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Rewatching Babylon5 - sekker - 07-06-2016
What a great series.
It's really awesome to binge-watch; you know Season 1 is not as good as the other seasons, but there's so much background, etc, in every single scene.
No spoilers - just noting how great a show this is - it seems to be surviving the test of time.
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - Jack D. - 07-06-2016
I love Sci-Fi but I've never been able to watch B5 through. Unfortunately every time I see Stephen Furst's character all I see is Flounder from Animal House and game over.
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - Onamuji - 07-06-2016
Amigas were awesome back in the day.
$6k for an offline editing system nearly as capable as a quarter million dollar SGI supercomputer. (Storage extra.)
Put 20 of them together and your digital FX could rival the best Hollywood modelers. (With a bit of motion-blur to take care of the rough-edges.)
I so wanted a Video Toaster back in the early 90s. Commodore blew a huge opportunity by not joining with NewTek to release faster hardware and expand their dealer network. (In fact, Commodore ignored the Video Toaster, abused their resellers terribly and hurt the brand by trying to make boring office machines with no upgradable parts to tinker with. Apple should have learned a thing or two from Commodore's demise. There are limits to vertical marketing profit-taking and there's a point where dictating features without consideration of the user experience generates push-back from once-loyal consumers.)
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - silvarios - 07-06-2016
Onamuji wrote:
Amigas were awesome back in the day.
$6k for an offline editing system nearly as capable as a quarter million dollar SGI supercomputer. (Storage extra.)
Put 20 of them together and your digital FX could rival the best Hollywood modelers. (With a bit of motion-blur to take care of the rough-edges.)
I so wanted a Video Toaster back in the early 90s. Commodore blew a huge opportunity by not joining with NewTek to release faster hardware and expand their dealer network. (In fact, Commodore ignored the Video Toaster, abused their resellers terribly and hurt the brand by trying to make boring office machines with no upgradable parts to tinker with. Apple should have learned a thing or two from Commodore's demise. There are limits to vertical marketing profit-taking and there's a point where dictating features without consideration of the user experience generates push-back from once-loyal consumers.)
This was a great post and I pretty much agree with all of it.
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - silvarios - 07-06-2016
DVDs or streaming? If the latter, which service?
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - NewtonMP2100 - 07-06-2016
....could never get into B5......tried though.....
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - sekker - 07-06-2016
silvarios wrote:
DVDs or streaming? If the latter, which service?
Streaming at home from my ripped DVD collection.
The show looks great on my widescreen as it was shot anticipating HDTV.
(WB lost the originals, alas, so what we have it what we are ever going to get unless someone recodes everything).
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - freeradical - 07-06-2016
I thought the last season was kind of weak. It seemed like they should have made it a half season to me. Even after milking out a whole season with a half seasons worth of material, they still managed to leave some things hanging.
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - sekker - 07-06-2016
freeradical wrote:
I thought the last season was kind of weak. It seemed like they should have made it a half season to me. Even after milking out a whole season with a half seasons worth of material, they still managed to leave some things hanging.
Yeah, the show through a lot in season 4 because they didn't know whether there would BE a season 5...
Re: Rewatching Babylon5 - JoeH - 07-06-2016
sekker wrote:
[quote=freeradical]
I thought the last season was kind of weak. It seemed like they should have made it a half season to me. Even after milking out a whole season with a half seasons worth of material, they still managed to leave some things hanging.
Yeah, the show through a lot in season 4 because they didn't know whether there would BE a season 5...
The PTEN consortium was being dismantled during the 4th season, so there was no clear indication the 5th season would be produced by WB for broadcast. A last minute deal with TNT meant the series could go ahead, but it was past the option date for the actors. Most agreed to extending their availability, but not all came back for the final season. Between that and part of the story for the 5th season being used in the 4th, the final season was a bit weak.