I have a lot of resentment because of how the show ended, so I was very skeptical about rewatching it; but a lot of people I work with had not seen it, and so I'm joining them for a weekly meet-up to watch it. And I had forgotten how good the beginning is.
Hmm shall we talk about why you didn't like the ending? I loved it and expected something like that from the beginning. Remember that anti-technology has a looong tradition in sci-fi. In fact the original sci-fi stuff (twenty thousand leagues under the sea for example) was extremely anti-technology.
In the early seasons, there was all these interesting drips of mythology, lords of Kobold etc. Then, writer's strike and all is forgotten. I thought it lacked plot cohesion.
Ah ok. That is at least better than what I have seen elsewhere that it's sci fi so it can't be anti-technology. Which of course misses one of the biggest threads in much of late 20th century sci-fi. I thought they worked the mythology in reasonably enough but I can see how others might not.
But I'm a sucker for sci-fi shows that work in mysticism well at all since it is done so extremely poorly most of the time (one of the reasons I loved B5 so much actually)
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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I felt it was a cop-out
- 06/06/2012 06:49:50 AM
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Re: I felt it was a cop-out
- 08/06/2012 08:16:07 PM
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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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