The Unbeliever
Well-Known Member
After being disgusted for so long about there being pretty much nothing but SJW-filled garbage on TV/film nowadays, I've recently dusted off my Babylon 5 dvd collection, and man oh man, does it ever bring back the childhood feelies!
What a show! Sure, it's shoe-string budget means it doesn't look as good as the other sci-fi series on during that same time, (namely DS9 + Voyager, SG1, and to a lesser extent, Space: Above & Beyond & Earth Final Conflict, etc...), and the effects don't quite hold up, though the space battles are still far and away the BEST to ever be put to screen...
The story though? Nothing today could ever even begin to hold a candle to the writing, world building, nuance & acting of B5. (Londo & G'kar especially so - pretty much every scene they have together is just pure art!)
THIS is what good story telling is.
THIS is what happens when a creator is allowed to freely 'do his thing' sans studio BS and/or injecting real world garbage into everything.
THIS is the gold standard of what entertainment is all about.
Having just blasted through season 1 again, and now 8 episodes into season 2, I can't help but feel saddened about the recent news that they want to re-boot this amazing work of true art...
Great Maker I hope they don't. Part of B5's problem even during it's original run was that too many dumb people couldn't understand it, and just wrote it off instead... but if you have even a basic understanding of history & Greek/Roman mythology, it's just such a bloody brilliant show that was sadly, just too far ahead of its time. Hell, it's still the only sci-fi show/film to really understand 3D battles in space! (Star Wars 'kinda' did, but B5 is still far and away the best 'space battles with actual tactics' ever put to screen.)
I shudder to think how Hollywierd is going to absolutely ruin this masterpiece nowadays.
What a show! Sure, it's shoe-string budget means it doesn't look as good as the other sci-fi series on during that same time, (namely DS9 + Voyager, SG1, and to a lesser extent, Space: Above & Beyond & Earth Final Conflict, etc...), and the effects don't quite hold up, though the space battles are still far and away the BEST to ever be put to screen...
The story though? Nothing today could ever even begin to hold a candle to the writing, world building, nuance & acting of B5. (Londo & G'kar especially so - pretty much every scene they have together is just pure art!)
THIS is what good story telling is.
THIS is what happens when a creator is allowed to freely 'do his thing' sans studio BS and/or injecting real world garbage into everything.
THIS is the gold standard of what entertainment is all about.
Having just blasted through season 1 again, and now 8 episodes into season 2, I can't help but feel saddened about the recent news that they want to re-boot this amazing work of true art...
Great Maker I hope they don't. Part of B5's problem even during it's original run was that too many dumb people couldn't understand it, and just wrote it off instead... but if you have even a basic understanding of history & Greek/Roman mythology, it's just such a bloody brilliant show that was sadly, just too far ahead of its time. Hell, it's still the only sci-fi show/film to really understand 3D battles in space! (Star Wars 'kinda' did, but B5 is still far and away the best 'space battles with actual tactics' ever put to screen.)
I shudder to think how Hollywierd is going to absolutely ruin this masterpiece nowadays.