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Posted: 9/23/2018 12:50:03 AM EDT
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DS9 was copied from B5, this is quite well established.
Having said that, I'm not sure Jerry Doyle was an alcoholic the whole time. I saw him in person a few years ago and he did look a bit worn. So did Tracy Scoggins, yikes. Stay with the show, it's a masterpiece. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:00:27 AM EDT
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Great show, definitely hampered by being on before the DVR era.
It’s so serialized that missing an episode here or there can really leave you wondering what the hell is going on. They had the rough story for the entire series written from the start and it really shows. The way everything is laid out and connects is a marvel. The sequel series and TV movies aren’t quite as good but they’re worth watching. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:20:35 AM EDT
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First season drags a bit but stick with it. It gets better. Better make up. better effects. better story. better acting. It all just keeps getting better and better.
The creator submitted half of the first season scripts to Paramount while trying to get them to produce the show... they rejected him and then made DS9... with eerie similarities for the first half season... The actor who plays the Commander in the first season was Schizophrenic. That whole situation and medication is why he seems really stiff. Babylon 5 is my all time favorite sci-fi show. It's wonderfully accurate in its portrayal of space ships and how they move... as well as having spinning section for gravity. It also has a coherent story all the way through with important plot details in every episode. You may think an early first season episode is a filler episode without anything too important in it... but when you look back it will have set up and foreshadowed so many things that occur later. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:20:51 AM EDT
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I just finished watching all 5 seasons over a six week period on Amazon. When it was originally broadcast, I saw most of seasons 1-4, but it was always shown at 11 PM on Saturday night, so if we were travelling or just out, I missed an episode, because re-runs weren't common either. When it changed networks for season 5, I only saw about half the episodes. So it was good to see all 100+ episodes in order, and after that, as another poster said, you see the plot connections between the seasons. Sadly, a lot of the main cast members are dead now, some having died within a few years of the regular series end (1998).
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:29:54 AM EDT
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May god walk between you and all the empty places you walk.
I think. 
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:29:58 AM EDT
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Stick with it.................The Shadow War is excellent
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:37:30 AM EDT
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garibaldi likes bagna cauda. we got a lot in common there.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:39:52 AM EDT
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May god walk between you and all the empty places you walk. I think. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 1:56:10 AM EDT
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First season drags a bit but stick with it. It gets better. Better make up. better effects. better story. better acting. It all just keeps getting better and better. The creator submitted half of the first season scripts to Paramount while trying to get them to produce the show... they rejected him and then made DS9... with eerie similarities for the first half season... The actor who plays the Commander in the first season was Schizophrenic. That whole situation and medication is why he seems really stiff. Babylon 5 is my all time favorite sci-fi show. It's wonderfully accurate in its portrayal of space ships and how they move... as well as having spinning section for gravity. It also has a coherent story all the way through with important plot details in every episode. You may think an early first season episode is a filler episode without anything too important in it... but when you look back it will have set up and foreshadowed so many things that occur later. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:07:19 AM EDT
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Man I envy you being able to watch it for the first time. I absolutely love that show. The first season is a bit rocky but it starts to ramp up in season 2. Be sure to check out the movies made for the series and Crusade. Season 5 was a "oh shit, we didn't get cancelled after all and need to come up with something" wrap up to the show and gives some foreshadowing into event that take place between B5 and Crusade and are expounded in the novels.
Damn Sierra cancelled the B5 game in the late 90s that would have been the best space simulator of it's time. Numerous groups have made freeware games since, the best being one called I've Found Her. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:15:25 AM EDT
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Masterfully written. Some of the longest story arcs of any series I've ever watched.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:32:21 AM EDT
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I've tried watching recently, and it's really hampered by the grainy low-resolution graphics. I remember the show itself being excellent, but in today's era of 4K TV's, it visually is like watching home-made youtube video's today. If you can get past that, it's an amazing series.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:33:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Have you seen The Expanse? According to my taste it is the best science fiction produced for television to date. So yeah I think it's good but it hasn't really hooked me. I'm not jonesing for more so to speak. I'm happy it got saved by Amazon and will watch more of it at some point. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:42:05 AM EDT
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Are you the one?
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:43:09 AM EDT
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I’m saving this shit for when I get Alzheimer’s. Gonna get the box set and every day will be the first time I watched
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Posted: 9/23/2018 2:57:30 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:05:05 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:09:44 AM EDT
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guys... careful not to spoil things for him...
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:15:56 AM EDT
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Babylon 5 is probably the greatest sci-fi TV show ever created.
The more modern shows don't cut it because they only have 12 or 13 episodes per season. B5 had 22 per season, so a lot more material there. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:24:46 AM EDT
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I’m with Sheldon’s roommate on this
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:28:41 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
DS9 was copied from B5, this is quite well established. Having said that, I'm not sure Jerry Doyle was an alcoholic the whole time. I saw him in person a few years ago and he did look a bit worn. So did Tracy Scoggins, yikes. Stay with the show, it's a masterpiece. Txl |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:35:53 AM EDT
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Jerry Doyle had a conservative/libertarian radio talk show based in Los Vegas for some time before his death, and he was superb.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 3:36:25 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2018 4:51:02 AM EDT
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seriously does noone else like bagna cauda.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:01:07 AM EDT
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seriously does noone else like bagna cauda. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:01:39 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No one knows what the fuck that is. 
