Babylon 5

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ZICSOFT

Monday, September 9, 2002 1:06 AM

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Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
Zic, if B5 was such a piece of shit, then why is it concidered a sci-fi classic?

Grr. Arg.

We all agree it's a classic. But a classic what?

It's funny how B5 keeps coming up in Firefly discussions. I guess because both shows aim to be "hard" SF. And indeed B5 usually got the science right. They did screw up once in showing a collision between a spaceship and a teddy bear...

But I digress. What can I say about B5? It just has a lot wrong with it. Had this discussion before:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=25099&cid=2729223&pid=2729223&thre
shold=-1&mode=nested

Yeah, B5 has its Fans. So does Plan 9 From Outer Space.

LIVINGIMPAIRED

Monday, September 9, 2002 2:36 AM

Hey, Maybe if you weren't so busy picking nits and over anaylzing every single detail, maybe you spend more time ENJOYING THE DAMN SHOW, and less time being so... grumpy. Sometimes you just need to suspend belief.

And I realize that you can't please everybody. Ex: LOR, Fellowship of the Ring should have won best picture, but certain piece of crap won instead.

It's things like that and people like you that remind me that not everyone will like the same thing, no matter how good it is. They are still entitled to their opinion. Even though it's wrong.

Grr. Arg.

ZICSOFT

Monday, September 9, 2002 3:06 AM

Hey guy, chill out! You like B5, I hate it. It's not like I killed your puppy or claimed Sarah Gellar was ugly!

DYAIRVATREE

Friday, February 28, 2003 4:28 PM

I also loved B5 the the only shows that even had a tenth the overall story arch are Blake's 7 and Deep Space Nine wich I also love. I haven't seen the new Staczynski show on Showtime but I figure they are going to sindicate it to local stations like they have done with other things.

TALRIUS

Friday, February 28, 2003 9:35 PM

Never heard of Blake's 7, but I loved DS9 because it was a deviation from the typical Star Trek. It wasn't all scientific, it was dark and far more real that the other Star Trek's before or after(Voyager was soap opera-ish). It was probably caused by competing with B5 at the time, which was another great Space series. Note I said space not Sci-fi, the series didn't completely revolve around science to solve their problems for them. That's why Firefly is so good it's about the people not the technology.

GINOBIFFARONI

Saturday, March 1, 2003 6:13 AM

Exactly,

The key to Good Sci-Fi, is compelling storylines, belivable characters, and good writing.
In this the writers and the actors are very important.
Science, special effects, fancy gimmicks. These are window dressing for the first three. They will help to compliment them but without them all you have is crap.

B5 and DS9 definately had these,

and Firefly...
you can't get any better...

TALRIUS

Saturday, March 1, 2003 7:40 AM

You seen Farscape?

DYAIRVATREE

Monday, March 3, 2003 4:08 AM

Farscape is great one the more original space shows out there. It's Austrialia's first sci-fi show ironically you can see Farscape in just about every country except Australia nice to know network executives are insane in other countries as well.The network people down there didn't think it was worth airing go figure.

Blake's 7 is a late 70's early 1980's science fiction show from the U.K. ran for about 3 years. It was about 7 fugitives who were fighting against a fascist interplanetary government known as the Federation.It was a good show plot wise but it had to be the single cheapest looking space show I've ever seen so if high quality sets and good special effects matter to you,you probably would be underwhelmed.

J.Micheal Straczynski the creater of B5 in interviews has said Blakes 7 was one of the biggest influences on B5.

Anyway back to Farscape it's a shame it's getting cancelled after this season.This season in my opinion has been great.The last episode where the rescue Aron from the Scarins has to be one of the coolest they've done in a while.In fact I'll probably watch it again tonight.

DYAIRVATREE

Monday, March 3, 2003 11:05 PM

So when I was talking about shows with story archs I should have mentioned Farscape as well.

TALRIUS

Monday, March 3, 2003 11:45 PM

[It's Austrialia's first sci-fi show ironically you can see Farscape in just about every country except Australia nice to know network executives are insane in other countries as well.]

That's funny, well not for Australia but never the less it's funny. Boy network people must share a collective mind, wait that expains the ten bazillion reality shows out there. A sad fact is that the Sci-fi Channel is buying into reality TV too. Soon their will be no place safe for us geeks.

[Anyway back to Farscape it's a shame it's getting cancelled after this season.This season in my opinion has been great.]

Farscape has had a great run I only hope they end it spectacularly and not crapy. Anyway the only problem I had with this season of Farscape was the Consellation of Doubt episode it could have been solved in 30 min. It needed something more. And I was hesitant about Raylee Hill joining the cast as Sikozu but her alliance with Scorpy was cool. I also liked the return of Harvy, Crihton shouldn't have trusted Scorpious.

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