Somewhere out there there's a post from JMS replying to me stating that the change to Franke was a combination of wanting something a bit different, and Copeland's touring schedule. I think JMS has forgotten the touring schedule, and the opportunity for something different has been morphed (mostly by fans) into a dislike of the OST.
This series holds a very special place in my heart. I'm a huge SF nerd. I love both Star Trek and Star Wars. They can't be beat. However B5 is a series I've watched (from start to finish) more times than I can count. There are many scenes that have stuck with me through the years, and will probably still be with me at the end.
Oh, children, this brings back memories! Some twenty-something years ago, a twelve-year-old kid in Southern Germany, spent his last days of summer holidays with The X-Files, Star Trek, Babylon5, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Beyond Belief. There were three German channels that aired Sci-Fi through the entire summer weekends and they aired them in such order, that you could watch all shows. I remember it vividly: SAT.1 aired Star Trek - TOS at 2PM, Star Trek - TNG at 3PM, Star Trek - DS9 at 4PM, Star Trek - VOY at 5PM, then Pro7 aired Babylon5 at 6PM and 7PM, then The X-Files at 8PM, Outer Limits at 9PM and VOX aired Beyond Belief at 10PM and Twilight Zone at 11PM. Every Saturday and Sunday in July, August to mid September. The best summer weekends ever.
Babylon 5 really was a special kind of show, something that comes together maybe once in a generation.. Yeah, the CGI really did not hold up, and suffered especially for the DVD release, but it also doesn't matter all that much, because it was just so character driven. Londo Molari has one of the best complex character arcs in TV. I don't know if we can ever get a 5 season planned story arc again in this era of brutal and shocking cancelations of good shows. The only sad thing is just how many of the main cast have already passed.
You are correct that the streaming era has made Hollywood more quick to axe sci-fi shows. However, it's not impossible for such shows to have survive and even thrive. A great example is The Expanse which lasted six seasons. Like B5 before it, the gritty space opera is very character driven and has complex story arcs spanning throughout its run.
Event hen it barely made it through, with PTEN (B5's home network) falling apart, Warner budget cuts as it was Season 5 was heavily pared back, We're all just glad it make it through all of the challenges.
Babylon 5 is teh very first tv-show I remeber seeing form beginning to the end and my all time favourite show. Ty for teh supercut, will be watching at least few time s a year until the end of time.
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
WOW! That was pretty close to what I wanted to see for ages! ...which is someone to assemble only the 5 year arch into a few hours of only the BIG STORY. Thank you very much!
I rewatch B5 at least once a year, and literally finished season 4 today. But I can never make it all the way through season 5 without alcohol. And the less said about every single movie, the better.
I really enjoyed B5 when it was originally aired. A group of us would always gather, watch and discuss the episode, and I dont thing anyone ever missed a single show. I never warmed up to Lochley. The others in my group didn't seem to mind her, but she just never filled the spot of Ivanova properly.
A comment for the algorithm as I caught these all at the time. My cousin got me into B5, I was a little bit younger than him and although I liked it, catching disjointed episodes on TV made it difficult to follow. For a while I was collecting Series on DVD and when I was a little older and could watch them how they were intended I really fell in love with it. It's a great show with an amazing cast, there was so much great chemistry. They had fun with the show but dealt with some weighty stories. Despite the more limited budget compared to Star Trek, the station felt alive. This was ambition that delivered.
I believe that when we watch a video, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere on this website when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our words will linger in these webpages for as long as this comment section remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
Those bloopers! "She's pregnant. and you did it!" made me legit spray my drink🤣The one where the officer explains general Haig's absence is golden too, enhanced by the female sounding person in the background who is almost choking with laughter! Also: this retrospective is just awesome. Really, if the a movie studio or a tv company would have wanted to do one, they couldn't have done better. Class A+ professional work, Mr Coleman! Thank you for reminiscing one of my favorite shows of all time and doing it justice!
