Fabulous Babylon 5 Scene

[Sukerkin]

I have ever been an enormous Babylon 5 fan, right from the very first moments that I saw broadcast. For the time it was made, it was breath-taking television and did what sci-fi does best, examine the human condition, in all it's glory and it's failings.

Whilst link-surfing, I came across a little trove of clips and this one in particular that I found still moves me greatly. I think even if you don't know the story or have an inkling of the background, this remains powerful television, with echoes of Churchill or Henry V filtering through:

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[Bob Hubbard]

Love B5.

 

[Dolev]

Time for a B5 marathon which will end tomorrow

 

[seasoned]

Very serious stuff. I think I could get to like it...........

 

[clfsean]

Love B5.

B5 ... Modern sci fi champ... That is all...


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[harlan]

Great series. I'd expect nothing less with 'ma man', Harlan Ellison, involved.

 

[Sukerkin]

Another little morsel to try and tempt some more to delve into the wonderful story that is Babylon 5:

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There are troubles later in the series as, as ever seems to be the way with Sci-fi, the bean counters were going to cancel it so the writers crammed too much into too few episodes. But it is still marvellous.

 

[Blindside]

Two of my favorites, both coming from G'Kar.

Great show, my favorite sci-fi show, currently on Season 3 (again), watching about one episode a week.

 

[SuperFLY]

like sheldon i never liked B5.

i liked most of the space based sci-fi shows but never got on with B5. one of my friends was really into it and always said i should watch it but after seeing the first few episodes it just bored me. apparently later on the space battles were really good but i never got round to watching it again

 

[Sukerkin]

Some fabulous words orated by G'kar over the series, Blindside, aye.

"We are the voice of the Universe" and "We can't be free until we learn to laugh at ourselves".

 

[Sukerkin]

One of my favourites tho' was 'borrowed' by Delenn:

I am Grey. I stand between the candle and the star. We are Grey. We stand between the darkness and the light.

 

[Sukerkin]

And yet another scene that has most un-English tears on my cheeks:

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[Sukerkin]

Here's a difficult question ... of all the multi-faceted characters in Babylon 5, who do you identify with the most? Who is the most like you?

Of all those that I admire and those that I wish I was like, I think, perhaps, that Marcus Cole comes closest to being like what I can be when I am at my best. And what he did for Ivanova I would do for my missus in a heartbeat, altho' the pain I know it would cause her might give me pause.

 

[crushing]

Babylon 5 came out when I was working four jobs for four separate employers that covered all three shifts at times, so I didn't take the opporunity to watch much TV. However, when I think of Babylon 5 what comes to mind is the Commodore Amiga and Newtek Video Toaster system. I did try to catch an episode or two to check out the CGI scenes.