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08-23-2006, 10:45 PM
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Babylon 5
The future of science fiction lies with Babylon 5.
Discuss.
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08-23-2006, 11:43 PM
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I'm not sure what sense of "future of science fiction" you mean.
Respond.
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08-23-2006, 11:47 PM
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Babylon 5 is our last, best hope for science fiction?
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08-24-2006, 12:00 AM
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08-24-2006, 03:32 AM
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Now that my professional obligations are discharged... It had its moments. The cast was superb, the concept of the five-year pre-planned story arc was novel in terms of weekly SF shows, the graphics were ahead of their time and the writing sparkled in places. Sure, it had its low moments, but everything does. What it could really have used was a bigger budget and some actual support and promotion from the network. That said... If my first exposure to B5 had been The Gathering, I probably never would have gotten into it. The series really got off to a bad start, but it recovered magnificently, peaking in Season 3 and maintaining that momentum into Season 4. Season 5, however, had nowhere to go but down. Large stretches of it are unwatchable, especially that interminable telepath arc. IT managed to go out with a bang, though. I recently watched Legend of the Rangers, and I remember thinking "I liked this a lot better when it was called Journey to Babel/Thirdspace/the Shadow War." At lot of plot elements are recycled from earlier episodes, something I was critical of on Voyager and Enterprise. Could it be that JMS is finally starting to repeat himself? Addressing the actual topic of the thread...B5 raised the bar, just like the original Star Trek did. Where before TV SF had to move beyond bad writing, bad special effects and alien-monster-of-the-week, it now has to move beyond hot alien babes, spectacular explosions and a rubber-forehead-of-the-week. And that's the best you're gonna get at 11:30 PM.
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08-24-2006, 04:05 AM
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I used to enjoy Babylon 5 a lot, but only when I could actually watch a bunch in a row. People used to compare B5 to DS9 all the time, but even in the latter seasons you could theoretically watch individual episodes with no more than the obligatory "last time on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." On B5, no way! You gotta watch all of them in a row if you're going to hope to see more than the barest scratched surface of what there was.
On a lighter note, one of my favorite moments of B5 was the scene over one of the closeing credits' (the anti-teaser?) It was just a guy, sitting, extending and compressing his force lance (or whatever it was). I loved the nonchalantness.
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mudshark: Nate's just being...Nate. Zeke: It comes nateurally to him. mudshark: I don't expect Nate to make sense, really -- it's just a bad idea. Sa'ar Chasm on the 5M.net forum: Sit back, relax, and revel in the insanity. Adam Savage: I reject your reality and substitute my own! Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Crow T. Robot: Oh, stop pretending there's a plot. Don't cheapen yourself further.
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