_maximus posted:b5 is the goofiest show to ever have top notch tv writing. it's like Jim Henson presents Gene Roddenberry's Breaking Bad You're thinking of Farscape.
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Nathilus posted:Also, drat, talking about those bookend eps has reminded me of how good the episode naming in this show was. Besides the ones I've mentioned, "deconstruction of falling stars" and "meditations on the abyss" come to mind. Someone had a poetic streak. But "falling toward apotheosis" is my favorite episode title. It's just clever and classy as hell. They remind me of Community episode names now. I'd take those community college classes.
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Applewhite posted:You're thinking of Farscape. Yeah. Though tbf farscape played sincerely for its laughs and it deserves them. It's one of the few tv shows that has ever managed to troll me. I was invested enough that I was mad as hell when rocks fell and everyone died.
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Milky Moor posted:it's like a theatrical production more than a tv series, IMO yeah, pretty much this, it has a lot more in common with stage than it does with tv
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It's been almost 20 years since Sheridan went to Z'ha'dum...
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Article on the debate about ds9 being stolen or inspired by b5 http://www.tor.com/2013/02/26/is-this-the-smoking-gun-proving-deep-space-nine-ripped-off-babylon-5/ Btw you guys should check out The Expanse http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse Helical Nightmares fucked around with this message at 06:22 on Sep 2, 2016 |
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Helical Nightmares posted:Article on the debate about ds9 being stolen or inspired by b5 There's so many things that point to DS9 'borrowing' things. Kind of like how they got the prototype Defiant in the first episode of the third season, which they then take on a clandestine mission into enemy territory. Which is just like how the B5 crew gets the prototype White Star in the first episode of the third season, which they then take on a clandestine mission into enemy territory.
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If it's third season plagiarism who do you blame? Show runners? Producer?
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Stargate SG1 was better than DS9 or B5 in any case.
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Helical Nightmares posted:If it's third season plagiarism who do you blame? Show runners? Producer? I think JMS has about the right of it. There were people at the top, people whom he had tried to pitch B5 to, who may have been nudging the writers and such to unknowingly inject things from the B5 'bible' that JMS gave them during the pitch (arc outline, character info, a bunch of episode synopses, etc) It's not as striking a rip off as Into Darkness and Wing Commander 4, though.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Stargate SG1 was better than DS9 or B5 in any case. You really have to view B5 in context, where the idea of a long-form story, or even just most of the scripts being done by one writer (and didn't JMS do like 98 consecutive scripts or some crazy poo poo like that?) was essentially witchcraft
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Pick posted:You really have to view B5 in context, where the idea of a long-form story, or even just most of the scripts being done by one writer (and didn't JMS do like 98 consecutive scripts or some crazy poo poo like that?) was essentially witchcraft 92 of 110 episodes. He did the entirety of the third and fourth seasons and generally he did any 'important' episode in the other seasons.
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Milky Moor posted:92 of 110 episodes. He did the entirety of the third and fourth seasons and generally he did any 'important' episode in the other seasons. Jesus. So he wrote a full novel prior? I guess that is the only real way to make a plot that flows from episode to episode. I "blame" b5 for ruining me on episodic tv. Once I heard that Lost was written week to week with no plan I could not watch it. Somewhat ironic given that Delenn managed to be on both. Good for her.
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"Hold the line against the night" https://youtu.be/m2sdy7PLSXQ This is a great speech.
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