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discoukulele posted:s03e13 - A Late Delivery from Avalon Minor correction: He's actually the gunner who fired the first shot. Same ultimate outcome for kicking off the war, but one does have to wonder if Delenn would have been quite so forgiving to the man who gave the order.
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Torrannor posted:I really, really appreciate every new watcher sharing their first time reactions with us. I know there's not a lot of feedback, but that's because we're trying very hard not to spoil anything. Yeah. A lot of what us old hands have to chatter about without spoiling things is the behind the scenes circumstances that acted as head and tailwinds for the show and explain a lot of the choices that leave new viewers scratching their heads. There are a lot more of those very early (and very late) in the shows run. Where you’re at right now, Disco, is basically the show firing on all cylinders at the very heart of what it tries to do. There’s just very little for any of us to say but “heat up some popcorn, because poo poo is going down” for the next, oh, 15-20 hours of television you’re about to watch.
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discoukulele posted:s03e13 - A Late Delivery from Avalon Compare and contrast with David Warner, who was seeking the holy grail.
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Chevy Slyme posted:Yeah. A lot of what us old hands have to chatter about without spoiling things is the behind the scenes circumstances that acted as head and tailwinds for the show and explain a lot of the choices that leave new viewers scratching their heads. There are a lot more of those very early (and very late) in the shows run. Where you’re at right now, Disco, is basically the show firing on all cylinders at the very heart of what it tries to do. There’s just very little for any of us to say but “heat up some popcorn, because poo poo is going down” for the next, oh, 15-20 hours of television you’re about to watch. The willows must scuttle carefully...
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I'll have notes later, but I'm watching part 2 of the 2-parter with my friend and I'm just like
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Okay so I'm definitely rewatching those before I move on 
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discoukulele posted:Okay so I'm definitely rewatching those before I move on 
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The United States posted:(Image omitted) Much like the S2 DVD set, this picture has a spoiler in it.
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At one point I was top 10 in the world in the Babylon 5 CCG
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MrL_JaKiri posted:At one point I was top 10 in the world in the Babylon 5 CCG There were ten players?
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Jedit posted:There were ten players? There were about 20 in my local area alone Tournament rules used to include the ability for the winning player to give out an additional point at the end (in addition to the ones you got for your placing within the game), which was intended as a coin for bribing people but ended up being either a pity point or a "I like your deck" point. It didn't last long, though, as apparently games were much less social the other side of the pond (we played in a pub) and the players never talked to each other.
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Omfg there's a Tabletop Simulator mod for it!  I'm definitely going to try it out with my friend when I'm done with the series.
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I never saw the CCG, but I have a copy of a B5 board game that seemed pretty interesting, but I don't remember if I ever even played it. The core conceit was that it was expandable, so you could buy the core game, then expansion sets for the major alien races. Furthermore, the plan was to start during the first season and release new expansion sets for each following season that added new factions and updated the existing ones, though I don't think they ever made it past season 2 or 3.
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B5 managed to license some extremely dubious games.
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Midjack posted:B5 managed to license some extremely dubious games. But also some good ones. I loved Babylon 5 Wars, for instance. The game broke down if you let fleet sizes get too big, but for small scale engagements, the level of detail they put in was marvelous. Once Agents of Gaming lost the license and it went to Mongoose, their Babylon 5: A Call to Arms did large fleet battles much better, but I really missed the detail and personality of the ships from B5 Wars.
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jng2058 posted:But also some good ones. I loved Babylon 5 Wars, for instance. The game broke down if you let fleet sizes get too big, but for small scale engagements, the level of detail they put in was marvelous. Once Agents of Gaming lost the license and it went to Mongoose, their Babylon 5: A Call to Arms did large fleet battles much better, but I really missed the detail and personality of the ships from B5 Wars. B5W was good and Fleet Action was okay, though B5W became unplayable with more than a handful of ships on each side, similar to Star Fleet Battles. I have everything AoG published for B5W and FA as well as the ActA 1E base but never had a chance to play it and never bothered with any of the expansions - it seemed a bit less abstract than FA but nowhere near as teeth-shatteringly crunchy as B5W.
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Midjack posted:B5W was good and Fleet Action was okay, though B5W became unplayable with more than a handful of ships on each side, similar to Star Fleet Battles. I have everything AoG published for B5W and FA as well as the ActA 1E base but never had a chance to play it and never bothered with any of the expansions - it seemed a bit less abstract than FA but nowhere near as teeth-shatteringly crunchy as B5W. You could make B5 Wars work on a large scale in a convention setting where you had a lot of players each handling a small number of ships, a GM or two to keep things on track, and a double time slot of like eight hours. I once played a B5W event at Origins just like that where we played out one of the bigger battles from the show where each of us got one capital ship and it's fighter squadrons. Took forever, but it was a hell of a lot of fun. Not something you could reasonably do on the fly, of course, but it could be done.
