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TraderStav posted:I just watched Survivors the other night, and woo-boy was Gariabialdis ‘civilian wear’ shirt something else. My favorite is Sinclair's ... greatcoat/cloak combo? in Born to the Purple.
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I mean, come on! Those jeans! That hair!
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nashona posted:I mean, come on! Who is that in the middle? I can’t figure it out under all that 80s.
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Doctor Zero posted:Who is that in the middle? I can’t figure it out under all that 80s. Blaire Baron, who played Carolyn Sykes in the original pilot. The part was reworked in Season 1 to be Catherine Sakai, played by Julia Nckson-Soul.
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nashona posted:I mean, come on! Angels, you're going undercover on a space station.
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remusclaw posted:I just finished the series and goddam I was warned but was not prepared for the waterworks to get going with Sleeping in Light. What a fantastic show and what a heartfelt ending. The ending is the show's greatest recommendation. If you're trying to sell someone on committing to watch B5, tell them "you know how fans complain about the ending of every show ever ? The B5 endings are universally loved. yes, there are two."
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Blaire Baron, who played Carolyn Sykes in the original pilot. The part was reworked in Season 1 to be Catherine Sakai, played by Julia Nckson-Soul. Ohhh yeah. Thanks.
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Babylon 5 in the Guardian today: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/09/jump-the-shark-babylon-5 Although the author shows he knows his stuff by talking about Centauri penis tentacles, it's like he just hit a word limit and stopped writing the article. Rarely for the internet, you'll be better off reading the comments on this one...
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So, By Any Means Necessary... I was WAY more engaged in the flower plot than the A plot on the strike. Please tell me the acting gets better. The labor negotiator and senator are atrocious.
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TraderStav posted:Please tell me the acting gets better. The labor negotiator and senator are atrocious. Eh... the incidental character actors are pretty rough overall. Usually Londo and G'Kar eat enough scenery for it not to matter too much.
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remusclaw posted:I just finished the series and goddam I was warned but was not prepared for the waterworks to get going with Sleeping in Light. What a fantastic show and what a heartfelt ending. The only Scifi ending so good the nerds don't complain about it
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Marmaduke! posted:Babylon 5 in the Guardian today: The author acting like the Drakh in S5 weren't set up in early S4 
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MrL_JaKiri posted:The author acting like the Drakh in S5 weren't set up in early S4 To be fair, his memory of that appearance may be a little... blurry 
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Anonymouse Mook posted:To be fair, his memory of that appearance may be a little... blurry I'm talking more specifically about "You just made a mistake, Londo! Even if my associates lose this war, they have allies! THEY'LL MAKE SURE CENTAURI PRIME PAYS THE PRICE FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE TODAY!" (to copy and paste from the wiki)
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Anonymouse Mook posted:To be fair, his memory of that appearance may be a little... blurry
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Hey let’s not lose focus here.
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Dirty posted:Fair to say the Drakh had a real image problem. I kinda see what you did there.
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SlothfulCobra posted:And to be fair, I don't think they really developed much of an ideology for Clark and his fascists that would have to be eradicated beyond just consolidation of power and hanging out with evil aliens. Of course, a pro move would've been flash forward showing a contingent of humans romanticizing some loyal Earthgov officers and building statues of them in an attempt to rehabilitate the history.  And that's a realfact.
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TraderStav posted:So, By Any Means Necessary... I was WAY more engaged in the flower plot than the A plot on the strike. Characters as bit-part-y as the Senator, not so much. New character coming in for one episode's A plot ? Yes. Recurring characters like Neroon and Bester, the recurring cast starts great and finishes great. Jeffrey Coombs only appears in one episode, but he was busy with DS9. I do think that the character of the labor negotiator should have shown up again a few times. They didn't have the right casting for thatso we got one of the dockworkers instead.
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I found a bunch of VHS tapes that have pretty much the whole broadcast run of Babylon 5 on it. Probably original airings since my dad recorded it but I’m not 100% sure. Is there any reason to transfer this stuff to digital? (I have the equipment so it would be essentially free)
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It's VHS, so likely not. Maybe if it was recorded on the highest quality. Maybe.
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If it’s the SciFi first widescreen run where they hosed up the CG it might be worth capping the mistakes.
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Doctor Zero posted:I found a bunch of VHS tapes that have pretty much the whole broadcast run of Babylon 5 on it. Probably original airings since my dad recorded it but I’m not 100% sure. Is there any reason to transfer this stuff to digital? (I have the equipment so it would be essentially free) Does it have long outdated commercial breaks and other things? It might be worth it for archival purposes.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Does it have long outdated commercial breaks and other things? It might be worth it for archival purposes. I guess that’s what I’m asking. Is there some big unfilled need that people want this? I don’t really care personally but I also don’t want to be the guy that got rid of something fans are looking for.
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There are going to be some people who want it. That number is unknown and really kind of unknowable.
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Generally speaking, people love the poo poo out of seeing old ads just for the nostalgia factor. Especially if you can salvage them in decent quality.
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Signs and Portents. Dare I say the first GOOD Babylon 5 episode? Coherent and engaging story. Political intrigue. Action. Comedy (Londo and J'kar's elevator impatience). Mystery. Great stuff! No one over acted. I'm impressed.
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TraderStav posted:Signs and Portents. Dare I say the first GOOD Babylon 5 episode? I will loving shank you. It probably is the first great episode, though. It's also the season title episode and they were always pivotal.
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I think that's where I started my friend on her extremely stripped down tour of season 1 so yep.
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TraderStav posted:No one over acted. Except Majel Barrett.
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Dirty posted:Except Majel Barrett. I could watch her overact all day. 
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sebmojo posted:I think that's where I started my friend on her extremely stripped down tour of season 1 so yep. That's stripped too far. The bare bones S1 is nine episodes: Midnight on the Firing Line, Mind War, Signs and Portents, And The Sky Full of Stars and the last five. And even then you miss Legacies, which is quite relevant later.
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You can start B5 anywhere good and your own curiosity will move you to watch earlier episodes to get a fuller picture. I started watching in S2E19 Divided Loyalties, and while it was sometimes hard to know who the people involved were, there was enough redundancy that you could follow it through and get hooked.
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All of season 1 is great and those who say otherwise are heretics.
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I said come in! posted:All of season 1 is great and those who say otherwise are heretics. TKO.
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Nice. Glad he's put something back up. Not sure I entirely buy his reason in the comments for taking them down, since, well, he's put them back up again. Pretty sure the real reason is that he was just grumpy at JMS and his Twitter posts about the CGI. EDIT: One thing I did notice in that is it looks like the tiny garden that they have most of their conversations in was actually included in the CGI in the station interior.  The camera seems to be pushing in on that bit just before a scene there. I guess the grey building has the doors they come out of. I really wish they added some detail to that big old expanse of diff_hull.tiff on the left, though. B5 definitely got their money's worth out of that texture. It's sort of funny how grand the station interior is, but anything with actors looks really cramped. I'm not sure my brain ever fully accepted that the garden area is supposed to be "outdoors" and that the characters were standing in one tiny part of a huge vista of forests and buildings. Even the expansive view from Sheridan's office just didn't look very grand somehow. That 5-mile long rotunda only ever felt truly big that one time Sheridan leaped out the train. Dirty fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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Jedit posted:TKO. Oh no, that's the next episode I have to watch. Should I play on my Switch during it?
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Nope, just pop a Zima.
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Data Graham posted:Nope, just pop a Zima. 
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