R.I.P. Andreas Katsulas, Michael O'Hare, Jerry Doyle, Stephen Furst, and Richard Biggs. You will be missed.

@mgtowdarrelldundee8643

5 жыл бұрын

And zathras too

@mgtowdarrelldundee8643

5 жыл бұрын

And Zack Allen assistant to chief garabaldi

@dhvienna

5 жыл бұрын

@@mgtowdarrelldundee8643 Jeff Conaway and Tim Choate, such loss tied to one show.

@Chase0420

5 жыл бұрын

We'll see them again. Beyond the rim

@paulpisano8538

5 жыл бұрын

it is depressing and makes it hard to watch the show. JMS is tops in my book for what he did for o'hare. saddest loss imho. the last straw that broke my back was the loss of jerry doyle. i liked garibaldi.

G'Kar becomes so noble (and yet very funny) brings me to tears thinking about Andreas Katsulas' performance. RIP.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

We are a dying race, so are the Centuari. Until all of creation falls down around us? Some must be sacrificed if all are to be saved.

@dropdead234

5 жыл бұрын

G'kar and Lando in the elevator....If you can't laugh at that, check your pulse.

@williamjablonsky5128

5 жыл бұрын

He WAS the show for me.

@nickd5158

5 жыл бұрын

The expected bad guy from season one becomes the best good guy ever. Amazing writing.

@modisp

5 жыл бұрын

"Put hand on the book. You want to be a president?" "Yes" "OK, lets go eat"

"Well, where was I? Yes. The War. The Humans, I think, knew that they were doomed. But, where another race would surrender to despair, the humans fought back with even greater strength. They made the Minbari fight for every inch of space. In my life I have never seen anything like it. They would weep, they would pray, they would say goodbye to their loved ones and then throw themselves without fear or hesitation into the very face of Death, itself. Never Surrendering. No-one who saw them fighting against the inevitable, could help but be moved to tears by their courage, their stubborn nobility. When they ran out of ships, they used guns. When they ran out of guns, they used knives, and sticks, and bare hands. They were, magnificent. I only hope that when it is my time, I may die with half as much dignity as I saw in their eyes at the end. They did this for two years. They never ran out of courage. But, in the end, they ran out of time." Molari comments on the Earth Minbari War.

@Chase0420

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite line from the whole series

@donaldgrant9067

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I remembered that and could remember how it went..

@Keihryon

5 жыл бұрын

@@donaldgrant9067 do a youtube search on the last line in my comment, the full clip uses that as the title.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

"They lack conformity" "They are ruled by passions" "And that is what makes them so great. Their lack of conformity. The ability to fight against impossible odds. Those passions that we deplore have driven them to their place in the stars. If they have any failing, it is that they do not know how great they are."

@catjudo1

5 жыл бұрын

"Never give up, never surrender!" - Captain Jason Nesmith

“I love this show”, then mispronounces the lead female character’s name

@justmythought7658

4 жыл бұрын

LOL I guess, she is to young to have seen the show. But strange, that no one corrected her. Could it be, that no one on set really saw the show?

@mattman4673

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah they lost a little credibility...

@geobrower3069

3 жыл бұрын

Her way of presenting this show and it's history is almost making her presentation a comedy show.

@andreclement6861

2 жыл бұрын

She keeps mispronouncing Paramount too. "Paramont"

@jasonatkins6111

2 жыл бұрын

I dont think its her fault. English is not her first language. Ebonics and SciFi dont really mix well. I thought it was strange back person doing a scifi show recap. This is cultural appropriation. Reported and flagged for possible violation of KZread policies.

I hate it when they have someone who didn't watch a show talk about it. They get details wrong. They act like they care, but they clearly don't, which make it all the worse. It couldn't possibly be difficult to find a fan of B5 at a sci-fi media outlet. That means SYFY WIRE didn't care to look. If you don't care about sci-fi, what do you care about?

@electric-man5113

4 жыл бұрын

Changing their name told the world what they care about. Marketing, ad revenues, sprinkle in some left wing BS and we got what we got....

