Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Done! (with spoilers!)

[quote name="Mischief Maker"]I do so enjoy being completely lazy and irresponsible in the dead space between school and my next job and doing things like spending an entire day devouring a season of this show. What a great fucking show I liked: The fact that unlike Star Trek, where everything revolved around Earth, the human race felt like just one species among many, complete with conflicts that they were completely left out of. Really, the only thing that made humanity special was that the good guys among them managed to create Babylon 5. G'Kar being set up as the series' villain and turning out to be one of its most heroic characters in the end. Londo being set up as the comic relief and turning out to be one of its most devious and dangerous characters in the end. I was wery wery surprised to find out how <I>awesome</I> Walter Koenig can be. On the same note, unlike Trek, they wisely dropped Ivanova's fake Russian accent in the first season. The Sinclair arc. The Membari were really getting on my nerves with how tolkien-elf-perfect they were becoming. And the whole "we surrendered to earth because membari souls were being born into humans" explanation was too sachharine sweet for me to swallow. But then when it turns out Sinclair was their space-jesus, who set up their entire civilization. Awesome. Of course they surrendered, space-jesus just tried to ram their command ship! The space battles! Did a single ship in this show have shield systems? No! Were the space battles a zillion times cooler as a result? Yes! Huge ships literally cutting each other in half with beam weapons? Awesome! As I said before, unlike Deep Space 9, Babylon 5 was believable as a 5-mile long space station bustling with life. The scene in the first season where a guy is in court suing a Sectoid for probing his grandfather. The scene where Londo completely turns the tables on Mr. Morgan. Even when they decided to get Star Trek-y with an alien-of-the-week filler episode, it was a good episode, like the gross spinal parasites who turn out to be benign, or the monk who is secretly a serial killer doesn't go on a rampage when his repressed memories are revealed, but instead pays penance for his crimes. Everything had an air of moral uncertainty about it. Even right after finding out that a vorlon can make itself look like an angel Sheradon was skeptical about their intentions. From the very first season on, my red shirt sensors were useless. Doesn't matter whether the character had their name in the title credits, or was an extra who I've never seen before, I couldn't predict who would live and who would die every episode. Not only did it outdo Deep Space 9 at everything that show set out to do, it outdid Enterprise at everything that show intended to do! What I didn't like: The fucking retarded motivation behind the shadows and the vorlons. Why not add two more first ones, this one identifies as chaotic good, and this one identifies as lawful evil? Also features an appearance by captain "science fiction writer who doesn't really understand evolution." Besides the acting, the one thing Deep Space 9 had over this show was that the Dominion's had a decent motivation. The magical old man who lived at the bottom of the pit bringing Sheridan back to life. Was there really no other way to get him out of that spot than Deus Ex Machina? Aragorn McExtendostick. Fucking insufferable english prick. Let me quote some tennyson to you and then overtly explain that kosh was a reference to Merlin, in case you didn't catch that. Hey dumbass, maybe if you hadn't yanked Ivanova out from under the beam and moved her neck in every direction, her spinal injury wouldn't have proven fatal. And way to deprive the fleet of an entire White Star at the final battle. That certainly didn't add a few hundred to the casualty list. Londo and G'Kar's transition from blood enemies to close friends seemed rather abrupt. I'm not talking about signing the mutual treaty, I mean slapping-each-other-on-the-shoulder buddies, like they were in the final episode of season 4.[/quote]