Making my comment just before Part 2. I grew up watching this show in "real time" having watched some of Season 1 on 2nd generation VHS copies. Sometimes on a re-watch, I'll put in the Final Episode in place of the Season 4 ending. After all that was how JMS intended it having filmed that episode during Season 4 and thinking his show was cancelled. I don't "hate" Season 5, but the frantic pace of Season 4. Season 5 seems almost like a different show or a different story told in the same Universe. I always wonder how it would have been had JMS gotten his 5 seasons his way. Thank you for this amazing look back at a show that changed my perception of "good SF" forever.
I look forward to every retrospective video you put out. Thank you for all the hard work and research you put into these. This is by far one of my favourite channels on TH-cam.
Sorry.. it was none of these... when the Vorlon came out of its suit, the story dashed all of that... up til then, every nerd, who had only ever read LOTR(those people who pretended to read everything else and LOTR was their favorite, except they never even got thru mandatory reading in English- just described all of you) how do you see this and forget the religious aspects of Narnia? Because ya never read it... This show was actually very original. The only physics based sci-fi that any of you have ever seen... sorry.. Two Towers was almost boring.. after BARSOOM? LOL.. I think that some of you pretend like you actually read in school when the fact is, ya didn't... so all ya got is Star Trek? Please...
@@teedepefanio4974 She was not literal about it; she just meant that B5 is the best space opera. And it is an inside joke for people who watch everything B5 related including interviews.
I was put onto tis show very early, and so pleased to have watched all the episodes, and films. It was the forerunner for so many of today's shows. How can you write story arcs which have a pay-off two series further down the line? Brilliant work RJC putting this video together.
The juxtaposition of Reefa's brutal death with the main cast happily singing a baptist church bop about the death of sinners was what first intrigued me about the series. If they were willing to take such a major risk to intertwine two scenes like that... I thought 'my gods, what else am I missing?'. Seriously ballsy, brave, and sharp writing in that whole setup and payoff. I still go rewatch just that sequence sometimes when I need a reminder to take risks and stand behind challenging ideas when writing.
One of the things I love about Babylon 5 is the voiceovers on the title sequences and the way they change to reflect the themes of each season. I get a shiver down my spine hearing "Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace... It failed." I'd love to see a discussion on the five seasons' title sequences.
Personally, yes, I do enjoy them. Unironically. That isn't to say they don't have problems, but hell, TOS, TNG and DS9 had problems too. Problems that fans tend to be way more inclined to ignore or make head canon excuses for while never missing the tiniest opportunity to shit on the new Star Trek shows' problems.
i always thought londo and g'kar grew into a real friendship you know i never was so invested in anything on TV or in movies like i was in babylon 5 it pulls you in and holds on to you so tight
comes the inquisitor always stood out to me and i thought was a vital episode i think how the "in the beginning" movie really was amazing how it was londo the emperor telling the tale right before the end of his life and the prison scene of dilen and john how it all was woven in
I found myself thinking about the sea change in modern TV, where the focus moved from monster of the week shows in the 80's to the hyper serialised multi season arcs of today. I settled on Babylon 5 being the first real example that set out to do this from the beginning. I can't think of another show that did this earlier.
Babylon 5 was the first (and possibly still only) pre-planned 5+ year arc not based on a pre-existing novel or series of novels, so far as I'm aware. It's entirely possible I've missed an example somewhere, or that one of the shows that appears to have been largely improvised actually was pre-planned. It's not like I've done anything resembling rigorous research on the matter.
I loved Delynne 'only one human Captain has survived battle with the Minbari he is behind me you are in front if you value your lives be somewhere else' outstanding moment brilliant to watch
Well done! The best synopsis of the series I've seen. B5 was more of a coming of age story for me. As a young man I ignorantly held very strict views of the world, more importantly my role in life was to show others how wrong their differing opinions were. This show helped me understand points of view are very subjective and that doing the right thing is sometimes very difficult, and may have unintended consequences. It helped me consider the others around me and their unique situations and to consider the long term consequences of my actions. I think the good person I have evolved into was largely due to internalizing the themes and lessons of this show.
Thanks for this upload. I never caught on to the show when it aired, mainly because the lore was a little too deep for me. Now that I am to understand the franchise is picking up again, I was pleasantly surprised to find this.
