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Babylon 5: The Gathering
Aug. 7th, 2022 11:39 pm"I was there at the dawn of the third age of mankind..."
So back in the nineties, when TV stations played games with program scheduling, genre shows were relegated to the graveyard slots, and if you missed taping an episode you were out of luck, I started but never finished Babylon 5.
That is to say, I watched the pilot movie and some of Season 1, missed a handful of episodes, and never got around to catching up. I always meant to! It was epic and groundbreaking and everyone loved it. But even later on, when it was released on VHS and DVD, five seasons felt like a big commitment. So this is why Babylon 5 has been on my bucket list for a ridiculously long time.
Now that JMS is going to remake the show, I've finally had the impetus to get around to watching all of the original. It's been impossible to avoid some level of osmosis spoilers over the years, but I'm sure the ride will still be full of surprises.
First up, I wanted to rewatch the pilot movie, to refresh my memory after all this time.
This is not going to be anything as coherent as a review.
( Spoilery reactions )
You know that mindblowing fact about how we are closer in time to Cleopatra, than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramid? We are further in time from Babylon 5, than Babylon 5 was from Blake's 7. The pilot first aired in 1993, almost 30 years ago.
So back in the nineties, when TV stations played games with program scheduling, genre shows were relegated to the graveyard slots, and if you missed taping an episode you were out of luck, I started but never finished Babylon 5.
That is to say, I watched the pilot movie and some of Season 1, missed a handful of episodes, and never got around to catching up. I always meant to! It was epic and groundbreaking and everyone loved it. But even later on, when it was released on VHS and DVD, five seasons felt like a big commitment. So this is why Babylon 5 has been on my bucket list for a ridiculously long time.
Now that JMS is going to remake the show, I've finally had the impetus to get around to watching all of the original. It's been impossible to avoid some level of osmosis spoilers over the years, but I'm sure the ride will still be full of surprises.
First up, I wanted to rewatch the pilot movie, to refresh my memory after all this time.
This is not going to be anything as coherent as a review.
( Spoilery reactions )
You know that mindblowing fact about how we are closer in time to Cleopatra, than Cleopatra was to the building of the Great Pyramid? We are further in time from Babylon 5, than Babylon 5 was from Blake's 7. The pilot first aired in 1993, almost 30 years ago.
