Things that make you think of B5 unexpectedly

[Looney]

One of these days I might get her to watch the whole thing. She's seen at least one episode. I forget why we watched it.

Do you think she will like it? I think, and hope, a friend I a plan to watch it with soon will like it. I think that is important. There are certain people I know who would just never get into it and even if they did they probably wouldn't like it because it doesn't fit their tastes. I think it is important to gauge whether or not you think there is a chance a viewer will like Babylon 5 before trying to get them enveloped in it.

[B5-Stefan]

Technomage

Cover Headline of the new "THE RED BULLETIN" (German issue, May 2017) translated:

"Sleepless in Cologne.
One long night with Technomage Alex.do"

Now that's amazing.

Greets
B5-Stefan

[Looney]

Cover Headline of the new "THE RED BULLETIN" (German issue, May 2017) translated:

"Sleepless in Cologne.
One long night with Technomage Alex.do"

Now that's amazing.

Greets
B5-Stefan

And to quote myself...

See things like that are making me start to wonder just how much of our society is being influenced by Babylon 5 fans.

I think the evidence is starting to mount.

[B5-Stefan]

See things like that are making me start to wonder just how much of our society is being influenced by Babylon 5 fans.

And to quote myself...
I think the evidence is starting to mount.

Yeah!
You're right.
And what will be happen next: visit of a Soulhunter?

B5-Stefan

[Looney]

And what will be happen next: visit of a Soulhunter?

B5-Stefan

And what magazine will have that headline? LOL

So guess what makes me think of Babylon 5 now? Every time I look at my tablet or phone because they have the Go90 app. I can watch it anywhere I want!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Shan'waia]

Do you think she will like it? I think, and hope, a friend I a plan to watch it with soon will like it. I think that is important. There are certain people I know who would just never get into it and even if they did they probably wouldn't like it because it doesn't fit their tastes. I think it is important to gauge whether or not you think there is a chance a viewer will like Babylon 5 before trying to get them enveloped in it.

I think she'd like it. Now, she has different levels of obsession with shows--like right now "The Blacklist" is all but a second religion to her, lol, and I don't think she'll like it THAT much. But she keeps/kept up with several other shows like "Arrow" and "Person of Interest" and she LOVES them, even if she doesn't live and breathe them. I think B5 would fall into that level.

What she loves most of all is good character development, especially redemption arcs. So, B5 would be up her alley for that if nothing else.

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Something did make me think of Babylon 5 today. Someone was talking about the finite vs the infinite and it was all I could do not to go, "There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This...is wrong tool." For one I doubted they'd get the reference and two, I wasn't actually IN the conversation. lol

I got mocked for my echolalia of endless film and tv quotes enough as a child to have SOME restraint now.

[Looney]

But she keeps/kept up with several other shows like "Arrow"

Is she aware of the Babylon 5 references with Arrow?

"There is infinite time. You are finite. Zathras is finite. This...is wrong tool."

HAHAHA! Thanks for that.

[Jan]

For lack of anyplace better to put this...

I'm going to this tomorrow:

https://orlandophil.org/events/the-final-frontier-matinee/

I've been to a Star Wars orchestral presentation and enjoyed it a lot so I'm expecting to enjoy this, too. But anybody wanna bet that there *won't* be any Christopher Franke music in the 'and more'! part of the program?

PROGRAM:
JOHN WILLIAMS -- Adventures on Earth: E.T.
JOHN WILLIAMS -- Superman March
JOHN WILLIAMS -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
BERNARD HERMANN -- The Day the Earth Stood Still
JOHN WILLIAMS -- Duel of the Fates
RICHARD STRAUSS -- 2001: A Space Odyssey
and more!

I'll let you know if there is, for sure!

[Looney]

Oh wow that looks like great fun. And yeah I highly doubt you'll be getting any Franke there.

[Shan'waia]

Is she aware of the Babylon 5 references with Arrow?

Unless they explicitly mention B5 then no, since she's not seen the latter. I've never watched it so I'm not sure what references there may be.