Love how Babylon 4 is in the thumbnail 😅. I feel like that's not an oversight but that little bit of trolling given your amazing attention to detail. I'm in the middle of S03 for like the 5th time in a decade.
I watched Captain Power some years ago and that show totally is MUCH better than it looks. First impression indeed is: Cheap kids show à là POwer Rangers and all that nonsense, but from a certain point on the scripts suddenly get much tighter, you get actual character development (something that never happens in shows of that kind) and there's some really good dialogue scenes. When I saw JMS popping up in the credits that pretty much explained it. :)
Never understood how the intact, but decommisioned, Babylon 5 station could be a menace to navigation but a giant debris field left behind after blowing it up would be just fine.
The original retrospective was made before The Road Home existed, and this is just a supercut of the existing material. I'd love to see Rowan's take now that it's been out for a while though!
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
@@slevinchannel7589 he is pointing out how the introduction of Mr. Morden for a long term story arch - a mystery greater story. @RowanJColeman is very clear and eloquently spoken
I missed Sinclair's earnestness after season 1. I watched the whole series on DVD in a country house in East Anglia one summer, taking hobbitonic walks in between episodes.
My brother was into B5 when I was a kid, but I never got into it. Always loved DS9 though. I think it was just never on TV consistently enough at a time I can watch it.
Crusade was a live-action Star Blazers, and that was the most disappointing thing about it. From mission driving plot to the ship's main weapon it was obvious.
I never saw Lockley as replacing Ivanova, but Sheridan. The rosencrantz guildenstern episode is my favorite of the series and i dont say this with negativity at all but it's fascinating how they had a little incel type short white nerd say to the camera "well heck ma'am i know some people dont like the women commanders but youre alright by me." 😅 it was JM Straszinsky telling his audience "i dont want any of that anti-women bullshit from you nerds." Which was great it worked for the 90s and this series and the characters. It fit. And was a good message for the writer to instill. Progressive messaging is fine when done right and making it fit the situation and context. This is a good comparison point for newer Trek shows which try to turn every scene into a heavy-handed version of this that doesn't fit, and never lets up.
I purchased the complete series on DVD. Over the years I have enjoyed watching it. For some reason the DVD's lock up the player. You may say that it's the player but it isn't because I've gone through 3 players and they don't work on all of them. I am going to believe that this was an intentional manufactured flaw. Is anyone else having this issue?
The TOS Star Trek didn't have the luxury of being planned out as a multi-season epic with a JMS at the helm plotting it all out, and I'll always have a preference for it (to the exclusion of all the sequel and prequel series spawned from it) . . . but B5 benefits from that overarching structure and makes it the next best SF epic, superior to TNG, to DS9 (which, I must say, ripped it off), VOYAGER, etc. etc. Hats off to the marvelous people who made it all happen, so many of whom are sadly no longer with us.
The first part about Babylon five itself was excellent and very moving. Perhaps the second part could have been a separate episode without detracting from the first. Sorry. I see now it was. My bad.
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Wrong his name was William Edgars, not William Bergers.
Somewhere out there there's a post from JMS replying to me stating that the change to Franke was a combination of wanting something a bit different, and Copeland's touring schedule. I think JMS has forgotten the touring schedule, and the opportunity for something different has been morphed (mostly by fans) into a dislike of the OST.
2:11:54 Martin Sheen, not Michael.
I would if i could. Alas, I cannot. Instead, have this upvoted comment.
This series holds a very special place in my heart. I'm a huge SF nerd. I love both Star Trek and Star Wars. They can't be beat. However B5 is a series I've watched (from start to finish) more times than I can count. There are many scenes that have stuck with me through the years, and will probably still be with me at the end.
That's right you bastard!!!
I am so glad this has finally been uploaded as an all-in-one. Foundation Imaging gave me my first start in Hollywood.
Great username!
Oh, children, this brings back memories! Some twenty-something years ago, a twelve-year-old kid in Southern Germany, spent his last days of summer holidays with The X-Files, Star Trek, Babylon5, The Twilight Zone, Outer Limits and Beyond Belief.
There were three German channels that aired Sci-Fi through the entire summer weekends and they aired them in such order, that you could watch all shows.
