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[–] pedz 56 points 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Mr. Garibaldi

I can’t help but hear this in his voice

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Ah, Meestah Garibaldi!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah. Can we make this an official tradition?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

AND SO IT BEGINS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

The cgi was done on Amigas IIRC

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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] 11 points 2 years 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] 11 points 2 years ago

Y E S

Londo my beloved

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years 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.

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

manichaean

I learned a new word today. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is great, I lovev Star Wars

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I, also, love Battlestar Galactica.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

You moon-faced assassin of joy

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Poor Vir. Londo treats him so poorly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago

Thanks! That makes total sense.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

I'm fed up with your fabrications, Mollari!

[–] CileTheSane 3 points 2 years ago

I can hear this meme