Cheap Sets - Great Story

[The Puzzled Pak'Ma'Ra]

... Indeed. I am in no way typing ill of the series. I just get a kick out of finding this stuff. It's especially interesting in B5 because I get so immersed in the show, I'm living in the year 2258... or whatever... and to see a little mistake or wobbly deck pulls me back to 2005 and reality for a few seconds.

... Could you dis Shakespeare (sp?) if he'd used a Bic and recycled paper? I think not.

[Satai Delenn]

one that I noticed was in Born to the Purple when Sinclair and Londo were being chased by the thugs Sinclair throws this big box or crate into the two mens way to slow them down and as huge as it was he picked up like it was light as a feather .They could have at least made it appear to the viewer that it was heavy.The little mistakes don't diminish the goodness of Babylon 5 or the story it tells.

[David Panzer]

The only time I noticed it was in "Born to the Purple" where Trakis enters his quarters. When he inserts his I.D. card into the slot, the wall wobbles. Oh, also in "Believers" when the good Dr. Franklin and his assistant are in the hallway deciding to operate on the boy, there's a snapping sound that reminds me of a stagehand or set guy snapping his/her fingers for the time it took the parents to walk off. And then there's the female crewman entering the Men's Room in "Signs and Portents".

Every show has minor glitches and goofs that repeated viewings you start to notice. They don't take away from the enjoyment of the series, but add to it especially when you include them in a drinking game whilst watching B5.

[The Puzzled Pak'Ma'Ra]

... I'm new here, so I feel I should beg your forgiveness for being so bold as to start my own thread right out of the gates.... but...

... Babylon 5 has some very cheap, wobbly, spray-painted styrafoam type sets.

... It's one of my "things" (wouldn't call it a hobby, really) to spot movie mistakes (airplanes flying over 5th Century Britain, etc...) and I can't help but take notice of similar "mistakes" in B5 - be it sets, or actual mistakes.

... Two quick examples - In Season 1 - "The Survivors", Grabaldi is going fist to cuffs with a bomb-planting Alien-hating security guy, on a catwalk in the Cobra bays. Two or three times they run into the railing - looks like steel... but bends and wobbles like cardboard!
... and my favorite - The bulkheads (walls) you see in so many rooms of B5 (as they recycle the same set for various settings) - Sinclair's office, the cafeteria, the League of Non-Alligned Worlds council chambers... I am convinced those "metal" supports in the holes that line the upper wall are two by fours, painted blue on the ends. If you look real close, you can see... maybe... the grain of the wood....

... Anyway, it's just fun looking for that kind of stuff, and I wondered if anybody else caught any good ones.

.... What's great about B5 is, cheap sets and all, the CGI ushered in a whole new era, and, the story is so incredible that it just doesn't matter.