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Yeah, Babylon 5 is an oldie, but I'm only just getting around to watching it. Damn, things really ramped up in Season 3. I can only imagine what would be going through the creators' minds, as they probably tried to imagine this as "the inevitable path of the Republicans," while we've been closer than ever to the entire Earthdome corruption scenario in the past few years.
Aye, I was a latecomer to it as well. It wasn't as readily available when I was younger and I didn't really "get it" until I saw a few episodes a few years ago. The first season is quite a slog though.
Worth noting that almost the entire show was written by the show's creator, Straczynski. He wrote 92/110 of the episode scripts himself. It's kind of crazy too since he used to be one of the main writers for He-Man and that entire franchise, along with a couple of the script editors he brought on-board for B5.
The show had some remarkably solid takes on a lot of topics, and Straczynski had the creative boldness to depict a multi-pronged totalitarian takeover of Earth's government as an integral part to the show's entire story arc. Which was not the kind of thing you'd normally see in sci-fi shows back then.
JMS and Babylon 5 really predate 'modern' politics by - good god - over a decade. Decades?
JMS is one of the few writers I'd judge as being a fairly even-handed about portraying 'both sides' in a fair manner, despite his personal politics.
And I only just noticed that both leads share initials with the creator.
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On an unrelated note, it sucks that there are more surviving cast members from a 60's scifi show (ST: TOS) than there are from a 90's one (B5).
RIP Garibaldi, Steven, Delen, Vir, G'Kar, Zak.
A lot of them weren't in great shape, even when the show was filming. Just the "main" cast from the first season included two drunks (Garibaldi and Ivanova), one self-medicating schizophrenic (Sinclair), one half-blind deaf man (Dr. Franklin), one multiple-pack-a-day smoker (G'Kar) and a untreated diabetic (Vir).
That many? Goddamn. I already knew about G'Kar (not long after the new century started) and Delenn (much more recent), but not the others.
Edit: Oh geez, Doc Franklin was BEFORE G'Kar, and he was only 44...
Also Londo, ages ago.
Peter Jurasik is still alive, though.
"I'm not deeead!"
Welp, there's a Mandela Effect moment for me. I thought he died not long after the show ended.
Easily confused, like everyone else on the show died.
B5 is overrated. Unpopular opinion, but it is.
How so? I'd say it's just about fairly rated. It would be nice if they could update the CG. Old Star Trek still looks good because of practical effects.
What's kind of funny is that while the CGI is remarkably dated, the film/footage itself was done up with advances in screen resolution in mind (sometime after season 1 that is). So remastering the overall footage wasn't much of a problem but the CGI still stands out as a rather blatantly 90's style in low-poly 3D.
I'm not completely trashing it. It's certainly far superior than anything that passes for sci fi on television now. I just think DS9 was better. So were most other sci fi shows on TV around that time. Stargate SG-1, Andromeda for the first couple of seasons. Sliders. SeaQuest. Even Earth: Final Conflict, although it wasn't great. I've never really enjoyed Stracynski's writing style. I think his dialogue is overblown and pretentious, I don't think his characters act like real people and I think his ego takes priority over the story far too often, especially in B5.
That's certainly fair. I'll admit, I do personally find some spots throughout the series occasionally ho hum, but then there's other aspects that I found rather ingenious. I don't know how else to describe it, since I don't think "mixed bag" is very fitting either.
>Earth: Final Conflict
lmao ok, opinion discarded.
Love Babylon 5, at least seasons 2-4.
My girlfriend in highschool used to give me VHS tapes with Babylon 5 episodes so I could watch. She was a huge fan, and loved Ivanova--I think she even adopted Ivanova's hairstyle. She also wrote B5 fanfic.
Her parents were super strict Asian tiger parent types, and she went off to college, decided she was bi, and flipped through 3 majors in 3 years before finally graduating with a hard science degree. Went to grad school, now married to a conservative white dude (good guy), 2 kids, moved to Texas, and she's totally a strict Asian tiger mom.
She was fun.
I don't know if there's a moral to that story, but it was a good memory!