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I started a marathon of this show about a week ago and and am about to finish the second season. I love this show. Two things... One. Is there some sort of clause in the contract for every sci fi show that stipulates that in order to be made it must at some point include Jack the Ripper? Two. When Kosh saved Sheridan from his fall, and all the various beings looked upon his true form and said aloud the name of the deity they were perceiving, that set into motion in my brain a chain of events that resulted in my forgetting the Vorlon's name temporarily and hearing Sheridan call him Gosh after being saved. I was very amused for a moment.
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"Well Gosh, they were all really impressed down there, I can tell you."
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Dec 22, 2017 22:59
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Now I’m picturing Goofy as Sheridan. Gawsh, get the heck out of our galaxy, ayup.
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Dec 22, 2017 23:04
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We are all Gosh.
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Dec 23, 2017 00:53
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It doesn't help that boxleitner comes across as so homespun and aw shucks charming at times.
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Dec 23, 2017 02:11
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Narsham posted:Short version: B5W is to Star Fleet Battles as B5 is to Star Trek. In that case it's really, really too bad there was no B5C.
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Dec 23, 2017 05:08
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Pretend I quoted every post about B5 wargames and responded with a picture of Londo holding up the Londo doll
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Dec 23, 2017 16:08
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I had a dream last night that I won a call-in trivia show hosted by Alex Trebek. My final question required me to know that Babylon 5 had a crossover episode with Seinfeld. I know this didn't happen, but... it's too bad.
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Dec 24, 2017 17:52
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Pick posted:I had a dream last night that I won a call-in trivia show hosted by Alex Trebek. My final question required me to know that Babylon 5 had a crossover episode with Seinfeld. I know this didn't happen, but... it's too bad. Well, Ian Abercrombie appeared on both shows in the same year...
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Dec 24, 2017 18:13
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(in high pitched falsetto)"I've had it with you higher races coming in here and starting wars now turn off this conference call and get the hell out of our galaxy!"
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Pick posted:I had a dream last night that I won a call-in trivia show hosted by Alex Trebek. My final question required me to know that Babylon 5 had a crossover episode with Seinfeld. I know this didn't happen, but... it's too bad. "It's the Summer of Kosh!" "This spoo is makin' me THIRSTY!" Jerry walks up to a Vorlon. It stares at him for a moment before saying *Jerry. Hello.* "Why is this Narn wearing an eyepatch?" "Emperor, you said you wanted his eye..." "I said I wanted RYE! Marble rye!" Bester and Jerry look down to see no sign of the shipping containers full of Dust, save for a mail-carrier's bag. They meet each other's eyes and say in unison, "NEWMAN!" Close on a landing bay, empty save for a single shuttle. They climb in. Sheridan tries to start the engine. It fails.
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Dec 24, 2017 19:45
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Timby posted:Well, Ian Abercrombie appeared on both shows in the same year... Elaine has to dance around her boss
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Dec 25, 2017 00:59
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I noticed watching Despicable Me yesterday that Gru has the same voice as Londo. Which is neat.
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Dec 25, 2017 18:42
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Marmaduke! posted:I noticed watching Despicable Me yesterday that Gru has the same voice as Londo. Which is neat. I'm now imagining Steve Carell doing impressions of Peter Jurasik in the recording booth to warm up.
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Dec 25, 2017 22:31
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Narsham posted:"It's the Summer of Kosh!" You could recycle the script for the episode where George is mistaken for a right wing extremist and stuck in a private limo with his followers. "The Minbari uses the Narn as muscle in their war against... human colonies must expand,  "And have George's father in the line up of earth religions with the Festivus poll.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:51
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Baka-nin posted:And have George's father in the line up of earth religions with the Festivus poll. I love this like you wouldn't believe. Frank: You seen the pole, Mollari? and then later Lennier saying, "I find your belief system fascinating."
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Baka-nin posted:And have George's father in the line up of earth religions with the Festivus poll. Oh my god, yes.
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Dec 27, 2017 02:43
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Friend says: "Airing of greivances against the Vorlons."
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Watched Sleeping in Light today, finishing off the rewatch I started back in March. It is a little over 20 years since Into the Fire was transmitted (February 1997); Sleeping in Light is set around the same relative time, and yet it has seven of the principal cast survive. In real life that number is only four.
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Dec 30, 2017 22:50
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Sheridan - still alive Delenn - still alive Ivanova - still alive Vir - Actor dead Garibaldi - Actor dead Franklin - Actor dead Zak - Actor dead Lorien? - still alive I'd just about forgotten Stephen Furst died this year.
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Dec 30, 2017 23:26
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Peter Jurasik is still alive, although Londo was not by this point. Oh, and Bill Mumy and Pat Tallman but they're not quite so central
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Peter Jurasik is still alive, although Londo was not by this point. Mumy was main credit cast for the entire run, he's definitely central. Of the original S1 main credit cast Andrea Thompson is also still alive.
