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MrL_JaKiri posted:S5: 10am on a Sunday morning during a beach themed breakfast show I still remember that Christmas, when they broadcast the final few episodes with a great big obnoxiously-coloured clock in the bottom corner! Channel 4 were great insofar as getting international premieres of the final few episodes of each season, but by the end they really didn't care. At least they were nice enough to have a repeat run of the series at 1am on Monday mornings...
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Question to the newbies - what triggered watching Babylon 5? As far as I'm aware it's now only available on DVD (wasn't it taken down from Amazon Prime?), so to have several people all jumping in at the same time is a welcome surprise. I'm enjoying watching this thread; but unlike something like Star Trek which is on Netflix it seems like this is a less likely show to have multiple people start fresh at the same time.
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Jun 4, 2020 16:55
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TheAardvark posted:Wow, they originally showed it 5 nights a week? That's crazy, but man watching this show air like that in 93 must have been incredible. No - those dates are from when Sci-Fi repeated the show daily. Babylon 5 was originally broadcast weekly.
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Jun 4, 2020 19:00
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Elder Postsman posted:I just noticed that the newspaper uses the same font as the TNG credits. I like how it references past episodes - the Raghesh 3 situation from 'Midnight on the Firing Line' and the Home Guard from 'The War Prayer'
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Jun 4, 2020 21:10
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Londo shouting "VIR!" is one of life's little pleasures One of my favourite B5 stories is how Peter Jurasik gets into character as Mollari. He would sit up straight, shout out ‘MEEster GariBALdi!’, and he’s there.
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Jun 8, 2020 22:46
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TheAardvark posted:
Regarding the first point: This is an error on the US DVDs - the episodes as broadcast had Delenn in her S1 Minbari makeup up until her reveal. Thankfully the UK DVDs had this error corrected.
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Jun 9, 2020 02:33
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Regarding one of the guest stars:quote:
Did you see what they did with her name? Maybe look at it the other way...
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Jun 22, 2020 23:23
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Timov is my favourite. Holy poo poo, every line of hers is absolute acid-filled gold. The whole plotline was a delight, and I had a strong feeling Londo was going to choose her, particularly for her honesty.
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The one thing I remember about Furlan was how she had barely escaped from one of the war-torn ex-Yugoslavia countries and had been in the US barely a year before she was hired for Babylon 5.
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Jul 2, 2020 19:49
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Regarding a dialogue flub:The_Doctor posted:
IIRC when this was originally broadcast in the UK (scheduling quirks meant the last few episodes of each season were broadcast there before they were in the US) Sheridan indeed said West End - this was reported back to JMS on Usenet and he was able to get it corrected for all subsequent broadcasts.
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Aug 13, 2020 02:34
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My problem with the Season 3 cast credits is that there seems to be no consistency with how they’re directed - some of them are trying to be stoic and straight faced, Vir looks terrified and then you have Dr Franklin and Zack Allen grinning away!
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Aug 22, 2020 16:35
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Regarding the general... General Hague was supposed to be in this episode, but the actor portraying him chose to do the DS9 episodes Homefront and Paradise Lost so meaning he wasn’t available. As a result, JMS intentionally killed off Hague off-screen as revenge. As noted, it actually works out better for the story, and JMS had intended for him to die sooner rather than later.
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Sep 20, 2020 00:52
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The_Doctor posted:Me in the UK: "cool." Apparently the remastered editions are also available on Amazon Prime too - a UK twitter account I follow had purchased them and was commenting how they were significantly better. Zorak of Michigan posted:I am pissed as hell that there's no Blu-Ray release planned. I want to own, not depend on some provider to maintain the streaming rights. Did anything come of those Babylon 5 Blurays which were listed on an online shop?
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Jan 26, 2021 20:59
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The_Doctor posted:S3ep18 - Walkabout IIRC JMS wrote that song himself, so I suspect he wanted to get as much airtime as he could with it...
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Feb 18, 2021 02:26
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discoukulele posted:s02e14 – And Now For a Word Hopefully you caught the bonus message they snuck in?
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Nov 28, 2021 03:33
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CainFortea posted:Most of B5's intros are pertinent to the story, but they are the same through the season. So if you see it once, you're good for that season. But I believe the first 1/4 of season 2 SHOULD be skipped on streaming platforms because it actually spoils something in that season. I think they fixed that spoiler on the streaming platforms - the spoiler was on the US DVDs (but not the UK ones!)
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Feb 25, 2022 22:06
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alexandriao posted:Its nice to see this storyline expanded on, but idk if it adds much to the story as a whole. I guess it had to be ripped out of season 4 because of the cancellation rumours? Spoilers for some behind the scenes goings on: Thirdspace (along with In the Beginning) weren't planned when they were filming Season 4, but when TNT took on B5 for Season 5 after the cancellation they wanted some TV movies as well. ItB worked as an introduction for new viewers, and Thirdspace worked as a movie which didn't need intricate knowledge of the B5 arc.
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Mar 19, 2022 22:14
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Ellison was involved in the series (he co-writes an episode in the final season) - it’s definitely not a paying him off situation. JMS (the creator and writer of Babylon 5) has been long involved with Ellison and I believe he’s in charge of his creative estate or something like that.
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May 3, 2022 17:57
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I think the Season 3 blooper reel on the DVD has someone screwing up that word!
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May 30, 2022 20:39
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Powered Descent posted:
This is down to Sleeping in Light being the final episode filmed of season 4, so it retained the season 4 cast in its credits (which also explains why Ivanova is in this episode and not the season 4 finale, since that was filmed as the first episode of Season 5). I don’t know which version you’re watching, but the originally broadcast credits for the season 4 finale are specifically edited to remove Ivanova (and I assume Marcus?). The DVD release incorrectly has the regular Season 4 credits for the finale rather than the edited one. I think the HBO Max version has the correct credits? And here’s the thread full of spoilers! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3785889 Zaroff fucked around with this message at 02:06 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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I’d avoid looking other things up - there’s a lot in Babylon 5 which benefit from coming in blind!
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