Babylon 5 blind watch thread: Maybe they're Zorlons?

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Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

head58 posted:

Sense8 is a glorious mess.

I still love the Jeremiah. a Very underrated post-apocalyptic show.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2020 22:44

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# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 23:37

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

MonsieurChoc posted:

Isn't it based on an eurocomic? I haven't watched the show but I read some of the books way back and there probably wasn't an episode named Afromerica.

the Show has little to do with the comics. One of the main characters name is Jeremiah and it's post-apocalyptic. That's about it for the similarities. It's 99,99% JMS show.

# ¿ Jun 3, 2020 23:11

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

Sad King Billy posted:

Absolutely nothing relating past 2:1 in that spoiler. I can assure you of that but I'll stay in other thread from now on.

I put it in a spoiler because I didn't know if Aardvark or The Doctor were the only people doing the watch-through.

them in the main thread in tviv.

There's couple rewatchers there, but no organized reviewing.

# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 15:01

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

So how do you guys like the B5 soundtrack and -scape so far?

# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 15:18

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

TheAardvark posted:

Not sure. Spoiler it for me?

Here it is as an image.

spoilers for S2E15 - And Now for a Word:

https://i.imgur.com/s4b9ZLZ. jpg

Edit: Remove space before jpg when copypasting.

Issaries fucked around with this message at 21:39 on Jul 13, 2020

# ¿ Jul 13, 2020 21:33

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

ultrafilter posted:

Might want to break that link in case anyone's reading on mobile. The Awful App likes to inline a lot of images.

You can goatse awful app users with just urls? Lol.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2020 21:40

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

The_Doctor posted:

S2Ep22 - The Fall of Night

Welles is particularly slimy, coming across as a pound shop Kyle Maclachlan. And Zack finally realises what Night Watch actually is, with carting off shopkeepers for thought crimes. �Ohhh they�re fascists.� Good job Kenickie. They�ve got no problem attempting to openly recruit Ivanova (would they have given her the Captain post if he refused to apologise?), and make no bones about being quite fash and gestapo-esque. But Lantz (higher up in the MoP) doesn�t seem to know what they do? Or just had never concerned himself with them? Seeing EarthGov go full facist is quite depressing right now, as you know <gestures at everything happening>.

Current times and viewers experiences really change the scene.
Late '90s were such an optimistic era and fasc-ish earth felt such a fresh take on a scifi setting for a teen me.
Today the optimistic Trek-ish future would be the freshest take.

# ¿ Aug 18, 2020 10:44

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

ultrafilter posted:

As long as you don't read the pages for episodes you haven't watched, the Lurker's Guide has no spoilers. It was a site that was developed in the 90s by fans who were watching the show. It contains their analysis of the plot/characters/etc. and a list of unanswered questions from each episode, but none of that was written by people who knew anything past the most recently aired episode. Of course it's your call as to whether you want to consume that sort of material during a first watch, but it's not something you absolutely have to avoid.

I followed the Lurker�s guide back in the 90:s, when the show was on Finnish tv. We were 2-3 season behind the American tv, but I never felt, that I was spoiled by the guide. It�s a good source for B5 trivia and spoiler free speculation.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2021 16:05

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

Alhazred posted:

It's also an episode that establish that Franklin always consider himself to be in the right. He's not out of touch, it's the patients that are wrong.

More on the believers

Franklin is legally wrong. Is he morally right or wrong can be debated.
Factually he is correct and parents and their culture is poo poo, but it isn't our place to 'fix it'.
Alien species aren't subjects to human laws/morality when dealing with their own people. Which is a necessary for a neutral station to work.
Human alliance isn't USA and can't force their cultural values on aliens.

Aliens want to kill their young? As long as it doesn't disrupt the functioning of the station. :shrug:

Narns doing Narn things? Not our problem. Narns and Centauris having disagreement? That's a problem.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2022 10:33

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

Secret to B5 budget was to get most of the background props from LA flea markets.

That's an alien decander! :okpos:

# ¿ Mar 1, 2022 21:18

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# ¿ Mar 25, 2023 23:37

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

I'd consider your short absence being just a traditional short break between seasons.
We're all looking forward to your impressions/reactions.

# ¿ Mar 18, 2022 13:27

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