Babylon 5 Discussion: Special Poll Edition!

Which war? Are you at season 5?

The last season is a notable dip in quality. This is mostly due to studio shenanigans cancelling B5 in season 4 and then going "nvm lol", after JMS and co had already busted their ass trying to cram everything into 4. Hence why 4 goes at breakneck speed and 5 seems like an afterthought. There's still two arcs in 5, one which is decent, the other kind of cringey. And a few, really good episodes. And of course the finales for both seasons are the best you could hope for as conclusions to the world and characters respectively.

"Sleeping in Light" is how ME3 should  have ended.

Well.. you'd need "Into the Fire" first. And to get that, you need to actually set up your arc properly and know what the hell your villains are about, instead of procrastinating till teh last minute and then going on a bad drug and/or caffeine trip.




And for fuck's sake, if there was ever one video game protagonist that could win by telling his enemies to "get the hell out of our galaxy!" it's Commander "Freakin Red/Blue Dialogue Options" Shepard.


/vestigial rage

out of curiosity. Which arc is which?

Fuck no.

Was Sheridan allowed to walk into an explosion like an idiot? Did the Vorlons/Shadows go "ok you can do this, but you're still fucking children who'll fall on your ass without us" with Sheridan having no comeback? Did they then proceed to blow up all the White Stars and Jump Gates, because fuck you?

Destroy was a goddamn insult. You still capitulated to the holokid, you still tacitly admitted his little bullshit "problem" was real and you ambiguously died for it, while setting everyone back at least a decade or so (oh and also committing genocide, if you hadn't already, just for good measure) 

Sheridan on the other hand told them all to go blow it out their ass, we'll find our own way. And that's exactly what they did. Even with Deconstruction of Falling Stars hinting at cycles, and humans becoming Vorlon-like eventually, it's still better because we did it on our terms.

Destroy fucking sucks. At least with Control, the tacit agreement is countered by the fact that I shove the holokid aside and take the reigns myself with no collateral damage (or at least none that I can't undo). Except for the general failure of the ending, that has aspects that are closer to B5 than Destroy.

sigh

Even six years later, it's the same thing. Kindly check this out: bsn.boards.net/thread/638/eternal-infinite-immortal-crutchcrickets-control

Don't want to derail this thread with an ending debate, of all things.

I was using the word "debate' to be generous. There is no debate. The thread I linked is all you need.

But that's all over there. Here there is only B5.

Claudia Christian and Patricia Tallman still look very yummy.

A toast! To absent friends.

Wish more of the old B5 stuff would come out for the kindle. Esp the comics.