@medinnus

4 жыл бұрын

Clearly she never watched the show, especially when she mispronounces the character name of one of the most important roles.

@Theggman83

4 жыл бұрын

Money.

This video should be renamed "Everything you didn't know about Babylon 5 if you've never watched an episode" and as others have pointed out the hostess of this episode obviously never watched the show. And given her other pronunciation issues, probably didn't watch Star Trek either. Props to go to the editing staff for letting that stuff get out onto the finished product. Great subject matter, and I was looking forward to this video. Unfortunately in my opinion the video was lackluster at best.

@RecklessFables

5 жыл бұрын

I think the script and editing were great and the actress did a great job considering she was, at most, in diapers when the original show came out. It would have been nice if someone checked the pronunciations.

@francisdhomer5910

5 жыл бұрын

I felt the same way. As she kept going I kept saying, "I knew that" then "I knew that" Then I thought, "I must be areall Bab 5 geek.... Alright neat!" YEah nothing in this was new to me, but still a great watch as a recap. Of course I'm still trying to figure out when Sheridan was a Commander. Did he magically transform into a Captain as he stepped on the station? Did they strip him of his rank when he left his ship then gave it back to him when he approached Bab 5? Did the great machine change the timeline? Poor Zathras, no one listens to Zathras, Zathras says he captain they say Zather wrong. Zather has access to great marchin and fix.

@Phatman2167

5 жыл бұрын

More like "Everything we can say over and over again and not actually talk about what the show really was about and how to get all the names, plotlines, and details wrong."

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

@@francisdhomer5910 Maybe she was referring to Lieutenant Commander Sheridan while he was the acting skipper of the E.A.S. Lexington in its crippled state taking that desperate gambit against the flagship of a technologically superior alien culture.

@gaddob3363

4 жыл бұрын

Whoever researched B5 for this video had never actually seen it either; when the characters of Londo and G'Kar are introduced we're told that the are antagonists because their races are at war, when in reality they were antagonistic for historical reasons from the onset of the series. Any who had watched two or three episodes would have known that. It's a clickbait video, they probably have a very tight budget for each one they produce, so quality is going to suffer. Still, you'd think they'd have at least one knowledgeable person on their staff.

The worst part about Babylon 5, is that it never spawned continuing franchises like Star Trek. It deserves more story.

@coriolass

5 жыл бұрын

There was briefly a spinoff, I believe it was called Excalibur, following the crew of an EA vessel trying to track down a cure for the plague released on Earth by the Shadows allies. It didn't last long, not even sure it made it a full season. In an odd coincidence (?) the actor who played the captain on Excalibur and Bruce Boxlietner both appeared on the series Chuck as fathers of the lead characters, as well as (if memory serves) the actor who played the captain of the Enterprise from ST-E.

@vicsrealms

5 жыл бұрын

@@coriolass It was called Crusade, Excalibur was the ship.

@coriolass

5 жыл бұрын

@@vicsrealms Yeah it's been a while, and it honestly wasn't so memorable for me. Thanks for the correction, I may look it up and give it another try.

@dmdoug66

5 жыл бұрын

@@coriolass the captain of the Excalibur was Lumbergh from Office Space.

@coriolass

5 жыл бұрын

@@dmdoug66 Yup, that's the guy

"Everything you already know about Babylon 5"

@KitShannon

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this video is clickbait. There wasn't one fact that anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the show didn't know. Add to that the fact, that the presenter clearly never watched the show, badly mispronouncing some major names.

@Sardious

5 жыл бұрын

@@KitShannon yeah regular syfy crap. I got clickbaited and it ended up as expected

@SeaJay_Oceans

4 жыл бұрын

The STAR STUFF quote is from Carl Sagan kzread.info/dash/bejne/poCEzdJ7fpnIdaw.html

@mlowry

4 жыл бұрын

The script of this clickbait video was evidently written by a committee, and the presenter had clearly never seen the show. Just awful.

@Tedinator01

4 жыл бұрын

Michael A. Lowry When she mispronounced Delenn, I wrote her off as someone who never saw the show.

