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ConfusedUs posted:ooh la la la la la la! There we go.
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# ¿ Jul 2, 2018 20:41 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:16 |
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ZRM posted:Yeah actually, this brings up a good point. The Shadows would have liked them, cause they wiped out the Hyac-do, showing the Hyac were stronger. Except the Hyach wiping out the Hyach-do is an object lesson in how that kind of thinking is ultimately self-destructive. It's the sort of thing that the Shadows would kick under the rug and never bring up again.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2018 00:50 |
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Doctor Zero posted:I think one of them is supposed to be Kosh. Ask us again later about more details. Answering your question would spoil a bunch. Nah, the two encounter suits are identical and neither one looks like Kosh's rig.
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# ¿ Jul 25, 2018 06:10 |
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SlothfulCobra posted:Not so much involuntarily celibate as voluntarily only being open to loving one woman who was not having it. Although I suppose most of the incel movement confuses an unwillingness put some effort into dating with being shut out by the rest of the human race, so maybe. Terminal Nice Guy Syndrome. In one case, literally.
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# ¿ Jul 30, 2018 20:28 |
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Pick posted:God why is Rick Berman such a god damned stupid rear end in a top hat Drugs. Grand Fromage posted:And the main theme/opening credits was by far the best part of Voyager. Voyager didn't deserve that opening theme.
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# ¿ Aug 21, 2018 05:31 |
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Bieeanshee posted:That sequence always puts me in mind of Holst. That's because it rips off "Mars, Bringer of War" quite shamelessly.
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# ¿ Aug 23, 2018 06:14 |
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Tragedienne posted:That being said, it seems like 80% of the time Security opens fire with a PPG, they then check the target's pulse, and confirm they are dead. Is the PPG just that consistently lethal? Do they not have lower settings, or something less lethal? No lower power less-lethal mode to a PPG, very deliberately. When JMS used to chat with fans on Usenet, he was fond of making GBS threads on Star Trek's phasers by saying that "Stun settings are for people who can't commit." Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Aug 25, 2018 |
# ¿ Aug 25, 2018 00:18 |
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Narsham posted:Unlike most of the novels, these three are worth tracking down. Garabaldi gets what might be his best line in the final book. The Centauri trilogy is definitely the best of the B5 tie-in novels (although I have heard some folks argue for the Psi-Corps trilogy) but I honestly have a real soft spot for the Technomage books. They aren't as well written, but I liked the Technomages on the show and a deep look at their society, origins, and role in the Shadow War and beyond was neat to see. It gives away a mystery the show deliberately (and pointedly) left unsolved though, so I understand why they're not well-liked.
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# ¿ Sep 8, 2018 09:13 |
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Torrannor posted:Oh yes, but it can be so amazing. Like in season 4, when Cartagia has G'kar whipped. It's just a dark room with a chair for Cartagia and something to chain G'kar to. It really focuses the scene on the characters, and makes it all the more chilling. There's also the entirety of the S4 episode "Intersections in Real Time" which I recall hearing was originally supposed to be the season finale. Maelstache posted:That also reminds me of weird situation with Mary Kay Adams replacing Caitlin Brown in as Na'toth, JMS apparently hated her performance so much she was given the push after filming two episodes. Yeah, apparently she was cast as Na'Toth on the strength of an audition that was very different for how she chose to play the character on camera. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Nov 4, 2018 |
# ¿ Nov 4, 2018 12:25 |
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Tsaedje posted:Babylons 1-4 span in both directions. Now what went into deciding which colours they were, that might be interesting. Where did we find out the first Babylon Station was red? Did that get a throwaway line in an episode or did JMS say it at some point?
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2018 04:54 |
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Oh man, it's been so long since I watched that I'd forgotten. Thanks.
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# ¿ Nov 10, 2018 05:21 |
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Delsaber posted:I vaguely remember years later she turned up as an anchor on CNN Headline News of all places and Jon Stewart made fun of her once. Unless that was a fever dream I had. I got curious. https://www.cc.com/video-clips/mi0k05/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-headlines---this-is-cnn-
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 01:25 |
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Midjack posted:Thompson's marriage to Doyle was disintegrating at that time too, and if you had to pick between them, Garibaldi was the one to keep. I keep seeing this, but "Divided Loyalties" was shot in early 1995, and Doyle and Thompson got married that year and divorced two years later, so the timing g doesn't add up.
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# ¿ Nov 16, 2018 02:11 |
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Jedit posted:It was. With the original cast, Laurel Takashima was the Psi-Corps sleeper agent and it would have been her who shot Garibaldi, not his second. I haven't checked this myself, but this is allegedly foreshadowed all the way back in The Gathering, where an Earthforce access code is used to let the would-be assassin do something or other, and it's Takashima's code or hand or whatever in the shot.
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# ¿ Nov 17, 2018 01:10 |
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In the Beginning is probably the best of the lot. I'd say it's worth a watch.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2018 23:07 |
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Grand Fromage posted:Legend of the Rangers is the bad one. If you ignore all other opinions in this thread, heed this one. Ye be warned.
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# ¿ Dec 9, 2018 00:28 |
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Polaron posted:I'm like 90% sure JMS has mentioned that Earth would have won the Earth-Minbari War (or at least fought the Minbari to a standstill) if it wasn't for Minbar's stealth tech that kept Earthforce weapons from locking on. For all their technological superiority the Minbari aren't all that good at fighting and Earth warships were incredibly heavily-armed. Yeah, EarthForce had already pasted another older, higher-tech enemy in the Dilgar War, so it's not out of the realm of possibility that they might have been able to beat the Minbari in a straight slugging match. B5 always did have a sort of "humans are special badasses" aesthetic that reminds me of some of the "Humanity, gently caress yeah!" stuff from Tumblr, 4chan and the like that gets passed around. Yes, including the vaguely fascist feel.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2018 03:30 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I really love Draal for just being the least Minbari-esque Minbari. He's so old and wise he just does not give two shits about decorum and tradition anymore. I recall Dukhat having some similar characterization the few times we saw him in flashbacks. There were a couple points he basically told the rest of the Grey Council to quit being assholes, assholes. Maybe it's the beard.
