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Anonymous No.211499413 >>211499707 >>211500665 >>211501285 >>211501747 >>211503081 >>211504297 >>211504348 >>211520583 >>211523630 >>211531168 >>211534924 >>211536309 >>211539295 >>211539814 >>211543295 >>211554091 >>211556632 >>211558512 >>211561519 >>211570965
The greatest kino there ever was, or ever will be.
Anonymous No.211499466 >>211502287
Excluding the first half of season 5
Anonymous No.211499492
garibaldi rob the post office
Anonymous No.211499532 >>211511492
>kmf
Anonymous No.211499579 >>211500495 >>211500686 >>211501558 >>211505390 >>211522698 >>211536231 >>211541528 >>211555557 >>211556845 >>211564990
What do you want?
Anonymous No.211499707 >>211505290
>>211499413 (OP)
It absolutely is. Complete kino.
Anonymous No.211499847 >>211500900 >>211505290
more like baby yawn dive
Anonymous No.211500361
DS9 clears
Anonymous No.211500495 >>211528528
>>211499579
>What do you want?
Anonymous No.211500665 >>211500730 >>211500841 >>211502437 >>211504982 >>211511742 >>211535282 >>211536102 >>211536292 >>211537170 >>211564098
>>211499413 (OP)
God disagrees
Anonymous No.211500686 >>211510784
>>211499579
Wine, women, song
Anonymous No.211500730
>>211500665
>disagrees
He's calling them back to heaven early for a revival show.
Anonymous No.211500841
>>211500665
>West Nile Virus
Anonymous No.211500900
>>211499847
in the name of the egg I will cut you.
Anonymous No.211501285 >>211505290
>>211499413 (OP)
Couldn't agree more. Babylon 5 is possibly the best sci-fi ever put to screen.
The overall story arc is so unbelievably well-executed, the special effects and the costumes etc felt beyond their time; and every race of alien, every inividual, had such great importance. The Bible WISHES it was as cohesive as the Babylon 5 story.
Truly a masterpiece of filmmaking. To any lurking motherfucker reading this thread - start watching Babylon 5! It is astonishingly good. If you have time to dick arpund on 4chan you have time to start watching this masterpiece
Anonymous No.211501558
>>211499579
God, I hated him. "Mister Mooooorden..."
Slimy piece of shit tried to worm his way in many times but I'm glad they axed him the fucking pussy
Anonymous No.211501747 >>211501912 >>211505290
>>211499413 (OP)
tripe
it's not even the best series with 5 in the title
Anonymous No.211501912 >>211522838
>>211501747
Based Party of Five enjoyer.
Anonymous No.211502287
>>211499466
Whatever happened there...
Anonymous No.211502437
>>211500665
F
Anonymous No.211503081 >>211504204 >>211507033 >>211510526 >>211510784 >>211518868 >>211522903 >>211528559 >>211536270
>>211499413 (OP)
Fun fact: Many people wonder why Claudia’s Babylon 5 character completely changed between seasons. According to her autobiography, Claudia had dinner with JMS after the first season and they had an awkward moment when she realized that JMS considered it a date and she didn't. JMS thought she was into older guys because she had been married to Gary Devore (google that guy, very deep and unsolved rabbit hole) who was 24 years her senior. However, Claudia had at this point decided that she liked really young guys more and was dating dudes who were literally still in high school. She claims JMS never treated her the same after that dinner and discovering that she was turning into a cougar.
Anonymous No.211503322
Claudia is one of the worst actresses of all time desu and her replacement was 100x better. Also alcoholics are subhumans.
Anonymous No.211504204 >>211504484 >>211505138 >>211535964 >>211536376
>>211503081
her autobiography is interesting
Anonymous No.211504297 >>211505290
>>211499413 (OP)
Overrated warm shit. Cardboard cut out sets and special effects created by Indians using commodre 64s
Anonymous No.211504348
>>211499413 (OP)
Prince Vintari is relentlessly handsome.
Anonymous No.211504484
>>211504204
You left out the part where the guy forgot he shot her lmao
Anonymous No.211504982
>>211500665
Claudia Christensen:

"Chuckle. I'm in danger."
Anonymous No.211505138
>>211504204
Sounds more like a Borged tribble than a "morphed" tribble, whatever that is.
Anonymous No.211505290
>>211501285
>>211499707

This is FRESH spoo!