Some of the monologues of G'Kar and Londo are words for the ages. So well written and then brought to life by the actors.

@macswanton9622

4 жыл бұрын

They handled excellent script writing with Shakespearean skill. Always brings me back again

It's been 25 years? Really? Someone get me my cane....

@voltairedecent255

5 жыл бұрын

You get it. My oxygen mask and tank won't reach that far...

@etheralwizard

3 жыл бұрын

Some days I thought that I might need a cane but I have been getting outside more this year! After seeing so many episodes out of order, I got sequential, watched "The Gathering", "In The Beginning" and am on Season 1 working my way through Season 5 in sequential order! Now it is clicking much better!

Para"mont"? Daylen? Star Track? Munbari? Seriously, nobody does any research these days. This is like Kennedy back in the day having no idea why Martin Landau was at the Mission: Impossible movie premiere.

@francisdhomer5910

5 жыл бұрын

Para'mont? Don't they eat rotting flesh and smell? Or do they kill it first then wait for it to rot then blame the family for it's bad taste. Or am I thinking of the Da'izzys?

@saiyansomething73

5 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, I think Mr. Landeau was about 5 seconds from slapping Kennedy's nerdy glasses off her face. Classic generational ignorance.

Dalen?.... nope. Chick's never watched it.

@erikrupp692

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I caught that, too. Talking head. Video host reading someone else's words. That's fine. Someone's got to do it.

@eandersson

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah she kinda lost all credibility on that one.

@MrTiliceahorea

4 жыл бұрын

That and much more! Lauren, for example! 13:15 Realy? Even Minbari was mangled a couple of times! She is excellent at giving the impression that she watched/liked the show, but these small slips, where she reads names in English show that nobody instructed her on how they are spoken in that universe!

@testicularoxide5055

4 жыл бұрын

Ugh, fake ass talking heads... Noticed that n said very same! 🙄

@augurseer

4 жыл бұрын

Be thankful that anyone is remembering our show. Let's not cut this nice lady down.

Please watch a show before you review it. Basic pronunciation would've been appreciated.

As a fan of Babylon 5 when I was in my early-mid 20s, I was mildly interested in this video. After a couple minutes, it wasn't really impressing me that much. Ya totally lost me and I shut it off at 3:27, when it became painfully and embarrassingly evident that the presenter had no functioning knowledge of the series, just a script. "Who can forget Daylen?" The better question is, How do you ask that question when you can't say the name of one of the most important characters of the series? The Sci Fi channel was so good, before it had a stroke and became syfy then had another stroke and tried to become "trendy and viral".

@curtismathews1582

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I made comment on character name pronunciation in my comment. Yes, Sci Fi lost its ever loving mind when it became SyFy and forgot what Science Fiction was all about!

@JerseyDevilBM

4 жыл бұрын

@@curtismathews1582 Oh, you mean spy movies and Fast and Furious CSI shows and all sorts of movies that have no relationship to sci-fi at all (well, the stunts in F&F may qualify as SF since they are about as removed from reality as a Vorlon is)? I remember when Sci-Fi (LOATHE the current spelling!) used to dig up long-cancelled SF TV shows, introducing a lot of people to series they might never have heard of before. Now I hardly ever watch it, usually just glancing at the titles it's showing as I look for more appetizing entertainment...

Ummmm, "Things SYFY WIRE left out!" ...Well, one important one at least. Michael Ohare, who played JEffrey Sinclair wasn't a trap door for JMS. Michael suffered from mental health issues that he admitted couldn't let him get past another season of filming everyday and the energy it took to doing it. Yes, he came back for certain story arcs, but not ones that had protracted filming requirements.

@fwootamala

5 жыл бұрын

O'hare wasn't a trap door, O'hare's real life issues required JMS to trigger the character's pre-planned trap door.

@lyncat

3 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Hernandez His 3rd season finale was a great performance, maybe the best I had seen of him.

