Babylon 5

[ferenginar]

Man, a lot of you read a lot of 'earth' politics into this... I saw it more as the fight for ultimate good (order:Vorlons) v ultimate evil (chaos:Shadows), more religeon than anything, with us as the puppets between. In the end BOTH sides were wrong and kicked out of the galaxy

To call the US order and USSR chaos (or did you mean it the other way around???) is kind of funny...

I couldn't agree more.

I saw the first half of the Battlestar Galactica last night, the second part is tonight, IMO, not bad though a bit slow to get started.

I like the new cylons, and the raiders are really good, but I'm not sure about this human cylon, number six, apparently there are twelve models. Plots to close to "7 of 9" for my liking, but good eye candy.

The series starts on monday.

 

[Thadlerian]

Never watched Babylon 5, though this thread makes it seem interesting. It went on TV in Norway some years ago, but that was around midnight, so I never got to see it.

What is it about? What is the setting?

 

[Gelion]

The Year is 2260. And the Great War is upon us .
Anyway. The series are composed of 5 main parts (approx. 20-30 episodes per part). Setting - our galaxy, Human Years: 2258-onwards. Most of stuff happens on Babylon 5 station - a sort of UN complex in space. 4 main races (Human Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic and Narn Regime), also one megapower - vorlons and a bunch of other small races. The first 4 are sort of great powers that decide of most of the stuff in the known galaxy.
Most action happends ob the Bab5: diplomacy, plots, ancient secrets, crime investigations, riots name what you will. Great space battle scenes (for that time) and very colorfull film in itself (great advantage IMO). I'm getting a little too old for this thing, but IMO its still a series to watch. Great number of good chacters (well developed and with "spacish" sence of humour and so on. Also a ton of great plots that sometimes run over from the 1st to 5th episode.

Lots of information here:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/babylon5/home.html

 

[Paradigne]

The best thing about the show, is that, if I remember correctly, all five season were written before they started shooting. It is one continuous story. The way that one trivial detail in season one, is a turning point in season three, etc... It is a lot of fun, good political intrigue, great special effects (space battles) and a lot of fun...

 

[AtariCrossover]

Yes im agreed with Little Raven....................

GO NORWAY

 

[M37]

The Year is 2260. And the Great War is upon us .
Anyway. The series are composed of 5 main parts (approx. 20-30 episodes per part). Setting - our galaxy, Human Years: 2258-onwards. Most of stuff happens on Babylon 5 station - a sort of UN complex in space. 4 main races (Human Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic and Narn Regime), also one megapower - vorlons and a bunch of other small races. The first 4 are sort of great powers that decide of most of the stuff in the known galaxy.
Most action happends ob the Bab5: diplomacy, plots, ancient secrets, crime investigations, riots name what you will. Great space battle scenes (for that time) and very colorfull film in itself (great advantage IMO). I'm getting a little too old for this thing, but IMO its still a series to watch. Great number of good chacters (well developed and with "spacish" sence of humour and so on. Also a ton of great plots that sometimes run over from the 1st to 5th episode.

Lots of information here:
http://www2.warnerbros.com/babylon5/home.html

This is about right I saw it as sort of a Cold War in Space.
the five powers Human Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic and Narn Regime and the vorlons the five members of the perment security council at the UN. The other aliens formed a leage of non-aliinged worlds - the same as during the cold war. Varous powers would try and get some or all of these nations to follow thier leed.

What made this show great was that unlike Star treak the five powers were never completely good or completly evil. They each went about thier seperate agendas in thier own way. In additon the Dex-ex machina - or the reset button was never invoked. actions had conseqences that were carried out wich lead to more actions and so on. IMHO: one of the best shows I'm considering getting them on DVD sometime.