Turtledude2k3
01-22-2006, 08:37 PM
Hi.
I am a fan of a great sci-fi show that lasted 5 excellent years. It's called Babylon 5. It about the story of the last of the Babylon station..
Written by J. Michael Straczynski. It's his baby and he created it by using a five-season novel. It's a really well-done science fiction tv show that uses computer generated effects, mythology and it makes the show so different that alot of sci-fi tries to get right. Some shows like star trek have it differently but all are good.
Babylon 5 is the final space station and the story revolves around this five mile long space station which is located in a neutral part of space by a empty planet. The planet has a role throughout the show..
Babylon 5 has alot of different alien species coming in and out of the station every episode and teh station inhabits 5 major alien races that holds the space station together..
The Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centarui Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire are the 5 major races.
There are alot of wars in this show and this show has a feeling that you are there.. When I first heard of this show, I wasn't interested but by the time Space: The Imagination station launched on Canadian tv, Babylon 5 was one of the shows that was airing on that station and I was hooked when I saw the first episode. The show had alot of excellent story arcs that will keep you watching episode the next day/week.. The Shadow wars, the Earth wars, the Telepaths, the Narn/Centrui wars and so on. The show even finished with a excellent finale "Sleeping in Light".
There are also 5 movies that the show had.
The gathering
In The Beginning
ThirdSpace
River of Souls
A Call To Arms
Here's a description of all 5 movies..
The gathering: Basically this movie is the pilot of the show itself. It is explained in the tv show and there are some actors who were in the gathering that had a major role in the movie but were replaced in the show which was a disapointment but not a bad thing.
In The Beginning: The prequel to Babylon 5 tells the story of Human/Minbari war. If you aren't a Babylon 5 fan, you will get confused over some of the stuff happens. There is a part of the movie which explains what happens to Sinclair why he was missing a day of his life. It's explained in the show but never was never answered until you saw the movie. This is my favorite movie.
Thirdspace: This movie was written by Straczynsk who happen to amke it a homage to the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu stories. It happens to involves around an alien artifact thing and also has an alien invasion thing as well.
River of souls: Not sure what this one is about but it has a couple actors.. One who plays a major role in season 5, Capt. Elizabeth Lochley (Tracey Scoggins) and Martin Sheen.
Call To Arms: This movie ties in the next show Crusade.
Babylon5 had 2 spinoffs. Let's get on with it..
Crusade : Takes place in the babylon 5 universe and also takes place after The movie "Call To Arm". The show takes place aboard a ship called the Interstellar Alliance vessel Excalibur to find a cure for a plague that was released on Earth by a race called The Drakh which is a servant of The Shadows (watch season 4 of babylon5) The Drakh wanted revenge for their masters who were defeated in teh Shadow wars..
The series only lasted 13 episodes and there was no sign to bring it back.
The Legend Of The Rangers: The 2nd spinoff to Babylon 5. The series actually never took off as a TV show except it was a 2 hour movie called "To Live and Die in Starlight". This movie was released in jan of 2002 and the ratings were so low, the scifi channel which the movie aired on, the station didn't pick up the show at all.
So this is all the stuff there is on the television show Babylon 5. All 5 seasons of the show is on dvd, all 5 movies are in one boxset intitled " The movie collection" and Crusade has a dvd as well entitled "The complete series".
Sadly the legend of the rangers movie didn't have a dvd.
There was supposely a Babylon 5 computer game but it was cancelled.
So if your looking for an excellent science fiction show, please take your time and watch this amazing show. You won't be disapointed!
I am a fan of a great sci-fi show that lasted 5 excellent years. It's called Babylon 5. It about the story of the last of the Babylon station..
Written by J. Michael Straczynski. It's his baby and he created it by using a five-season novel. It's a really well-done science fiction tv show that uses computer generated effects, mythology and it makes the show so different that alot of sci-fi tries to get right. Some shows like star trek have it differently but all are good.
Babylon 5 is the final space station and the story revolves around this five mile long space station which is located in a neutral part of space by a empty planet. The planet has a role throughout the show..
Babylon 5 has alot of different alien species coming in and out of the station every episode and teh station inhabits 5 major alien races that holds the space station together..
The Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centarui Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire are the 5 major races.
There are alot of wars in this show and this show has a feeling that you are there.. When I first heard of this show, I wasn't interested but by the time Space: The Imagination station launched on Canadian tv, Babylon 5 was one of the shows that was airing on that station and I was hooked when I saw the first episode. The show had alot of excellent story arcs that will keep you watching episode the next day/week.. The Shadow wars, the Earth wars, the Telepaths, the Narn/Centrui wars and so on. The show even finished with a excellent finale "Sleeping in Light".
There are also 5 movies that the show had.
The gathering
In The Beginning
ThirdSpace
River of Souls
A Call To Arms
Here's a description of all 5 movies..
The gathering: Basically this movie is the pilot of the show itself. It is explained in the tv show and there are some actors who were in the gathering that had a major role in the movie but were replaced in the show which was a disapointment but not a bad thing.
In The Beginning: The prequel to Babylon 5 tells the story of Human/Minbari war. If you aren't a Babylon 5 fan, you will get confused over some of the stuff happens. There is a part of the movie which explains what happens to Sinclair why he was missing a day of his life. It's explained in the show but never was never answered until you saw the movie. This is my favorite movie.
Thirdspace: This movie was written by Straczynsk who happen to amke it a homage to the H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulu stories. It happens to involves around an alien artifact thing and also has an alien invasion thing as well.
River of souls: Not sure what this one is about but it has a couple actors.. One who plays a major role in season 5, Capt. Elizabeth Lochley (Tracey Scoggins) and Martin Sheen.
Call To Arms: This movie ties in the next show Crusade.
Babylon5 had 2 spinoffs. Let's get on with it..
Crusade : Takes place in the babylon 5 universe and also takes place after The movie "Call To Arm". The show takes place aboard a ship called the Interstellar Alliance vessel Excalibur to find a cure for a plague that was released on Earth by a race called The Drakh which is a servant of The Shadows (watch season 4 of babylon5) The Drakh wanted revenge for their masters who were defeated in teh Shadow wars..
The series only lasted 13 episodes and there was no sign to bring it back.
The Legend Of The Rangers: The 2nd spinoff to Babylon 5. The series actually never took off as a TV show except it was a 2 hour movie called "To Live and Die in Starlight". This movie was released in jan of 2002 and the ratings were so low, the scifi channel which the movie aired on, the station didn't pick up the show at all.
So this is all the stuff there is on the television show Babylon 5. All 5 seasons of the show is on dvd, all 5 movies are in one boxset intitled " The movie collection" and Crusade has a dvd as well entitled "The complete series".
Sadly the legend of the rangers movie didn't have a dvd.
There was supposely a Babylon 5 computer game but it was cancelled.
So if your looking for an excellent science fiction show, please take your time and watch this amazing show. You won't be disapointed!