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:02:22 AM EDT
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the smell is worse than cigarette smoke in an 80's bar. but oh so sweet.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:04:38 AM EDT
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seriously does noone else like bagna cauda. The show has some real corny melodramatic scene ending moments, like someone from a soap opera was filming. The first season was the biggest offender of this but it got better. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:18:35 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes, and must have Jerusalem artichokes for it. The show has some real corny melodramatic scene ending moments, like someone from a soap opera was filming. The first season was the biggest offender of this but it got better. Hercules/Xena, Andromeda, Time Trax, Stargate. You had your “high concept” stuff like X-Files and Star Trek but those kind of shows had higher budgets because they were being produced by the stations airing them. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:31:16 AM EDT
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May god walk between you and all the empty places you walk. I think. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:31:44 AM EDT
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Are you the one? |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:32:14 AM EDT
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:43:35 AM EDT
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Watched it last year thought it was pretty good over all. Meet Tracy Scogins on a call about 3 years ago. She looks nothing like she did on the show anymore anyway.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 5:46:53 AM EDT
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Agreed B5 is best sci-fi show
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:09:18 AM EDT
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Gogle it and watch it in order with the movies, or miss out on epic shit.
Theres like 7 movies.. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:29:08 AM EDT
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"Humans. Arrogance and stupidity, all in one package. How convenient!" - Londo Mollari
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:34:27 AM EDT
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"Humans. Arrogance and stupidity, all in one package. How convenient!" - Londo Mollari "Ah, cats!" Also Londo. And Vir. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:38:39 AM EDT
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"What are those earth creatures? Webbed feet, long bill, go quack?" "Ah, cats!" Also Londo. And Vir. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:39:26 AM EDT
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"Humans. Arrogance and stupidity, all in one package. How convenient!" - Londo Mollari 
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Posted: 9/23/2018 6:41:15 AM EDT
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Londo got the best lines.
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Posted: 9/23/2018 7:02:50 AM EDT
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Londo got the best lines. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 7:39:11 AM EDT
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Zathras have sad life, probably have sad death, but at least there is symmetry
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Posted: 9/23/2018 7:50:17 AM EDT
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I've tried watching recently, and it's really hampered by the grainy low-resolution graphics. I remember the show itself being excellent, but in today's era of 4K TV's, it visually is like watching home-made youtube video's today. If you can get past that, it's an amazing series. it was a system that was used often in tv production and studios as a relatively inexpensive system to get computer graphics and text on the air. there were times where the system would crash at night, and you could tell what cable systems or networks were using it to do their automated text messages or notices for stuff like public service spots |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 8:06:56 AM EDT
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Man I envy you being able to watch it for the first time. I absolutely love that show. The first season is a bit rocky but it starts to ramp up in season 2. Be sure to check out the movies made for the series and Crusade. Season 5 was a "oh shit, we didn't get cancelled after all and need to come up with something" wrap up to the show and gives some foreshadowing into event that take place between B5 and Crusade and are expounded in the novels. Damn Sierra cancelled the B5 game in the late 90s that would have been the best space simulator of it's time. Numerous groups have made freeware games since, the best being one called I've Found Her. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 8:19:43 AM EDT
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Actually the series was intended from start to finish to only last for 5 seasons. At the time it was the only TV series that went into production that was intended to end at some point. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Man I envy you being able to watch it for the first time. I absolutely love that show. The first season is a bit rocky but it starts to ramp up in season 2. Be sure to check out the movies made for the series and Crusade. Season 5 was a "oh shit, we didn't get cancelled after all and need to come up with something" wrap up to the show and gives some foreshadowing into event that take place between B5 and Crusade and are expounded in the novels. Damn Sierra cancelled the B5 game in the late 90s that would have been the best space simulator of it's time. Numerous groups have made freeware games since, the best being one called I've Found Her. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 8:30:52 AM EDT
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I'm on season 5...I have enjoyed it very much. Everyone here was correct, get thru the first season...after that...it really starts to shine.
When I'm done, I may start on DS9 and see how that is. I hear Sisko is quite the bad ass Captain. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 8:49:33 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: "What do you want, you moon-faced assassin of joy?!" |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 9:04:40 AM EDT
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During the 4th season production it wasn't clear if the series was going to be renewed for a 5th season so plot lines were shorten or cut out, then at the last minute after the final episode was filmed the greenlight for season 5 was given, which is why the last episode of season 4 was derp because it was unplanned and written last minute. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Man I envy you being able to watch it for the first time. I absolutely love that show. The first season is a bit rocky but it starts to ramp up in season 2. Be sure to check out the movies made for the series and Crusade. Season 5 was a "oh shit, we didn't get cancelled after all and need to come up with something" wrap up to the show and gives some foreshadowing into event that take place between B5 and Crusade and are expounded in the novels. Damn Sierra cancelled the B5 game in the late 90s that would have been the best space simulator of it's time. Numerous groups have made freeware games since, the best being one called I've Found Her. Still, B5 is the greatest sci fi show of all time so far for me. Amazing moments. |
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Posted: 9/23/2018 9:15:38 AM EDT
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With my coworker out for seven weeks, I'll have Saturday and Sunday nights to watch it for the first time (I hate using earbuds).
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Posted: 9/23/2018 9:25:07 AM EDT
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Are you the one? And what do you want? |
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