>>211501747
>>211504297
>>211499847

This is NOT fresh spoo
Anonymous No.211505390
>>211499579
I WANT PRE 2007 INTERNET
I WANT 4CHAN UNKNOWN OR FEARED AS A BREEDING GROUND OF CYBERTERRORISM
I WANT FURRIES QUARANTINED TO TUMBLR AND DEVIANTART
I WANT WOMEN POSTING THEIR TITS OR GETTING THE FO
I WANT IT ALL BACK
Anonymous No.211505598
>What's with the hat?
>Keeps the rain off my head.
Anonymous No.211505698 >>211505757 >>211534768
>homeless people on a space station
dumbest shit of all time
Anonymous No.211505757 >>211505788 >>211505896
>>211505698
you think everyone would just be given a free home? what, you some kind of socialist?
Anonymous No.211505788
>>211505757
>people having homes is le bad
>now pay us 50 million for this shack
Anonymous No.211505896 >>211507258
>>211505757
the homeless population of earth's current space stations: 0
Anonymous No.211507033 >>211537633
>>211503081
>It's another "Ivanova is performing at the strip club in down below" episode
Anonymous No.211507258 >>211508102 >>211520310
>>211505896
Americans get stuck on ISS all the time and have to dance for russian cosmonauts to get by. Last time it was for like 10 months.
Anonymous No.211508102 >>211508303
>>211507258
American/Russian "space" stations are entirely irrelevant. The only space stations in the future will be Chinese, and there are 0 homeless there and there will never be more than 0 homeless there.
Anonymous No.211508303 >>211508965 >>211510580
>>211508102
Anonymous No.211508849
Anonymous No.211508965
>>211508303
I always forget aj applegate was in b5.
Anonymous No.211509105 >>211509255
Anonymous No.211509255 >>211510923 >>211511326 >>211543574
>>211509105
lando's whole story is fucking sad
nigga literally never catch a break during the whole show except for the day of the dead
Anonymous No.211510526
>>211503081
What changed with her character exactly?
Anonymous No.211510580
>>211508303
all that to make earth great again
Anonymous No.211510784
>>211503081

Probably had more to do with her being a full blown alcoholic than anything.

>>211500686

Based Mollari poster.
Anonymous No.211510923 >>211511233
>>211509255
that's his own fault for using his dick to cheat at cards
Anonymous No.211511233
>>211510923
Anonymous No.211511326
>>211509255

He made a deal with Morden and fucked himself over just to get ahead.
Anonymous No.211511492
>>211499532
And Londo is war
Anonymous No.211511674
I've been meaning to get around to this but Sci fi and 90s shows in general feel more like stuff to watch in the winter you know? I don't feel so bad binge watching shit when it gets dark outside at 15:30pm and there's nothing else I could be doing. Got a bunch of shows and games I'm saving for the winter desu.
Anonymous No.211511742 >>211536102
>>211500665
There's some sick irony in dying of alcoholism when your character was all about giving up alcohol.
Anonymous No.211514210 >>211517903
This is a Purple board.
Anonymous No.211516098 >>211516290
Friendship ended with Londo
Now G'Kar is my best friend
Anonymous No.211516290 >>211517725 >>211522648
>>211516098
>Let's go back to my quarters, and I'll show you how Narns party hard!
Anonymous No.211517725 >>211554535 >>211572225
>>211516290
Mustache-twirling villain becomes Saint Paul 2
Hello, based department?
Anonymous No.211517903
>>211514210
>green board, filthy p*rple
Anonymous No.211518868 >>211519408 >>211522912 >>211533771 >>211536270
>>211503081
What I always thought was weird was how they wrote her out of the show.
First they have her in a pitched battle making a heroic sacrifice, which would be a fine way to write off a character.
But then she survived, but was in a coma that could last forever or end tomorrow, which would be a fine way to write off a character.
But then that incel rangerbro decides to sacrifice himself to bring her back to life so she could decide to fuck off forever to a post where we will never see or hear from them again, which of the three options presented to write off a character is the most clunky while also sacrificing another side character.
Anonymous No.211519408 >>211520211
>>211518868
>while also sacrificing another side character
Yeah, but... nothing of value was lost there.
Anonymous No.211520211 >>211520356 >>211520424
>>211519408
I never much liked him, but still they could have had poochie just go back to help train new rangers, or whatever.
Its killing two birds with five stones.
Anonymous No.211520310
>>211507258
Not anymore retard.
Anonymous No.211520356
>>211520211
>O Poocheo, Poocheo, wherefore are thou Poocheo?
Anonymous No.211520424
>>211520211
>O Poocheo, Poocheo, wherefore art thou Poocheo?
Anonymous No.211520567
I couldn't get into this show in the 3 times I've tried over the years.
Anonymous No.211520583
>>211499413 (OP)
realfact
Anonymous No.211520651
I easily got into this show the first time I tried. Watched it multiple times plus the movies.
Anonymous No.211520884
I watched this show once, easily, and enjoyed it a whole lot but don't plan to watch it again.
Anonymous No.211522648 >>211523353
>>211516290
Wish I had G'kar's animal magnetism
Anonymous No.211522698 >>211522806 >>211536141 >>211569625
>>211499579
>phases into realspace without needing a jump gate or opening a jump point
>immune to your younger race weapons
>slices up your ship like a hot knife through butter
>turns 360 back into hyperspace
hehe, nothin personnel kid
Anonymous No.211522806 >>211523294 >>211523741
>>211522698
Babylon 5 did mysterious ancient advanced aliens so much better than star trek
Anonymous No.211522838
>>211501912
>everybody wants to live how they wanna live and
>everybody wants to love how they wanna love and
>everybody wants to be closer to free
Anonymous No.211522903
>>211503081
I was a teenager when this show was broadcast and I thought Claudia was hot. It's kinda nice to know she would have fucked me if she had the chance (I would have give her that chance)
Anonymous No.211522912 >>211536270
>>211518868
She wasn't meant to be written off. When the show got picked up for season 5 the actors had to sign immediately. She did not want to do the full episode order because she wanted time to make movies. The producers said no and talks fell through. The first half of season 5 was really bad. I don't think Ivanona banging Byron would have made it better.
Anonymous No.211523294
>>211522806
star trek's ancient and advanced aliens didn't give a shit about the material plane anymore
Anonymous No.211523353 >>211528375
>>211522648
step 1: be homosexual
Anonymous No.211523630 >>211523819 >>211524089 >>211551014 >>211569822
>>211499413 (OP)
SG-1 Blows it out of the water, and most people would agree Farscape is superior. TNG goes without saying.
Babylon 5 does have the most Kino alien races and spaceship designs though.
Anonymous No.211523741 >>211536157 >>211554170
>>211522806
Babylon 5 got the power scaling right in a way Star Trek never did. Realistically the Enterprise (and the probably the Federation as a whole) would have stood no chance against the Borg. The way Babylon 5 showed the difference between the older races and the younger races and how the former completely outclassed the latter was a more accurate representation.
Anonymous No.211523819
>>211523630
>most people would agree Farscape is superior
lol no it totally falls apart
>TNG goes without saying.
it doesn't even have a plot, different kind of series
Anonymous No.211524089
>>211523630
for the love of god find a way to stop sucking so much cock
Anonymous No.211525134 >>211528832
i sometimes walk around my apartment saying "ahhh, mr garibaldi" out loud, trying my best to imitate londo's voice
Anonymous No.211528375
>>211523353
Let's get gay married
Anonymous No.211528528
>>211500495
Foreshadowing
Anonymous No.211528559
>>211503081
She is 9 years younger than he.
Anonymous No.211528832 >>211533494
>>211525134
misstaa molarrrriii
Anonymous No.211531168
>>211499413 (OP)
It's now the second best just behind Andor.
Anonymous No.211533494
>>211528832
MY DEER GOOD FRIEND
Anonymous No.211533771
>>211518868
They couldn't have killed her off, as she was in the final episode of the show, which was made at the end of S04, then they got renewed for S05.

