I’ve decided to do my first Babylon 5 rewatch!
Lets have a binge thread to talk about B5!
I would love to find a 4k remaster of the series, there are some great demo videos on youtube, but on the streaming sites I can only find 720p. If you have any trouble choosing which streaming service to use just search for fmhy and they will have a curated list of options.
TV shows were wild back then, 22 episodes per season, 45 minutes each; 1000 minutes per season!
Season 1 thoughts and comments
1990s TV is very slow, not punchy, lots of filler episodes that add “depth” to characters. I think you could get the same story arc here with 5 tight episodes and cutting the filler.
Overall, the time traveling, the ancient race artifacts, the vorlon and the shadows, setup lots of very compelling intrigue.
Lots of dark forest vibes.
The Planet Machine below babylon 5, clearly it was designed for a race of aliens with 4 arms, who knows how long it has existed, the current and former care taker were not of this race. It’s quite a interesting mcguffin.
The pure energy evolution of the human psychic lays out a path for the evolution of species, they don’t care about the sandbox anymore after a point, but maybe they leave their toys for the next children?
No questions have been answered, but the appetite is still strong.