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Captain Tron>>>>>>Captain Firstguy
but yeah I vaguely recall Doyle had stories of the first guy being very weird
but yeah I vaguely recall Doyle had stories of the first guy being very weird
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I planned this all out on a cork board! screams JMS.
They put an insane amount of thought into the station and EarthGov. I will say though, I appreciate that they don’t explain how the jump gates work every five seconds. Just a big blue asshole in the sky. We go in there. Brevity is key.
The main cast is pretty good. The guest stars are from the same casting pool as Time Trax.
Honestly maybe Paramount was right to be like, “No fun allowed. Say the line exactly.” Because on B5 they take the script about as seriously as a laser tag arena.
I also think at some point you gotta stop comparing yourself to Star Trek. Babylon 5 was the first show that was like, “WE’RE COMING FOR YOU, RODDENBERRY.” But that was, what, 1994? It’s giving me Eric Bischoff. We beat WWE in the ratings...for a semester.
O'Hare is DB Cooper. Really sad cuz his career ended before it began. Outside of B5 and, what, some regional theater credits or whatever it was.
Doyle was this New York lifer but he was just waiting to throw hands. You’ve met weirder people ordering a bagel. Relax.
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I started rewatching DS9 and I'm surprised at how much I'm enjoying Season 1. The Dominion War is what always comes to mind when I think about the show but these early episodes are great.
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ah I see we've returned to the part of the eternal cycle where we are comparing DS9 to Babylon 5
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NASA did confirm that Michael Bay got it right on this. As it is exponentially easier, faster and better to have people of their fields trained and suited up for zero-G environment. Then to try trained and over worked astronauts who already their hands full with their own duties like piloting the shuttles. Though at time of Armageddon theatrical run only other people going up to space were mostly scientists, and soft handed pencil pushers of some flavor.
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Heard that carpet ride song over a store intercom.
(It plays in First Contact when Zefram takes off.)
(It plays in First Contact when Zefram takes off.)
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Now that is a show I haven't seen mentioned in a long, long time. They don't make 'em like they used to anymore.
Way better than Star Trek Quality Learing Center. The 90s/early 2000s could do no wrong. Total Recall 2070 was also solid.
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Is that fuckin Freddy Kreuger
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Yup, that's Robert England. He's a cult leader who feeds people to a Predator like alien. If you grew up watching TV in the 90s you will recognize so many character actors and other random actors from movies and TV shows. Both Alotta Fagina and Nigel Exposition from Austin Powers are in it and Penn & Teller are in the episode written by Neil Gaiman.
The only reason the show was made was to give Laurance Fishbourne's wife a job. Jack of All Trades was the better show thanks to Bruce Campbell's comedic skills and the hot blonde Br*tish woman.
For the Trekkies getting tired of the Babylon 5 posting, Bester has some good news about the thread:
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You know, I didn't expect to enjoy an episode about King Arthur as much as I did, but man, G'kar really helped to make that episode fantastic.
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Just chiming in to say B5 is actually very very watchable and perhaps is even better than ever compared to the absolute dogshit tier crap that nuTrek throws at us weekly. I don't even think that it's aged that badly but maybe I'm more generous with SFX leeway but I think the character costumes and make up look great and arguably better than the garbage they're trying today even. G'kar's/Narn make up is especially tremendous.
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Do you a test pilot will actually play that song if FTL travel is achieved?
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The D&D stuff on Babylon 5 mostly sucks, I like "Grail", though. That’s the good shit. I love when British guys act serious in sci-fi.
In "Avalon" Marcus starts doing a Medieval Times accent to talk Michael York down. He’s so funny. Then G'kar immediately starts buying in. He just loves the pageantry.
I will say, the League members all look distinct. No Star Trek "rubber forehead zigzag."
The Narn actors look like they’re in physical pain though. I guess it adds to the realism. There’s that big freedom speech and I swear you can see his brow furrow through the prosthetics. That’s good rubber acting.
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Those drugs were no joke. It’s tough, because acting requires you to be cognizant and the meds were probably working against that.
At a certain point he must have figured "the cure is worse than the disease."
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I wonder what Mirror Universe Zefram picked for his soundtrack. Magic Carpet Ride seems way too optimistic and peaceful...
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God I loved Michael O'Hare's performance in B5. If the illness never happened I think he could have been one of the greats. Sisko tier even.
Personally the show stopped being as interesting to me when he had to leave. I like Bruce Boxleitner, and they did a good job trying to patch things up, but it just wasn't the same. Michael was beating the shit out of everyone every other episode and getting into space dogfights while giving star trek tier speeches.
Michael Straczynski was a class act for doing everything he could to honor the character and actor though. He finished his arc as cleanly as he could in season 3 with a kickass guest appearance and making sure the lore referenced him as much as possible. There's even a novel about how his love interest moves heaven and earth to be with him again.
One of my favorite episodes is infection where he tanks a gun that one shot everything and talks down a genocidal alien. Gripping performance.
He also punched checkov and Khan's right hand man in the face.
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