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I'll be back
AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, the rewatch is on hiatus. Mostly because I'd like for bluefall to have the chance to participate.
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Discussion Post- 0x9 "Deathwalker."
Friday discussion post is on Friday.
This week's offering:
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
This week's offering:
1x09: Deathwalker
When an infamous scientist arrives on Babylon 5, Sinclair must decide whether to allow her to perfect her experimental youth serum or prosecute her for her war crimes against the minority alien races throughout the galaxy. Sarah Douglas ("Superman") guest stars.
When an infamous scientist arrives on Babylon 5, Sinclair must decide whether to allow her to perfect her experimental youth serum or prosecute her for her war crimes against the minority alien races throughout the galaxy. Sarah Douglas ("Superman") guest stars.
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion Post- 0x8 "And The Sky Full Of Stars."
It's Saturday afternoon. Late discussion post.
This week's offering:
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
This week's offering:
1x08: And The Sky Full Of Stars
Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) is abducted by two mysterious beings. They probe his subconscious memory to learn what happened ten years ago during a space battle when Sinclair lost his memory for 24 hours.
Sinclair (MICHAEL O'HARE) is abducted by two mysterious beings. They probe his subconscious memory to learn what happened ten years ago during a space battle when Sinclair lost his memory for 24 hours.
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion Post- 0x7 "The War Prayer."
It's Tuesday afternoon. Late discussion post.
This week's offering:
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
This week's offering:
1x07: The War Prayer
When a group of racial fanatics infiltrates Babylon 5 and attacks innocent aliens, Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Ivanova try to capture the racists. Danica McKellar ("The Wonder Years") guest stars.
When a group of racial fanatics infiltrates Babylon 5 and attacks innocent aliens, Sinclair, Garibaldi, and Ivanova try to capture the racists. Danica McKellar ("The Wonder Years") guest stars.
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion Post - 0x6 "Mind War."
It's Friday afternoon and by god we are going to have a discussion post ON TIME.
This week's offering:
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
This week's offering:
1x06: Mind War
A genetically altered telepathic fugitive hides aboard Babylon 5 and seeks help escaping from his pursuers before he mutates into a destructive superbeing. Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) experiences an incredible encounter with an alien spacecraft. Walter Koenig ("Star Trek") guest stars
A genetically altered telepathic fugitive hides aboard Babylon 5 and seeks help escaping from his pursuers before he mutates into a destructive superbeing. Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) experiences an incredible encounter with an alien spacecraft. Walter Koenig ("Star Trek") guest stars
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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This is G'Kar's Discussion Post - 0x5 "The Parliament Of Dreams."
It's Saturday afternoon, BLUEFALL.
This week's offering:
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
This week's offering:
1x05: The Parliament of Dreams
G'Kar is hunted by a hired political assassin. Sinclair and Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) reconcile their past differences and renew their romance.
G'Kar is hunted by a hired political assassin. Sinclair and Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) reconcile their past differences and renew their romance.
( Minutae )
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion post - 1x04 "Infection"
It's Monday afternoon, it must be time for someone to pick up bluefall's slack! This week's offering:
( Minutae )A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
1x04: Infection
A scientist smuggles some mysterious artifacts aboard Babylon 5 that transform his assistant into an inhuman killing machine. Sinclair Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin must destroy the monster before it destroys the entire space station. David McCallum guest stars.
A scientist smuggles some mysterious artifacts aboard Babylon 5 that transform his assistant into an inhuman killing machine. Sinclair Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin must destroy the monster before it destroys the entire space station. David McCallum guest stars.
( Minutae )A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion post - 1x03 "Born to the Purple"
It's Friday night, it must be time for a discussion post! This week's offering:
1x03: Born to the Purple
Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals a sensitive computer file. Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of a restricted communications channel.
( Minutiae )
A very by-the-numbers, classic story this ep (in the sense of "older than dirt and been told a million times" classic); did it justify this retelling? Did Udenio pull her weight as the guest star? What was up with Talia's hairdo at Fresh Air?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
1x03: Born to the Purple
Londo's career is in jeopardy when a beautiful slave seduces him and steals a sensitive computer file. Garibaldi investigates an unauthorized use of a restricted communications channel.
( Minutiae )
A very by-the-numbers, classic story this ep (in the sense of "older than dirt and been told a million times" classic); did it justify this retelling? Did Udenio pull her weight as the guest star? What was up with Talia's hairdo at Fresh Air?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion Post - 1x02 "Soul Hunter"
It's Friday night afternoon, it must be time for a discussion post! This week's offering:
1x02: Soul Hunter
A badly damaged ship is brought into the station, and the strange alien inside is identified as a Soul Hunter - an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.