Ok, the actress reading this script has clearly never seen Babylon 5. Sorry, but you don't mispronounce Delenn if you've heard it. I was gonna give a pass for her saying "Star Track", as it could have been just my hearing. Also, Babylon 5 is probably better than Star Trek now that we have turds like Discovery in the franchise.

@stevenp3176

5 жыл бұрын

MechaRandom42 I would love a Babylon 5 reboot if they wouldn’t screw it up.

@onyx081

5 жыл бұрын

Take a Valium and relax, it's not that serious

@RedCatHabitat

5 жыл бұрын

and 'Paramont' instead of Paramount. To be fair somebody should have helped the talent with the terminology. I think as a presenter goes she did good , but -yea somebody should have caught those lol

@MechaRandom42

5 жыл бұрын

@@onyx081 oh you'd hate my channel if you think I'm upset here, you'll hate my rants about Star Trek Discovery

@rcaminos

5 жыл бұрын

And mispronouncing Lorian. No way she's seen the show. Not a big deal though as it's still a great summation of B5

Babylon is not the best Scifi Tv-Series... It is the best Sci-fi AND the best Tv-Series.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

Even though Star Trek: TNG had a greater cultural impact, I truly believe that the stories of Babylon 5 are superior to those of TNG. The great sci-fi epics are: -classic Star Trek -classic Star Wars Trilogy -Star Trek: TNG -Babylon 5

@testicularoxide5055

5 жыл бұрын

Amen!!!!!!

@kreaturekie6753

5 жыл бұрын

Except for the cast and racial diversity the original Star Trek really didn't do anything for me as a best TV scifi of all time When I look back at the things that Captain Kirk did he wasn't even following the prime directive is laid out in the Next Generation Don't get me wrong I love Star Trek for every bit of it every bit But to me the Next Generation set a tone for what I would hope Humanity could actually achieve

Vorlons are not angels. Angels are Vorlons. It's not precisely t same thing.

@rayniblick5099

5 жыл бұрын

In the series and that episode each race saw the exposed Kosh as their interpretation of angels.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

You know what is at stake. Valeri! G'Lan. Droschalla. And what did you see, Ambassador Mollari? I saw nothing.

@dongilleo9743

5 жыл бұрын

@@perfectsplit5515 That was an amazing moment in the show. I have wondered if he really didn't see anything, emphasizing that he alone of all the others had no "spiritual" core, that his people truly were lost; or if he did see something, and it gave him a terrible awaking that, between the Vorlons and the Shadows, he had aligned himself with and made a deal with the devil.

@kreaturekie6753

5 жыл бұрын

Actually vorlons are neither there what they want you to see

@bbbabrock

5 жыл бұрын

@@dongilleo9743 I'm pretty sure he saw nothing. As I recall there was a series of point of view shots that showed what each race saw and when we saw what Londo saw, nothing was there, where t others saw an angelic being of their own race.

It's such a shame that so many B5 actors have died way before their times

"Everything You Didn't Know" if you never saw the show.

@ZlothZloth

5 жыл бұрын

And spoilers to go with them.

B5 was one of the best written and all encompassing TV shows of its and the decade after. It was just realistic enough, just dark enough, just political enough, just religious enough, and just long enough to be believable. I miss that show.

Who are the moonbari? Who Daylyn? What is Star Track?

@TheRealCantaraBella

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@mjsoukup

5 жыл бұрын

This is what happens when your narrator has never seen the source material 😂

@neilkiser458

5 жыл бұрын

I almost bought it until I was told about the new character "Daylen".

@HERITAGE12

4 жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

@davidhelmer9124

4 жыл бұрын

“SYFI channel was our last, best hope for peace. It failed” This video left me very disappointed.

Gotta say that this show was one of the best of the best of the best of sci-fi shows of all time. This hostess needs to watch the show so that she can can pronounce character names (Delenn) properly. Although I am glad that this segment discussed the ideas of "trapdoors" as actor Micheal O'Hare (Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair) dealt with some very tragic mental health issues resulting in him leaving the show after season 1 and eventually being the cause of his death. JM Stracsynski handled his exit with extreme professionalism and grace and still managed to tell an AMAZING story!!!!

