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Babylon 5 being posting to youtube. It's not confirmed they will do the whole series, but I assume they will. This is an interesting move because audience fragmentation is a huge thing and this is about fixing that it looks like? Maybe the same reason Electric Entertainment posted all of the OG Leverage and has been posting more stuff, building a base.
This is one of the most important and ambitious Sci Fi shows ever. A lot of it's problems are that it got plagiarized so hard by DS9 they didn't even bother to change some of the character names. (I am not using the P word lightly, there was a lawsuit and it was settled out of court. And yeah, literally didn't even bother changing some of the names. It was beyond blatant)
So, should you watch it? You know how a lot of older genre shows have the 'just get past season 1 and it gets good' problem? Crank that to the max. The first season is painful and has a front runner for one of the worst single episodes of sci fi TV ever.
It has so many amazing moments, twists years in the planning, truly amazing acting, dialogue you will quote until the end of time, but at what cost??
This is one of the most important and ambitious Sci Fi shows ever. A lot of it's problems are that it got plagiarized so hard by DS9 they didn't even bother to change some of the character names. (I am not using the P word lightly, there was a lawsuit and it was settled out of court. And yeah, literally didn't even bother changing some of the names. It was beyond blatant)
So, should you watch it? You know how a lot of older genre shows have the 'just get past season 1 and it gets good' problem? Crank that to the max. The first season is painful and has a front runner for one of the worst single episodes of sci fi TV ever.
It has so many amazing moments, twists years in the planning, truly amazing acting, dialogue you will quote until the end of time, but at what cost??
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Date: 2026-02-14 11:38 am (UTC)From:Babylon 5
Date: 2026-02-14 01:53 pm (UTC)From:Cool!
Another problem with Babylon 5 when it first aired was that my local station would air it at the most random times. They just dropped it entirely at one point and when enough people complained they brought it back but at some bizarre time like 1am or something crazy. I remember missing episodes because I didn't catch that this week they'd decided to air it at a different weird time without warning. It was one of those shows you could only discuss with other obsessive sci-fi fans because no one else was putting that much effort into watching it.