Mr. Garibaldi --- kicking ass and taking names!
Vir: "Ah! He has become one with his inner self!"
Garibaldi "He's passed out."
Vir: "That too."
Kosh: “And so it begins ...
Love that show. I’m in Season 2 for about the 20th time, working my way through.
Vir was my favorite!
Greatest television series of the entire Nineties decade.
And Jerry Doyle won’t be around to plug it unfortunately!
I built a model of a Starfury several years ago. It turned out really well, wish I still had it.
Yes, saw it on Prime. Will start watching soon.
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.
Are you really cutting a cord when you pay for a subscription service with another monopoly with Leftist politics?
This show also had the best finale ever. Makes me cry every time, even though I know what’s coming.
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.
We have it on DVD.
The 1 hour show they made a secret the story line and dragged it out for 5 seasons ,Brilliant
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.
Loved the series but the ending was a you gotta be kidding me moment. I’ll spare the spoilers but all I could think was after 5 years of build up, that’s the pay off?
AP also recently added Space: 1999 [Season 1 of 2].
I remember watching most of that series, but I missed the final episodes — no VCR/DVR in those days.
I watched the first two episodes last evening on AP. They weren’t too dated [1975-78], except for the bell-bottom slacks. The graphics were okay, too. The series has been remastered for widescreen.
Each season has 24 episodes of about 50 minutes in length with an episode 25 added to Season 2 in 1999.
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-1999/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07F222W6J/ref=atv_wtlp_wtl_1
Mr. Garibaldi --- kicking ass and taking names!
Git the dvd version. Loved or going to watch it again soon I think.
Sheldon on Babylon 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFFQYz_Awk
B5 was a rather a good SF show but uneven in execution. The good episodes were really good but it had its share of clunker episodes too (especially in the filler 5th season). To be fair so did the original Star Trek (3rd season).
B5’s biggest strengths were the planned 5 year plot arc and an outstanding secondary cast (Vir, Morden, Lennier(sp), Londo, G’kar, Girbaldi, Marcus) many of whom I thought were better actors than the mains.
The conputer SFX aged poorly but if you can get past that it’s actually a pretty decent space opera with some nice big plot twists and/or cliff hangers at the end of each season. It tended to lean libertarian in its politics (but not as much as Firefly) and was generally respectful towards people of faith (including Christians and Jews) unlike 90% of the stuff you see today.