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

"actor Micheal O'Hare (Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair) dealt with some very tragic mental health issues" So sad that all that torture and beating from the Minbari Gray Council did that to him. :(

I love this show but this video should have been filmed with someone who knows the show or at minimum was a fan

@PracticalKnow

5 жыл бұрын

They were too busy virtue signaling to be concerned about such matters

@macswanton9622

4 жыл бұрын

Mumbari, indeed...

@meatrace

4 жыл бұрын

Or just did the 15 minutes of research it would take to pronounce words correctly.

@jefff3886

4 жыл бұрын

@@meatrace I have a pre-prepared rant for this: "It's Trek, not Track. Trek, as in journey. A voyage, to the stars. Star Trek. Clear now?"

@Joseph32547

4 жыл бұрын

3:27 day lynn?

Um...you got a lot of facts wrong. JMS did file suit against Paramount and won! Getting an undisclosed amount of money. They did use parts of the B5 Bible in ST:TNG and in the building blocks of ST:DS9. You probably should have looked that up instead of saying he never files suit...

@Smileybeeblevrox

5 жыл бұрын

Carlos Hernandez, get your facts straight. Look up on KZread Red Carpet News TV interviewing Patricia Tallman about St:DS9 copying B5. There was a lawsuit. Before there was a court date, Paramount quickly settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money without admition of guilt. JMS did file, but immediately after he did Paramount quickly settled. How do you think they got the name Dukat and Leeta on DS9 and why DS9 was on a space station and not a federation ship. Paramount stole from the B5 Bible to create cardassians/Bajorans from Centauri/Narns. Star trek continues to deny they stole anything but there was a lawsuit and JMS was paid for what Paramount did.

@Smileybeeblevrox

5 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't call it a win, odds are he got less than a million. DS9 made how many millions? Not fair compensation for these.

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

5 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Hernandez >>> Paramount settled out of court. And Paramount being the cash cow that it is - or was - they must have known they could never win.

@BreetaiZentradi

4 жыл бұрын

@@Smileybeeblevrox I am happy with it. We got TWO great shows. JMS was able to make some money on B5. Showed us all how to do a story with a 5 year arc. Television is a better place for him doing it. Paramount took the bible and told the Trek show runners they wanted a new series. Space station, gritter than Trek. It is about the Captain, 2nd in command, and Chief of Security. The Captain becomes a prophetic religious figure. There are aliens who's race has very strong religious vibe. There is a war that builds, takes place and is resolved over the arc of the show. With those details and nothing more, they built DS9. Considered by many to be the best Trek Series. The worst DS9 episodes hold up better than the "average" TOS, TNG, VOY and ENT episodes. I don't know about a pallet full of cash, but what JMS deserves more of is recognition.

Leave it to Syfy wire to make a video about a show I love painful to watch.

@snooze821

5 жыл бұрын

The syfi channel couldn't find a person that watched a scifi show to celebrate it?

@nobodyimportant2470

5 жыл бұрын

@@snooze821 I'm sure Sci-Fi channel could. SyFy on the other hand has no clue because they think only nerds watch science fiction shows.

Mispronouncing a major character's name is soooo distracting. So...3:37 is as far as I go.

@Doublebarreledsimian

5 жыл бұрын

Yup tells me the presenter never saw an episode and is just reading it off some card.

@48crewdude

5 жыл бұрын

You should hear her pronounce Minbari at 4:53.

@darrenkrivit6854

5 жыл бұрын

You lasted longer than I did😁

@MechaRandom42

5 жыл бұрын

yup

@Otokichi786

5 жыл бұрын

I put that down to Ebonics creeping in on Gozilla feet.;(

The "actress" has NEVER seen a sci-fi TV show, let alone B5. Nor does her writer. She's under the impression that the Earth "Mumbari" war was shown in sequential order.

Sinclair was a commander, Sheridan was a captain.

A "deep-dive" that is painfully shallow.. I suppose you wouldn't know these facts if you never watched the show..