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This one's fairly thinky, guys. So what did you think? Did JMS pull off the ambiguity he was shooting for? Did he make you stop and ponder? Who impressed you, what bored you, and do the Soul Hunters count as rubber forehead aliens or not?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
1x02: Soul Hunter
A badly damaged ship is brought into the station, and the strange alien inside is identified as a Soul Hunter - an immortal race who can sense death and supposedly steal someone's soul.
( Minutiae )
This one's fairly thinky, guys. So what did you think? Did JMS pull off the ambiguity he was shooting for? Did he make you stop and ponder? Who impressed you, what bored you, and do the Soul Hunters count as rubber forehead aliens or not?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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Discussion Post - 1x01 "Midnight on the Firing Line"
It's Friday night, it must be time for a discussion post! This week's offering:
1x01: Midnight on the Firing Line
When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
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Our story begins here, guys. So exciting! What were your first impressions? Your favorite characters out of the gate? Your questions and speculations? How'd you feel about the sets and costuming and special effects?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
1x01: Midnight on the Firing Line
When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
( Minutiae )
Our story begins here, guys. So exciting! What were your first impressions? Your favorite characters out of the gate? Your questions and speculations? How'd you feel about the sets and costuming and special effects?
A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
Viewing Schedule (tentative)
I know some folks are in school or have other obligations, and we may want to take breaks here and there to help keep things fresh, so this is subject to discussion and revision both now and over time. But for the moment, our viewing schedule as it stands:
Summer/Fall 2010
Season One: Signs and Portents
Note that "A Voice in the Wilderness" is a two-parter.
Summer/Fall 2010
Season One: Signs and Portents
June 18 - 1x01 "Midnight on the Firing Line"
June 25 - 1x02 "Soul Hunter"
July 2 - 1x03 "Born to the Purple"
July 9 - 1x04 "Infection"
July 16 - 1x05 "The Parliament of Dreams"
July 23 - 1x06 "Mind War"
July 30 - 1x07 "The War Prayer"
August 6 - 1x08 "And the Sky Full of Stars"
August 13 - 1x09 "Deathwalker"
August 20 - 1x10 "Believers"
August 27 - 1x11 "Survivors"
September 3 - 1x12 "By Any Means Necessary"
September 10 - 1x13 "Signs and Portents"
September 17 - 1x14 "TKO"
October 1 - 1x15 "Grail"
October 8 - 1x16 "Eyes"
October 15 - 1x17 "Legacies"
October 22 - 1x18/1x19 "A Voice in the Wilderness"
October 29 - 1x20 "Babylon Squared"
November 5 - 1x21 "The Quality of Mercy"
November 12 - 1x22 "Chrysalis"Note that "A Voice in the Wilderness" is a two-parter.
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Rules Post
Well, every comm needs an intro/rules post, so this is ours.
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last_best_hope is:
We're a comm for fans of Babylon 5, who want a place to chatter, argue, squee, and just generally be fannish with other fans as we watch our way through the series together. The primary purpose of this comm is an organized communal rewatch, roughly one episode per week, but I named the thinglast_best_hope instead of B5_rewatch because I want to be flexible and leave room for other fannish stuff.
What other stuff? Anything B5, really. Or even anything tangentially B5. If you run across a hilarious YouTube fanvid about Centauri mating rituals, if you corner JMS at a comic con and he tells you the secret history of Z'ha'dum, if you find some interview with Walter Koenig about some upcoming movie, go ahead and post! If you pick up one of the books and want to do a review, go ahead and post! If you grab one of the comics in a quarter bin somewhere and photoshop the dialog in hilarious ways, go ahead and post! We're here to be fannish, so be fannish!
By the same token, we're all nerds here and this ain't TWoP, we all wanna geek about everything and we don't care if you're on topic. If an episode discussion derails into some epic 300-comment thread about Roslin's airlock technique or why Holmes/Moriarty is the best ship ever or how to knit a tea cozy, that is what threaded comments are for. Go to it.
What to expect from your mod:
Y'all know me, I'm capricious and unreliable, it's why I don't generally volunteer to do this kind of thing. I'm pretty hands-off and I don't even like freezing threads, so mostly you're on your own. So behave. But y'all also know me, I'm Ms Kill-The-Kyriarchy-With-Fire, so don't be too shocked if you use a homophobic insult and discover your ass is banned next time you try posting. At any rate, feel free to PM me if there's something you think needs addressing.
What your mod expects from you:
Think.
