The Babylon 5 thread

[Kayenneh]

Yes! It's finally here, the thread we've been waiting for! A place for discussing, loving and sharing the (probably) best TV-series in the world, Babylon 5.

Let me start with my favorite clip of Londo Mollari and G'Kar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NsdQzoIXIE

[MountOlympus]

It was alright. Never really got into it.

[Kayenneh]

Aaaw, that's too bad. I have tried to get my cousin and bf to watch it too, but they didn't warm to it either. Me and my dad on the other had love it. The incentive for me to watch it over and over again is because of the writing, the story is consistent throughout the whole series and the character development keeps it fascinating.

[Anomalocaris]

We need some Sci-Fi shows in which not aliens are not mostly homonoids, or have basically similar sociologies, and command more or less comparable levels of technologies.

[Kayenneh]

True. But I don't think the sci-fi and the aliens is what should be focused upon in B5, but rather the social commentary.

[Anomalocaris]

I think there are two ways to make social commentaries through art. One is to use art as a soap box upon which to assert a certain social view, The other is to use art as a tool to probe the details of real social conditions and real human behaviors, and from this probing let a social view emerge in mind of the viewr. The problem with using a one-hour episolds of serial soap opera for social commentary is the format necessarily simplifes the details of real social condition and behavior most of the time, and so must resort to simply asserting a social view most of the time.

A social view that is merely asserted will convince only the already convinced. A social view that emerges from probing details of real social conditions and real human behaviors can convince the reasonable thoughful open minded skeptic.

[Welsh cake]

I remember Babylon 5, Lexx, and even Deep Space Nine.

Though on reflection I probably wish I didn't even though Lexx was my guilty pleasure to watch.

[jonb]

Babylon 5 is the very elixir of life. True some beings are not evolved enough to apreciate it. But their inferiority should not hold us back All hail the
mighty one and only BOXLEITNER
a god moves among us

[zebo-the-fat]

It was one of the few sci-fi shows I could enjoy without getting anoyed by silly mistakes. I can accept the point that most of the aliens had 2 arms and two legs, but there is a lack of actors without them! I think Babylon 5 itself was quite well done, rotating for artificial gravity etc. I was very sad when it ended.

[Kayenneh]

@Chuck: Though I see your point, I cannot quite agree. When it comes to series like this, there is many factors to take into consideration. First and foremost it's about entertaining and telling a story. Everything that the writers can bake into that without making it forced is a bonus and gives more depth, but I am at least so shallow that I do not want a documentary when I want to relax with a sci-fi series. It's true that what comes across to the viewer is probably the opinion of the writers and thus will not reflect what was happening in the world at that point in an objective way, but I do prefer subjective depth in the series I watch rather to no depth whatsoever.

@Jonb: Has he ever been that young?! But by Ra, the man is hotness himself

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*swoon*

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I was very sad when it ended.

Ditto, but at least it had a very definite ending and conclusion, which is much appreciated, sad though it was.