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Oh poo poo mine also did and I forgot to post. Thanks for da sticker Pick.
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Groetgaffel posted:My sticker arrived a little while back. Thanks again Pick!  glad you liked it! My plan is to do another run with the colors adjusted, if/when I do I'll let everyone know if they'd like a second. You never really know on that stuff the first time around; Stickermule doesn't do proofs and I've never made vinyl stickers before (more you know!)
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I forgot to message PICK that my friend got their sticker as a total surprise and enjoyed it, especially because I forcdd them at gunpoint to watch B5 after years of them being a DS9 fan. Now they can enjoy both... in sticker form!
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Pick posted:
Why have you done a picture of Tracy Scoggins? And who is the other person?
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"Occupation? I am Russian- we suffered under an occupation for generations. The only difference is, we did it to ourselves."
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Jedit posted:Why have you done a picture of Tracy Scoggins? And who is the other person? Not sure if  but its Ivanova and Kira from DS9.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:Not sure if Link's on the wrong hand, then.
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The one on the right is obviously Kira, but the one on the left doesn't particularly look like Ivanova. Actually, doesn't really look too much like Lochley either.
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Sep 7, 2018 03:26
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And that's why I usually don't do art for SA, you guys are the biggest whiners 
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Just finished my watch through of the series for the first time. I think it was good. I skipped River of Souls though, I would say the only two movies that need to be actually watched are the pilot movie and In the Beginning. I watched Thirdspace and it didn't seem necessary in the slightest. I was really surprised by the show because my only exposure to it before was that one clip from Legend of the Rangers where the lady spins around and shoots lasers out of her hands so for all these years I assumed the whole show was basically that and everyone talking about it was just a crazy weirdo. The political stuff reeeeeeallllllly holds up, even the small stuff like in the first episode that ends with a tv announcement that the president is going to clamp down on alien immigration. My only real complaint with the show is all the stuff with the casting, it clearly interfered with some of the storylines, some not so much but no way in hell (spoiler for Talia Winters) Talia was supposed to be a sleeper agent all along, and if she was then no way in hell was she supposed to just get knocked off immediately after learning that. There had to be something more there. Just some random dude shows up and removes a character within the space of one episode.. Surprisingly, I thought Season 5 captain actually had a decent little arc considering she was only in like half the episodes. Which brings me to Season 5. Man, that Telepath stuff was not great, they really tried to cram as much of that in there as they could. The rest of the episodes are a nice epilogue to everyone else. Londo and G'Kar are the two obvious standouts in the series. Their storylines actual seem to be trying to say something, whereas Sheridan is a bit more static. He's the good guy who does the right thing and it works out for him most of the time. Also, Londo's best character moment is finally liking Rebo and Zooty. Zooty Zoot Zoot Zoot Vir is also great, I finally looked up to see who played him because he reminded me of the guy from Animal House and yea it was him. Same thing happened with Zack, I didn't realize he was the same Jeff Conway from Grease and Celebrity Rehab until around season 3. My favorite one off character was Londo's wife, her voice was super over the top and I was slightly disappointed she didn't return. Overall I think the expectation that the show was super planned out left me hanging more than a few times, but again still enjoyed it and I would recommend it to someone in the future. Other Random thoughts: Bug guy in yellow smoke was cool and I wish he stuck around. Lennier got ruined with that last scene, nerd. The notable guest actors were great, Brad Dourif, William Sanderson, Michael York, etc. Narn swords are just samurai swords, come on prop department put some effort into this. "Stroke Off!"
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Specifically, Talia and Ivanova seemed like they were going to be something interesting in Season 5 with the Telepath stuff but then it gets shunted off to different characters.
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Also the whole weird session with Kosh and the brain guy was Kosh backing up Talia's personality so she could've been saved.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Also the whole weird session with Kosh and the brain guy was Kosh backing up Talia's personality so she could've been saved. JMS really tried to keep the alternate pathways there without it being too obvious. It's honestly impressive he navigated the major hurdles as well as he did.