I remember it vividly: SAT.1 aired Star Trek - TOS at 2PM, Star Trek - TNG at 3PM, Star Trek - DS9 at 4PM, Star Trek - VOY at 5PM, then Pro7 aired Babylon5 at 6PM and 7PM, then The X-Files at 8PM, Outer Limits at 9PM and VOX aired Beyond Belief at 10PM and Twilight Zone at 11PM. Every Saturday and Sunday in July, August to mid September. The best summer weekends ever.
A divine lineup
Babylon 5 really was a special kind of show, something that comes together maybe once in a generation.. Yeah, the CGI really did not hold up, and suffered especially for the DVD release, but it also doesn't matter all that much, because it was just so character driven. Londo Molari has one of the best complex character arcs in TV.
I don't know if we can ever get a 5 season planned story arc again in this era of brutal and shocking cancelations of good shows.
The only sad thing is just how many of the main cast have already passed.
Londo and G'Kar is still the best friendship in all of sci fi
You are correct that the streaming era has made Hollywood more quick to axe sci-fi shows. However, it's not impossible for such shows to have survive and even thrive.
A great example is The Expanse which lasted six seasons. Like B5 before it, the gritty space opera is very character driven and has complex story arcs spanning throughout its run.
@@TheVeritas1 The Expanse was axed and then salvaged by Amazon, IIRC.
Event hen it barely made it through, with PTEN (B5's home network) falling apart, Warner budget cuts as it was Season 5 was heavily pared back, We're all just glad it make it through all of the challenges.
48:48 the text says "THE PSI CORPS IS YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS"
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
The Corps is Mother. The Corps is Father.
Best Sci-Fi show ever made!
says noone
@@peanut1001x Say plenty of people.
Babylon 5 is teh very first tv-show I remeber seeing form beginning to the end and my all time favourite show. Ty for teh supercut, will be watching at least few time s a year until the end of time.
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
Fond memories of Babylon 5. Colemans rectrospectives, mostly as I view them. Just great! ❤
@@patrickvandenakker7181 rectrospective? Interesting choice of words.
@@JeffreyTappan-bb8rr LOL see it now….
So sad to see all these faces again, knowing so many of them are no longer with us. Rest in peace, and thank you.
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
I just watched these videos last week 😂
Oh well, here we go again~
yup I'm rewatching as well
Seeing Mollari crawling on that table....I know exactly what episode that was from, lmao. "AHHHHHHHHH."
"He has become one with the universe.
He's passed out drunk.
That too"
@@kevinedie4119"EVERYBODY'S CUTE...everybody's cute...the universe looks stunning in purple..." /crashes onto to the table.
When people ask Star Wars or Star Trek, I always say 'Babylon 5'. Those who know... know.
Ivanova's scene after Marcus sacrificed himself has never not made me cry, and even these clips from it got me.
She should have boffed him .....
WOW! That was pretty close to what I wanted to see for ages! ...which is someone to assemble only the 5 year arch into a few hours of only the BIG STORY. Thank you very much!
"It's... just a greeting..." still gets me even after all this time.
I rewatch B5 at least once a year, and literally finished season 4 today. But I can never make it all the way through season 5 without alcohol. And the less said about every single movie, the better.
In the Beginning was solid I think, the rest, yeah ...
WOW. An epic compilation to be sure. You're amazing, Rowan.
@56:20 G'Kar's words are so relevant today!
I really enjoyed B5 when it was originally aired. A group of us would always gather, watch and discuss the episode, and I dont thing anyone ever missed a single show. I never warmed up to Lochley. The others in my group didn't seem to mind her, but she just never filled the spot of Ivanova properly.
A comment for the algorithm as I caught these all at the time. My cousin got me into B5, I was a little bit younger than him and although I liked it, catching disjointed episodes on TV made it difficult to follow. For a while I was collecting Series on DVD and when I was a little older and could watch them how they were intended I really fell in love with it. It's a great show with an amazing cast, there was so much great chemistry. They had fun with the show but dealt with some weighty stories. Despite the more limited budget compared to Star Trek, the station felt alive. This was ambition that delivered.
