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What's the consensus here regarding Babylon Five? (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by startrekexplained@startrek.website to c/quarks@startrek.website

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I have the series on DVD but I've never seriously cracked it, only seen a few episodes. Was wondering what people here think, is it as good as the internet often says it is? I know it was an inspiration for one of my favorite franchises (Mass Effect) and The Orville had a cute reference to it by making its main actor the president of the Planetary Union, but that's the extent of my B5 knowledge. So anyway, should I binge the series?

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Best thing since slice bread. You just have to accept it looks cheap and old.

[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Cuz it is old and had limited funds iirc

[–] ShranTheWaterPoloFan@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The old is more important than limited funds. I remember reading an interview from JMS where he mentioned B5 was about $1 million an episode. Which after accounting for inflation is about $2 million an episode in today's money. The BSG remake was at about $1 million per episode.

I can tell you in 1995 the CGI on B5 was pretty great.

[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

On bsg they cut every corner on every square thing because they were literally cutting all corners they could for budgetary reasons.

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