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S2E15 - And Now for a Word I am a complete sucker for fake news shows inside TV/movies, stemming from Starship Troopers. 14 solar systems John J. Sheridan? Oh gently caress, Narn and Centauri shooting each other? Hundreds of deaths? Lol @ Ivanova glaring at the Lt. being interviewed. "You don't have to be crazy to work here but it helps " Yup that's about the corny rear end poo poo I'd expect Sheridan to say on television. Franklin's specialty is "xenobiology" which makes sense but I don't think was explicit before now. Wow Franklin with the dark rear end story. I actually feel for him this time, much better writing than the GROPOS poo poo. Nice interview with Sheridan - hinting around the fact that humans didn't really "win" the war. "beauty and the beast are in the eye of the beholder" faaaaaaaaart. Kosh Nerannick? Not sure we heard his whole name before this. Oh, Delenn speaking a native Minbari language. Plus info about their home world. This episode has lots of little world building stuff. Delenn really not doing well  Color me shocked that the Centauri were lying about WMDs not being on their ships gently caress, G'Kar was born a slave? And they executed his father for spilling tea? Jesus Christ. Obviously have to take anything either G'Kar or Londo say with a grain of salt but if that's true, drat. Holy hell, a centauri battle cruiser. Lmfao at this Psi Corps commercial, God I love stuff like this. At times like this it is especially bizarre that there is no human ambassador. They're letting a soldier nicknamed "star killer" make decisions that could put humans at war with any and all other species. Jesus the battle cruisers blowing each other up, what an escalation. Another good episode. I thought the reporter would get annoying like the one from S1 but it was a decent gimmick for an episode.
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Polaron posted:Naranek Thanks, what I wrote was the spelling in the subtitles. It didn't seem right, but I didn't really want to go Google it for fear of spoilers.
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Doctor Zero posted:I still think it should have been Bear-ba-lon 5. What is REALLY should have been is John Bearidan
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Jul 13, 2020 21:57
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TheAardvark posted:S2E15 - And Now for a Word Did you notice the little bonus?
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AntherUslessPoster posted:I can't bear with you guys You and I are like Polar opposites. I love puns.
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Jul 13, 2020 22:11
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Did you notice the little bonus? What I always notice is how the mom's body language just radiates terror during every second of the conversation with the Psi Cop
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CainFortea posted:You and I are like Polar opposites. I love puns. I'm too Grizzly for all these the puns.
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AntherUslessPoster posted:I'm too Grizzly for all these the puns. I'm simply over the Moon over this whole derail.
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CainFortea posted:I'm simply over the Moon over this whole derail. Perhaps we should all Sloth away back to elder thread
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Did you notice the little bonus? Not sure. Spoiler it for me?
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TheAardvark posted:Not sure. Spoiler it for me? There's a "subliminal" message that lasts for four frames. It's a real blink-and-you'll-miss-it type thing. It also may not be in the Amazon version, as they had to cut it for some non-American markets.
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TheAardvark posted:Not sure. Spoiler it for me? Subliminal message flashed in the commercial. It was not present in some regions’ releases so it may simply not have been present in what you watched.
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TheAardvark posted:Not sure. Spoiler it for me? Here it is as an image. spoilers for S2E15 - And Now for a Word: https://i.imgur.com/s4b9ZLZ. jpg Edit: Remove space before jpg when copypasting. Issaries fucked around with this message at 22:39 on Jul 13, 2020 |
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Jul 13, 2020 22:33
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Might want to break that link in case anyone's reading on mobile. The Awful App likes to inline a lot of images.
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ultrafilter posted:Might want to break that link in case anyone's reading on mobile. The Awful App likes to inline a lot of images. You can goatse awful app users with just urls? Lol.