Just long enough for the train between Sheffield and Scarborough. Many thanks!
That was pure gold! Thank you!
Jurasik reading JMS's autobiography is quite the trip, if you've merely read the book you ain't heard nothing.
I believe that when we watch a video, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere on this website when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our words will linger in these webpages for as long as this comment section remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.
unsure of what you on. but that thought seems somehow fitting to the content. Ill leave this part of me right here, if you don't mind. :)
i just got to the part. i didnt remember. my bad.
Those bloopers! "She's pregnant. and you did it!" made me legit spray my drink🤣The one where the officer explains general Haig's absence is golden too, enhanced by the female sounding person in the background who is almost choking with laughter!
Also: this retrospective is just awesome. Really, if the a movie studio or a tv company would have wanted to do one, they couldn't have done better. Class A+ professional work, Mr Coleman! Thank you for reminiscing one of my favorite shows of all time and doing it justice!
I think that the orchestral music gave the show a larger-than-life feel.
I would Love to see you make one of these videos about Earth final conflict or sliders
thank you!!!!
Lets remember some of the cast has gone on to the rim with the first ones we will remember them 😢
I really look forward to the retrospectives. Babylon 5 was way ahead of its time.
Glad to see this as a complete version!
Best use of "prelapsarian" in a youtube video ever
@2:10:24 Dammit, I've seen that ep so many times, and yet, it STILL gives me chills when I see it again, the music is what does it to me, incredible
Making my comment just before Part 2. I grew up watching this show in "real time" having watched some of Season 1 on 2nd generation VHS copies. Sometimes on a re-watch, I'll put in the Final Episode in place of the Season 4 ending. After all that was how JMS intended it having filmed that episode during Season 4 and thinking his show was cancelled. I don't "hate" Season 5, but the frantic pace of Season 4. Season 5 seems almost like a different show or a different story told in the same Universe. I always wonder how it would have been had JMS gotten his 5 seasons his way. Thank you for this amazing look back at a show that changed my perception of "good SF" forever.
I look forward to every retrospective video you put out. Thank you for all the hard work and research you put into these. This is by far one of my favourite channels on TH-cam.
As Patricia Tallman said, lord of the rings in space!
I told my brother in law it’s like Game of Thrones meets Star Trek and goes PG.
with a little bit of Moorcok; chaos and order and things...
Sorry.. it was none of these... when the Vorlon came out of its suit, the story dashed all of that... up til then, every nerd, who had only ever read LOTR(those people who pretended to read everything else and LOTR was their favorite, except they never even got thru mandatory reading in English- just described all of you) how do you see this and forget the religious aspects of Narnia? Because ya never read it...
This show was actually very original. The only physics based sci-fi that any of you have ever seen... sorry.. Two Towers was almost boring.. after BARSOOM? LOL.. I think that some of you pretend like you actually read in school when the fact is, ya didn't... so all ya got is Star Trek? Please...
@@teedepefanio4974 She was not literal about it; she just meant that B5 is the best space opera. And it is an inside joke for people who watch everything B5 related including interviews.
Redo the Star Treks to be 3+ hours.
Not a criticism - an encouragement!
I was put onto tis show very early, and so pleased to have watched all the episodes, and films. It was the forerunner for so many of today's shows. How can you write story arcs which have a pay-off two series further down the line?
Brilliant work RJC putting this video together.
The juxtaposition of Reefa's brutal death with the main cast happily singing a baptist church bop about the death of sinners was what first intrigued me about the series. If they were willing to take such a major risk to intertwine two scenes like that... I thought 'my gods, what else am I missing?'. Seriously ballsy, brave, and sharp writing in that whole setup and payoff. I still go rewatch just that sequence sometimes when I need a reminder to take risks and stand behind challenging ideas when writing.
My opinion is that a story gets one ressurection of a character. Anything more starts to feel farcical.
I'll get around to this show one day.
One day
One of the things I love about Babylon 5 is the voiceovers on the title sequences and the way they change to reflect the themes of each season. I get a shiver down my spine hearing "Babylon 5 was our last, best hope for peace... It failed." I'd love to see a discussion on the five seasons' title sequences.