IIRC some miscommunications during contract negotiations meant she didn't come back for S05
Anonymous No.211534768
>>211505698
It’s like living on Hawaii, you can’t get a plane ticket off the island if you’re broke
Anonymous No.211534788
>Understand this, /Pol/lari, I can never forgive the Chudtauri for what they did to my trans sisters. My discord will never forgive yours. But *I* can forgive... (You).
Anonymous No.211534924 >>211535232 >>211536197
>>211499413 (OP)
no picrel therefore trash
Anonymous No.211535232 >>211536197
>>211534924
I love bsg but let's not pretend its not responsible for the normafiction of sci fi
Anonymous No.211535282
>>211500665
>When your show is so good the Demiurge gets pissed off
Kek, what a baby. Come strike me down, you faggot pretender
Anonymous No.211535297 >>211546488
>Back when the Centauri Republic was expanding in all directions...
Anonymous No.211535964
>>211504204
Autism is a terrible affliction.
Anonymous No.211536102
>>211500665
Katsulas was a very heavy smoker
Conaway had years of drug abuse, attributed to childhood sexual abuse and a back injury sustained filming Grease, his career was rock bottom when he did Babylon 5
O'Hare was schizophrenic and the medication bloated him
Doyle was long time alco
Furst was f a t
>>211511742
JMS obviously incorporated parts of the actors into their characters
Anonymous No.211536141 >>211559478
>>211522698
they should have emphasised their Lovecraftian quality more
like their first sighting was through an interview with a pilot that had been driven insane by hearing the ships scream and locked away in a military psych ward
Anonymous No.211536157 >>211541606
>>211523741
Sheridans big ace up his sleeve against them was just nukes
Anonymous No.211536175 >>211544349
>What do you really want ;)
Anonymous No.211536197
>>211534924
>>211535232
BSG started good but just got lost in its own ass with its dopey mysticism
Anonymous No.211536231
>>211499579
I want to bury my face in Lyta's tits.
Anonymous No.211536270 >>211536465
>>211503081
there is no change in her character between seasons what are you talking about
>>211518868
she was supposed to come back, it was a cliff hanger
they both were supposed to survive
there was a stupid contract dispute so they let her go
>>211522912
the original plan was the Earth war would continue into 4 episodes of season 5
assuming they were going down with TNT the other season 4 subplots were ejected to focus on the earth war and get it wrapped up by the end
had that not happened Sheridan in custody would have been the season ending cliffhanger
so thats all that was changed, 4 episodes
Anonymous No.211536292
>>211500665
most of this is down to bad lifestyle, drugs and alcohol and over eating
Babylon 5 did not have a huge budget and had to go down market for some of its actors and actors like that can have problems (often the reason they're cheaper)
Anonymous No.211536309
>>211499413 (OP)
My favorite TV show of all time, bar none.
Anonymous No.211536318 >>211536424
now that the dust has settled which version is the best to buy?
Anonymous No.211536376
>>211504204
this is the way JMS writes
Anonymous No.211536424 >>211542348
>>211536318
the original dvd versions are shit, they're 3rd or 4th generation copies that bounced back and forth between NTSC and PAL and were stretched to widescreen causing the bloating whenever a shot composites live action and CGI
get the HD remaster that restores the 4:3 ratio which fixes the composite bloating
Anonymous No.211536465 >>211536493 >>211536514
>>211536270
>assuming they were going down with TNT
*PTEN.
Then they were picked up by TNT, who gave them enough money to shoot Season 5 plus a few made-for-TV movies. Credit where it's due to TNT, as well, they promoted the shit out of Babylon 5.
It's just that, like you said, since they thought that Season 4 was going to be the last one they wrapped up the Earth Civil War storyline early, which meant that Season 5's front half was empty.
Anonymous No.211536493
>>211536465
yes right my mistake PTEN, TNT was where they were picked up
and then had problems with Crusade
Anonymous No.211536514
>>211536465
>front half
No, it is only 4 episodes that had to be filled it
the Telepath War and the agents of the Shadows would have all been in it
because the stories would have been percolating away in season 4 they would have had better development
Anonymous No.211536547 >>211536589 >>211536682 >>211536809
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQhyaBviiLw

