Procrastination

[icepixie]

I should be reading Adam Bede right now, but...I'm not. There's only so much dialect I can take before I need a break. In that spirit, because for some reason I wound up watching Babylon 5 clips on YouTube, have a link: "There's always a boom tomorrow."

Ivanova cracks me up like no one else. (There's another one floating around out there where she mentions the staff's "open airlock policy" that also makes me laff. And then wish for a crossover where she and Laura Roslin meet up and airlock Cylons or something.)

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

I knew there was some competition in general between Trek and B5, which I suppose is natural since they both appeal to something of a niche audience, but good grief. Why can't two shows set in space both be good? Obviously, these two were very, very different, so it's a tough comparison anyway.

I do not exaggerate at all when I say I got more spirituality out of a tv show written by an atheist than I ever did from going to church when I was a kid. There's a lot more to B5 than just space opera.

[icepixie]

Well, I was twelve, so I had an excuse for being partisan. The other people on the internets (well, newsgroups at the time, honestly)--I don't know what their excuse whas. ;)

I think my other problem with B5 was that I came in in the middle of S3, I think, and coming in anywhere but the beginning of that show appears to be a bad idea. Plus the being twelve part. :D

[alto2.livejournal.com]

If you do start watching from the beginning, there's a great guide to B5 here. (http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/) When I first watched, it was in reruns on TNT leading up to S5 airing on that network (which swore it would air the show until the sprockets wore off the tape--guess them's some flimsy sprockets!), and I found it fascinating to look at the page for each episode after I watched it. Among other things, there are comments from JMS, and I remember reading about how he would try to put things in the first few episodes of each season to catch up new folks (to the general consternation of those who'd been there from the beginning). So he did try. It's tough, though, with a series that was planned to last five years before it ever filmed a single minute, to do that adequately, I think. It's really no wonder you had trouble figuring out what was going on.

[icepixie]

I remember that website! I was a fan of Crusade when it was on, before TNT canceled it, so I went there a lot. Good site.