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In a follow-up, Lindelhof stressed that the character of John Sheridan is NOT, under any circumstances, Khan. In other news, Mark Wahlberg was seen testing uniforms that expose a significant amount of his chest, and Walter Koenig has refused to discuss whether Bester will experience being mind controlled. (You can tell its a fake because Warner Brothers doesn't want to spend a dime on B5 and all the mentioned people cost top dollar.)
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Doctor Zero posted:You can tell it’s fake because Lindeloff would never be able to identify the themes of the Shadow War. Well, he doesn't so that checks out
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Really, the idea of Melissa McCarthy playing Londo, G'kar, Vir and Lennier wasn't a big enough hint?
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:JMS said it's fake. If you read it, you wouldn't use
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turn left hillary!! noo posted:If you read it, you wouldn't use Yeah, I was holding out hope he was attached when it was just some people on twitter saying ~reboot~, but glad it was FAKE NEWS 
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Q_res posted:Really, the idea of Melissa McCarthy playing Londo, G'kar, Vir and Lennier wasn't a big enough hint? Honestly, I only considered it confirmed when I recognized each of the ships.
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The Comet channel is showing it nightly starting today. I've just started watching The Gathering. In retrospect, O'Hare was real good. Alas, ***** happened in a year
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I forgot David McCallum was the guest star on episode 3. cooooool.
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Found some footage of the latest Babylon 5 cast reunion. https://youtu.be/0oHtLmjKRbE?t=108
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Q_res posted:Found some footage of the latest Babylon 5 cast reunion. https://youtu.be/0oHtLmjKRbE?t=108 Hahahahah holy poo poo
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Proud to say that people out there are still drawing getting into the show and drawing babylon 5 fanart, god bless. - pizdulgiver (as a conventional sa user tho, you probably don't want to go here)
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Are reactions from a first-time viewer going through the series something this thread enjoys, or should I keep it to myself?
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wizzardstaff posted:Are reactions from a first-time viewer going through the series something this thread enjoys, or should I keep it to myself? I'm new to this thread itself, but as a huge B5 fan, I would love to hear your first time impressions.
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Please do share.
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wizzardstaff posted:Are reactions from a first-time viewer going through the series something this thread enjoys, or should I keep it to myself? That's like what keeps this thread alive 
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wizzardstaff posted:Are reactions from a first-time viewer going through the series something this thread enjoys, or should I keep it to myself? It sustains us. We will even go into spoiler mode for you!
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drat, this is an appropriate thread title, because that just happened to me. Glad it's folks discovering the show instead!
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I introduced my wife to this show a few months ago and she absolutely loved it.
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Speaking as a woman there is a lot of deep affection for B5 from women in particular. I'd say we're more likely to get into it than most other scifi series you might expect.
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I am relatively unspoiled for the series because I was never too interested in even learning anything about it; it seemed like a monumental effort to get into and besides I already had memories of DS9 from childhood to sustain me. But I've always felt like it was a major piece of sci fi history I was missing out on, and this month I realized that it's all streaming on Amazon and I can watch episodes on my commute. So here we go. About the only thing I know going in is that it was designed with the whole story in mind from the start, so foreshadowing is important. I know there are beings from another dimension (or something) called Shadows in conflict with the Vorlons, I know Sinclair's wife will eventually show up possessed by one, and I know about a few costume/cast changes--but I don't really know the hows and whys of any of that. So far I've watched the first half dozen or so episodes, then realized that Amazon put the pilot at the end of the season and watched that. First impressions: obviously the production quality and the CGI segments (not to mention the synths in the pilot) scream early 90s, but I'm okay with that. I like picking out where bits of set have been re-used in other shots. It doesn't feel shoddy or cheap, it feels like a labor of love. This is especially true in the makeup department; I see plenty of extras who pop in for a shot with full facial prosthetics. They could have easily just gone with forehead wrinkles or even plain old humans, but somebody thought it was important enough to put money and energy into putting those aliens in the background. One other thing I'm noticing is how much the TV conventions of the time could influence the writing. The last episode I watched was Deathwalker, where they deal with a war criminal. In between figuring out the moral implications of using scientific research from Space Nazis, the characters have to repeat themselves every ten minutes to sum up the plot for people who just tuned in after the last commercial break. Favorite episode so far: Parliament of Dreams. I like how it showed off the personalities of all the major alien races (except the Vorlons, who I honestly forgot about for a while) and G'Kar's assassin paranoia was very entertaining. I thought the line of religious leaders at the end of the episode was a big cop-out but I guess they probably weren't willing to alienate their viewers and convert humanity to MegaTechnoProtestantism right off the bat. Least favorite episode: Infection. I actually did try to start the series like six or seven years ago, and this episode is one of the ones that made me stop. That and the godawful T-Mobile ads that were accompanying the streaming service. But I am a completionist and dutifully went through it again this time around. Best setting element: the giant bar table shaped like a 5 in the pilot. They really lean into the whole 55555 iconography all over the station. Which, you know, if the previous four stations all met horrible ends, maybe you shouldn't be constantly reminding everyone of that fact? It's got to be horrible for workplace morale.
