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I didn't see a thread around discussing this show, so...

I really loved this when it aired here, but didn't had the chance to see all episodes. Got me the whole box for christmas and just finished it. Got to say i really love it more now.

I really loved the cross season storyline with Babylon 4. As with the Shadow war.

Any one else loved this show?

Indeed. They could have used the same machine to save him as Marcus used to save Ivanova. Marcus was the cool character when Garabaldi left B5. Loved his British humor.

But how do you mean the Religiuos undertones in some episodes? All i can imagine are the episodes with Brother Theo for Christianity.

Or what really was preachy was the episode in which Sinclair brought 3000 religions from Earth.

Honestly it was the whole Sheridan being reborn and seen almost as a deity that I wasn't particularly into.

I thought Marcus generally had some of the best dialogue that the writers would put in. I was never an enormous fan of Delenn for some reason either. I liked her but I just never thought she served much purpose aside from being the woman Sheridan loved etc.

Honestly, there were far too many similarities to Christianity with the whole died, reborn issue. It got a bit too heavy for me, though that might just be my view of it.

Maybe I've been brainwashed like Garibaldi............

You mean the subliminal message that flashed at the end? It was something like, "PsyCorps is your friend. Trust PsyCorps." I might not have it verbatim, but it's close.

Damn, you are good. Thats right on.

And thank you for subliminal, didn't knew the English word :)



Lol good one :)

You're mostly right. J. Michael Strazinsky had the entire series outlined years before it ever went into production, and it was fully intended to be a multi-season narrative arc. There were, however, a few places where things had to make an abrupt change, such as switching out Sinclair for Sheridan after the first season, and the fact that they wrapped all the loose ends up prematurely for the end of the fourth season because they didn't think they would be picked up for a fifth season. If you ever checked the episode production numbers, "Sleeping In Light" (which aired as the 5th season finale) was actually produced to be 4x23--the fourth season finale. When they got picked up for another season, they held off airing the episode for the true series finale.

When TNT picked them up for the 5th season, they kinda had a wing it, which is why the season seems a bit disconnected from the rather seamless flow of the rest of the narrative. I'm reasonably certain that telepath conflict was meant to happen with Ivanova (being an undetected latent telepath) in charge of the station, and it didn't work nearly as well when Claudia Christian left the series and they had to plug in Tracy Scoggins (blech!) instead.

Edited, May 3rd 2007 5:20pm by Ambrya

Not sure, but I think the actor was fired. No idea why, but I didn't mind. He was always a bit stilted and cardboard-like to me.




Claudia Christian wanted to leave, not sure what, if anything, the idea that they were operating on the assumption that fourth season would be the last had to do with her decision. But Tracey Scoggins was god-awful, but the actress and the character.



Edited, May 4th 2007 6:04pm by Ambrya

The spin off was completely forgettable. Point of fact, I think all Babylon 5 fans try to forget about that one

Honestly I would have to go and look. But there weren't many aside from a couple of quick cameos. It was a terrible way for the show to end up. Ah well, we still have Battlestar Galactica

Yeah and Boomer being a woman as well. Though I would definitely say that Grace Park as Boomer is much better than the Boomer from the old series. She's awesome.

Oh nice, thank you :) Pre ordered it, release date 09-17. Can't wait :)