>It's ironic, isn't it? I had every window in the palace blocked off because I was afraid...that if I came around a corner and saw this, unprepared...that I would break down and cry. And yet I spend all of my time here in this room...looking at it.
>In my life, I had four wives. I cared for them all deeply. But I loved Centauri Prime. Loved every street, every tower...every inch of our world. Everything I did, I did for her. And look what we have done to her.
>But...There is hope. But it will be hard. It will be so very hard.
>Well...Where was I?
>...yes.
>The war.
Anonymous No.211536589
>>211536547
kino
Anonymous No.211536682 >>211536745 >>211536809
>>211536547
>The Humans, I think, knew they were doomed. But where another race would surrender to despair, the Humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space.
>In my life, I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, they would pray, they would say
goodbye to their loved ones, then throw themselves without fear or hesitation at the very face of death itself. Never surrendering.
>No one who saw them fighting against the inevitable could help but be moved to tears by their courage. Their stubborn nobility.
>When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns they used knives and sticks and bare hands. They were magnificent.
>I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end.
>They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But in the end...they ran out of time.
Anonymous No.211536745 >>211536809 >>211542058
>>211536682
>Are we on? This is... this is the President.
>I have just been informed that the midrange military bases at Beta Durani and Proxima 3 have fallen to the Minbari advance. We've lost contact with Io and must conclude that they too have fallen to an advance force. Our Military Intelligence believes that the Minbari intend to bypass Mars and hit Earth directly and the attack could come at any time.
>We have continued to broadcast our surrender and a plea for mercy and they have not responded. Therefore we can only conclude that we stand at the twilight of the human race.
>In order to buy time for our evacuation transports to leave Earth, we ask for the support of every ship capable of fighting to take part in a last defense of our home world.
>We will not lie to you, we do not believe that survival is a possibility. We believe that anyone who joins this battle will never come home. But for every ten minutes we can delay the military advance, several hundred more civilians may have a chance to escape to neutral territory.
>Though Earth may fall, the human race must have a chance to continue elsewhere. No greater sacrifice has ever been asked of a people. But I ask you now to step forward one last time, one last battle to hold the line against the night.
>May God go with you all.
Anonymous No.211536809 >>211537028
>>211536547 >>211536682 >>211536745
Full scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzJaQtZty5M

