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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is good to have friends, is it not, Mr. Garibaldi? Even if maybe only for a little while?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of ~~the station~~ lemmy. It is a terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mr. Garibaldi

I can’t help but hear this in his voice

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Ah, Meestah Garibaldi!

[–] Zink 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am 100% on board for B5 characters lying in wait to jump out among the trek memes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Can we make this an official tradition?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll do my best to throw one in every now and then.

[–] Zink 4 points 1 year ago

AND SO IT BEGINS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's from Babylon 5, for anybody coming to the comments and wasn't familiar with what show this is from.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every sci fi fan should watch it! Season one is a little rough but boy does it get good. Season four is arguably the best sci fi season ever.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bab5 is the best scifi tv show of all time. Some people would say that The Expanse is just as good or better, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

B5, DS9 and the expanse are all pretty much tied for me

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

M'star trek peeps, is the show worth watching? I've never seen it, and I've heard mixed reviews.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

100% worth it. With the caveat that the effects aren't good. The story and characters more than make up for it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The cgi was done on Amigas IIRC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Maya did what it could. The effects were amazing for a TV series at the time.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

100%

S1 is rough, but it really picks up right out of the gate in S2. The last season is halfway to a different show, it's skippable. Crusader is fine, too; it's not great, but I don't regret watching it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Oh my god yes. I’m surprised you’re not watching it now. There’s a good amount of 90s camp and cheese, but the bones are very, very solid.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's widely considered the most contiguous SciFi series out there. The director started with 5 years of scripts and changed very little during production, other than losing the main character between seasons 2 and 3, due to medical complications. I personally consider Bab 5 to be as good, if not better than both Firefly and Farscape.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Between one and two. Even crazier, though - he knew actors sometimes left shows so he wrote in a “trapdoor” and replacement character so that he could sub out someone with a new character without losing a step.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And it worked out super well too, arguably Sheridan was superb and having Sinclair become valen just works.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Y E S

Londo my beloved

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

In the past year it was released in 4K. As others have said, the effects are not great, but growing up in that era, it felt a little nostalgic.

I was pretty hooked on it for a while. I got kinda burned out on the last season. It’s not that it wasn’t good, I just binged it too hard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cheesy and cheap and often very manichaean. Yet, it's very interesting and got me hooked to an extent that nothing on the Star Trek universe managed to.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it’s kind of like the spiritual successor to 90s trek with family guy humor sprinkled in. I did not watch season 3 yet, but I heard it was great!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought season three was the best so far

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Much of season one is outright bad. The remaining seasons are really good.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is great, I lovev Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I, also, love Battlestar Galactica.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But that's a different franchise. Battlestar Galactica is the one with the robots everyone calls "toasters" but they can only say "exterminate" and can't walk stairs except in the later seasons.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You moon-faced assassin of joy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Poor Vir. Londo treats him so poorly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I, too, love Battlestar Galactica

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have a bad feeling about this

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

you always say that, you always say I have a bad feeling about this (drop)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Isn't that from the Star Trek song everybody hates?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's not that bad I actually liked it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually watched it for the first time recently and quite enjoyed it. Lots of interesting characters and story. Like already mentioned the CGI is really bad. I wish they stuck with models rather than early 3D effects. Season 5 and the end of 4 feel a bit underwhelming after the main threat is resolved sometime in the middle of the penultimate season.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s exactly where I stopped watching. They had this major plot line resolved and then it just stuck around with nothing to do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As an FYI, they didn't expect to get renewed for S5 so the end of S4 was originally supposed to be the series finale. Then they had to come up with a new one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! That makes total sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Psi Corp and techno mage are fantastic creations in that universe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With holo decks everything is in universe. This could just be a holodrama.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Slap a portable holo emitter on Mr. Garibaldi post haste!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I'm fed up with your fabrications, Mollari!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I can hear this meme

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