Babylon5

The book is OK, not one of my favorites, but it's definitely got a lot of B5 in it. I found it in the used book store and had to buy it! Has anyone else read it?

"Dust To Dust" (B5: s3e06)

"Parliament of Dreams" (B5:S1E05)

I found this quote online often attributed to either Tennessee Williams or a Babylon 5 episode:

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

I think the latter is more likely but also it could just be completely made up. The epsiode title is given as Chrysalis sometimes, e. g: on IMDB.

"Rumors, Bargains and Lies" (B5:s4e13)

While curious about the Centauri accent, I found this 2001 interview with Peter Jurasik (Londo Mollari) and Wortham Krimmer (Cartagia).

http://www.earth62.net/transcripts/jurasik22feb01.htm

The quick story about the accent, if I can tell you how I patchworked it together, is I was doing a play downtown, a Tennessee Williams play, and I worked really hard on a Memphis accent. I felt like I had really nailed it. But one L.A. critic nailed me and said, "That’s a terrible Memphis accent. That doesn’t sound like a Southern accent." I was really hurt. About that time was when "The Gathering," the pilot, showed up. I called Joe and said, "What do you want me to sound like?" He said, "Let him sound like whatever you want," so I purposely took a couple of different things. There’s a character who plays the parole officer in A Clockwork Orange, the guy who’s always saying, "And night-time is the best time, um, yes?" I took my Czechoslovakian grandmother. I had spent three consecutive summers in Ireland. I didn’t always take sounds; I took rhythms. Londo had a kind of musical thing.

The whole thing's worth a read, they seemed to be having fun.

Inspired by a Star Trek meme post. We had some amazing reoccurring actors that you might not have recognized.

So my wife and I were watching through Babylon 5 on Tubi. We've both never seen it and have really enjoyed it. We hit the end of season 4 and it really felt like the end of the show (I'm aware of the background issues and also that the season 5 finale was filmed for the end of season 4 but then shifted around) and we were very satisfied with where everything was left. We took a break to put a hold at our library on a DVD of the movies to watch "In the Beginning" before we started season 5. Got the DVD, started watching it, and my wife started falling asleep, so we stopped and just...haven't gone back. I can't explain it, but neither of us feel super motivated to continue even though we were really enjoying the show.

So, B5 fans who have watched the whole series, what can you say to motivate us to continue watching?!

"Sic Transit Vir" (B5: 3x12)

What an absolutely amazing story! I thought it was reasonably well paced as well. Best week of recovering from covid ever.

Sheridan getting shafted by Earth in the end and still out politicking them was the chef's kiss. After watching that over one week, What now?

Passing Through Gethsemane - B5:s3e4

Just got up to the episode where they introduce the Nightwatch. It's a brilliant piece of writing depicting the use of "special roles" to "help".

They instantly reminded me of the "brown shirts" and equivalent that Mussolini and Hitler used when Fascism was first popularised.

It's scary that it is still so relevant. Almost as if we don't learn from history (or science fiction for that matter).

Just watching Babylon 5 through as I sit recovering from another bout of COVID. This line from the episode "Infection" was brilliant.

Really enjoying the binge so far, even if the jump between the pilot and episode 1 was a little jarring.

After my third rewatch, I still have one question. Where did "Arthur" get his sword and chain mail?

It's a good episode, and this question doesn't detract from that.

Source: "Ruling from the Tomb" (Crusade,1x06)

Source: Secrets of the Soul (B5:5x07)

Episode "The Paragon of Animals" s5e03

Bonus gif from the same episode (censored for general viewing): https://i.imgur.com/eIklI9Z.gifv