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If I didn’t already have it on DVD I would be happy to hear that. Great series
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View Quote So I should be able to watch it free on my Roku tv? Never watched Babylon 5. |
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That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi.
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Quoted: So I should be able to watch it free on my Roku tv? Never watched Babylon 5. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: So I should be able to watch it free on my Roku tv? Never watched Babylon 5. Yes assuming that you can download Tubi application. |
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Quoted: That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi. View Quote It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. Babylon 5 ?4K? "No dictator no invader..." G'Kar's Freedom speech 2x20 The Long Twilight Struggle HD |
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Quoted: Widescreen? Hi-Def? View Quote If this is the same one that's on Roku it's the remastered version that used to be on Max. The CGI is obviously still in SD but the live-action shots are in HD and look great. Everything is in 4:3 to maintain consistency between live action, CGI, and composite scenes. |
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Quoted: It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_9Xb3U1V4 View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi. It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_9Xb3U1V4 I meant with the same actors just translated forward. |
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Quoted: I meant with the same actors just translated forward. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi. It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_9Xb3U1V4 I meant with the same actors just translated forward. The CGI is terribly dated and it could be a lot better. But I think the story and plot would work as a stageplay, as a novel, or as a series of fireside stories. Really good content tends to transcend the medium you use to tell it. |
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Quoted: This. It's a great series, but trying to watch it again in the original low resolution is just unwatchable. I tried. Have they remastered it for this? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Widescreen? Hi-Def? This. It's a great series, but trying to watch it again in the original low resolution is just unwatchable. I tried. Have they remastered it for this? Agreed. And I say that as someone that was neck deep in the Amiga computer back in the day and fascinated by the product turned out by the Toaster. I tried a few years ago and just couldn't get past the low res quality. |
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4K CGI re-rendering
Babylon 5 Original Effects in 4K 24p "This time, we know everyone we kill" Babylon 5: Clarkstown pursues Alexander [4K60] "The Lost Tales" used upgraded CGI Babylon 5 The Lost Tales CGI Shots |
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It's actually at a watchable resolution. Thanks Tubi!
Anyone can guess the "claim to fame" of the guest stars in S1E4? |
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Quoted: "You're the one, but not the one" One of the best mind fuck episode(s) I can remember watching. View Quote Probably in my top 3 FAVORITE Science Fiction TV episodes ever. I love Babylon 5. "Zathras lives for The One. Zathras will die for The One." Such a brilliantly acted character, too. |
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[#30]
I have been watching.
Good Gawd the acting was horrible. I loved the show and now, well I see I was jaded back then. I will still continue to watch it. |
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A freespace 2 Mod - The Babylon Project R1 Intro |
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Quoted: This. It's a great series, but trying to watch it again in the original low resolution is just unwatchable. I tried. Have they remastered it for this? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Widescreen? Hi-Def? This. It's a great series, but trying to watch it again in the original low resolution is just unwatchable. I tried. Have they remastered it for this? Yes, and the remasters are worth watching. |
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Quoted: I meant with the same actors just translated forward. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi. It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_9Xb3U1V4 I meant with the same actors just translated forward. |
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Quoted: I don't think all of the actors are still alive. The story and actors definitely carry it. Not to say the CGI is bad, it was the best at the time it's just 30yrs old and does show it's age. View Quote Most of them are dead. I think there's one left alive. IMDB about the cast of Babylon 5 that are dead |
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Also: This is probably the earliest great show ever. One with real consequences and story arcs… one of my absolute favorite shows.
I’ve watched it end-to-end twice now, not including the original watch-through as it debuted. |
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I’ve watched B5 twice on Tubi. Decided to order BSG 2004 version in Blu-ray from eBay.
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Quoted: David McCallum (for the boomers) And the bad guy, karate guy from Roadhouse. S6 had "Chekov". View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: There were a lot of great guest appearances on the show maybe Walter White? I know he guested for a minute on the show at some point. And the bad guy, karate guy from Roadhouse. S6 had "Chekov". Huh! i obviously knew about Chekov, but hadn’t realized McCallum was on there. |
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Quoted: I don't think all of the actors are still alive. The story and actors definitely carry it. Not to say the CGI is bad, it was the best at the time it's just 30yrs old and does show it's age. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: That show was 20 years ahead of its time. Imagine it with modern cgi. It wouldn't be better. The story and the characters carried it. B5 would be great in 240p with stop motion animation for the FX shots. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3_9Xb3U1V4 I meant with the same actors just translated forward. There's 30+ year old CGI that holds up. I think the difference is that they were going for realism with what they had. But doing that instantly dates your visuals. Tron is older CGI and it doesn't look nearly as dated - because they weren't going for realism. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Sometimes I think the entire series is really about Londo Mollari, a classical Greek tragedy. Absolutely. Nail, meet hammer. Londo was absolutely a warning about hubris, and how nemesis would show up and punish you for your hubris and you couldn't avoid it. Along with very strong themes of riding a tiger - you can't stay on, you cant' get off safely, you keep doubling down, until inevitably you fall off the tiger and it mauls you. |
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Quoted: Nail, meet hammer. Londo was absolutely a warning about hubris, and how nemesis would show up and punish you for your hubris and you couldn't avoid it. Along with very strong themes of riding a tiger - you can't stay on, you cant' get off safely, you keep doubling down, until inevitably you fall off the tiger and it mauls you. View Quote There's not a single arc in the show that doesn't get fleshed-out or satisfactorily ended. The whole show is multiple allegories for government, control and power. |
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J. Michael Straczynski had complete arcs outlined for all the characters, including escape plans and introductions for actors leaving the show and their replacements. That's how he was able to write practically the entire show himself, which I understand is a unique achievement.
Unfortunately he didn't have a plan for being cancelled at the end of season 3 but given season 4 to wrap up everything he intended for seasons 4 and 5, then renewed at the end of season 4 by surprise after he used up all his story and having to wing season 5 with random messy post war plot lines. I actually like most of season 5's random messy post war clean up aspects anyway, that's at least something nobody else does, but it's obviously not as thought out and polished as his original 5 season war arc. |
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Quoted: There's 30+ year old CGI that holds up. I think the difference is that they were going for realism with what they had. But doing that instantly dates your visuals. Tron is older CGI and it doesn't look nearly as dated - because they weren't going for realism. View Quote |
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Quoted: There's not a single arc in the show that doesn't get fleshed-out or satisfactorily ended. The whole show is multiple allegories for government, control and power. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Nail, meet hammer. Londo was absolutely a warning about hubris, and how nemesis would show up and punish you for your hubris and you couldn't avoid it. Along with very strong themes of riding a tiger - you can't stay on, you cant' get off safely, you keep doubling down, until inevitably you fall off the tiger and it mauls you. There's not a single arc in the show that doesn't get fleshed-out or satisfactorily ended. The whole show is multiple allegories for government, control and power. I beg to differ. I would have loved to have seen what JMS would have done with ivanova's character if she had stayed on the show. Not to say the character was handled badly. |
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