Serenity on Slashdot
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UPDATED: Monday, November 28, 2005 22:24
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Babylon 5 nailed the physics thing really well.
If I recall rightly, Delenn is showing Sheridan around the White Star, and just casually chucks in "We've had artificial gravity for some time" and that's the last you hear of it.
Thank God no CSI scriptwriters were involved.
Not making a big deal of something makes it everyday, and therefore realistic. And you don't stress out over it ever again.
Or if you do, you take a step back and remember that it's fictional and you have a life. Unlike me.
G
I'll run an NMR scan...(edited)...this works by...(edited)...over 83% of all...(edited)...
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot you are an SCI same as me, work in this lab and use this machine every damn day.
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I agree, "The Empire Strikes Back" was far and away the best of the Star Wars movies.
I believe like so many of us do that when the DVD comes out, there will be people who watch "Serenity" who didn't for whatever reason, and then they will see, then they will come around to seeing that this is one of those awesome films, like "The Empire Strikes Back" that stays with you ,that you want to see over and over again.
It'll be on a future top ten list. I'm sure of it.
"These are stone killers, little man. They ain't cuddly like me." ~Jayne
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Perhaps a little late to the party, but I decided to go ahead and add my opinions:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168847&cid=14112560
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=168847&cid=14113269
GatorMarc
Eat 'em up, chomp, chomp.
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Quote:I think a better example is how all Earth ships (including Babylon 5 itself) have a rotating section for gravity (windows are in the floor), with near-zero gravity at the core.
Originally posted by Gixxer:
Babylon 5 nailed the physics thing really well.
If I recall rightly, Delenn is showing Sheridan around the White Star, and just casually chucks in "We've had artificial gravity for some time" and that's the last you hear of it.
Also, the realistic maneuvering of ships like the Starfury, etc.
B5TECH.COM - The Babylon 5 Tech-Manual
http://www.b5tech.com/
But what made Babylon 5 truly great were the story & character growth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5
IMDb user comments for "Babylon 5" (1994)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/usercomments
The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html
I've spent the last couple of days downloading over 500 of the clearest-sounding WAVs from this site to my iPod...
Down Below Sound Archive for Babylon 5
http://b5.cs.uwyo.edu/bab5/
...and I was frequently wiping tears from my eyes.
The MP3s on this site are amazing! (Just wish there were more of 'em!)
Babylonsounds.com - The Babylon 5 music archive
http://www.babylonsounds.com/en/index.html
High quality videos of all seven opening title sequences (including the final fate of Babylon 5 herself *SPOILERS!*) are here.
http://www.vidiot.com/B5/
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I think that what the folks over at Slashdot might tend to overlook in reguard to "Firefly" and "Serenity" is that it's a show designed more by and around the concepts of storytelling theory, writing structure, character creation & development and acting verve.
Perosnally I feel that Joss and Tim (Minear) wanted a show that would try to be as accurate to the logic and physics of both space travel and space interaction as possible. The greatest example being the Kubrick-ian decision that there would be no sound in the space (ala "2001: A Space Odyssey" and, of course, real life). Yet at the same time, if it really came down to a choice of logic or story, story would always win out in the end. And that's simply Joss. That's part of what makes him the popular storyteller that he is. The story always comes first.
So in reguard to whether or not to nitpick over the big details, I prefer to pass on that kind of stuff. Nothin' against the people that do get hung up on those. But I just prefer the telling of the tale. I mean the abriviated word fiction plays just as big a part in the equation as the word science does.
"Yeah, grenades cost extra."
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CLJo
Very nice Babylon 5 collection!
Fondly remember the Star Furies. Original and best. All that turning on a sixpence (or a dime if you prefer). Never really saw much of those radical 3-D moves before B5 or much again until the New Battlestar Galactica.
The old BSG betrayed the reason the Cylons were never going to win. Always having to do Split-S dives? They should really have ditched carburettors long ago.
Fuel injection is far superior for combat, and some sort of non-petrol based powerplant might be a tad more suitable out in the black.
Hang on. I appear to be talking about proper physics and chemistry in connection with a work of fiction. Wow, it's really easy to get seduced into The Slashdot Way...
G
633 Squadron.
Now you've got the theme tune running through your head, you can't get rid of it...
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It's nice to know that there are people out there that, like me, totally missed this amazing show on television, but were able to find the movie.
I went to see Serenity on a date and I must admit that I was extremely skeptical about going to see it at first. When I walked out of the theatre I was confused, but entertained none the less.
I came home and read all of the Entertainment Weekly articles I could find about it and two days later I bought the Firefly DVD's. I HAD to know what this was all about.
Now I wish that I hadn't indulged in my curiosity because I am addicted to this show! Words like "shiny" and "gorammit"(spelling?), as well as the phrase "wacky fun" have crept into my everyday vernacular and no one around me understands where I'm coming from.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm absolutley NOT complaining. I can't believe that Fox canceled Firefly! Although, if they hadn't I wouldn't be writing this.
AMMattie
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