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Dec 31, 2017 02:17
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Well, it's almost a new year, and you know what that means - time for a new opening monologue. And we all need to film new character cards. What do we think, rotating-on-a-plinth style like G'Kar? 
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Dec 31, 2017 20:30
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I vote for "wacky outtake"
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Skimming through this thread made me decide to watch it for the first time. I'm currently halfway through season 2 -- I'm enjoying it so far, but the characters and tone havent quite clicked for me in the way ds9 did for example... Though, now that I think back, ds9 had a hell of a slow start. Edit: londo being an exception to the characters not clicking... Belbos Computer fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Feb 10, 2018 |
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Feb 10, 2018 23:50
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You should be noticing an uptick in quality starting any time now. It just ramps up from there.
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Feb 10, 2018 23:53
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ConfusedUs posted:You should be noticing an uptick in quality starting any time now. It just ramps up from there. Episode 9 should be your turning point.
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Marmaduke! posted:I noticed watching Despicable Me yesterday that Gru has the same voice as Londo. Which is neat. I always thought Tom Hardy's Bane voice sounded like he was doing an impression of Andreas Katsulas.
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Feb 11, 2018 00:16
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Our B5 podcast is in early season 2 now. There are some real stinkers in here but it does get better soon. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-name-of-the-pod-a-babylon-5-podcast/id1244239639?mt=2
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Feb 11, 2018 00:30
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ConfusedUs posted:You should be noticing an uptick in quality starting any time now. It just ramps up from there. Yeah you were totally right. I blew through the rest of season 2 last weekend and am now almost through season 3!
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Feb 19, 2018 02:58
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Belbos Computer posted:Yeah you were totally right. I blew through the rest of season 2 last weekend and am now almost through season 3! That high lasts until the end of S4. For real. You get like 2.5 series of nonstop greatness. And Season 5, while the first half is fairly slapdash, picks up about halfway through and stays awesome until the finale, which is among the greatest show finales of all time.
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ConfusedUs posted:That high lasts until the end of S4. For real. You get like 2.5 series of nonstop greatness. There is a very specific point where season 5 gets back on track, and that is the moment Byron's dead. Once he's a pile of ash, the telepath arc gets shoved in the trash and the show gets right back to being good.
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For all the justifiable poo poo S5 gets because of Byron and his rabble, I still feel it is well worth watching because More Byron means more Bester, and more Bester is never a bad thing. Especially the scene where he reveals his Asimovs to Garibaldi- he is just fantastic. A big regret is that they never filmed that Crusade episode where he would have appeared. Didn't Koenig later say he really rated the script?
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I quite like a lot of Season 5. Byron's only in three episodes, most of the episodes before him are pretty good I reckon.
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Open Source Idiom posted:I quite like a lot of Season 5. Byron's only in three episodes, most of the episodes before him are pretty good I reckon. Is it really only 3 episodes? It feels much longer.
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hangedman1984 posted:Is it really only 3 episodes? It feels much longer. That's because the telepath arch lingers like a bad smell in the background of every other episode. It's the only arching plot during the initial stretch of season 5.
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hangedman1984 posted:Is it really only 3 episodes? It feels much longer. I'm not sure the number but it's surprisingly little. Even the Byron episodes are only like half telepath stuff. When I rewatched the first time I was like oh gotta strap in for this poo poo after reading internet complaints, but it was hardly even there. Season still gets better in the back half but I think it's more that those were the long-planned episodes and the front half was all last minute, rather than specifically being Byron. JMS has proven over the years that he was a one hit wonder, IMO. B5 proper is fantastic and everything else I've seen him make... maybe if all his projects took him 15 years to get made and he had tons of time for revision.
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hangedman1984 posted:Is it really only 3 episodes? It feels much longer. Because it was. Robin Atkin Downes was in nine episodes, although not all of them as Byron. I'm honestly willing to cut Downes a lot of slack for B5. He was given rush job material that had to live up to what is still one of the strongest sustained arcs in television, it was his first major acting gig, and unbelievably he was barely 21 when he did it.
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I didn't think he did a bad job with the material, it just wasn't good material. Like Kate Mulgrew in Voyager.
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Belbos Computer posted:Skimming through this thread made me decide to watch it for the first time. I'm currently halfway through season 2 -- I'm enjoying it so far, but the characters and tone havent quite clicked for me in the way ds9 did for example... Though, now that I think back, ds9 had a hell of a slow start. DS9 had a relatively slow start, but it also benefited from stronger character dynamics that generated more conflict early on. Ivanova might be a little rough around the edges, but she's ultimately still an officer who respects the chain of command. Comparatively, Kira Nerys' introduction is her not-so-politely telling the station's commander to get hosed.
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