Update from mom's #Babylon5 rewatch. Re: S1-E04: Infection. "I didn't like that one so much" Mom joining a very large club :D (I don't mind it so much, myself, though "evil archaeologists endangering everyone around them/the world/the universe in hopes of making a profit or becoming famous" is one of my least favorite tropes, for obvious reasons :p and yes ok it's somewhat silly at times. Ikarraaaaaaaaa!!)
S1-E06 Mind War. "Hey, is that Chekhov??" My mom has no memory of the Bester character. Mom's #Babylon5 rewatch is going to be very exciting! :GrinLotje:
It took an outrageous amount of effort to get the Blu-rays to play correctly on my mom's TV, but it's happening!! Mom's first ever #Babylon5 rewatch has commenced! (She binged it something like 25 years ago and liked it but doesn't remember that much)
More #Babylon5 thoughts. We just got to season 2 and the show has dramatically improved, though it was a pretty low bar.
I do notice that every single female character is always wearing intense lipstick at all times, including all the aliens and also the lady in the hospital who just woke up from a 100-year cryo sleep.
Man the 90s were weird.
Trying to watch the #Babylon5 Blu-rays with my mom (her first rewatch in easily 25 years! Exciting!) but the tv and Blu-ray player won't play together nicely. The TV keeps stretching the image. I have selected all options other than "auto-fill" in the settings but it keeps getting reset. Tried all the settings for the player, too. TV and player are both Philips.
I'm watching #Babylon5 and we're near the end of season 1.
Definitely discount DS9 so far. They sure did include an episode where the creepy 50-something alien dude decided to introduce another character to strip clubs and gambling, and the way he cheats at poker is using some sort of prehensile sticky tentacle-like appendage to reach across under the table and steal cards from the dealer.
Later confirmed, yes. That sure was a sex organ.
I'm glad that kind of humor has mostly died.
@Artemis201 "discount DS9"? Well, in one sense you are correct. JMS didn't have #StarTrek money. Esp. after he pitched #Babylon5 to Trek producers (and he had spent years pitching B5 everywhere) and they said no and then they went and created a show based on a space station anyways, with almost the same general story arc, and even stole the name Dukat. So, no, #B5 didn't have Trek money. The irony is #StarTrekDS9 is the best Trek series of them all and it was completely plagiarized.
Attempted #Introduction. Interests and things I post:
I’m the world’s most boring archaeologist. I boost #archaeology stuff but rarely post my own.
Immigrant and dual citizen :US:/ 🇧🇪.
TV obsessions: #TheExpanse, #Babylon5, #TwinPeaks. Have a lot to say about #StarTrek also.
Video #games: wide variety, but biggest obsessions have been rpgs and city builders.
Food pics, flower pics, selfies.
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