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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jan 29, 2024 15:06:26 GMT
If I do ever watch them through on Blu-ray I'll have to transfer them to more user-friendly disc cases first. As I'm on leave from work for a few weeks, this is now happening. Yesterday afternoon - watched disc 1. This afternoon - watching disc 2. Top sci-fi TV. Martin |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 1, 2024 14:19:47 GMT
Day 5, disc 5. I'd forgotten Dwight Schultz was in this show.
Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 1, 2024 18:03:08 GMT
How does it hold up on Blu-ray?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 2, 2024 6:35:18 GMT
Well, my TV isn't particularly large, and my eyesight isn't the best, but I have no complaints. It's just provided me with an excuse to watch the series again. I'd probably be enjoying it the same if I was rewatching my DVDs.
I'll leave it to picture quality enthusiasts to pass more critical comments.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 8, 2024 19:10:03 GMT
When I rewatched season 1 last week, I thought: This is much better than I remember. Why did I think season 1 wasn't very good?
Then when I rewatched season 2 last week, I thought: Oh, right. This is why I thought season 1 wasn't very good. It's very good compared to most other TV sci-fi, but poor compared to what followed.
Now I've started watching season 3, I remember why (this season) it became the most consistently brilliant TV show I had ever seen. Writing, acting and character chemistry all just absolute perfection. I mean, Londo and G'Kar trapped together by a fire in a lift - sheer genius.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 8, 2024 21:53:33 GMT
Such great actors, those two. They should have been big names.
-Ralph
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Post by Toph on Feb 9, 2024 0:08:11 GMT
Andreas Katsulas deserves every bit of praise he gets, but Peter Jurasik deserves more than he gets for Lando.
I mean, he was so amazing in taking such a deeply unlikable, but charismatic character like Lando, and just making you hope he'll choose the better path. He makes it heartwrenching watching him digging himself deeper and deeper, instead of becoming the better man you know he could be.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 9, 2024 23:25:08 GMT
Such great actors, those two. They should have been big names. -Ralph They are big names: legacy assured. |
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Post by Llama God on Feb 11, 2024 9:43:48 GMT
Both of them so bloody brilliant, yes, and the heart of the series, really. Londo starting off as a clown and a caricature, really, and G'Kar as your typical scheming bad guy stereotype, and then the journeys they both go on... incredible. Without them and those actors Babylon 5 would've still been a good story, but they're what made it great.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 11, 2024 17:56:42 GMT
"Cannot 'run out' of time! Time is infinite! You are finite. Zathras is finite. This... is wrong tool. No, very bad... Never use this..."
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 12, 2024 18:48:33 GMT
Jump.
Jump now.
Martin
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Post by Llama God on Feb 13, 2024 8:17:50 GMT
Run, Luke, run!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 13, 2024 9:01:31 GMT
Thank you for ruining that crucial scene for me!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2024 9:24:07 GMT
'You shall not pass!' would have been a more appropriate reference, as there's more of Lord of the Rings than Star Wars in Babylon 5. babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Babylon_5_influences#The_Lord_of_the_RingsSheridan falling into the abyss in Z'ha'dum to return to life in the following season is Gandalf falling into the abyss at Khazad-dum to return to life in the following book/film. Martin |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 13, 2024 9:56:40 GMT
Yeah, I'd got the LOTR reference, using a LOTR name for Sheridan's saviour is a bit of a hint ;-)
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Post by Jim on Feb 13, 2024 10:01:15 GMT
That's a good observation. Both have a lot of LotR in their DNA, but they're more like separate branches. B5 moreso and more explicitly, though.
"Run, Luke, run!" is more directly close to Gandalf's "Fly!", whereas Sheridan ends up sort of in a hybrid role where he kind of pulls a Gandalf while also being the central hero.
This thread is making me want to do a bit of a rewatch now!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2024 10:11:15 GMT
Sheridan is sometimes Gandalf (falling to his death and returning to life), sometimes Aragorn (leading the forces of good and becoming king once evil has been defeated) and sometimes Frodo/Bilbo (being the audience / receiving exposition at key times, then eventually going over the ocean with the elder races at the end of his life).
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2024 10:14:46 GMT
This thread is making me want to do a bit of a rewatch now! I think after episode 4-21 I'll skip to episode 5-22, which was originally made to be 4-22 before B5 got renewed for an unnecessary fifth season. I don't think I can face watching Byron and his tedious telepath silliness again. Martin |
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Post by Jim on Feb 13, 2024 10:35:27 GMT
Oh yeah, I'd do the same, that stuff was awful.
Maybe I'd dip into it just in case I'm being unkind, but I don't think so...
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 13, 2024 12:06:21 GMT
S5 had two good episodes: the fall of Centauri Prime and the 'day in the life' of Bester. So I would watch them before skipping to the finale.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 13, 2024 14:39:03 GMT
Thanks, I'll do that.
Martin
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Post by Llama God on Feb 14, 2024 8:26:20 GMT
Oh yeah. The fall of Centauri Prime is (almost) worth wading through the rest of the season for. The final scene between Londo and G'Kar is incredible, and his actual coronation is just heartbreaking...
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Post by Nigel on Feb 14, 2024 10:24:02 GMT
I think after episode 4-21 I'll skip to episode 5-22, which was originally made to be 4-22 before B5 got renewed for an unnecessary fifth season. I don't think I can face watching Byron and his tedious telepath silliness again. Martin It was always intended to be five seasons, but JMS didn't think they'd get renewed for the fifth and so truncated the story. Even though 5-22 was filmed for the end of season 4, that was how he always intended to end the series after the fifth year. Made as 4-22, yes, but always intended for 5-22. |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 15, 2024 19:41:14 GMT
It was always intended to be five seasons, but JMS didn't think they'd get renewed for the fifth and so truncated the story. Even though 5-22 was filmed for the end of season 4, that was how he always intended to end the series after the fifth year. Made as 4-22, yes, but always intended for 5-22. I'm aware of this, but binge-rewatching season 4, it doesn't feel at all compressed or rushed. Standalone/filler episodes are notably absent compared with seasons 1-3, but I think they'd have just got in the way at this stage. Wrapping up the Earth Alliance civil war in season 4 felt right - and then ending the series would have felt right. I don't think two years after 'Z'ha'dum' was ever warranted, even if it was the original plan. Martin |
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