What seems to start as a cheesy Star Trek monster of the week ripoff turns into amazing character development and years-long plot developments from an era where that’s not what TV was.
The Penn and Teller episode was amazing. I can’t think of a better use of comedy in science fiction. There may be funnier shows, but this one actually dealt with humor as a part of people’s culture.
I stopped B5 after the resolution of the shadow wars. which apparently only needed a plucky American to explain that that whole thing was pointless and they all just went away.
Yes. And do so knowing that the whole thing was supposed to be a five season arc, then they got told “no you get four” so hastily wrapped up the war only to be told “have another season!”
So they pulled an entire season out of their arse on the fly and in this year it is very. Very relevant
That arc is great. The followup is the earth civil war arc which is pretty great. You won’t enjoy the last season, even though I find a lot of it good.
😂 that being said, is crazy to think that that was actually cutting edge CGI, pretty sure we still called them Silicon graphics at that time maybe. B5, ReBoot, crash test dummies, those three were pioneers from a tv show production CGI.
I’m curious what those first shows in other countries were like
Babylon 5 is great for those looking for a series.
Preach.
I think it’s time for another rewatch.
Yes! B5 is awesome!
What seems to start as a cheesy Star Trek monster of the week ripoff turns into amazing character development and years-long plot developments from an era where that’s not what TV was.
I’ve been watching that and Deep Space Nine.
DS9 is the more well known, but I think Babylon 5 was more hard sci-fi
They’re both good
Farscape was also on TV way back then right after so it was amazing
The Penn and Teller episode was amazing. I can’t think of a better use of comedy in science fiction. There may be funnier shows, but this one actually dealt with humor as a part of people’s culture.
I stopped B5 after the resolution of the shadow wars. which apparently only needed a plucky American to explain that that whole thing was pointless and they all just went away.
Seems pointless to continue after that.
Should I continue?
Yes. And do so knowing that the whole thing was supposed to be a five season arc, then they got told “no you get four” so hastily wrapped up the war only to be told “have another season!”
So they pulled an entire season out of their arse on the fly and in this year it is very. Very relevant
That arc is great. The followup is the earth civil war arc which is pretty great. You won’t enjoy the last season, even though I find a lot of it good.
I read that as “great looking” at first.
Yeah it uhhhh has some rough visuals lol. Works well though, and the uniforms are mostly incredible
😂 that being said, is crazy to think that that was actually cutting edge CGI, pretty sure we still called them Silicon graphics at that time maybe. B5, ReBoot, crash test dummies, those three were pioneers from a tv show production CGI.
I’m curious what those first shows in other countries were like