Post #1553514

2026-03-02 21:40 UTC

I don&#39;t really post much to social media anymore, but I thought I would report that after 29 years I finally watched all of #Babylon5 - I gave up during the telepath arc in season 5 when it was first shown. Turns out that was a mistake, because it got pretty darn good after that! The Centauri story was really well done (and tragic, even though we basically knew what was going to happen). The LotR analogies I&#39;ve heard about the show held true given they gave each of the major characters a sending off at the end too :D (also &quot;going beyond the Rim&quot; is really obviously &quot;sailing to the West&quot;). And the last episode &quot;Sleeping in Light&quot; was really nicely done and very sad. Though they did leave a few threads dangling... (like what happened to Bester&#39;s girlfriend, and what happened with that urn at the end) But overall, it&#39;s a fantastic show and was really fun to watch it all again :). I&#39;m off on vacation for a few weeks but maybe afterwards we&#39;ll watch Call to Arms and Crusade. #scifi

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@nyrath@spacey.space 2026-03-02 21:57

@evildrganymede There was a supplement to the Babylon Five table top role playing game called the "Earthforce Sourcebook". Like most source books it is tedious to read. Except the last half has a vector movement based space combat table top game which is fun to play. Including a card stock sheet of ship counters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthforce_Sourcebook

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@nyrath@spacey.space 2026-03-02 22:18

@evildrganymede The parts about President Clark (who was vice president before the suspicious death of the former president), and the sinister NightWatch are quite relevant today

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@nikink@aus.social 2026-03-03 00:15

@evildrganymede Strangely enough, I watched every episode of B5 twice back in the 90's, sometimes more, but I never watched the final episode of Season 5. I could never bring myself to end it. Until last year when I rewatched the entire show and *finally* watched Sleeping in Light to close it all off at long last.

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@60sRefugee@spacey.space 2026-03-03 00:37

@evildrganymede There was an episode in which Sheridan is time-skipped to a future where he and Delenn are Londo's prisoners on Centauri Prime, but despite their predicament Delenn tells Sheridan that their son is "safe". I took that to mean that he escaped the controller.

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@tonwood@tldr.nettime.org 2026-03-03 00:56

@evildrganymede And why didn't Londo, in the last hour of his life, warn about the urn

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