You're still in the dodgy part of the series. From early Season 2 onwards it improves immensely.
Werthead Send a noteboard - 02/06/2012 04:08:09 PM
If you're only on THE GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS I'm not surprised. It's not until a few more episodes down the line that the awesome kicks in (particularly with THE COMING OF SHADOWS).
I think this is pointed out a few times in the series. Quite a few Minbari don't have a problem with Sheridan (starting off with Lennier and Delenn, despite the former having family on the Black Star) at all and acknowledge that it was war. Quite a few of the Minbari aristocracy (for lack of a better phrase) resented his actions as it challenged the Minbari belief in their own superiority and also stuck a stick in the eye of their own righteousness. Whilst the war started due to a misunderstanding, it was also a 'holy war', a crusade fought by the righteous Minbari against a cowardly foe. Anything that upsets that narrative they see as an insult.
I didn't have a major problem with that. People reading info off screens are going to get bored pretty easily. Of all the jobs in Earthforce, announcing stuff has got to be dull. Plus that woman leaves between Seasons 1 and 2 and is replaced by Lt. Corwin, who actually has a character and personality (check out his semi-terrified interview with ISN as he tries to explain how working in B5's C&C is fun and no-one ever gets angry there, whilst Ivanova glares at him, in AND NOW FOR A WORD).
This is a bigger problem and one that never really goes away. JMS has his stock phrases and him wheeling them out every episode is very annoying.
That line was added for the 'special edition' of the pilot in 1997. It wasn't in the original version.
What really bugs me for example, is that it makes absolutely no sense that the Minbari are so angry with John Sheridan that his position on B5 would be a grave insult for Minbari. Sure, he brought down the Black Star in the Earth-Minbari war, but besides that the war's been over for more than 10 years when he assumes command, he only did his job as a soldier at the time.
I think this is pointed out a few times in the series. Quite a few Minbari don't have a problem with Sheridan (starting off with Lennier and Delenn, despite the former having family on the Black Star) at all and acknowledge that it was war. Quite a few of the Minbari aristocracy (for lack of a better phrase) resented his actions as it challenged the Minbari belief in their own superiority and also stuck a stick in the eye of their own righteousness. Whilst the war started due to a misunderstanding, it was also a 'holy war', a crusade fought by the righteous Minbari against a cowardly foe. Anything that upsets that narrative they see as an insult.
In season one, the acting of some of the background characters (especially one of the women in C&C announcing incoming and outgoing ships) is so wooden and "let's just read what I need to tell you without using something as unnecessary as intonation", that it gets me out of my suspension of disbelieve.
I didn't have a major problem with that. People reading info off screens are going to get bored pretty easily. Of all the jobs in Earthforce, announcing stuff has got to be dull. Plus that woman leaves between Seasons 1 and 2 and is replaced by Lt. Corwin, who actually has a character and personality (check out his semi-terrified interview with ISN as he tries to explain how working in B5's C&C is fun and no-one ever gets angry there, whilst Ivanova glares at him, in AND NOW FOR A WORD).
The "It all goes to Hell" phrase, which I only started to notice when somebody pointed it out to me the first time and became a running gag when I rewatched about five years ago, is a pain in my ear right now. Please, people, some originality?
This is a bigger problem and one that never really goes away. JMS has his stock phrases and him wheeling them out every episode is very annoying.
I never noticed this before, but in "The Gathering" (pilot episode) Kosh is approached by a Minbari assessin in a Changeling Net, which makes him appear as Jeffrey Sinclair. Kosh then greets him with "Entil'Zha Valen". Cool bit of foreshadowing. But besides that, and a decent plot, the acting is terrible, the link between pilot and series is thin (as it is with many pilots, granted) and there are some plot holes to drive a truck through.
That line was added for the 'special edition' of the pilot in 1997. It wasn't in the original version.
I may need to stop rewatching Babylon 5...
- 01/06/2012 04:18:28 PM
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I have an autographed picture of Claudia Christian (Ivanova). Did you know she has nudes out there? *NM*
- 01/06/2012 11:51:21 PM
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(re)watch Battlestart Galactica instead
- 02/06/2012 08:51:08 AM
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I am doing that these days
- 04/06/2012 08:31:46 AM
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Re: I am doing that these days
- 06/06/2012 12:14:52 AM
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Agreed. The ending is one of the worst conclusions to any work of fiction ever written.
- 08/06/2012 12:48:58 AM
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Re: Agreed. The ending is one of the worst conclusions to any work of fiction ever written.
- 08/06/2012 08:20:40 PM
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I just saw the ending, watched the whole thing for the first time
- 09/06/2012 06:42:21 AM
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You're still in the dodgy part of the series. From early Season 2 onwards it improves immensely.
- 02/06/2012 04:08:09 PM
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I think the Minbari were suppose to be something like the honorable Samurai warrior
- 03/06/2012 08:30:13 AM
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