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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Eschaton on September 27, 2014, 09:48:36 PM

Title: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Eschaton on September 27, 2014, 09:48:36 PM: :expert hope neckbeards are right about this one, still haven't forgiven yall for recommending me Firefly.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 09:53:55 PM: Don't expect much out of Season One, it's basically a different show altogether from S2 onward
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: toku on September 27, 2014, 09:54:08 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 27, 2014, 09:51:40 PM
or stargate that was also terrible

:pacspit
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 09:56:47 PM: They refer back to a couple S1 episodes later on, but for the most part the whole season is pretty skippable if you get bored
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 09:59:20 PM: http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6370/what-1st-season-episodes-in-babylon-5-are-required-to-follow-the-main-arc
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 27, 2014, 10:00:32 PM: Babylon 5 is great. Watched it about 4 or 5 years ago for the first time myself.

The first season is terribad but I wouldn't skip it. Just suck it down like some foul tasting medicine. It's part of the process and you can marvel at how much better it gets.

Show always has a bit of cheesiness. That was part of the era. But so good if you let yourself get invested.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: D3RANG3D on September 27, 2014, 10:02:00 PM: Babylon 5 :rejoice

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Stargate is good though :bolo
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Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 27, 2014, 10:06:46 PM: I've never watched any of Stargate. Not even the original movie.

Every so often I try to talk myself into it, but it hasn't worked yet.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: D3RANG3D on September 27, 2014, 10:12:30 PM: Quote from: Esch on September 27, 2014, 10:09:20 PM
Quote from: Stoney Mason on September 27, 2014, 10:06:46 PM
I've never watched any of Stargate. Not even the original movie.

Every so often I try to talk myself into it, but it hasn't worked yet.

I gave it a movie and a season and some change of trial. I don't see the appeal.

If we're going to go for scifantasy corn movies turned television i prefer Highlander.

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:expert
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But you are missing out on the episodes that Teal'c directs/writes and he gets laid every time. :sabu
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2014, 10:23:15 PM: hey guys what about farscape
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 27, 2014, 10:38:29 PM: In a way I miss farscape more than the other classic sci fi shows because of the humour and sex appeal which nearly all tv sci-fi tries to get rid of. That show embraced it.

That's why I appreciated Firefly. It felt more like Farscape than traditional sci fi.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 10:40:52 PM: Watch Lexx
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Stoney Mason on September 27, 2014, 10:42:31 PM: Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 10:40:52 PM
Watch Lexx

I watched 2 or 3 episodes a long time ago. Very weird show from what I remember not that that is a bad thing.

I'll pick it up again at some point.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Kara on September 27, 2014, 10:48:01 PM: Kosh is one of my all-time favorite alien characters.

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 10:40:52 PM
Watch Lexx

:bow His Divine Shadow :bow2

:piss The Shadows :piss2

Don't open this Esch.
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Still haven't forgiven you for what you did to Kosh. :pacspit :tocry
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Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Madrun Badrun on September 27, 2014, 11:14:15 PM: Stargate is the best and anyone who says anything different is going to get rape-pranked with my salty balls in their sleeping mouths.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2014, 11:58:44 PM: Since we're talking about old scifi TV shows, I found out today that Invasion America is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L--XVQmNF0
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Great Rumbler on September 28, 2014, 12:01:22 AM: Also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR7ktkOEeFw
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: StealthFan on September 28, 2014, 03:32:31 AM: DS9 did jack it hard. Also Babylon 5 is trash.

The captain in the first season had to leave because he was battling schizophrenia. JMS kept it a secret until the actors death.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: nachobro on September 28, 2014, 04:16:00 AM: I really like DS9 so I should probably check this shit out.
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Kara on September 28, 2014, 04:22:22 AM: Oh snap, I forgot the best thing about this. Or resident #1 peddler of the cornball insult is going to be enduring 4 seasons of one Captain John "fucking cornball" Sheridan. :lawd

Starkiller will be Eschkiller. :lawd
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: chronovore on September 28, 2014, 06:36:45 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2014, 10:23:15 PM
hey guys what about farscape
I'm still waddling through my re-watch of that, after retrieving my full-series Blu-Ray collection.

Quote from: Eel O'Brian on September 27, 2014, 10:40:52 PM
Watch Lexx
No. No, no, no. That show is like mid-range Metal Hurlant mixed with Cinemax late night soft core mixed with some college kid's experiment with Amiga Video Toaster.

Wait, that actually might sound like an endorsement. It's not!
Title: Re: bout to start watching Babylon 5 :expert
Post by: Phoenix Dark on September 28, 2014, 10:29:43 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on September 27, 2014, 11:58:44 PM
Since we're talking about old scifi TV shows, I found out today that Invasion America is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L--XVQmNF0
I've been trying to remember the name of this for years. I remember when it premiered and there was quite a bit of hype. It came on later in the evening on Saturday iirc and we had to beg to watch it, since my mom always decreed that the TV be turned off after about 3PM on a weekend unless it was a Michigan football game; that didn't stop us from sneaking Xena, Hercules, and Outer Limits tho.
:lawd

It had more blood than any of the other Saturday cartoons and there might have been a "dammit" thrown in too. It wasn't as good as the hype but I liked it overall. Alas I didn't get to watch all the episodes.