Contains a Babylon 5 spoiler
Fuck. I have to start another rewatch of the series now.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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Love Babylon5, excellent series!
You forgot fighting against fascism
This was one of the shows that taught me what it looks like and why I should fight like my life depends on it.
Kirk fought literal Nazis. Sheridan fought future Nazis. Why did you get downvoted for this comment?
Obviously for bringing politics into a discussion about my beloved politics show
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"Mom, can we get some Babylon 5?"
Mom:
G'Kar was the wrong character to show for the prosthetics poke. The Narn prosthetics are actually shockingly good with a surprisingly high degree of articulation allowing for lots of emoting and facial expressions. Some of Delenn's head bone prosthetics, on the other hand, are just terrible.
Given the budget that Fox gave them to film this, I'm not going to whine about it when I've watched community theater productions and enjoyed them. If the visual realism is a hard sticking point, then unfortunately, you just kinda have to sigh and live with it. Enjoy the story, and maybe try making fandom cosplay and give it a try for yourself.
That isn't a dig, btw. Being able to make costumes of similar (but lesser) quality made me appreciate the hard work that goes into this more. And being involved in it helped me learn willfull suspension of disbelief. Or course you can see the seams in the costume. The actor is ignoring them and doing their damn best for a good script. I think that effort deserves a little grace.
Optic Nerve won a damn Emmy for their prosthetic work on B5, not sure what op's on about with that one...
Shoulda gone meta with the drazi and the human mask
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Pretty much every scene involving Londo and G'Kar is solid gold. Although every time Peter Jurasik appears on screen with his very odd accent for Londo, my mind goes like: "Oh, here's The (space) Count from Sesame Street again!"
When I think of Walter Koenig, I think of Bester, not Chekov.
To be blunt, whenever I watched Trek I never got the impression he was particularly good. But then when I saw him in B5, I thought "Damn he can act. Why didn't the Trek show runners take advantage of this?!"
Bester was supposed to be a one-off villain! They brought him back because he was amazing!
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It has been a while since my last rewatch.
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind – ten years after my last rewatch.
See, that was their problem. Their last best hope for peace was a truck stop? That is not where you get peace. That is where you get the opposite of peace. They could have only done worse if it were a space waffle house.
Ds9 was a truck stop, the babylon stations were UN convention centres with bazaars did you even watch the show
The Centauri: "You call this a convention center? I would not host my second cousin's baby shower here; it stinks of commoners."
(which is to say, i watched it two decades ago)
To be fair, while "truck stop" is a fairly accurate term for DS9 and its location along a major trade route, the primary purpose of Babylon 5 was really just being a neutral location for political relations and whatnot. Though maybe there are important meetings that are conducted at Waffle House, idk
last best hope for peace was a truck stop
Picture I found of Babylon-5:
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Came for the interspecies sex, stayed for the drug addicts.
Dude, the way that show handled not one but two addiction arcs. In the 90s.
You had me at "20th century understanding on how eye contact works in a video call".
One of the wonderful little details from B5 was the holographic recording Londo made for [REDACTED] where he's making his grand speech about how and why he's having him [REDACTED]. The recording is constantly looking in the wrong direction, pointing accusingly at the wall, moving through people, and just obviously not lining up with the room it's being played in because it's just a recording.
Then the gospel choir kicks in and the episode officially becomes my all time favorite.
An account created three months ago, named after a Babylon 5 character, and your very first comment is under this post about Babylon 5. Checks out.
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You know what? You convinced me, I'll give it a try.
It is, wholeheartedly, one of my most favorite shows of all time. It's one of the ones that shaped me as a human being.
Just try and give the exiting actors and resulting plot hiccups a little mercy. There was a lot happening in the real world for all of them, and some things are more important than television.
Just try and give the exiting actors and resulting plot hiccups a little mercy
Sinclair > Sheridan
Though I get that the actor had mental health issues and decided he would rather quit entirely than stall production and possibly lead to the show's premature cancellation.
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