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S2ep12 - Acts of Sacrifice “It’s is good to have friends, is it not? Even if maybe, only for a little while.” We now return to the ongoing war plot. G’kar scrabbling around for allies to help in the conflict, and at the end of it all a workable plan without getting the other governments officially involved. But it’s not nearly enough. An incredibly exhausted G’kar walking away at the end of the episode, already on an incredibly low ebb from being stabbed and poisoned is a compelling image. Only to have Sheridan and Delenn offer him an adhesive medical strip in these trying times. He laughs and cries, and I can’t help but feel for him. Kenickie killed a Narn! The underlying turmoil on the station is a nice window into how the war is affecting the participants, even when they’re nowhere near the fighting. Franklin is apparently not a fan of the Prime Directive. His passion quickly ceding to anger at the Lumati is a great character note. Nice to return to his Underground Railroad skills at the end with Sheridan’s plan, it’s good continuity I wouldn’t have thought about. Londo got a new, darker colour scheme, I see. It looks smarter, and ironically makes him stand out a little more. His scene with Garibaldi is a desperate scrabble for true friends when everyone is turning away, afraid of the warmonger. I was a little unsure of what exactly he and Garibaldi did at the end? Did he just ask Londo not to escalate the situation or something? Look the other way? Ivanava’s B plot of trying to get the new race to sign up was interesting in a view of the class system on B5. It always feels strange that there’s sufficient room on the station for an sizeable underbelly to exist at all, considering we’ve been told several times that space is at a premium onboard. Was it designed that way? “And this is brown sector where the homeless will live and scavenge.” The end note of her storyline was some much needed comedy, considering the gravity of the main plot, although it was very silly. Not a great episode for me, although the mild politicking is revealing, especially with the explanations of why the various governments won’t get their hands dirty. The conflict isn’t theirs and there has already been so much war.
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TheAardvark posted:ah, that's fantastic. I didn't notice it, but it may have been there. If memory serves, in the commentary for this episode (S2E15) JMS claims they contacted the FCC to get an exact threshold for something to be considered illegally subliminal, and made this bit toe the line as closely as possible.
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The_Doctor posted:S2ep12 - Acts of Sacrifice Discussion spoilers for S2ep12 - Acts of Sacrifice Garibaldi didn't really ask anything of Londo. Londo just took it upon himself to do them a favor and defuse the situation with the dead centauri, preventing a massive diplomatic incident. Because that is what one does for friends, yes? This is what made Garibaldi join him for a drink at the end of the episode, it reminded him that Londo wasn't always an asshat. I did enjoy how in this episode G'kar is impotent but surrounded by well meaning and sympathetic friends, and Londo commands a lot of power but has no one to truly rely on.
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S2E12: I think I said it before but yeah it is somehow the hardest suspension of disbelief in the series for me that there is an underbelly on Babylon 5 that they let drifters and poor people sink down to. Not because the society we've seen is above that - with Psicorps in charge it's not a surprise at all. Just that the extreme expense of getting someone out to Babylon 5 seems like it would totally preclude that kind of society from ever forming. e: Also, I'm going to be watching S2E16 and S2E17 in reverse order starting with "Knives" as recommended here and elsewhere. I'll watch both and post separate blocks but I'd say the other watchers should decide the order themselves and wait until they've seen both to read either thoughts I post. I will hopefully be watching tonight but may not get to it until tomorrow. AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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TheAardvark posted:S2E12: There's a real-world comparison there: Hawaii has one of the highest homeless rates in the country. It's expensive to get there, but that also means that if you do manage to get there, or if you're just hit by bad luck and can't afford a home any more, you're stuck there because you can't afford to leave for opportunity elsewhere, and you're isolated from family or friends that could help you.
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TheAardvark posted:S2E12: As others have said, B5 attracted a lot of people looking for a new life. If memory serves, Brown sector wasn't finished, which is why it is largely the way it is. Some of the lurkers in down below were people helping to build B5 that weren't able to find the means to leave. Add to this, as a neutral station in a fairly out of the way place, you have a magnet for organised crime to join the party. Trivia regarding down below denizens, 'Lurkers' were named as a reference to fans on the net. JMS being Extremely Online and all.
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TheAardvark posted:S2E12: There is an in-universe explanation for this; as I recall a lot of these people were laborers flown out to build the stations or work on it but, for whatever reason, couldn't leave when their jobs were done.
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Yeah, but lets be honest here The station is suposed to be a closed loop, with limited resources , unless they can ship massive chunks of h20 and their hidroponic system is really really good.it would be less resource intensive just to send them home.or other more unsavory solutions.
