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

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

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

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      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.

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      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.

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        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.

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

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      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.

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      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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    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.

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

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        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

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