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jng2058 posted:You could make B5 Wars work on a large scale in a convention setting where you had a lot of players each handling a small number of ships, a GM or two to keep things on track, and a double time slot of like eight hours. I once played a B5W event at Origins just like that where we played out one of the bigger battles from the show where each of us got one capital ship and it's fighter squadrons. Took forever, but it was a hell of a lot of fun. It seemed like you would need a basketball court for an entire week to do some of the scenarios provided in the books.
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Hey y'all! This has been a really hectic week, so I haven't really had time to watch any more episodes. But, I just did my re-watch of episode 16 and 17, and I'll likely do some more tonight. I'm really excited about heading in to the homestretch of Season 3! s03e16 – War Without End Pt 1
s03e17 – War Without End Pt 2
My god what an amazing set of episodes. Totally mindblowing. I can't imagine how B5 is going to top this, and I'm really looking forward to where things are going now. It's also going to be really interesting to see what happens now that certain principal cast members know things about the past and the future that they probably can't share with others. I'm definitely on board for the rest of this ride.
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s03e18 - Walkabout
s03e19 – Grey 17 Is Missing
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discoukulele posted:s03e16 – War Without End Pt 1 A small clarification: Entil'zha isn't a name, it's Minbari for "Ranger One". I also enjoyed your "wow, first new episode in a week!" comment. Now you know how we felt!
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discoukulele posted:
No, I'm pretty sure it's Zathras.
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You're not missing out on anything. Some of what's here is a little confusing because they were trying to make it all fit together with Babylon Squared, and that was written before there were any plans for Sheridan. It mostly fits together, but there are some minor inconsistencies and not everything is entirely clear.
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Alhazred posted:No, I'm pretty sure it's Zathras. No, if you go back and look carefully you can tell it's Zathras.
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ultrafilter posted:You're not missing out on anything. Some of what's here is a little confusing because they were trying to make it all fit together with Babylon Squared, and that was written before there were any plans for Sheridan. It mostly fits together, but there are some minor inconsistencies and not everything is entirely clear. I have watched this episode 20 times probably and still can't follow every detail. Best to give up lest you turn into Zathras.
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Jedit posted:A small clarification: Oh thanks! That makes more sense.
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discoukulele posted:Hey y'all! This has been a really hectic week, so I haven't really had time to watch any more episodes. But, I just did my re-watch of episode 16 and 17, and I'll likely do some more tonight. I'm really excited about heading in to the homestretch of Season 3! No actual spoilers, just: SEASON FOUR SAYS HELLO.
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Vavrek posted:No actual spoilers, just: lmao and also heck yes. I'm planning to finished up Season 3 tonight; 1.5 episode to go!
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s03e20 -And The Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
s03e21 – Shadow Dancing
s03e22 Z’Ha’Dum
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discoukulele posted:Oh poo poo, White Star fleet! Not to be confused with White Starfleet.
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Hey y'all! I'm starting Season 4 tonight. I believe that some of the movies are coming up. Can y'all let me know when I should watch them? I thought some of them might be mid-season 4 and some more are after season 4, but I wasn't sure and I don't want to google it for fear of spoilers.  Thanks!! edit: and also, i meant to mention - we'd talked about how awful the audio sync was for some episodes in seasons 1 and 2 on HBO Max, but season 3 was totally fine the entire time fwiw discoukulele fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Dec 15, 2021 |
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You can just watch them all after you're done with the show, they're all either prequels, sequels, or side stories that don't affect the main plot.
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Thirdspace is somewhere in the middle of S4, like 9 or 10 episodes in. In the Beginning after S4, River of Souls after S5 and A Call to Arms after that. Watch Legend of the Rangers never and Voices in the Dark after that.
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discoukulele posted:Hey y'all! I'm starting Season 4 tonight. I believe that some of the movies are coming up. Can y'all let me know when I should watch them? I thought some of them might be mid-season 4 and some more are after season 4, but I wasn't sure and I don't want to google it for fear of spoilers. Chronologically it's Thirdspace after S4E06, In The Beginning after the end of season 4. Both were aired after the end of season 4 if you wanted to both after season 4, honestly either way works.
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Your drug of choice is a good idea for Legend of the Rangers.
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lmao i'm never not-high when i'm watching B5 as it is. That's why I take notes.
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