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V-Men posted:Roddenberry must have gotten kookier with age. In TOS he had Nichelle Nichols read for the parts of Spock and Bones because he hadn't decided that their characters would be male. I think it was senility or drug abuse that did this. I did 50 year mission on audiobook and Gene apparently went from telling a tv station in the South to literally gently caress off when they complained about Uhura, to being super racist and sexists in meetings during TNG.
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I haven’t watched since my last binge in like... 2010? It’s even better this time around. I love how Katsulas just chews the gently caress out of the scenery when G’kar is pissed. MOLAAAAAARIIIIIII
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SlothfulCobra posted:I don't know if it's so much unrealistic as in impossible as it is just unrealistic as in people stopped caring about the moon. It's probably possible to put down some buildings up there and even send people to stay there for years at a time, but there isn't really interest for it so far as I know. Everybody's just speculating about getting a human being to Mars. Reminds me of when colonies get brought up in Star Trek. The colonies are usually on pristine M class planets with like... a few thousand on them? Stargate too, usually a village cantered around the gate and little else on an entire planet.
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Jul 7, 2018 06:26
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There's all kinds of film flaws that show up on the Amazon Prime content. I actually kind of like it, it's like an old school movie. Also lol in Season 2 Ep 20 the guy who did the Civ 5 tech quotes is in this episode as a Narn. skooma512 fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jul 8, 2018 |
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Jul 8, 2018 04:27
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Season 3 Episode 8: It starts out with Sheridan and Garbaldi astonished that Ivanova has been served bacon and scrambled eggs. A tremendous luxury, since you can't get them out to Babylon 5 due to distance. In the exact same episode "It's two days travel time to Earth space". 
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Jul 10, 2018 03:35
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I also like they weave it into the story later but using the markab gate as a weapon, because it's not being used by anyone by scavengers now. This is far better than having an entire species wiped out and it not having any kind of consequences later. I'm getting toward mid-season 4 and it's so much better the second time around/now that I'm older. Is season 5 worth watching? I just stopped at Sleeping in Light last time.
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Jul 15, 2018 05:56
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William Edgers in S4E16 used the Russians as example of handing over power willingly to strongmen, in 1917 and 2013. They arguably did when they allowed Medvedev to hand the Presidency back to Putin, in 2012  I know this is total confirmation bias but Russia seems to attract all these weird little predictions. Ghost Recon 1 in 2001 depicted Russians invading South Ossetia in 2008, they ended up doing exactly that.
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Jul 17, 2018 07:26
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I do like how the Vorlons were not the obligate good guys, and in fact were fairly evil themselves. It is a nice twist and change of pace for the ancient races to be really two sides of the same coin and the other races are the actual protagonists.
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Jul 18, 2018 23:43
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Darth Freddy posted:A haha just watched this episode yesterday and yeah G'kar looked Tottaly defeated and beaten down then comes up with that bad rear end statement. There’s a free Freespace 2 total conversion called The Babylon Project where you can play with B5 ships and even a few campaigns
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Jul 20, 2018 14:53
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SlothfulCobra posted:I think the main problem with a prequel is that there wouldn't be a central venue for all the diplomacy. I would like another show in a similar spirit though. Yeah that's the thing with this show. The sets are so dark, especially down below. I mean I get why, but you would think lighting up service areas would be a priority and more LEDs would probably be a rounding error for the fusion reactor production. Especially considering tons of people live down there and they'd like to be able to see. Homeless people today figure out how to get power off street lights. Speaking of the reactor, I love how it's not a focal point of action at all, and you can't even access it easily. There's only one episode where it appears.
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Jul 29, 2018 23:02
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I said come in! posted:Zack Allen just wanted a few extra credits each month, now he is a space Nazi. Evil is mundane
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Aug 1, 2018 03:37
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Pick posted:It's surprising in the sense that what JMS did was totally above and beyond what anyone had ever done with respect to planning a long TV story with like infinite contingency plans. It really does boggle the mind that these creative types intend to tell a narrative.... but fly totally by the seat of their pants episode to episode and end up painting themselves into corners.
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I like how Earth and humanity, unlike in pretty much every other sci-fi show and game, is more of a malevolent force than anything else most of the time. It doesn't even get better with time, since they're actively trying to discredit the ISA later by manipulating history and then they go and destroy themselves
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hope and vaseline posted:The main rule I think was that as elder races, they leave each other alone direcly. However, the Shadows' philosophy of strength through chaos never prevented them from openly attacking the younger races to force them to respond. The Vorlons' philosophy of strength through order put themselves in a sort of non-interference model, but they got through with the loophole by seeding the younger races with ways to respond to the Shadows, via telepaths. It's almost like a secretive arms-race they were supplying them with. I do like how the Vorlons weren't just consummate good guys. They used the younger races as pawns and didn't give a poo poo about them at all. skooma512 fucked around with this message at 17:38 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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