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Facts you've learned from watching Babylon 5
Facts you've learned from watching Babylon 5, enjoy and add your own below:
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1. Think twice when a well-groomed stranger asks you what you really want.
2. Don't be self-important when Jack the Ripper asks you who you are.
3. Green and purple are colors Drazi will kill each other over.
4. Narns are very good at holding a grudge.
5. Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations.
6. Poker rule: one PPG beats four aces. (I made that one up.)
7. The Hokey Pokey song drives Centauri nuts trying to figure out its meaning.
8. There is no such thing as free spoo.
9. Minbari will lie to save one of their kind.
10. Susan Ivanova is God and you don't mess with God.
11. Security chief Michael Garibaldi has no sense of humor.
12. PsiCop Al Bester has a dark sense of humor and a talent for making new enemies.
13. Don't ask a telepath what's on his or her mind.
14. Mary had a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow....
17. Grey 17 is missing.
18. Faith manages.
19. Naked Vorlons look differently depending on who looks at them.
20. Don't go to Z'ha'Dum or you will die.
21. Technomages have a sense of humor.
22. Centauri know how to apologize.
23. Centauri are always on duty.
24. The Great Machine makes good ice cones.
25. There is always one more annoyance.
26. In the end it's the thought that counts.
27. The postal service can still be aggravating in the future.
28. Memo: Don't shoot first and ask questions later when encountering a Minbari Warcruiser with its gun ports open.
29. Minbari do have a sense of humor, even if it's sometimes painful to figure out.
30. "Zog!" means "No!"
31. When the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
32. There are still no flying cars in 2256, when Babylon 5 comes online.
33. Don't talk about work at Earheart's Club&Bar or you'll have to pay the next round.
34. Minbari never tell you the whole truth.
35. You do not thump the Book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful.
36. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
37. While all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.
38. Fasten, then zip.
39. Cannot say. Saying, I would know. Do not know, so cannot say.
40. There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made.
41. You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word.
42. Centauri ambassadors are stunning in purple.
43. The universe is driven by the complex interactions between three ingredients: matter, energy and enlightened self-interest.
44. No-one ever listens to Zathras.
45. Words have meaning and names have power.
46. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never mean what you say.
47. Don't ask a Pak'ma'ra to pull your finger, ever.
48. Once there were 10 Zathras.
49. The truth is a three-edged sword, your side, their side and the truth.
50. It's bad luck to die on an empty stomach.
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1. Think twice when a well-groomed stranger asks you what you really want.
2. Don't be self-important when Jack the Ripper asks you who you are.
3. Green and purple are colors Drazi will kill each other over.
4. Narns are very good at holding a grudge.
5. Babylon 5 is the last of the Babylon stations.
6. Poker rule: one PPG beats four aces. (I made that one up.)
7. The Hokey Pokey song drives Centauri nuts trying to figure out its meaning.
8. There is no such thing as free spoo.
9. Minbari will lie to save one of their kind.
10. Susan Ivanova is God and you don't mess with God.
11. Security chief Michael Garibaldi has no sense of humor.
12. PsiCop Al Bester has a dark sense of humor and a talent for making new enemies.
13. Don't ask a telepath what's on his or her mind.
14. Mary had a little lamb, her fleece was white as snow....
17. Grey 17 is missing.
18. Faith manages.
19. Naked Vorlons look differently depending on who looks at them.
20. Don't go to Z'ha'Dum or you will die.
21. Technomages have a sense of humor.
22. Centauri know how to apologize.
23. Centauri are always on duty.
24. The Great Machine makes good ice cones.
25. There is always one more annoyance.
26. In the end it's the thought that counts.
27. The postal service can still be aggravating in the future.
28. Memo: Don't shoot first and ask questions later when encountering a Minbari Warcruiser with its gun ports open.
29. Minbari do have a sense of humor, even if it's sometimes painful to figure out.
30. "Zog!" means "No!"
31. When the avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.
32. There are still no flying cars in 2256, when Babylon 5 comes online.
33. Don't talk about work at Earheart's Club&Bar or you'll have to pay the next round.
34. Minbari never tell you the whole truth.
35. You do not thump the Book of G'Quan. It is disrespectful.
36. You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras.
37. While all answers are replies, not all replies are answers.
38. Fasten, then zip.
39. Cannot say. Saying, I would know. Do not know, so cannot say.
40. There is always choice. We say there is no choice only to comfort ourselves with the decision we have already made.
41. You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word.
42. Centauri ambassadors are stunning in purple.
43. The universe is driven by the complex interactions between three ingredients: matter, energy and enlightened self-interest.
44. No-one ever listens to Zathras.
45. Words have meaning and names have power.
46. If you cannot say what you mean, you can never mean what you say.
47. Don't ask a Pak'ma'ra to pull your finger, ever.
48. Once there were 10 Zathras.
49. The truth is a three-edged sword, your side, their side and the truth.
50. It's bad luck to die on an empty stomach.
Comments
TLT showed us that perhaps there [B]were[/B] actually flying cars in the B5 universe, perhaps extending as far back as then? (We may never know...)
And while there is no such thing as free spoo, there is certainly free range spoo. Delicious!
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32. There are still no flying cars in 2256, when Babylon 5 comes online.
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TLT showed us that perhaps there [B]were[/B] actually flying cars in the B5 universe, perhaps extending as far back as then? (We may never know...)
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Since TLT takes place about 10 years later than 2256 and we don't see any flying cars in the series, the statement stands as it is, until of course, JMS somehow fixes this. :D
If we are lucky we might get orbital hotels by 2012.
So does spoo taste like chicken or not?
B5 is filled with food for thought, that's why I and I guess most of us here like it, and it doesn't take itself too seriously. :csmile:
Also, Al Bester has a fine sense of humor. He's always cracking philosophical jokes. "I'm Napoleon." "And how do you know you're Napoleon?" "God told me." "I DID NOT."
Looks like another B5 marathon is required to refresh my memory.
Looks like we won't even get those. Man, the future isn't what it used to be.
I'm watching B5 again. :) Just got through season 1 last week and just finished episode 5 from season 2, The Long Dark. Some claim that TKO (s1e14) is the worst episode of the show, I am not so sure. TLD is certainly a runner-up. :D
Either way it's good to be back on B5, seeing the Drazi again was a true pleasure. ;) Great acting!!
I'm sure that all these episodes add to the overall picture but I wouldn't miss the details one bit if they were to suddenly disappear. ;) Dwight Schultz might have mistaken the episode for an A-Team reunion. :D
At least GROPOS has the scenes with Franklin and his father, which are OK.