0:30 "And the full slate of modern shows we enjoy today."
Yeah, right. "Enjoy" lol
Personally, yes, I do enjoy them. Unironically. That isn't to say they don't have problems, but hell, TOS, TNG and DS9 had problems too. Problems that fans tend to be way more inclined to ignore or make head canon excuses for while never missing the tiniest opportunity to shit on the new Star Trek shows' problems.
Many thanks, RJC, for a great trip back into the B5 universe. A great watch. Cheers from Brisbane Australia mate👍
i always thought londo and g'kar grew into a real friendship
you know i never was so invested in anything on TV or in movies like i was in babylon 5 it pulls you in and holds on to you so tight
Love it
comes the inquisitor always stood out to me and i thought was a vital episode
i think how the "in the beginning" movie really was amazing how it was londo the emperor telling the tale right before the end of his life and the prison scene of dilen and john how it all was woven in
Ultimate retrospective indeed. Great video of my fav sci-fi series. 👌👍👊
I watch the series every year 😁😜
Is that just me, or Garibaldi always looked like discount Bruce Willis?
You mean improved Bruce Willis
He was willis' stunt double
Yes, and no...
Discounts his accomplishments so, no. Not really.
He was just Baldi to me.
Ohh the bloopers at the end. I could watch those for hours! Now those need to be released on DVD.
I found myself thinking about the sea change in modern TV, where the focus moved from monster of the week shows in the 80's to the hyper serialised multi season arcs of today. I settled on Babylon 5 being the first real example that set out to do this from the beginning. I can't think of another show that did this earlier.
Babylon 5 was the first (and possibly still only) pre-planned 5+ year arc not based on a pre-existing novel or series of novels, so far as I'm aware.
It's entirely possible I've missed an example somewhere, or that one of the shows that appears to have been largely improvised actually was pre-planned. It's not like I've done anything resembling rigorous research on the matter.
I loved Delynne 'only one human Captain has survived battle with the Minbari he is behind me you are in front if you value your lives be somewhere else' outstanding moment brilliant to watch
Seasons 1 through 4 is all you need!
Gotta watch 4 & 5 in a weird order for the "proper" story
But, you wouldn't meet Byron .......
Seriously, would you go straight from Rising Star to Sleeping in Light?
THE PSI CORPS IS YOUR FRIEND. TRUST THE CORPS.
Huh. One of these days, i should really watch this show.
Happy to enjoy the master cut ❤❤❤
Well done. Thank you for this.
My wife bought me the bluray boxset for my birthday! B5 set the bar for many modern tv shows
F yeah!
Well done! The best synopsis of the series I've seen.
B5 was more of a coming of age story for me. As a young man I ignorantly held very strict views of the world, more importantly my role in life was to show others how wrong their differing opinions were. This show helped me understand points of view are very subjective and that doing the right thing is sometimes very difficult, and may have unintended consequences. It helped me consider the others around me and their unique situations and to consider the long term consequences of my actions. I think the good person I have evolved into was largely due to internalizing the themes and lessons of this show.
This was so entertaining, interesting, thorough and well done! Thank you. I didn't hear any mention of the Road Home at the end though.
I liked what you did there with 'The Year was 1993 & the show was Babylon 5' lol
superb.
Thanks for this upload. I never caught on to the show when it aired, mainly because the lore was a little too deep for me. Now that I am to understand the franchise is picking up again, I was pleasantly surprised to find this.
God... how I loved this.
"I like that Joe Sterzinsky Feller. He gotta good heart."
It's pronounced Zathras, not Zathras!
no, that's Zathras you're thinking about,
Bravo!
Love how Babylon 4 is in the thumbnail 😅. I feel like that's not an oversight but that little bit of trolling given your amazing attention to detail. I'm in the middle of S03 for like the 5th time in a decade.
