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14-08-2009, 5:51 PM
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Got the Ultimate Collection Babylon 5 boxset for my birthday.
Been ploughing through it at a phenominal rate. Often watching 4/5 episodes a day on a particularly 'horizontal' day off 
Iv just started season 3 and cant get enough, I watched it on TV years ago but was a little young to keep up, totally into it now and can't believe how good it is. 
It has aged really well I think and the story is compelling. The way its written with the BIG plot in mind at all times, the first season showing clips of the future, seasons ahead, and the later episodes remarking about previous shows/seasons and even previous cast members!
This really demonstrates a quality of storytelling that is so frequently lost in TV now. 
However...... I am a little concerned about the spin offs and various movies included that I have read some pretty bad things about 
Anyone else a B5 fan and want to talk all things Vorlon and Minbari?  'It was our last, best hope for peace......' | 
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14-08-2009, 6:13 PM
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Got it, ripped it, enjoy it. Not a trekkie type though!
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15-08-2009, 10:48 PM
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I got the German tin set years ago and haven't watched a episode yet. I did watch it on Channel 4 a long time ago.
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16-08-2009, 5:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Turbo Dragon  Got the Ultimate Collection Babylon 5 boxset for my birthday.
Been ploughing through it at a phenominal rate. Often watching 4/5 episodes a day on a particularly 'horizontal' day off
Iv just started season 3 and cant get enough, I watched it on TV years ago but was a little young to keep up, totally into it now and can't believe how good it is.
It has aged really well I think and the story is compelling. The way its written with the BIG plot in mind at all times, the first season showing clips of the future, seasons ahead, and the later episodes remarking about previous shows/seasons and even previous cast members!
This really demonstrates a quality of storytelling that is so frequently lost in TV now.
However...... I am a little concerned about the spin offs and various movies included that I have read some pretty bad things about
Anyone else a B5 fan and want to talk all things Vorlon and Minbari? 'It was our last, best hope for peace......' | B5 was fantastic space opera. I bought them as sep box sets prob due for revist by me. As for the film had have them all some where on VHS. Don't watch In the begining until, say midway season four. It gives too much away of what you only find out over the course of the first three seasons.
B5 was always one of those shows on the brink of cancellation for most of its life
the final episode of series five was filmed during season 4, just in case it didn't get made. Thats why season four is a little more compressed. The last film a call to arms sets the scene for Crusade, the spin off series, but this was canceled after only 10 episodes. There are plenty of books which fill out the universe and tie up loose ends (such as what happened to Bester. ( Hell I've even got one of the sound track cds )
This was a labour of love for the writer / producer, J. Michael Straczynski ,who gone on to write for spiderman comic and Eastwood directed film The changling.
Don't expect t to see any upgrade to the fx if its ever makes it to blu, just too expensive. shame,
To all intents it is a complete cycle, Warner did at least let them finish it in the end. Unlike those moron exes at FOX ( damn them what a way to leave the second series of Sarah connor chronicles amd cencelling firefly after only 13 episodes. )
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16-08-2009, 6:46 PM
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Firefly was actually cancelled after nine episodes. There are four episodes on the DVD/BD that never got to be seen on TV.
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16-08-2009, 6:56 PM
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I loved B5 at one time.
The space battles are just amazing.
There are a lot of things that were great about this program, but after they won the great war it just went down hill for me, but up to the end of that war, it was amazing, a LOT better than any star trek story, and I'm a big fan of trek.
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16-08-2009, 7:01 PM
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Originally Posted by nwgarratt Firefly was actually cancelled after nine episodes. There are four episodes on the DVD/BD that never got to be seen on TV. | That true for the US first run, but in the UK we got all episodes on the first run ( sci fi channe )l. So we got to see them before they the US  | |
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16-08-2009, 7:08 PM
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This is a good episode guide for B5 and shows when the best time to watch the TV films. Lurker's Guide: Master Episode List | |
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16-08-2009, 7:43 PM
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Another big B5 fan here, I actually started watching it all again recently from S1, I'm about 1/2 way through S1 and loving it, esp the nods and hints of whats to come. I'm planing on watching all the TV espisodes first and then the films
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17-08-2009, 8:59 AM
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Another fan here, I'm rewatching now on DVD (I bought on VHS too but never watched them!), just finished season 2. Its gripping stuff and has aged well. The TV movies are mixed, in the begining is brilliant, other are so so. series 2, 3 and 4 are great, even after end of the great war story I thought the scorched earth storyline was also great, only S5 dips in the arc (due to story lines being brought forward).
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17-08-2009, 4:41 PM
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Originally Posted by nwgarratt | Im using the same list to work my through the seasons. I am aware there is a seperate list of orders which people think is better for plot line but ignores things like costume changes etc....
I end up watching loads of them then getting down because they're running out Building up to the Shadow War throughout season 3 now.....
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21-08-2009, 10:34 PM
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Agree with all of the above comments, space opera at its best, characters to die for, superb story running through the entire 5 seasons, and some of the best fx to hit the small screen (IMHO) but lately, having recently jumped onto the hi def bandwagon, it suddenly occured to me that the dvd's look terrible and I just can't enjoy them, please please pretty please  warner -lots of B5'ers would be in spasms of joy if you released b5 in blu ray!
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21-08-2009, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by gargoyle please please pretty please warner -lots of B5'ers would be in spasms of joy if you released b5 in blu ray! | It won't look any better than it does now. The whole thing was edited on SD video (like the Trek series after TOS and before Enterprise).
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22-08-2009, 8:46 AM
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Speaking bout the quality.... i am watching it on DVD. Some shots look good, but then some seem to look awful
There really is a noticable drop in quality and they go soft and fuzzy with what appears to be film splats on it, looking like 35mm. really odd......
Find the special features interestnig to note some of the techniques used that were way ahead of the time.....
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23-08-2009, 11:38 PM
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Watched this for the first time last year/this year when my mate lent me them. Loved every second of it. Definitly one of my favorite tv shows of all time
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