[Jan]

Oh wow that looks like great fun. And yeah I highly doubt you'll be getting any Franke there.

It was a lot of fun. I was almost disappointed because in the first part, Jonathan Frakes came out and told a couple of sort of lame stories about his audition and first convention. Hardly what I'd've graced with the title of Narrator (though the Conductor did a wonderful job).

Then in the last part Frakes came back on and gave Klaatu's speech from 'The Day The Earth Stood Still':

Klaatu: I am leaving soon, and you will forgive me if I speak bluntly. The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly. Your ancestors knew this when they made laws to govern themselves and hired policemen to enforce them. We, of the other planets, have long accepted this principle. We have an organization for the mutual protection of all planets and for the complete elimination of aggression.

The test of any such higher authority is, of course, the police force that supports it. For our policemen, we created a race of robots. Their function is to patrol the planets in spaceships like this one and preserve the peace. In matters of aggression, we have given them absolute power over us. This power cannot be revoked. At the first sign of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor. The penalty for provoking their action is too terrible to risk. The result is, we live in peace, without arms or armies, secure in the knowledge that we are free from aggression and war. Free to pursue more... profitable enterprises. Now, we do not pretend to have achieved perfection, but we do have a system, and it works.

I came here to give you these facts. It is no concern of ours how you run your own planet, but if you threaten to extend your violence, this Earth of yours will be reduced to a burned-out cinder. Your choice is simple: join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.

As for B5 - hearing the great pieces the orchestra did play just made me with I could have heard B5 that way, too.

Someday...

[Looney]

I've never watched it so I'm not sure what references there may be.

I had to stop watching Arrow after the fourth season because I couldn't stand it. I was only watching it because my friends were watching it. They had no problem with me giving up on it. I guess the series has made a couple of Babylon 5 references this season and I believe Jan pointed out a Twitter post where a writer said that the previous episode was inspired by the Babylon 5 episode Intersections in Real Time 4.18.

It was a lot of fun. I was almost disappointed because in the first part, Jonathan Frakes came out and told a couple of sort of lame stories about his audition and first convention. Hardly what I'd've graced with the title of Narrator (though the Conductor did a wonderful job).

Then in the last part Frakes came back on and gave Klaatu's speech from 'The Day The Earth Stood Still':



As for B5 - hearing the great pieces the orchestra did play just made me with I could have heard B5 that way, too.

Someday...

Well I would have loved to go. Was it odd or creepy hearing Frakes give that speech? I would have loved to hear it. I wonder if any major symphony has ever had a Babylon 5 concert. Highly doubtful, but you never know.

[Jan]

Was it odd or creepy hearing Frakes give that speech?

Disconcerting. Jarring. Don't get me wrong, Frakes did it very well. But it focused my attention on what had also happened since I'd arrived at the theater.

- An area in front of the theater where one used to be able to pull up for valet parking has been closed off. There are now 'decorative' obstacles so that it wouldn't be possible for a truck to barrel into a crowd.
- My purse was searched. Not 'let me peek in and make sure there's no lit dynamite', it was 'please open all the pockets and I'll used this stick to move things around to look at everything in there'.
- the next stop was being well and thoroughly wanded to make sure there weren't any weapons on my person. After all that, I was asked for my ticket.
- Before the show, the man next to me had a text from a relative telling him to avoid a certain tourist area because a special terrorist response group had been summoned there. If there actually was something, In never found out what it was.
- and then that speech by Kaatu from 19-freaking-51.

What have we become....?

[B5-Stefan]

I would have loved to hear it. I wonder if any major symphony has ever had a Babylon 5 concert. Highly doubtful, but you never know.

Why don't ask Chris Franke. He should know.

B5-Stefan

[alpha128]

I wonder if any major symphony has ever had a Babylon 5 concert. Highly doubtful, but you never know.

I don't know about major symphony concerts, but Babylon 5 music has been heard in other places. For example, Iron Savior's "Condition Red" album (2004): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nts-ijDNNaQ