Babylon 5 (no it isn't)

Yes it is. (never seen it)

Yes it is.

What has Simon Pegg said about Babylon 5? Are the zombies not to his exact specifications?

I think the shonkiness of Babylon 5 adds to its charm

That is the point where JMS started writing every episode. Every single fucking episode (Apart from one by Neil Gaiman)

Hence the fact it felt so cohesive, it wasn't like Star Trek where every episode has a different writer credit.

He is what is happening to the whole UK right now, that yearning for past greatness being manipulated by sinister forces for their own benefit, to create and profit from chaos. The Centauri are Tory, the Shadows their shadowy backers.

In retrospect B5 does sit on an awkward middle line between the type of storytelling you get in modern big budget tv and the traditional Star Trek episodic approach.

I’d love to properly rewatch it again soon

I started on a rewatch earlier this year, inspired by several others on the RPS forums who did the same.
My rewatch petered out after 5-6 episodes... not because of any problem with the show but just because of a lack of free time and there being *too much to watch*.

It surprised me by only taking about 2 episodes before I was fully back into it though. The space scenes didn't even look all that dated to me.. low res, sure, but they were doing camera movement and angles that you wouldn't have seen in other shows at the time.

Pacing was slower than a lot of modern shows, that feel the need to have every episode have 8 revelations because the season is only 6 episodes or so.

Been trying to think of a more modern show that has the same kind of feel as B5, and the only one I could really come up with was Game of Thrones... despite the obvious difference in tone.

It does. A two word comment ('I know') in the very first episode iirc, doesn't get a reveal until towards the end of the second series.

And gave us Commander Jeffrey Sinclair, one the most humane characters TV, and certainly sci-fi, has created.

Its one of the many accidental things that made B5 great. Sheridan was, ultimately, a better character than sinclair and Bruce Boxleitner is a much better actor.

Weird to think what the show would have been like if O'Hare hadnt got ill.

Yes, he's almost portrayed as a baddie when he first appears, it's not until Hague arrives it becomes clear he's actually ahead of the game regards Clark, and why he was sent to B5. But, as you say, turns out to be so far beyond cool he'd need a White Star to get back to it



Reading back, never answered your question re Simon Pegg. In Spaced, Tim gets sacked on purpose from the comic shop he doesn't want to work in, by shouting 'Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit!' at the owner. Since when, any thread anywhere in any universe on B5 gets a 'Babylon 5 is a big pile of shit!' comment almost immediately, hence my pre-emptive parenthesis.



Didn't know about Neil Gaiman writing Day of the Dead either, cheers Ryan :thumbsup

Well, hard to say how good an actor O'Hare was, given his difficulties (the only other thing I think I've ever seen him in is 'C.H.U.D.', and that almost non-speaking) but yes from the point of view of the story at least, it all worked out.

Michael O'Hare - 

No, Sinclair would have chosen a friend who was a tolerant athiest, not a militant who walked along the line shouting at everyone

I didn't like to say anything (the spelling on here has been appalling so far, like everyone has been through some sort of traumatic loss) but I've corrected it in my post, so do the same and we'll sey no moor about it.

S 1 to 4 are certainly the main arc, and there are some fairly throwaway episodes in S 5, but watch it, because there are moments of astonishing beauty (aside from the fact it looks like it was filmed on greaseproof paper).

'We have to create the future, or others will do it for us.'

/looks around

Yup.