I watched Captain Power some years ago and that show totally is MUCH better than it looks. First impression indeed is: Cheap kids show à là POwer Rangers and all that nonsense, but from a certain point on the scripts suddenly get much tighter, you get actual character development (something that never happens in shows of that kind) and there's some really good dialogue scenes. When I saw JMS popping up in the credits that pretty much explained it. :)
I love this series. Since it took YEARS before it even went on TV and abruptly was scrubbed i had to eDonkey it. Watching it now is just WOW
Aside from some misspellings, incorrect aspect ratios, and a mention of the kurtzman garbage, this is very well done.
Never understood how the intact, but decommisioned, Babylon 5 station could be a menace to navigation but a giant debris field left behind after blowing it up would be just fine.
No love for “the road home”?
The original retrospective was made before The Road Home existed, and this is just a supercut of the existing material. I'd love to see Rowan's take now that it's been out for a while though!
We live for the one, we die for the one.
Great review of a great series, Babylon 5. Thank you for your hard work.
31:00: Wtf is he babbling about? He's desperately trying to make this Sound Grey but its just... blatantly not? Is this youtuber's moral compass heavily skewered or wt?
@@slevinchannel7589 he is pointing out how the introduction of Mr. Morden for a long term story arch - a mystery greater story. @RowanJColeman is very clear and eloquently spoken
@@jeffco5237 Or so you claim
Believers had the carbon copy of the concept done on deep space nine where stereotypical star trek ending happens.
B5 did it way better.
Two great series indeed
I missed Sinclair's earnestness after season 1. I watched the whole series on DVD in a country house in East Anglia one summer, taking hobbitonic walks in between episodes.
My brother was into B5 when I was a kid, but I never got into it. Always loved DS9 though. I think it was just never on TV consistently enough at a time I can watch it.
I've only caught a few episodes. 🤦♂️ I need to buy this series. I only hear great things.
My fav series!
I’d love to see you do a “The Road Home” video!!
It would have been nice to have brought back Tamlyn Tomita during the Earth war segment in season 4.
As much as I love the various Star Trek shows & BSG, B5 is still my favorite Scifi Show, Scifi in general.
Best show ever.
Now I’ve got rewatch all of B5 again 😂
Crusade was a live-action Star Blazers, and that was the most disappointing thing about it. From mission driving plot to the ship's main weapon it was obvious.
This. I happened to like Crusade, but it was clearly an almost complete rip off of Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato including the wave motion gun.
The Bloopers! LMAO!
I never thought it was pushed at kids, to mature and cleaver for that age group
I never saw Lockley as replacing Ivanova, but Sheridan. The rosencrantz guildenstern episode is my favorite of the series and i dont say this with negativity at all but it's fascinating how they had a little incel type short white nerd say to the camera "well heck ma'am i know some people dont like the women commanders but youre alright by me." 😅 it was JM Straszinsky telling his audience "i dont want any of that anti-women bullshit from you nerds." Which was great it worked for the 90s and this series and the characters. It fit. And was a good message for the writer to instill. Progressive messaging is fine when done right and making it fit the situation and context. This is a good comparison point for newer Trek shows which try to turn every scene into a heavy-handed version of this that doesn't fit, and never lets up.
The new ship has a Blake’s 7 vibe
Lol that kung fu weapons system in Legend of the Rangers looks so memeable
I purchased the complete series on DVD. Over the years I have enjoyed watching it. For some reason the DVD's lock up the player. You may say that it's the player but it isn't because I've gone through 3 players and they don't work on all of them. I am going to believe that this was an intentional manufactured flaw. Is anyone else having this issue?
Marcus was a true wizard
Babylon 5, my favourite sci-fi show ever, followed by stargate sg1.
The TOS Star Trek didn't have the luxury of being planned out as a multi-season epic with a JMS at the helm plotting it all out, and I'll always have a preference for it (to the exclusion of all the sequel and prequel series spawned from it) . . . but B5 benefits from that overarching structure and makes it the next best SF epic, superior to TNG, to DS9 (which, I must say, ripped it off), VOYAGER, etc. etc. Hats off to the marvelous people who made it all happen, so many of whom are sadly no longer with us.
I love it
The first part about Babylon five itself was excellent and very moving.
Perhaps the second part could have been a separate episode without detracting from the first.
Sorry. I see now it was. My bad.
2:11:54 I think you meant _Martin_ Sheen.