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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #90 on: 18 June 2018, 03:46:18 »
Limits of 90s TV budgets unfortunately, specially for a show that wasn't Star Trek
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #91 on: 18 June 2018, 03:53:31 »
Quote from: Smegish on 18 June 2018, 03:46:18
Limits of 90s TV budgets unfortunately, specially for a show that wasn't Star Trek

Very true and IIRC the CGI for the show consumed a lot of the budget.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #92 on: 18 June 2018, 06:23:04 »
New ships in the Lost Tales....now it makes me want to see it more.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #93 on: 18 June 2018, 06:29:07 »
Lost Tales is okay, the space battle is VERY brief, but you see some Vorchans, a Balvarin and Kutai as well as an Omega class destroyer and a Warlock class destroyer in battle
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #94 on: 18 June 2018, 07:00:14 »
The thing to understand about Lost Tales is that it is what it says on the tin: it's a couple of unused plot ideas from the show. JMS was disappointed with the low budget he was given, so he refused to make more "sub-par" videos.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #95 on: 18 June 2018, 10:39:11 »
I liked Crusade but we know how that ended. Legend of the Rangers was ok but still pretty bad.
Im not going to go out of my way to find Lost Tales.

I liked all the TV movies for Babylon 5 except River of Souls.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #96 on: 18 June 2018, 11:00:19 »
Yeah.

Vorlons: doing what everyone else should have done to begin with.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #97 on: 18 June 2018, 11:15:26 »
Quote from: MoneyLovinOgre4Hire on 17 June 2018, 22:00:18
So I'm watching through the first season because I never actually got the show when it was on the air and consequently only saw a few episodes and want to see the whole thing.

Just got to the episode about the aliens with the kid who's got a lung clot and their religion won't permit surgery.

Skipping all the Rule 4 stuff, because who wants to go into that can of worms, it makes me wonder about how, exactly, the species has even survived.  I mean, really, a single puncture wound and you've apparently got to commit ritual suicide.  Does not seem like their species is likely to win many knife fights.

Yeah, but it shows a running rule on B5 -- being a cute kid has no "plot armor" on Babylon 5. 
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #98 on: 18 June 2018, 12:32:57 »
Quote from: Banzai on 18 June 2018, 11:15:26
Yeah, but it shows a running rule on B5 -- being a cute kid has no "plot armor" on Babylon 5.

I'm fine with the lack of plot armor.  I just found the episode to be fairly incoherent and badly written.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #99 on: 21 June 2018, 21:42:11 »
Quote from: roosterboy on 16 June 2018, 11:12:37
Avoid all of them except:

The Shadow Within: Details Anna Sheridan's journey to Z'Ha'Dum and also stars Morden as another member of the expedition. JMS has said this one is 90% canon.

To Dream in the City of Sorrows: 100% canon, per JMS. Shows what happened with Sinclair between leaving Babylon 5 and "War Without End".

The Centauri Trilogy: Bridges the events of S5 and the finale and shows the final fates of several characters in more detail than we saw in the show.

The Psi-Corps Trilogy: The first two aren't that great but they do show the early history of the Corps and Bester. The last novel is post-Telepath War and shows Bester's final fate and gives hints about what happened to several other characters.

The Technomage Trilogy: This one... eh, I didn't like it so much because I find the Technomages tedious, but it ties into Crusade and The Shadow Within and other events from the series and if you actually like the Technomages you'll probably like these too. IIRC, Vir is a major character in this trilogy as well.

All the rest are crap.

Ugh...so the one's which show how Londo finished are in the junk pile, eh?
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #100 on: 21 June 2018, 22:23:22 »
Quote from: beachhead1985 on 21 June 2018, 21:42:11
Ugh...so the one's which show how Londo finished are in the junk pile, eh?

No, that's the Centauri Trilogy.
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #101 on: 22 June 2018, 15:34:22 »
I may dig those up.  Londo's arc --rise, fall, and redemption --is one of the best things ever on TV and, knowingly or not, the progenitor of the better known versions we see today.  The idea of a five-year story arc was revolutionary, and what JMS and Peter did was fantastic. 
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Re: Babylon 5
« Reply #102 on: 25 June 2018, 20:41:47 »
Quote from: roosterboy on 21 June 2018, 22:23:22
No, that's the Centauri Trilogy.

then THAT i will need to track down!
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