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Pixel_Donkey
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I thought I would share with you guys the problem I have. I have 4 more episodes to watch (don't spoil them! lol) and then no more B5 :(
This is the first time i've actually seen them all and remember I remember watching years ago and watching the shadow war but thats it. What will I do with my self after... I have the Rangers series to watch and film... but then what :( its been so great!
What did you do when you were in my shoes? Please help a fellow fan!
This is the first time i've actually seen them all and remember I remember watching years ago and watching the shadow war but thats it. What will I do with my self after... I have the Rangers series to watch and film... but then what :( its been so great!
What did you do when you were in my shoes? Please help a fellow fan!
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I am about to watch "The Fall of Centauri Prime" so that actually leaves 4 episodes after this one.
Where in the series do the films fit in?
Is this the right order of the films:
The Gathering
In the Beginning
Thirdspace
The River of Souls
A Call to Arms
Legend of the Ranges
[i]In the Beginning[/i] is set during the Earth-Minbari War, ten to twelve years before "Midnight," with a framing sequence taking place twenty years after "Midnight," concurrently with the Centauri Prime portions of "War Without End." A lot of people say you should watch this after Season 4, but I say it goes at the very beginning. It's more likely to get a new view to stick with the show through the slower parts of Season 1 than the episodes actually produced at that time, anyway.
[i]Thirdspace[/i] is set in the first half of season 4, just before the episode "Atonement" (some people will tell you it's actually set between the first two scenes of "Atonement," because the first scene has Zack Allen getting fitted for his new uniform, which he wears in [i]Thirdspace.[/i] However, it all works out fine if you assume he's merely getting the uniform altered in "Atonement" and had already had it for a few days/weeks. Remember, Zack Allen's clothes never fit right, so this isn't much of a reach).
[i]The River of Souls[/i] takes place about a year after the last regular episode, "Objects at Rest."
[i]A Call to Arms[/i] takes place five years after the 2262 portions of "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars," four years after "Objects at Rest," on the anniversary of the founding of the Interstellar Alliance.
Crusade takes place either immediately after [i]A Call to Arms[/i] or a few months after, depending on which episode order you prefer (I tend to stick with the JMS order and ignore the TNT pilot, "Warzone")
[i]Legend of the Rangers[/i] takes place about three years after "Objects at Rest," a couple years before [i]A Call to Arms.[/i]
By the way, the first three of the last four episodes ("The Wheel of Fire," "Objects in Motion" and "Objects at Rest") all dovetail neatly into each other. Depending on how you like to watch shows, you may want to set aside a few hours and watch them back to back as if they were a three-hour finale movie, and then have "Sleeping in Light" as an epilogue, or you can stagger them and make the experience last as long as possible. Additionally, you may want to save "Sleeping in Light" to be the very last Babylon 5 you watch (after all the movies and Crusade) for various chronological, plot-related, and emotional reasons. There's nothing lost by watching it right after "Objects at Rest," though.
Also, if you plan to read Peter David's "Centauri Prime" trilogy (which I really recommend, though you may have to scour the used bookstores nowadays), you'll want to bear in mind that some months pass between "The Fall of Centuari Prime" and "The Wheel of Fire." It'll probably make the first books events seem a little less cramped if you walk into the episodes with this knowledge.
As suggested I might keep the last one to the very last as its all the people getting together, so the brief says.
I wish I had of watched the films in the correct place but at least I can let my dad known when to what which film and when :)
I don't read books however I may find the Centauri Prime books I see Amazon.co.uk sell at least one. I am fascinated by the Centauri I think their race is the best of all the races in the series :)
--RC
I was actually quite impressed how everything slots together so perfect, however I thought Sheridan had never met Franklin and G'Kar before he was stationed on B5?
I wonder if im just sad or something, but all day i've been feeling sad because Im on the last show in the 5th series, and i only have a few more things to watch... its nearly at the grief stage.
JC
[B]Ha thats so true, narns do look alike, but its quite strange how they all met, then worked on the same station, its a small universe.. or its just a tv show. [/B][/QUOTE]
Well, it helps when you consider that they were all picked for both jobs for the same reasons. Sheridan because of his accomplishment during the war, Franklin because of his experience with aliens, and G'kar because of his experience as a diplomat.
I just finished watching the whole series, all the movies and now I have crusader to watch.
Ledgend of the Rangers is weird because the ship which is 20 years old has technology in it which even B5 doesn't use, the holoprojection stuff.
[quote]Legend of the Rangers is weird because the ship which is 20 years old has technology in it which even B5 doesn't use, the holoprojection stuff.[/quote]
While LOTR does have a number things done [i]stupidily[/i], the ship's tech is not so out of sorts. The Minbari had had holographic tech for many, many years (see In the Begining...)
Jake
I am going to watch Crusader now.
As for the method of shooting... it was supposed to be taking advantage of the Ranger's training in physical fights or something. It still looks stupid though. It was a bad idea no matter which way you look at it.
[B]That will always happen as they make shows after the originals but its meant to be from before that time.. [/B][/QUOTE]
The ship is a scout ship / infiltration vessel that was used during the Earth-Minbari War. During that time, holographic technology was allready in use on the Sharlin Cruisers, and there was never any reason to believe it wasn't a tech that had been in use for some time.
Always remember: The minbari are about 1000 years or more older than the humans.
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Pixel_Donkey [/i]
they have to make it as interesting as other shows on at that time... but come on the woman that is shooting does it in such a weird way :)
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A TV Pilot is there to try and see how certain ideas work. Those that work are kept, those that don't, are thrown out and never mentioned again ;)
(just look at (the original version of) The Gathering. There are tons of stuff that has been redesigned or thrown out. The light thingy in the negotiation-room, the communicators..)