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Babylon 5 is Coming to Amazon Prime in June
Cord Cutters News ^ | May 16, 2018 | Luke Bouma

Posted on 07/01/2018 5:55:57 AM PDT by Flick Lives

Fans of Babylon 5 have for years hoped for their favorite show to end up on a subscription streaming service. After a short stay on go90, it looks like Babylon 5 fans have good news. Today on Twitter the creator of Babylon 5 announced that all 5 seasons of the show will be coming to Amazon Prime in June 2018.

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KEYWORDS: amazon; babylon5; prime
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This is more of an info / vanity post. I noticed the sci-fi series "Babylon 5" has returned to Amazon Prime. The show was one of the first sci-fi series with a long story arc built-in from the beginning. The 90's special-effects are a bit primitive compared to today's, but the story lines and characters are still great.

Vir: "Ah! He has become one with his inner self!"
Garibaldi "He's passed out."
Vir: "That too."

1 posted on 07/01/2018 5:55:57 AM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Flick Lives

Kosh: “And so it begins ...


2 posted on 07/01/2018 5:59:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Flick Lives

Love that show. I’m in Season 2 for about the 20th time, working my way through.

Vir was my favorite!


3 posted on 07/01/2018 5:59:46 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I work for DHS. Not ashamed of it.)
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To: Flick Lives

Greatest television series of the entire Nineties decade.


4 posted on 07/01/2018 6:00:46 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain ("Progressivism" is as every kind of evil: it can never create, only corrupt and destroy.)
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To: Flick Lives
Note to folks new to the series:

Seasons 1 and 2 are OK.

Seasons 3 and 4 are some of the best TV ever!

(Season 5 is OK.)
5 posted on 07/01/2018 6:00:50 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: Flick Lives

And Jerry Doyle won’t be around to plug it unfortunately!


6 posted on 07/01/2018 6:02:17 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Flick Lives

I built a model of a Starfury several years ago. It turned out really well, wish I still had it.


7 posted on 07/01/2018 6:04:12 AM PDT by real saxophonist ( YouTube + Twitter + Facebook = YouTwitFace.com)
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To: Flick Lives

Yes, saw it on Prime. Will start watching soon.


8 posted on 07/01/2018 6:18:20 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Flick Lives

I used to tune in that show every week to catch the next episode. Then one night, there was some other program on instead. Did they switch it to another night? I got a TV guide but couldn’t find it anywhere. Later I found out: the bastards cancelled it, mid-season! No warning at all. Bastards.


9 posted on 07/01/2018 6:19:17 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Flick Lives

Are you really cutting a cord when you pay for a subscription service with another monopoly with Leftist politics?


10 posted on 07/01/2018 6:43:53 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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This show also had the best finale ever. Makes me cry every time, even though I know what’s coming.


11 posted on 07/01/2018 6:49:00 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I work for DHS. Not ashamed of it.)
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Love that show.

JMS once said the whole thing came to him at once. Unspooling in his mind. He had the beginning, middle and end all laid out before he even wrote a word.

It was set up as a five year story arc. The networks screwed it up so things got kinda rushed in places.


12 posted on 07/01/2018 7:20:57 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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TNT screwed up Crusade.

I love B5 still.

The DVDS, books, and some CD music is still around.


13 posted on 07/01/2018 7:36:19 AM PDT by wally_bert (Just who are you? The Archduke of Guacamole?)
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To: Flick Lives

We have it on DVD.


14 posted on 07/01/2018 7:36:33 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Fill in my standard rant.)
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The 1 hour show they made a secret the story line and dragged it out for 5 seasons ,Brilliant


15 posted on 07/01/2018 7:39:27 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: a fool in paradise

Are you really cutting a cord when you pay for a subscription service with another monopoly with Leftist politics?


My thoughts exactly. Amazon is a huge funding source for LEFTYS. I avoid them at all cost. There must be a streaming service that doesnt fund the LEFT.


16 posted on 07/01/2018 7:41:15 AM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Flick Lives

Great series.

Parts of it were cheesy. There were episodes that didn’t work. The special effects in the first couple of seasons were very primitive before CGI technology really came into its own around season 3. That said, it had a good and original and interesting story to tell and it had some good actors.

Oh and my favorite was Londo Mollari. Funny as hell. Scheming and devious at times. Ultimately tragic.

I watched the series when it came out but because at the time I was bouncing back and forth between the states and Europe for school/work, I got interrupted around season 3 and didn’t see a point in picking back up around season 5. I then watched the whole thing from the beginning on Netflix when they were still mailing out DVDs around 2005 or 06.

I also watched all the made for TV movies (about 5 of them) and the spinoff series Excalibur. Some of the movies were good and some were also quite cheesy.

I would really like to see some more well made spinoffs set in that universe. I know the creator was trying to get something going about 5 years ago but I guess plans fell through.


17 posted on 07/01/2018 7:47:45 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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There must be a streaming service that doesnt fund the LEFT.

Maybe Hulu. Netflix is farther Left than Amazon.

18 posted on 07/01/2018 8:20:22 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: joshua c

Tubi Tv doesn’t offer a lot but it is free.

And while they have a lot of leftist documentaries, they also offer Dinesh DSouza’s films (which I still have not viewed).

There are commercials (even locally targeted) that may interrupt the program at times but far fewer than on broadcast television.

No matches for Babylon 5


19 posted on 07/01/2018 8:24:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it)
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Are you really cutting a cord when you pay for a subscription service with another monopoly with Leftist politics?

Now this is the type of analytical and thought-provoking question we USED to have on FR "back in the day."

No doubt you'll be outright banned from FR or suspended for 30 days after posting it.

Either way, nice knowing you!

20 posted on 07/01/2018 8:26:25 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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