Babylon 5

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ShakyJake

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Oh, and some of the TV-movies were great too.Babylon 5: In the Beginningis a must watch. But only after you've seen the, what? first 3 seasons.
 
ShakyJake

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khorum_sl said:
4... well like midway through 4.
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Really? I'm thinking it's best viewed no earlier than "War Without End" -- which is the latter part of season 3.

God, all this talk makes me want to go back and re-watch the series. Unfortunately all the rips are ass quality. I know, I should just buy the DVDs...
 
Aaron

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Hoss_sl said:
Been a long time since I saw it, but I think my favorite scene of the series was ivonava having sex with that ambassador.

Ivonava basically got all the best lines while she was on the show.
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I don't remember that. What ambassador was it?
 
khorum

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I'm actually kinda surprised there hasn't been a fan remaster of the show that modernizes its cgi. A couple students with blender could do an episode for their finals and prolly improve on the original shit. There's like whole seasons of fan-sourced trek stuff out there.
 
pysek

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It seems to me the cost of CGI/remastering for Blue (I refuse to call it fucking Blu) Ray would easily be borne by the Scrooge McDuck piles of money they'd rake in. I'd gladly pay $40 or $50 bucks a season for this.
 
Chanur

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If it really costs 900k an episode as was rumored there is no way this show would sell enough to make money.
 
khorum

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That's why I was thinking some kind of fan sourced thing that just redid the cgi like those star trek fan things. Hell at this point u can just boot up an X:3 babylon5 mod, fraps the key cgi scenes and that would prolly be better than the cgi in the first three seasons.
 
Siliconemelons

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How much did those 3-in-1 episodes cost? And who did the CGI? It looked great to me, and the station and many other resources where already made for that- use the same CGI company and just reuse or update the stuff they already made. I never "got" that they stood in starfurys until I watched the Sheridan episode of that- was well done imo.

Okay, the lost tales where not released on blu-ray from what I found- but where in 720p via Netflix for awhile (maybe still there?) and it looked great- I knew I watched it in HD somewhere.
 
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grumblethorn_sl said:
according to JMS the show made something like 500-600 million in dvd sales.
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Thats pretty impressive. It would cost something like 100 million to redo since all the CGI would have to be done from scratch according to what I read. That is if they are able to find all stock in tact which is a serious question. Those sales figures give me hope though.
 
Malakriss

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B5 still isn't Star Trek, no way they pull those numbers on a rerelease to video.
 
TomServo

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probably not, the show has been off the air now for 15 years, almost an entire generation. But who knows neckbeards unite!
 
khorum

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Yeah that's kinda the problem... it's gonna be the 20th anniversary this october and the franchise just doesn't have the fandom that got Trek through a whole generation in the wilderness. By its 20th anniversary Trek had 3 wide-release full feature films, a new series in the works and a fucking space shuttle named after it.
 
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