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Antifa Poltergeist posted:Yeah, but lets be honest here The station is suposed to be a closed loop, with limited resources , unless they can ship massive chunks of h20 and their hidroponic system is really really good.it would be less resource intensive just to send them home.or other more unsavory solutions. Exactly. I'm aware of the in-universe explanations we've been given, it's just they've given us enough information about everything else that the in-universe explanation seems like nonsense. This is the hub of trade for all of these races, the brown section would be completely booked out by traders from every race years before the station opened. I'm not complaining, I realize the need for it and I don't let it bother me while I'm watching the show, but it is still ridiculous on face value. E: I'm not trying to trash the show or anything, I can appreciate it as intended, but this one thing just feels really designed for plot rather than to fit the facts. AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Jul 14, 2020 |
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TheAardvark posted:Exactly. I'm aware of the in-universe explanations we've been given, it's just they've given us enough information about everything else that the in-universe explanation seems like nonsense. This is the hub of trade for all of these races, the brown section would be completely booked out by traders from every race years before the station opened. I'm not complaining, I realize the need for it and I don't let it bother me while I'm watching the show, but it is still ridiculous on face value. Remember that it's viewed as hopeless for its mission and a backwater outpost in the middle of nowhere...
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TheAardvark posted:designed for plot Will you bring your business to a station that was deemed hopeless and essentially was awaited to be destroyed or disappear in first 24hrs after its commission?
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And if Earthforce has a no free rides policy - which it seems they do - then they'll stick to it.
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TraderStav posted:Remember that it's viewed as hopeless for its mission and a backwater outpost in the middle of nowhere... Yes, but it's also been called the main hub of trade between the races. Surely Earth Alliance wants to retain that, billions or trillions of dollars (credits) have to be coming through the station. Why would Earth have ever built 5 of them if they didn't expect it to benefit them? Let's table this discussion until after we finish the show, though. We're working off 1.5 seasons of info versus 5, other things will come up, no reason to chance spoilers or anything.
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TheAardvark posted:S2E12: This is my issue too. That there are enough people stuck in limbo there that it’s a whole shanty town Down Below. As I said before, with space at an absolute premium there (by dint of being a space station, you can’t expand anywhere) I can’t imagine the B5 crew realistically allowing that amount of precious space to remain at the hands of an underclass who aren’t contributing. I could envisage relief efforts to repatriate or hostels to home them, but to just abandon them in such squalor is odd at best. Reminder that the station has only been in operation about 2-3 year at this point, so this has all sprung up relatively quickly.
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The_Doctor posted:This is my issue too. That there are enough people stuck in limbo there that it’s a whole shanty town Down Below. As I said before, with space at an absolute premium there (by dint of being a space station, you can’t expand anywhere) I can’t imagine the B5 crew realistically allowing that amount of precious space to remain at the hands of an underclass who aren’t contributing. I could envisage relief efforts to repatriate or hostels to home them, but to just abandon them in such squalor is odd at best. Reminder that the station has only been in operation about 2-3 year at this point, so this has all sprung up relatively quickly. I think earth-centric views of relative wealth kind of skew things here. Even ambassadorial quarters, the absolute height of expense and luxury in any Earth city you care to visit, are no more than a one bedroom apartment at most on B5. The poor scrabblers in down below are the working class on the station. "Hostels to home them" are what they already live in.
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Finger Prince posted:I think earth-centric views of relative wealth kind of skew things here. Even ambassadorial quarters, the absolute height of expense and luxury in any Earth city you care to visit, are no more than a one bedroom apartment at most on B5. The poor scrabblers in down below are the working class on the station. "Hostels to home them" are what they already live in. Yeah this is the one that makes sense and is now cannon in my head. work there, live in squalor but maybe you find a way to strike it rich by sheer luck.b5 is a trade hub that's poor in terms of wealth, but the wealth that goes through it is massive.like a space tollbooth
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TheAardvark posted:Exactly. I'm aware of the in-universe explanations we've been given, it's just they've given us enough information about everything else that the in-universe explanation seems like nonsense. This is the hub of trade for all of these races, the brown section would be completely booked out by traders from every race years before the station opened. I'm not complaining, I realize the need for it and I don't let it bother me while I'm watching the show, but it is still ridiculous on face value. You try getting people to reserve rooms on the Titanic V with the tagline "We're pretty sure that this one won't mysteriously vanish without a trace like the last one did, or explode like the 3 before that". I think the main idea is that Down Below wasn't intended for habitation, but just wound up being the place where the overflow went after they started to build up. People weren't meant to be living around the waste reclamation facilities. Much of it was also unfinished, so it's basically people setting up shop in an empty crawlspace. Clearing them out would be expensive, and B5's always having budget trouble.
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Yeah my understanding was that area wasn't meant to be any kind of living area. They're in the equivalent of the crawlspace under a house.
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