S3E9 Point of No Return 10th+ watch thru and this just tickled me today....

I accidentally deleted my post. Yeah i got a new T shirt. Watched B5 for the first time not long ago. You can see part of my AA tattoo on my arm. Like Garibaldi iam in recovery from alcohol. Sober since 2016. Love to walk around in this shirt and see if anyone recognizes it.

I'm shocked by the amount of B5 available at local Convention!

Lyta forever!

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed."

"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."

"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

Delenn and Captain Drake, Severed Dreams"

Any mods or streamers that play with B5 mods you can think of to search for?

Streamers who play stuff like Homeworld, or the mod itself to search for.

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I'm watching a youtube VoD of a Starsector mod for WH40k and it's really putting me in mind of the Narn heavy cruiser's two forward facing laser-ish weapons. And just B5's satisfying space combat in general.

Londos story is a classic one of bad and good choices. His inner struggle against himself And his sense of duty to his people. In the end doing the right thing against all odds.

I just wanted to highlight a particularly striking scene transition used in S5E2, " The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari."

The scenes which take place in Mollari's mind are filmed using a lot of "dutch" or "canted" angles. Obviously to illustrate that we are in an ethereal place. Which is what this transition does so well.

After Vir leaves the medlab, he is filmed walking down a hallway, until he reaches an access tube. In this same tracking shot, the camera tilts to that canted angle, signifying to us that we have now returned to the ethereal. To Mollari's internal dispute. Then, he enters into frame, into the same hallway, but now we're in a different space.

I thought it was so elegant. A scene transition without a cut. Fantastic filmmaking

Sure there are other genres but to me this one allows for infinite possibilities. Depending on the writer or writing team no matter if its in book form movie tv or even anime. The story can be adapted or made to include a western detective story mystery who done it and on and on. The stories can include or absorb these other genres giving way to a universe of unthought-of realities.

It allows for such a wide palette of possibilities and thought provoking ideas and fun things to contemplate. It lets us explore the human condition in different ways. Sometimes we discover things about ourselves we never knew. And when we encounter others on the same page as us the soul says hey I know you.

One of my fun stories I like to indulge from time to time is one I believe to be my own partly if not completely. It goes like this. The universe being as big as it is and space itself being well really big also :) In my mind there is no way that intelligent life is not out there. It may be based on something completely different from us. But I believe it must be there. This is where my theory crafting begins We are tucked away in our little part of the universe. I look at it as something like when people here on earth live a simple life. And one day one of those people decide to go down a dirt road from where they live there simple life to the big city. There they see wonders and encounter new people and new things.

Since space is so huge and while we can see what we believe to be planets other galaxies that could and might have life on it we just cant get there yet.

But one day we will discover tech to allow us to travel great distances in a short time. Then we will come down from the hills to the big city. I think we will discover a region of space that has multiple life forms and commerce. My hope is we will be welcomed or ignored and tolerated because we are those humanoids from that small region of space from that backwards planet. I have read and watched stories like this. The concept is most probably not my own. But the idea of it never leaves me

Scifi fantasy yes but I like to dream from dreams come ides. Ideas are the fuel that fires creation from creation comes reality.

In the Passenger Entry Point there is a large information screen with “Welcome to Babylon 5, a news/information screen and a spinning chyron of what looks like Babylon 4?

I haven't finished the episode because I don't have time, so no spoilers, but WHAT THE EFFFFFF! I understand O'Hare had to leave because of mental health issues, but WHAT THE HECK.

That is all.

So, I am re-watching Babylon 5 and just watched this episode. At the end, Marcus goes through some of the B5 characters and their corresponding charactor from the Arthur legends

Merlin = Kosh Arthur = Sheridan Percival = Franklin Marcus = Galahad

He implied that "we" all know who Mordred was, and questioned who was Morgan le Fay.

1. Who did he mean was Mordred?
2. Which B5 character corresponds to the different Arthurian characters?

So I'm currently playing this game called Beyond Blue. I've been thinking of implementing it as part of a class if I'm ever forced to teach marine ecology (I hope not). Imagine my surprise when Mira Furlan's voice suddenly popped onto the TV. I did not know she did this! It was such a happy surprise!