AKA, 4 minutes and 11 seconds of video that never, ever fails to get to me. And seriously, Tricia O'Neil nailed her one scene in the movie as President Levy. If you ever want to see the very definition of "there are no small parts", it's this.
Anonymous No.211536873
It was okay. A bit soap opera-y for my taste but bearable.
Anonymous No.211537028
>>211536809
Absolute kino. One of the best parts of the whole series.
Anonymous No.211537170
>>211500665
shitty post, shitty sentiment even if you are just trolling. but devil's trips would've made it kino
Anonymous No.211537633
>>211507033
BOOBA
Anonymous No.211539295
>>211499413 (OP)
Bland.
Anonymous No.211539814 >>211540769 >>211540798 >>211540873 >>211540923
>>211499413 (OP)
Did they ever explain why there's a synagogue on the station? I stopped watching after the episode with the rabbi and Jewish rituals.
Anonymous No.211540769
>>211539814
There's like a hundred religious temples on the station. Everyone is welcome and represented. Schizo morons constantly seething about jews aren't around
Anonymous No.211540798
>>211539814
Stop noticing
Anonymous No.211540873 >>211544577 >>211552929
>>211539814
>triggered by seeing that Jews still exist in the future

stick to Star Trek, kid
Anonymous No.211540923 >>211542488 >>211545586
>>211539814
There's also a church and a mosque, and probably places of worship for other religions, both human and alien, as well. Straczynski himself is an atheist, but also stated that religion has been important for humanity for thousands of years and that's not going to change just because the setting is 250 years in the future (contrast Star Trek, which often turned its nose up at religion). Hence this scene from Season 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hg_TRynRIs

>I stopped watching after the episode with the rabbi and Jewish rituals.
Jesus Christ. If the fact that Jews appeared on TV is enough to get you to stop watching a show, how have you not unalived yourself at the knowledge that Jews exist in real life?

In any event, Judaism has been around since at least 1200 BC, you really think it's going to be gone by the 2260s AD? One character on the show is Jewish, so what?

Aside from that, in Season 3 a recurring character is Brother Theo and the order of Trappist monks he heads on the station. The episode "Passing Through Gethsemane" in particular is, like, THE most Catholic episode of any TV show ever filmed, ever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqYx8bfz40
Anonymous No.211541528 >>211542178
>>211499579
A reasonably priced commercial renovation.
https://waterstoneconstruction.net/about-us/
Anonymous No.211541606
>>211536157
To be fair I don't think The Shadows expected Sheridan to do a 9/11 style nuclear suicide attack on their homeworld. He wasn't out there nuking their ships in space battles.
Anonymous No.211542058 >>211542278 >>211544626
>>211536745
>be Mimbari
>meet clearly inferior species
>want to show peaceful intent
>opens gunports and points superfuture space laser cannons at them
>"how could they have misinterpreted our obviously peaceful and non-threatening gesture?"
>proceed to sperg out and go on a genocidal rampage
Earth fucked up by shooting at them first but damn the Mimbari were autistic.
Anonymous No.211542178
>>211541528
So he wasnΒ΄t acting. He is an agent of the darkness.
Anonymous No.211542278
>>211542058
Yes, the whole idea is vastly different cultures not understanding each other, making terrible mistakes, and when emotions are high setting a course of action that may have been too harsh. It's like the Pope was out on a trip and the group ran across some tribe of indigenous. The guards presented their arms as is tradition to show respect. And the tribe responds by attacking and killing the Pope. That tribe is gonna get curbstomped in response, and once it gets rolling, it's hard to stop.
Anonymous No.211542348
>>211536424
>were stretched to widescreen
They're not stretched, the show was shot in widescreen but aired in 4:3
Anonymous No.211542488 >>211542523
>>211540923
>Straczynski himself is an atheist
"Jamie, pull up the early life section"
Anonymous No.211542523 >>211543772 >>211544004
>>211542488
he has a polish family and comes from a catholic background
Anonymous No.211543295
>>211499413 (OP)
It's honestly too good, it kind of ruined sci fi for me for a long time. Hope I've got enough time left for one or two more rewatches.
Anonymous No.211543574
>>211509255
He's a classic Shakespearian tragedy and he plays it perfectly. Every scene he is in is permanently burned into my brain. I honestly think it might very well be the greatest performance of any actor.
Anonymous No.211543672
As a fan there are a number of things I don't like about Babylon 5. Marcus / Ivanova romance was lame. Whole Byron plot was insufferable. Psycorps could have been more than just evil baddies, in later seasons they tried to backpedal a bit on that. When they were gathering up their forces at the end despite the 'danger' of the Old Ones nothing bad ever happened to anybody. Nobody even got knocked back into some bridge panels or anything.