Don't insult each other.
Remember that your perspective is not everybody's perspective.
Have fun.
That's all I got, folks. Welcome aboard.
What
last_best_hope is:We're a comm for fans of Babylon 5, who want a place to chatter, argue, squee, and just generally be fannish with other fans as we watch our way through the series together. The primary purpose of this comm is an organized communal rewatch, roughly one episode per week, but I named the thing
last_best_hope instead of B5_rewatch because I want to be flexible and leave room for other fannish stuff.What other stuff? Anything B5, really. Or even anything tangentially B5. If you run across a hilarious YouTube fanvid about Centauri mating rituals, if you corner JMS at a comic con and he tells you the secret history of Z'ha'dum, if you find some interview with Walter Koenig about some upcoming movie, go ahead and post! If you pick up one of the books and want to do a review, go ahead and post! If you grab one of the comics in a quarter bin somewhere and photoshop the dialog in hilarious ways, go ahead and post! We're here to be fannish, so be fannish!
By the same token, we're all nerds here and this ain't TWoP, we all wanna geek about everything and we don't care if you're on topic. If an episode discussion derails into some epic 300-comment thread about Roslin's airlock technique or why Holmes/Moriarty is the best ship ever or how to knit a tea cozy, that is what threaded comments are for. Go to it.
What to expect from your mod:
Y'all know me, I'm capricious and unreliable, it's why I don't generally volunteer to do this kind of thing. I'm pretty hands-off and I don't even like freezing threads, so mostly you're on your own. So behave. But y'all also know me, I'm Ms Kill-The-Kyriarchy-With-Fire, so don't be too shocked if you use a homophobic insult and discover your ass is banned next time you try posting. At any rate, feel free to PM me if there's something you think needs addressing.
What your mod expects from you:
Think.
Don't insult each other.
Remember that your perspective is not everybody's perspective.
Have fun.
That's all I got, folks. Welcome aboard.
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Intro post
Okay, guys, let's get this thing rolling!
Based on the earlier poll, it looks like the best thing all around will be to watch one episode a week, with a discussion post going up every Friday night. Once we get a groove going we can set up a schedule and start passing the responsibility around, but I'll do the first couple until we get situated. Also, every Monday, I'll try to put some resources up under flock for those whose Netflix queues are running behind.
Likewise based on the earlier poll, if you have a friend or two who you think might be interested, by all means, point hir in this direction. I'm hoping this will be a fairly easygoing comm and it's looking pretty small at this point, so all I ask is that people be interested in the show and willing to behave themselves, no stringent rules of conduct to adhere to at the moment.
As for our viewing schedule, I'll do a separate post with a season timeline, but as far as the immediate question goes, the first discussion post goes up next Friday, June 18. We'll be watching in broadcast order rather than production order so the plot actually makes sense (easy enough, it's the order they're in on the DVDs), so we're starting with "Midnight on the Firing Line."
If you guys are interested, we can also take a look at the pilot or prequel movies, but they're harder to get ahold of, a bit disjointed from the subsequent show, and not necessary to the story, so I'm thinking that should be a bonus thing that we do at the season break or something. Thoughts?
Also, in re: the theme, I am epic lazy and grabbed a decent default. If anyone has a strong opinion or, even better, some ambition, input is welcome.
Based on the earlier poll, it looks like the best thing all around will be to watch one episode a week, with a discussion post going up every Friday night. Once we get a groove going we can set up a schedule and start passing the responsibility around, but I'll do the first couple until we get situated. Also, every Monday, I'll try to put some resources up under flock for those whose Netflix queues are running behind.
Likewise based on the earlier poll, if you have a friend or two who you think might be interested, by all means, point hir in this direction. I'm hoping this will be a fairly easygoing comm and it's looking pretty small at this point, so all I ask is that people be interested in the show and willing to behave themselves, no stringent rules of conduct to adhere to at the moment.
As for our viewing schedule, I'll do a separate post with a season timeline, but as far as the immediate question goes, the first discussion post goes up next Friday, June 18. We'll be watching in broadcast order rather than production order so the plot actually makes sense (easy enough, it's the order they're in on the DVDs), so we're starting with "Midnight on the Firing Line."
If you guys are interested, we can also take a look at the pilot or prequel movies, but they're harder to get ahold of, a bit disjointed from the subsequent show, and not necessary to the story, so I'm thinking that should be a bonus thing that we do at the season break or something. Thoughts?
Also, in re: the theme, I am epic lazy and grabbed a decent default. If anyone has a strong opinion or, even better, some ambition, input is welcome.