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dudeness posted:"Stroke Off!" 
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dudeness posted:
He comes back in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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dudeness posted:My favorite one off character was Londo's wife, her voice was super over the top and I was slightly disappointed she didn't return. Timov does return in the Fall of Centauri Prime novels. Unfortunately you're unlikely ever to read them, because they're long out of print and hard to find. Also her name is "vomit" spelled backwards. This was deliberate.
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Jedit posted:Timov does return in the Fall of Centauri Prime novels. Unfortunately you're unlikely ever to read them, because they're long out of print and hard to find. They weren't even easy to find when they were in print either.
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Jedit posted:Timov does return in the Fall of Centauri Prime novels. Unfortunately you're unlikely ever to read them, because they're long out of print and hard to find. Unlike most of the novels, these three are worth tracking down. Garabaldi gets what might be his best line in the final book. Timov and the other wives were deliberately written as famine, pestilence, and death, leaving Londo as war. Timov is, of course, famine.
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dudeness posted:My favorite one off character was Londo's wife, her voice was super over the top and I was slightly disappointed she didn't return. Londo's wife was played by Jane Carr, she's an English character actor who's been in tons of things; I wish they'd brought her back to - great character, great actress. Daggair was played by former Miss Chicago 1948 Lois Nettleton and she's had a long and distinguished career as well. The notable guest you missed was in The Quality of Mercy. The doctor with the alien device was none other than June Lockhart, making her the second actor to appear on both Babylon 5 and Lost in Space. Oh hey, Peter David wrote Soul Mates. No wonder it has some of the best dialogue in the whole season, if not show. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Sep 8, 2018 |
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I've had all the books for years and now I have the comics. I had been thinking of making a thread doing a re-watch and slotting in the books and comics in with the TV series. It would take a while to complete.
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Narsham posted:Unlike most of the novels, these three are worth tracking down. Garabaldi gets what might be his best line in the final book. The Centauri trilogy is definitely the best of the B5 tie-in novels (although I have heard some folks argue for the Psi-Corps trilogy) but I honestly have a real soft spot for the Technomage books. They aren't as well written, but I liked the Technomages on the show and a deep look at their society, origins, and role in the Shadow War and beyond was neat to see. It gives away a mystery the show deliberately (and pointedly) left unsolved though, so I understand why they're not well-liked.
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mllaneza posted:Londo's wife was played by Jane Carr, she's an English character actor who's been in tons of things; I wish they'd brought her back to - great character, great actress. Daggair was played by former Miss Chicago 1948 Lois Nettleton and she's had a long and distinguished career as well. Fun tidbit about that. Bill Mumy bugged JMS incessantly to get June a part and JMS finally relented ... and then didn’t give her and Lennier any time together.  ...Although Mumy got the last laugh by walking by camera without make up as an extra in one of her scenes.
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Kurr de la Cruz posted:Season 4 paying off big time so far. Vir got to do his wave drat that’s a pro use of that emote.
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Data Graham posted:drat that’s a pro use of that emote. Justified.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Every time Vir opens his mouth, all I can hear is Booster from the Buzz Lightyear show, which makes his maturation towards the later part of the show all the more jarring. Oh man, I watched that show as a kid, it was great I had no idea he was that voice. Also, even as a child I knew that Patrick Warburton was the superior Buzz.
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I'm still working my way through season 5 but I love the callbacks to horny g'kar
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Man Garibaldi why you gotta be a dick.