Season 5 was a disaster when viewed as a whole. Some of the episodes were OK and what the fans wanted was "more random Babylon 5 stories" on Usenet where JMS hung out so he indulged. Even had a number of great guest writers / fans of the show working on that season. Actually a LOT of Babylon 5 stuff in the show was the result of Internet fans nitpicking it and JMS either defending his goof up but often he would go with the consensus. It was probably the first, and last, somewhat interactive TV show that saw the show runner not only directly interacting with Internet nerds but getting into flame wars with them too.
Anonymous No.211543772 >>211561031
>>211542523
Every time.
Anonymous No.211544004 >>211561031
>>211542523
>he has a polish family
thanks for proving my point
Anonymous No.211544349
>>211536175
Zamn. Zest readings are off the chart.
Anonymous No.211544577 >>211551268
>>211540873
>stick to Star Trek, kid
wasn't Worf raised by Jews?
Anonymous No.211544626
>>211542058
A Minbari shrieks in pain when he hits you.
Anonymous No.211544826 >>211545440
What made it all so amazing was that JMS took it so much further. Plenty of shows could have started off with a basic misunderstanding plot. But he didn't just leave it at that and went on through multiple seasons and some of the best episodes fleshing out the background of the war and the true tragedy of it. How humans and mimbari had shared souls and they were basically wiping out their own kind. To be fair Sharidan should have left a note telling the future mimbari not to go full autism on the human apes they would meet in a few thousand years. But I guess that would be started some sort of time paradox.
Anonymous No.211545440
>>211544826
Maybe he did and it was ignored or lost or something
Anonymous No.211545586 >>211546420 >>211551003
>>211540923
One extremely minor complaint I have, and this isn't a problem unique to B5, but that scene is from an episode where they're doing like a religious cultural exchange, and every alien race apparently has just one religion for the entire species.
Anonymous No.211545787 >>211546019 >>211569126
I read the summaries of the last 2 Babylon 5 episodes, I've been putting them off, partially because im waiting until ive seen the movies, and partially because i dont want it to end. However i know one of the movies is a prequel, and the other two have been described to me as "monster of the week episodes". Does that mean that we dont see the end of Londo's arc? It just ends with him being an old miserable slave?
Anonymous No.211546019 >>211546059
>>211545787
I think you should stop spoiling yourself and just watch it.
Anonymous No.211546059
>>211546019
fair enough
Anonymous No.211546301 >>211555823
I actually wish this show had MORE filler, like a lot more. They managed to have a shitload of character depth and development, world building, etc with what they had, and it makes me wonder what they'd have accomplished with more time and money.
Anonymous No.211546420
>>211545586
For the lesser known races sure. But the Centauri have a greek/roman style pantheon, the Minbari religious caste have "circles" which aren't really explained and the Narn have differing prophets such as G'quan and G'lan that seem to have differing teachings.
Anonymous No.211546488 >>211546906
>>211535297
I fucking love this crossover and I want you to know that I laughed out loud anon
Anonymous No.211546906 >>211548310
>>211546488
Anonymous No.211547743 >>211550627 >>211550803
Why didn't they just get someone who could do a good Russian accent? Its super obvious from how she's written that this was the original intention
Anonymous No.211548310 >>211549973
>>211546906
You moon-faced assassin of joy!
Anonymous No.211549973
>>211548310
Anonymous No.211550627
>>211547743
Claudia was white, good looking and said her lines which is more than can be said for most actresses these days. If Babylon 5 was made today they'd cast some hideous black woman in the role
Anonymous No.211550803
>>211547743
I think she was supposed to have been educated abroad so lost her Russian accent.
Anonymous No.211551003
>>211545586
Usually in sci-fi, if an alien race has a religion, every member of that race follows it fully. But B5 showed a lot of difference between individuals, like G'Kar being deeply religious while one of his aides said she only believed in herself.
Anonymous No.211551014
>>211523630
SG1 isnb't even the best sg
Anonymous No.211551268 >>211552288 >>211552426
>>211544577
>wasn't Worf raised by Jews?
Belorussians in Minsk.
Anonymous No.211552288 >>211552426
>>211551268
>Belorussians in Minsk.
Based
Anonymous No.211552426 >>211555115
>>211551268
>>211552288
As far as I remember he even named his son after famous Belarusian leader from XX century
Anonymous No.211552929
>>211540873
>stick to Star Trek, kid
The jewiest piece of jew to ever jew...why rec that?
Anonymous No.211554091
>>211499413 (OP)
Anonymous No.211554170 >>211554272 >>211555823 >>211558540 >>211559589
>>211523741
>scolds the two ancient omnipotent manipulator races into leaving the galaxy
nah man that shit was retarded
Anonymous No.211554272
>>211554170
Why are you black though?
Anonymous No.211554535 >>211554772
>>211517725
>YO IT'S THE SIMP PATROL!
Anonymous No.211554772 >>211555059 >>211555823
>>211554535
>nether get a crumb of pussy
>one dies just so his oneitis who wasn't even nice to him can live
>the other goes full incel mode and almost murders the savior of the universe because he got friendzoned
Being a side character in this show is suffering if your name isn't Vir.
Anonymous No.211555059 >>211555134
>>211554772
>nether
illiterate retard detected, opinion discarded
Anonymous No.211555115
>>211552426
I never made the connection... BASED BEYOND BELIEF
Anonymous No.211555134 >>211555450
>>211555059
Oh damn you got me.
Anonymous No.211555370
The only thing I could think comes close to Babylon 5 is Legend of Galactic Heros. I'd watch the original anime, but you can watch the reboot if you want a shorter, more modern take with English. Basically its historical fiction if a righteous version of Napoleon encountered Yi Sun Shin.
Anonymous No.211555450
>>211555134
I got you babe
Anonymous No.211555557
>>211499579
My waifu.
Anonymous No.211555598 >>211555862 >>211556062
The Corps is mother.
The Corps is father.

