The Babylon 5 connection?

GraXXoR

GraXXoR
Egads, I'm now going to have to watch B5 again... Time to dig out the DVDs...

Hang on... I don't have a DVD player any more. I just realised, I have about 300 DVDs but no means to play them.
 

verminstar

Banned
verminstar
lovely lovely said:
Spotted Molari the other day and thought that same B5. How do you upload pics?
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Thats from xbox DVR which isnt really as straightforward as pc are...I have to link pics from an iphone or laptop. It sorta depends on yer platform tbh ^

I just thought it was a bit funny considering how many have B5 avatars...I cant wait to kill Elvis so I can say he has definitely left the building this time ^
 

Justinian Octavius

Justinian Octavius
OMG! Hudson is President Clark! - it now all makes sense!

Londo was primarily a Centauri patriot & nationalist who too often used said patriotism to justify Centauri actions to himself because it was for what he thought was the greater good of the state. He clearly didn't approve of the carpet bombing of Narn, & the Narn weren't exactly saints when they thought they had the upper hand either. It was a great dynamic between the two ambassadors & races, probably one of the best in sci-fi still.

B5 needs to be remade without the TV Exec interference, though, if ED continues to go places a TV adaptation in the right hands could surpass B5… all the material is there to overcome the 'video game to big screen' jinx.
 

PS4gamer

PS4gamer
Kill Londo? Nooooooooooo!!

I have seen G'kar here and there and I was attacked by him once but I couldn't bring myself to fire on him, so I ran.
I have seen Morden in-game too and him I did kill and yes.. I did a little smirk and wave as he blew up lol!

B5 - Greatest Scifi series of all time! <3
 

Starbreaker

Starbreaker
Great show, great characters, especially Londo and G'Kar in the same scenes.

[video=youtube_share;zbvqxZmTGLc]https://youtu.be/zbvqxZmTGLc[/video]
[video=youtube_share;YbckvO7VYxk]https://youtu.be/YbckvO7VYxk[/video]

"I don't care anymore, let the galaxy burn"
 

Oopsie Daisy

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Susanna said:
You think so ah?

Londo was a self-righteous prig who didn't care who he stepped on to get what he wanted. And he stepped on a lot of people, used and abused them and discarded them when it suited him. Londo's only regret was that he wasn't as cruel as he would like to think he was. He didn't believe he owed anyone anything.

His Nemesis, G'kar on the other hand, had moral certitude and always looked to the greater good, not the 'good' of the self.

One of G'kar's sayings that I liked was:

"If I take a lamp and shine it toward the wall, a bright spot will appear on the wall. The lamp is our search for truth, for understanding. Too often, we assume that the light on the wall is God, but the light is not the goal of the search, it is the result of the search. The more intense the search, the brighter the light on the wall. The brighter the light on the wall, the greater the sense of revelation upon seeing it. Similarly, someone who does not search – who does not bring a lantern – sees nothing. What we perceive as God is the by-product of our search for God. It may simply be an appreciation of the light… pure and unblemished… not understanding that it comes from us. Sometimes we stand in front of the light and assume that we are the center of the universe – God looks astonishingly like we do – or we turn to look at our shadow and assume that all is darkness. If we allow ourselves to get in the way, we defeat the purpose, which is to use the light of our search to illuminate the wall in all its beauty and in all its flaws; and in so doing, better understand the world around us."

https://respectfulinsolence.com/2009/02/14/the-wit-and-wisdom-of-gkar/

One of the characters from B5 that I thought was more Nobler that he appeared at face value.
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Right, but he changed. Everyone is worthy of redemption IMO.

G'kar was a present day snowflake.
 
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Oopsie Daisy

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Juniper said:
Disagree. Londo was never an 'evil' character - he was a 'tragic' character.

(Don't reveal if you haven't watched the 5 seasons of B5)

Everything he did, he did out of a genuine desire to "help" the Centauri, as a race & culture. They were a beaten and sad people when we first encounter them.

Londo wanted respect, and to be taken seriously. Both the Centauri, and him himself... his own position was considered a 'joke' by his own people.

The tragedy is that whilst he achieved everything he set out to achieve in terms of power, wealth, 'respect' and so on, his poor choices resulted in the deaths of millions & he wasn't able to stop it after he'd woken the dragon (the Shadows). He lost sight of what is actually important - the people around him. This culminates in him asking Vir to kill him to save Centauri Prime from the Vorlons... a chain of events that he had started.
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Yes, tragic is a better word to describe him.
 

Boff'in

Boff'in
Hehehe we were laughing about it on one of the B5 facebook groups,

Especially the pirate lord molari, (with the mad piloting skills in the first season on the way down to the surface of epsilon3)
Turns out one of the members of that B5 group was a Certain Major Ryan (also a character from b5) of Severed Dreams fame (name of my Cobra btw),
and was a founding member of the prismatic Empire, and has his commander name in the system canon.


Oh and that picture of the Epsilon Eridani system, the OFFICIAL JPL Nasa picture.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/NASA-JPL-Caltech_-_Double_the_Rubble_%28PIA11375%29_%28pd%29.jpg
NASA-JPL-Caltech_-_Double_the_Rubble_%28PIA11375%29_%28pd%29.jpg

The largest asteroid in the foreground zoom and enhance a bit further down and and to the left (towards the planet), and keep an eye out for any familiar shadows lurking in the blue nebula (but you got to be zoomed in it will get lost in jpg compression).
Remember this is the OFFICIAL JPL Nasa picture.
 
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fruitbat

fruitbat
I'm really enjoying rewatching Babylon 5 at the moment, every weekday at 8pm in the uk on pick tv, season 4 just started.

Certainly helps pass the time searching for high grade USS's.
 

Sebastian Rooks

Sebastian Rooks
kofeyh said:
Except it's literally in the middle of nowhere, doesn't have any meaningful facilities, there are no engineers and it's still as strategically relevant now as it was when it appeared (ie not at all). If you want a Babylon 5, then it needs to be where the action is. Jaques is more Babylon 4, than 5.
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I guess it does fit B4 more. It did get lost for awhile. I fail to see what engineers have to do with it though, if we're just looking for a B5 equivalent. Aside from generation ships, I'm not sure there's anything else big enough to be a B5 in this game.

And yeah, Ivanova. :D Why can't some of the npc SLF pilots look like her? I don't mind the "plain Janes," but some look like Alice the Goon. Yeesh...

Rooks o7
 
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