Babylon 5 - Season 3 by ShinyEd

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Babylon 5 - Season 3

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UPDATED: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:03
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Friday, January 12, 2007 5:51 AM

Season 3 was the year of the Shadow War. I've watched the 6-disc DVD a few times.

I just re-watched the last 2 episodes from Season 3 the other night.....Shadow Dancing & Zha'ha'dum...so tell me...please...are they awesome or what?

When Anna ( Mellissa Gilbert ) takes hubby John Sheridan to that eerie planet of mystery and death and he meets the Shadows and learns how they think; the revelations about what happenned to Anna, his wife, the intentional crashing of the White Star from orbit....yikes!...can't think of anything better in sci-fi.

And Shadow Dancing....the big battle with all the allied planets ships (equipped with Minbari telepaths ) fighting the Shadows in the huge space battle....better than Lucas?...I say definitely!

Firefly is my favorite show of all time...sometimes I don't even think of it in terms of a " sci-fi" show, that would be too limiting of it's greatness...but Babylon 5 was really something special in the sci-fi world... it also sufferred ( at least to my recollection )
from inconsistent scheduling...I never knew when it was gonna be on...next purchase will be Season 4.

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Friday, January 12, 2007 6:28 AM

PIRATECAT

Yeh Babylon 5 I thought was really good. I liked it better than any trek stuff. Lenard Nimoy Mr Spok was interviewed on Coast to Coast with Art Bell during the 90s he said he thought that Babylon 5 had the best writing. He said that star trek series had no sexiness like the original which Babylon 5 has. Stargate got better but at first it wasn't as good as Babylon 5. B5 did suffer in the beginning and end with time slot movements. I remember them changing what nights its on.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Friday, January 12, 2007 6:31 AM

STORYMARK

Yep. Great show. Great season. I loved the Shadow War storyline!

Can't wait for the new "Lost Tales" DVD.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:20 AM

JONGSSTRAW

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Originally posted by ShinyEd:
And Shadow Dancing....the big battle with all the allied planets ships (equipped with Minbari telepaths ) fighting the Shadows in the huge space battle....better than Lucas?...I say definitely!

That was a great season, one of the best sci-fi shows ever.

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:53 AM

LESATHER

Definiately the best season of a GREAT show. "War Without End, parts 1 & 2" was incredible! Taking what was estabished in season one's "Babylon Squared" and showing events from a new angle and why things were happening. I admit I preferred 'Sheridan' to 'Sinclair', but after that episode in particular I wished they would have brought Michael O'Hare back again.
JMS really had plot-lines set up years in advance...even if on occasion he had to modify them slightly.

"Jayne is a girl's name" - River

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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 4:04 PM

CLJOHNSTON108

Babylon 5 is the only multi-season show that I never missed an episode of!
I was there when the pilot (with the Stewart Copeland score) premiered 2/22/93 on KCOP in L.A. and followed it all the way to the end.
I taped all the episodes when it moved to TNT, and cried like a chick at the end of "Sleeping in Light".

Much as I am a fanatic of Firefly, it kinda bugs me when Loni Peristere claims to have invented the whole "handheld" look of the CGI, with the quick-zooms, rack focus and camera-shake.

Babylon 5 pioneered that.

The show sat right on the cusp of CGI's transition from the artificial "plastic-y" look to the "real world" look it has today.

If I recall, the first "quick-zoom" shot was used in "And Now For a Word", when the remote camera tracks the departing Narn shuttle.

The first time I noticed rack-focus was in "Endgame", where we look through Garibaldi's binoculars a couple of times; the first is looking down at the Mars base from the ridge, and then when the WhiteStar opens a Jump Point in atmo and strafes the base.

Don't remember which episode I first noticed the camera-shake when something exploded near it, but...

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:55 AM

BLUEMOONSTUFF

Yup, B5 had a lot of "first's" that it never got credit for. It goes to show that the price of the DVD's are still getting top dollar. I think that G'kar had some of the BEST writing and acting of the whloe series. His transformation from a thug to one of nobility and peace..... I do miss that show. Quoting G'kar, "It's a shame we never were able to explore your pleasure threshhold".

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 9:39 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

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Quoting G'kar, "It's a shame we never were able to explore your pleasure threshhold".

Yeah! And isn't it so cool that it took Lyta five years to answer G'Kar's question!

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"Would you prefer to be conscious or unconscious during the mating? I would prefer conscious, but I don't know what your .. pleasure threshold is."
Ambassador G'Kar to Lyta Alexander, The Gathering

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"Oh, and you mentioned wondering what my pleasure threshold is. I just recently found out. .. I don't have one. Have a very, very nice day, G'Kar."
Lyta to G'Kar, Darkness Ascending

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:56 AM

BLUEMOONSTUFF

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Originally posted by cljohnston108:
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Originally posted by bluemoonstuff:
Quoting G'kar, "It's a shame we never were able to explore your pleasure threshhold".

Yeah! And isn't it so cool that it took Lyta five years to answer G'Kar's question!

And she was a telepath so I'm sure she knew how um, "capable" G'Kar might of been.

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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:03 PM

DESKTOPHIPPIE

Babylon 5 is absolutely brilliant. It's *so* brilliant that I'm convinced Literature students will study it in years to come. Not only is it incredibly entertaining - there are very few TV shows that have made me yell things at the TV - but the writing is second to none.

Babylon 5 is the reason why I can't let Firefly go. I just *knew* the first time I saw it that this was going to be the next B5, that this TV show would be something special. I was crushed when I'd heard it had been cancelled. Thinking of all those great episodes as yet unwritten is just so depressing.

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