Also took me the third rewatch to finally notice Bester's hand thing.
Anonymous No.211555823
>>211546301
it would have been like Game of Thrones crossed with Infinity War if they actually put money and care into this series. JMS ran through the 5 years holding it together with duct tape. A lot of the genius of this series I suspect came from Harlan Ellison, who offered his hand after watching Star Trek fuck over JMS like they did him.
>>211554170
I think that could have been done better. Maybe like a suicide run where all the young races run through the battlefield or just refuse to fight for either side despite the elders making them choose one
>>211554772
hey I liked the King Arthur allegory, except the part where he doesn't get the girl.
Anonymous No.211555862 >>211556426
>>211555598
I LOVE the hand thing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGodkjpM-IU
Anonymous No.211556062
>>211555598
everyone knows him for star trek. But dear god he was such an evil villain in this show.
Anonymous No.211556426
>>211555862
drip drop hollywood diet
2 drops
2 pounds
Anonymous No.211556632
>>211499413 (OP)
It's called Babylon 5 because there are five of them in the gang.
Anonymous No.211556845
>>211499579
Dessert
Anonymous No.211557320 >>211557415
For me? The intro of the second season. Best one.
Anonymous No.211557415 >>211557605 >>211558634
>>211557320
>babylon 5 was our last best hope for peace
>it failed
Epic
Anonymous No.211557455 >>211557546
I really should go back and finish this I fell off watching it after the war sorta ends in season 4.
Anonymous No.211557546
>>211557455
You need to finish season 4 that's the best part. Then skip the first half of season 5 until the psycorp shit is resolved. The rest is a comfy ride to the end.
Anonymous No.211557605
>>211557415
That's season 3 or 4, I think. Season 2 is still hopeful.

>My people can never forgive your people.
>But I... can forgive... you.
Anonymous No.211557670 >>211557812
Time for... Babylon 6.
Anonymous No.211557812 >>211557911 >>211558091
>>211557670
So glad the cartoon bombed and hopefully that remake never comes. If they ever come out with a pozzed remake that will be the day I say goodbye to this world and I won't be the only one leaving that day.
Anonymous No.211557911 >>211558041 >>211558224
>>211557812
>RAHRW KILL EVERYONE IM SO FULL OF HATE RARWHRHW