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2018 06:23 |
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Eh. Just about all the B5 universe material outside the actual shown and a handful of novels has been sort of crap. Legend of the Rangers, Lost Tales, even Crusade wasn't really up to par. I'd rather leave it where it is than be disappointed.
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# ¿ Jan 18, 2019 01:30 |
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:I think it would have been Billy Mumy, right? That would have been a very different show. Woohoo?
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# ¿ Jan 29, 2019 14:59 |
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Those are not contradictory statements.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2019 02:34 |
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Larry G. DiTillio, who served as executive story editor for Babylon 5, has died. Given what we know of JMS' original story plans, I wonder how much we have DiTillio to thank for the series we actually got? Anyone know?
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2019 06:58 |
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Baronjutter posted:His whole life is about maximizing karma points or what ever, he's like Doug from The Good Place who figured out the point system and is living a 100% selfless life to maximize his points, but not because he's an actual good dude who cares about the world, simply because he's gotta maximize his good place points. Leneer sees the entire world as something he just has to endure and roll his eyes at over the hope he'll what.. get enough soul points for the universe to reward him with Delen? I could see the guy going full incel mass-shooter the moment he knows that ship has sailed or his religion's just some myths and moral guidance. This is something I didn't catch about Lennier until about my second or third run through the series, and it made something that happens later make a lot more sense when it had previously pissed me off at how out of character it seemed. Good catch, this early.
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# ¿ May 1, 2019 04:15 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:The In'cel'Shok. Led by Incel'Zha.
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# ¿ May 3, 2019 01:16 |
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I can't recall where I saw this, but allegedly Intersections in Real Time was supposed to be the S4 finale, and the assault on Earth take up a big chunk of early S5. Talk about a cliffhanger. Edit: Here we go. http://jmsnews.com/messages/message?id=9182 jms posted:(blocked) asks: Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 01:40 on May 17, 2019 |
# ¿ May 17, 2019 01:37 |
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:The E3 demo of Into the Fire got leaked to the Internet a few years ago. It looks like it might've been an actually decent sci-fi flight game had it not been canned. Part of the soundtrack got released too, and it whips rear end https://youtu.be/2hAtD3zqJMU
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2019 05:13 |
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Doctor Zero posted:I always took it to be like a psychic re-writing that they programmed into the younger races. I don’t think it has to be consciously projected. I think it just kind of happens and has to be specifically overridden. After Kosh rescues Sheridan from the tram bomb, he remarks that it was exhausting being seen by so many of the younger races. General thought is that means it's something the Vorlon do actively, that takes effort.
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 01:02 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:Yeah, the real answer is "it's the pilot, things changed". And the in-universe explanation is "It's Vorlons, I ain't gotta explain poo poo."
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2019 03:14 |
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I feel teased.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2019 16:45 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:There tends to be more history than what's currently written in a show set 250 years in the future. Right, but once you notice it, the pattern of "Michaelangelo, Picasso, Vax'azarb" gets really loving annoying after a while. Star Trek is guilty of this too.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2019 18:27 |
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CainFortea posted:
There we go. I'm still salty.
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# ¿ Jul 10, 2019 01:05 |
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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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# ¿ Sep 8, 2019 21:01 |
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ROY G BIV Babylon 6 will be indigo!
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# ¿ Sep 22, 2019 18:35 |
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I have all three post-show trilogies in paperback () but then I'm the guy that will defend the Technomage trilogy. One of these days I do need to try to pick up To Dream in the City of Sorrows. If it's not $300 by now.
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# ¿ Oct 2, 2019 02:51 |
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TraderStav posted:Good grief, superb. I want you to remember that you said this when you get to the end of Season 3.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2019 06:13 |
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Tim Choate was a treasure, god drat.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2019 14:44 |
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TraderStav posted:Didn't the Agamemnon destroy a Minbari capital ship and thus survived the war? No, that was the Lexington. Sheridan was its first officer, took command when the captain was killed, and blew up the Black Star. He was promoted and given the new-built Agamemnon after the war.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 21:28 |
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TraderStav posted:Was that in the show by mid season 3 or in later or other content? I don't remember that amount of specificity. Most of the details are in In the Beginning. I don't recall to what extent anything was known before that, just that we knew he destroyed Black Star in a way the Minbari still have some resentment over right away in "Points of Departure". Upon doing some digging, the trap was discussed in "There All the Honor Lies" but I don't think we hear about Lexington specifically until ITB. Man, time for me to do a rewatch.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 21:38 |
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Tsaedje posted:B4 was a way to rules lawyer their way out of directly interfering in the little competition they have going I was always curious how much warning the Vorlons and their agents had that Babylon 4 was the station to look out for, and when and where it would be constructed. We know the Shadows' minions were at least somewhat surprised to see it. Were there at least some Vorlons who looked up and went "Oh poo poo, THAT'S where it came from. Welp, time to get hijackin'."
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 21:54 |
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# ¿ Mar 29, 2024 12:16 |
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Soylent Pudding posted:Not an empty quote. Always hated their arrogance in a way I never did the Klingons. There's a reason the Minbari get called "Space Elves" and it's not complimentary.
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# ¿ Oct 20, 2019 23:14 |