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ok holo-garibaldi moriartying the big brother wannabe makes up for the earlier stuff
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Thought there might be some interest here: I captured a VHS recording of a TNT making of special "The Guide to Babylon 5" that aired in December 1997, right before the premiere of season 5. I left the commercials in because that's part of the charm of this for me  I think it was shot during the production of Thirdspace. https://mega.nz/#!bw5jiYaY!vZtw42U8uy7spy1pmgi_VMgSl85B5KkwxSEn9FgzdEU
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speakhard posted:Thought there might be some interest here: I captured a VHS recording of a TNT making of special "The Guide to Babylon 5" that aired in December 1997, right before the premiere of season 5. I left the commercials in because that's part of the charm of this for me That'll be for making of S5 if it was TNT. The show swapped network for the final season only.
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speakhard posted:Thought there might be some interest here: I captured a VHS recording of a TNT making of special "The Guide to Babylon 5" that aired in December 1997, right before the premiere of season 5. I left the commercials in because that's part of the charm of this for me Thanks, dude!
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Jedit posted:That'll be for making of S5 if it was TNT. The show swapped network for the final season only. They shot Thirdspace and ItB before production on season 5; if you watch the making of you'll see the scenes they're shooting are from Thirdspace. Plus, Claudia Christian is in it. The "host segments" feature Bruce Boxleitner in his season 5 wardrobe + beard.
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speakhard posted:Thought there might be some interest here: I captured a VHS recording of a TNT making of special "The Guide to Babylon 5" that aired in December 1997, right before the premiere of season 5. I left the commercials in because that's part of the charm of this for me Neat, downloading now - thanks for this!
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Jedit posted:Timov does return in the Fall of Centauri Prime novels. Unfortunately you're unlikely ever to read them, because they're long out of print and hard to find. I won't post a link because  but I would suggest googling "hungry-ewok babylon 5" might produce startling results.
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I've been marathoning through this show for the first time in almost 20 years since I saw it airing on TV as a wee lad. Even though I didn't fully get it, this show was one of the most formative pieces of fiction for me growing up. Boy does it hold up despite some obvious flaws... until Season 5. I went into Season 5 looking to give it all the benefit of the doubt, thinking it couldn't possibly be as bad as everyone claimed, but man oh man... And it's not even all the Telepath storyline. That's bad, don't get me wrong. The creepy telepath supremacism Byron keeps spouting, about how his followers need to be Better Than Mundanes by escewing violence, and then when they act like normal people he gets all sad and weepy about how they don't understanding his dream, that's bad. Lita letting herself get caught up in his cult, that's bad. The idiot ball Sheridan gets handed in various dealings with them, that's bad. Byron's continual lack of self-awareness in his refusal to take any real responsibility for his actions or those of his followers while doing everything in his power to shield them from consequences, that's bad. But man is the thing that REALLY gets under my skin of Lochley. She's so god drat self-righteous about having collaborated with a murderous fascist regime that tried to literally holocaust the entire planet, and when she gives her big loving speech to Garibaldi about HONOR AND DUTY and he just loving swallows it WHILE THE CREW APPLAUD, I was almost sick to my stomach. I almost couldn't believe the same showrunner who gave us the Clark presidency wrote that garbage. The best part is that we get to see exactly what kind of person she is when Bester shows up. The fact that she can look Sheridan in the eye and talk about Bester's "side of the story," about what he did to Garibaldi, and how right she was for treating him to loving tea and banter while throwing his victim in the brig... She never puts one toe out of line with Bester that entire episode. She folds to everything she's ordered to do, won't bend a single rule despite claiming to hate him and the Psi Corps and what they represent ('yes Mr. President, I grant that they are fascists, buuuuut...'). He marches in Jack Boots a-polished, and she rolls over for him right up until the very last second, when she gets bailed out by a technicality without having to stick her neck out even the smallest bit. And then she has the unmitigated gall to LECTURE BYRON about how much she's risking. gently caress OOOOOOFFFFF. Unless there's some BIIIIIG reveals coming up to make her less of a monstrous quisling, I don't know how much of her I'm going to be able to stomach, especially because all of the characters around her who actually have principles and courage keep bowing to her bullshit arguments.
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tastychicken posted:The Centauri arch in S5 is drat good though. Don't stop watching. This but arc
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