imagine being a fucking fan of this show and still being so full of hate as if you didnt learn fucking squat
Anonymous No.211558041
>>211557911
You lost, but at least you have game of thrones so don't feel too bad. You'll never get the true classics though. ;)
Anonymous No.211558091 >>211558447
>>211557812
Seeing what JMS has made in recent years makes me sadly agree and appreciate what we got. It should also be noted that in the case of Babylon 5, network meddling kept JMS's worst impulses contained.
Anonymous No.211558224 >>211559478
>>211557911
Imagine zoomies learning about Babylon 5 through a fat incel shooting up a Wal-Mart and screaming, "The Avalanche has started, the pebbles can no longer vote!"
Anonymous No.211558240 >>211558476 >>211567628 >>211569177
Anons, what did you do to deserve this?
Anonymous No.211558447
>>211558091
It's true, people don't realize how close B5 was to being a disaster. It was a once in a lifetime miracle caused by a unique set of circumstances. JMS left to his own made some godawful shit. We are supremely lucky he managed to get one golden egg shitted out with the help of a lot of good people. We're never getting a repeat of that again in this lifetime.
Anonymous No.211558476
>>211558240
Dourif is always kino.
Anonymous No.211558512
>>211499413 (OP)
only faggots like this
Anonymous No.211558540
>>211554170
On the other hand speaking to their face like that rather than cowering in fear or reverence was the perfect way to show them how much the younger races had grown.
Anonymous No.211558598 >>211558814 >>211559033
>mfw people keep warring about DS9 and B5 and here I am thoroughly enjoying both because I'm not a subhuman neanderthal
>captcha: JMS0R
Anonymous No.211558609
he really liked having the doctor character say
>stat
a lot
Anonymous No.211558634
>>211557415
>it became something greater
>our last best hope...
>for victory
Anonymous No.211558814
>>211558598
>DS9 and B5
both shit made by queers
Anonymous No.211558988
for me, it's watching the first episode, not finding the tv movie, and having that eastern european say VIR a lot
Anonymous No.211559033 >>211559118
>>211558598
>No one:
>Troll: hey guyz whaddabut DS9 vs B5?
Don't you have a Stargate thread to derail?
Anonymous No.211559118 >>211559286
>>211559033
yes, no one ever talked about ds9 when babylon 5 came up in any conversation ever, nor vice versa
Anonymous No.211559203 >>211559431
Who had 'Claudia Christian writes a cookbook for gamers' on their BINGO card?
Anonymous No.211559286 >>211559370
>>211559118
Not sure why your parents neglected you as a child but I do know why you were bullied at school and are friendless now.
Anonymous No.211559370
>>211559286
anon, i don't know if you know this people talk about ds9 and babylon 5 together a lot
how did you not know this
did your parents drop you on your head?
Anonymous No.211559431 >>211559642 >>211559664 >>211559715
>>211559203
>she went nuts
>first captain guy went nuts
>blond psycorps woman went nuts
What kind of psyops were they running on that set? MKULTRA type shit.
Anonymous No.211559478
>>211558224
nice
>>211536141
I thought them being illustrated in the book of G'Quan to be a great lovecraftian touch.
Anonymous No.211559487 >>211559577
>The last episode when Sheridans walks in the empty space station and reminiscing
It kind of felt like the show "ended" after the ancients BTFO and the new stuff they tried to build up never really got a proper conclusion.
Anonymous No.211559577 >>211559964
>>211559487
>he didn't read the tie-in novels
Anonymous No.211559589
>>211554170
He didn't just scold them. He told them their game was over. That they couldn't hide their intentions anymore and that they wouldn't be picking a side so they should just get the fuck out.
Anonymous No.211559642
>>211559431
It was the sets, they were all made out of asbestos and other super toxic shit. Fucked up half of the cast and crew.
Anonymous No.211559664
>>211559431
What? The blonde just switched careers iirc, she wanted to be a news anchor or whatever.
Anonymous No.211559715
>>211559431
>she went nuts
I thought she was just a regular alcoholic nympho?
>blond psycorps woman went nuts
QRD?
Anonymous No.211559964 >>211561489
>>211559577
Correct. Nobody did.
Anonymous No.211561031
>>211543772
>>211544004
damn poles pushing christian values
Anonymous No.211561489
>>211559964
Wrong. I did, and I know what happened to Vir and Londo and David Sheridan and Bester and Garibaldi!
Anonymous No.211561519
>>211499413 (OP)
i don't see it
Anonymous No.211561601
pretty dead cast
Anonymous No.211564098
>>211500665
>Zathras have very sad life. Probably have very sad death. At least there is symmetry.
Anonymous No.211564990 >>211565742
>>211499579
I want you, Mr. Morden.
Anonymous No.211565742
>>211564990
*blushes* w-well n-no one has ever answered me like that before. I don't usually do this but perhaps we can make an exception this one time.
Anonymous No.211567373 >>211567552 >>211567660
Was this guy right about telepaths? If we had telepaths in our society, would we have a psi corps?
Anonymous No.211567417
Anonymous No.211567552
>>211567373
He was.
Anonymous No.211567628
>>211558240
legit one of Dourif's most intense performances and it didn't involve him completely mugging with veins in his neck bulging
Anonymous No.211567660
>>211567373
He was based and should have won. Byron garbage proved that even the non-psycorps telepaths needed to be eliminated.
Anonymous No.211567809 >>211568961
I loved Babylon 5 trying to be realistic. The spinning sections, the problems, and benefits that causes. Such as they travel down a train the middle, and someone plants a bomb in the car, so Sheridan can jump out and float towards the outer edge, but it's moving so fast it'll kill him anyway.
Anonymous No.211568961 >>211569090
>>211567809
While that did lead to the absolute kino scene of Kosh "revealing" themselves. It always seemed stupid that after the politcal strife that had just happened, that Sheridan would be essentially taking the bus to an important political meeting.
Anonymous No.211569090
>>211568961
I just like the spinning and more real ways of creating gravity and problems with space travel
Anonymous No.211569126 >>211569264
>>211545787
Only 2 of the movies are worth watching . Call to arms and the second to last one can't remember the name
Anonymous No.211569177
>>211558240
This show really had some fantastic writing
Anonymous No.211569264
>>211569126
All of them are worth watching.
Anonymous No.211569625 >>211570975
>>211522698
And
>Can cause your jump gate to explode as you're trying to escape
Anonymous No.211569822
>>211523630
I love sg1, farscape and tng but no way are any of them on the same level as Kinolon 5
SCHIZO No.211570965
>>211499413 (OP)
this serie always seemed boring to me
Anonymous No.211570975
>>211569625
I forgot that one, also
>if you touch one bare handed you drop dead
>they never miss (unintentionally)
>if you manage to damage one it will ignore everything else and chase you until it kills you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYq-XJ5XfkI
Anonymous No.211571012 >>211571232
>It's another "Ivanova solves an argument between two alien groups by gangbanging them" episode
Anonymous No.211571232
>>211571012
The fact that she was 'kinky' for the day caused quite a stir actually. When it was implied that she and that Psycorp lady fingerbanged the gay magazines counted it as a win and she briefly became a gay icon before MARCUS stole her heart.
Anonymous No.211571979
Wtf was his problem?
Anonymous No.211572225
>>211517725
Hop in fellow male feminist, we're going to respect women!