Babylon Five
I borrowed B5 Season 1 from Peter and Leslie a few months back and Season 2 a few weeks back, and watched Season 1 twice; once mostly out of order and over the course of weeks, and just this weekend all in order all together eschewing all TV except as visual background noise. I watched Season 1 from mid-afternoon Saturday through early Sunday morning and then all Sunday afternoon, evening and well into Monday morning.
Then I started watching Season 2 same way. I’m on the fourth disc of six.
It’s interesting and intense this way. I have been having weird dreams. Especially Sunday night when I had the Tony award show on TV in the background while I watched B5 on the computer.
The show isn’t at all what I thought it was 13 years ago, and, even though it’s old and cancelled, it’s still twelve parsecs better than Star Trek: Enterprise.
The characters are great, especially the ambassadors, and the CG is quite ripping for its time, back then, so long ago. Remembering about the seasons long story arcs, I get antsy just thinking about what they’re doing with this thread or that statement. Cool.
The way he worked a story arc back in those days is amazing. Even though I knew aboout that, I didn’t think about it until I’d watched several episodes out of order, then decided I had to go back and watch them properly to get the full, real vibe. After a little reading on the web, I figured I better had too before I watched Season 2.
Can’t wait to cash in Seasons 1 and 2 for Season 3.
Thank you, Ambassador from Ambedia and Commercial Telepath K’otanen.
Now if I can just remember to give Reid and Luisa back their DVDs and get the Horatio Hornblower boxed set back to Peter and Laura…
June 13th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
Hey, Leslie and Peter, is it true about the Minbari souls?
And it’s the third disc not the fourth…and poor, poor put-upon G’Kar.
June 15th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Finally got to the Season 2 finale episode last night. Ripping. I remember I actually saw the climactic bit when it was first broadcast but it looked silly and I hadn’t seen the rest of the episode, so I didn’t care. Ah, context.
Now here’s the thing of it. I’ve been so immersed in Babylon 5 for the last several days that when I hear about a bombing in Baghdad, I think ‘Jeez, it’s probably those fucking Centauri doing it just to create fear and panic among the Unaligned Worlds prior to invasion…’ or the Canadian Supreme Court’s discussing security certificates and I think ‘My good friend Mr Garibaldi will have something to say about that, I’m certain.’
And I think about the Narn, Minbari and Centauri ambassadors as the Lizard, the Witch and the Warmonger…
June 17th, 2006 at 11:26 am
So I watched 2 seasons, 44 episodes (about 43 minutes each), 1 TV movie and what, half a dozen commentary sound tracks and the special features in 6 days.