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Everything on the Internet is public domain.

If I disappear for 3 weeks, assume I’m dead.

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The only good thing about this Avatar was a decent videogame tie-in.

It’s pretty clear what’s going on here - they deliberately made the blandest, most derivative story they could, so you can turn off your brain. I guess that might work for porn films and to some degree for normal movies too, but I can’t get behind using blandness so excessively.

The CGI ain’t saving that. (I don’t even like those aliens personally.) I find that this thing and the sequel being the most grossing films of all time, to be an insult to filmmaking and especially storytelling.

What's the consensus here regarding Babylon Five?

I have the series on DVD but I’ve never seriously cracked it, only seen a few episodes. Was wondering what people here think, is it as good as the internet often says it is? I know it was an inspiration for one of my favorite franchises (Mass Effect) and The Orville had a cute reference to it by making its main actor the...

WhoRoger,
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Best thing since slice bread. You just have to accept it looks cheap and old.

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Maybe I’m the only one who likes S05 just as much. Yea it’s not as bombastic in scope, but you still get the same great characters and universe.

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Sorry but that’s a horrible idea… The whole point of ‘planting seeds’ is how the pieces fall together in succession.

WhoRoger,
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That’s pretty much the case of S01 of any series, especially sci-fi, especially from the 90’s.

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Possibly… It’s true that people want instant gratification, and also true that pilots tend to kinda suck (see B5 actually).

I think these days the show creators have gotten better at hitting the ground running from the start.

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Oh geez, gifs have made it to 24th century? I should’ve known.

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