Babylon 5 - is this all I need?
Discussion
Rich_W said:
Not a Sci Fi person by any means. But B5 was very good and held my intrest.
Not sure I'd have bought the box set on a whim mind.
I am going to Italy for three weeks at the end of next week, so have a couple of very boring weekends and evenings. It has snowed badly, so no chance of getting anywhere so I anticipate I'll be in my hotel room quite a bit after work - hence the rush to buy and back up onto HD a few series. Not sure I'd have bought the box set on a whim mind.
In any case, spending less than £20 on what amounts to 24 DVD's containg 4 episodes each isn't what I'd call frivolous...
Edited by chris watton on Wednesday 8th February 19:51
Happy82 said:
Just for you Chris Watton
He was exceedingly irritating, was quite glad when the time travelling paedo took him away to 'expand his horizons'
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Happy82 said:
Just for you Chris Watton
He was exceedingly irritating, was quite glad when the time travelling paedo took him away to 'expand his horizons'
In Kirk's era, warp drive was an engine that made a spaceship go really really fast, so they could get from plot twist to plot twist more quickly. The transporter was a dramatic device to get into the action quickly (and avoid having to use the shuttle again, which apparently cost a lot to film). If anything went wrong with it, lots of sparks and smoke came out of the consoles and Scotty got more and more exasperated. Then he'd go to 'fix it' with a toolbox. You didn't need to know how it worked, mainly because it was all made up anyway and acted as a dramatic device in the story, but also because that would cause the story itself to grind to a halt.
But in TNG - oh dear. Entire plots would revolve around something on the ship breaking down. Geordi would pop up from the engine room and come out with a stream of theoretical physics meaningless to anyone who doesn't work with Stephen Hawking on a regular basis, and whole chunks of the plot would revolve around the act of repairing it, rather than the repair becoming a race against time in relation to something else.
It was that which regularly pissed me off when watching TNG. I'd far rather watch Scotty saying 'she cannae tekkit anymooore' while the Enterprise rushed to stop a planet exploding than watch characters faff about with computers and bang on about things like 'warp phase coils', 'Heisenberg compensators' and 'lossy transportation algorithms'. Those episodes (and there were many) were about as interesting as the conversation I had with IT support this morning regarding my email system not working.
B5 started from series one ep 1 last week on FX. I have watched a few, I find it hard going. I have ffed through a few. I wanna keep with it because so many on here say it's good. I shall keep the faith. It seems more procedural at the moment.
I think BSG is the best, I like Star Trek (not of that modern stuff though, just Kirk and crew), and enjoy sci-fi on a larger level...if it is quality.
I think BSG is the best, I like Star Trek (not of that modern stuff though, just Kirk and crew), and enjoy sci-fi on a larger level...if it is quality.
Don Veloci said:
Odie said:
Space, Above and Beyond. Anyone?
Amazed that it has never been picked up by one of the many channels we have these days (Has it?) for regular repeating.Cannot understand why it was victim to obscure and inconsistent scheduling when I first dicovered it (BBC 2 was it?).
I think the obscurity is to do with the darkness of it, with it tackling issues of slavery, genoside, some of the episode where very dark for their day. It a bit like starship troopers, that was trying to glorify genoside but make you think by putting you on the side of evil. Im not even sure that was picked up in the mainstream.
Edited by Odie on Thursday 9th February 10:43
I'm an avid BSG fan and like you recently bought all 5 series of B5, I've had them for a good few weeks now and watched...8 episodes.
I just can't get into it and whoever told you the effects were good was wrong, very wrong. I wouldn't even class them as good for the time, TNG, DS9 and Voyager all have better effects than B5 imo.
I just can't get into it and whoever told you the effects were good was wrong, very wrong. I wouldn't even class them as good for the time, TNG, DS9 and Voyager all have better effects than B5 imo.
Matt_N said:
I'm an avid BSG fan and like you recently bought all 5 series of B5, I've had them for a good few weeks now and watched...8 episodes.
I just can't get into it and whoever told you the effects were good was wrong, very wrong. I wouldn't even class them as good for the time, TNG, DS9 and Voyager all have better effects than B5 imo.
You've seen 8 out of 110 episodes and now are an expert judge on the special effects?I just can't get into it and whoever told you the effects were good was wrong, very wrong. I wouldn't even class them as good for the time, TNG, DS9 and Voyager all have better effects than B5 imo.
Do yourself a favour, don't spout off from a perspective of ignorance. Once you've seen more of it you'll realise how silly that statement was, you've already had many people acknowledge season one being terribly filmed in comparison to the rest.
You've still got some truly cringeworthy effects coming too, season one truly is like a low budget version of 60s doctor who!
vxr8mate said:
You could almost miss the entire 1st season and just skip to the 2nd. Its later on they start referring back to what happened in the first season and then there’s not much of a reference.
I shall skip the 1st season then, and start at the 2nd. I can always watch the 1st if I need to at any point...Edited by chris watton on Thursday 9th February 16:43
chris watton said:
vxr8mate said:
You could almost miss the entire 1st season and just skip to the 2nd. Its later on they start referring back to what happened in the first season and then there’s not much of a reference.
I shall skip the 1st season then, and start at the 2nd. I can always watch the 1st if I need too at any point...I've just finished the second to last episode of season four (the second to last episode of real story) and I've been on tenterhooks for most of the last six or seven episodes! It really is good!
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