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wizzardstaff posted:Best setting element: the giant bar table shaped like a 5 in the pilot. They really lean into the whole 55555 iconography all over the station. Which, you know, if the previous four stations all met horrible ends, maybe you shouldn't be constantly reminding everyone of that fact? It's got to be horrible for workplace morale. Babylon 5's construction was funded in large part by a licensing deal with Daft Punk.
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Pick posted:Speaking as a woman there is a lot of deep affection for B5 from women in particular. I'd say we're more likely to get into it than most other scifi series you might expect. Completely agree. She loved Delenn, Lyta, Talia, Susan, and Na'Toth the most.
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I said come in! posted:Completely agree. She loved Delenn, Lyta, Talia, Susan, and Na'Toth the most. You might also want to show her the movie JMS wrote, "Changeling", which is based on a true story and seems insane, but is "based on" in the sense that he had to TONE DOWN HOW INSANE REALITY WAS. It goes into a lot of how women are treated by the police and it's a movie that, to be honest, most men I know thought was "meh" and women thought was exceptional. There are a few annoying things in Babylon 5 with respect to women, but incredibly few, especially compared to Trek honestly (and I really like Star Trek).
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This is me settling in to watch the reactions over the next few weeks of new watchers.  I got a vendor sales rep to start watching B5. She was talking about how she loved GoT and was upset it was almost over but she loved how it had an overall arc. I said “well... if you REALLY like that kind of thing you should watch the show that started the whole multi-season arc thing to begin with but you have to have a tolerance for 90s TV. “ I also said if she could get to the 3rd episode of S2 and not be hooked it wouldn’t be for her probably. She messaged me on LinkedIn saying she started and liked it so far. I’ll have to see if she made it through S1.
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Pick posted:You might also want to show her the movie JMS wrote, "Changeling", which is based on a true story and seems insane, but is "based on" in the sense that he had to TONE DOWN HOW INSANE REALITY WAS. It goes into a lot of how women are treated by the police and it's a movie that, to be honest, most men I know thought was "meh" and women thought was exceptional. Pick have you watched The Expanse? Based on your posting ITT I think you'd enjoy it. Also everyone should watch it because it's the best sci-fi TV since B5!
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I intend to, once things calm down a little at work. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Pick posted:I intend to, once things calm down a little at work. Thanks for the recommendation! they're making season 4 atm, so it's a good time to get into it - season 3 was a cracker. don't read up about it though, there's a nice bit in s3 that's fun to come upon blind.
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I agree don't read anything. It's very good. It doesn't really get going until episode four, but as a B5 veteran I don't think that'll throw you.
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Grand Fromage posted:I agree don't read anything. It's very good. It doesn't really get going until episode four, but as a B5 veteran I don't think that'll throw you. I read the first book so when my wife and I watched the first season I waited for the poo poo to hit the fan keeping an eye on her reaction. Her   reaction was memorable. So, yes. Don’t loving read anything. Just watch it.
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Doctor Zero posted:I also said if she could get to the 3rd episode of S2 and not be hooked it wouldn’t be for her probably. I tell people to skip the pilot, start with all of Season 1, and if they get stuck, to skip ahead to Coming of Shadows.
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The books are good, I'm not including those as don't read. But the show is an excellent adaptation so if you don't feel like reading you're not really missing out.
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Doctor Zero posted:I read the first book so when my wife and I watched the first season I waited for the poo poo to hit the fan keeping an eye on her reaction. Her I had a weird time with The Expanse because while I wasn't familiar with the source material itself, I had played in a role-playing campaign that heavily cribbed from the book's plot. So when it came time to watch the show I recognized a lot of things in a really twisted mirror.
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wizzardstaff posted:I had a weird time with The Expanse because while I wasn't familiar with the source material itself, I had played in a role-playing campaign that heavily cribbed from the book's plot. So when it came time to watch the show I recognized a lot of things in a really twisted mirror. Which is funny, because it was pulled from a planned tabletop setting.
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Plotac 75 posted:Which is funny, because it was pulled from a planned tabletop setting. Which was from a cancelled MMO, so the show is a TV adaptation of a book adaptation of a tabletop adaptation of a video game.
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If people are looking for new B5 reactions, quasi-popular internet reviewer Mark Oshiro is going through each episode now. Just started season 2 this week. It's also what's finally pushing me to try and finish, I accidentally dropped off around season 3.
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nerdman42 posted:If people are looking for new B5 reactions, quasi-popular internet reviewer Mark Oshiro is going through each episode now. Just started season 2 this week. If you dropped late season 3 or season 4 I don't know what to tell you.
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nerdman42 posted:If people are looking for new B5 reactions, quasi-popular internet reviewer Mark Oshiro is going through each episode now. Just started season 2 this week. This guy is mildly insufferable. I Like he’s totally cool and good until something or someone triggers him, and then he’s the worst. I loved his watch of Avatar the last Airbender, until I very very much did not.
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