@donaldpaluga

5 жыл бұрын

I think we need to tell her the Babylon 5 mantra

@nobodyimportant2470

5 жыл бұрын

So shallow that they didn't even mention the reveal of the Sinclair's future in the pilot episodes. kind of pointless with how old the show is but spoilers below When Kosh meet the assassin who was disguised as Sinclair, Kosh greeted him as Valen.

@commonsensegunlaw

5 жыл бұрын

Precisely. False advertising, more of a general overview by someon who didin't remember too much, or never got into the show, seemingly.

@usbiv223

5 жыл бұрын

That is a tremendously Russian attitude.

@TechnoMageB5

5 жыл бұрын

...like her pronunciation of Delenn.

you told me nothing i didnt know

@RecklessFables

5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, you probably watched the show when it was new and went to the original bulletin board to read the JMS speaks posts, eh? :)

@Winterydee

5 жыл бұрын

Ok, I didn't know that the flight/space suits were real, needed water cooling & cost $3,000 each. But everything else was a give me if you even casually watched the show.

@JBRocky007

5 жыл бұрын

@@Winterydee the Star Fury patch also said ugly but well hung.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

@@JBRocky007 I once read on an AOL bulletin board that NASA was considering the possibility of making real working Starfuries.

@stevemanart

5 жыл бұрын

@@RecklessFables I did. But you know how it goes on the internet.

When was Morden NOT a bad guy? Pretty obvious the speaker did NOT see the show.

@deblentz7891

4 жыл бұрын

In the novels, he was a member of the team that Anna Sheridan was on, and he was grieving the death of his wife and daughter, I believe. He wears a locket with their pictures in it during all of his scenes, and when confronted by Londo in the throne room, you see him fondling the locket after the island was blown up. He went to the Shadows because he never wanted to be alone again.

@captin3149

3 жыл бұрын

They showed a picture of him, but the comment was 'Villains' plural. SO the statement is still true. Also the Shadows had a differing philosophy. It wasn't 'evil' per se, but was definitely chaos. (Besides, her pronunciation of Delenn's name makes it obvious she never watched it)

@varsityathlete9927

3 жыл бұрын

@@deblentz7891 I've read the novel you refer to, JMS considers it semi-canon. so what about it he doesn't consider canon I don't know, its book 9 in the series. Another reference in the show, but for Bester, that is never mentioned in the show but is always visible is his fist hand. one of his hands is a fist and it never opens. Its related to his trauma over his choices as a psycop.

@itchyisvegeta

3 жыл бұрын

In the pilot.... when he wasn't Mr Morden.

@realtsavo

3 жыл бұрын

She said "Day-len". Enough said.

Still one of my all time fav shows, B5 brought a lot of great things to tv, one of the best eps was all about 2 repairman on the station during a battle and normal days. It was great, thank yo to JMS. Who I have a privilege of dealing with once on line with and was nice guy

@gups4963

5 жыл бұрын

He blocked me on twitter lol. He made a smartass comment and my response was in kind, but I guess he thought I was meaning it harshly?

@voicesoftheoutworld3617

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't that episode two or three from the finale??

Where was the part that we didn't know?

"Vhat do you vant, you moon-faced assassin of joy?" - Londo

The love story between Sheridan and Deleen was so so beautiful. The last scene where he leaves to go to his death made me cry and cry. It was so so real.

Did the writers for this KZread channel ever watch Babylon 5 all the way or just had a highlight real?

@kaneo1

5 жыл бұрын

It's SyFy. They stopped caring about Sci Fi a long time ago.

This Daylenn sounds and looks like Delenn. Must be a relative.

Kosh, from beginning to tear jerking end...’NUFF SAID! I wish I had one of his suits.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

"Very soon I may be asking for your help. There is a greater threat to all our races. Except perhaps for the Vorlons. I don't know what could possibly threaten them."

@dongilleo9743

5 жыл бұрын

@@perfectsplit5515 Like so many other things in the show, the Vorlons had a great storyline. They start out as this mysterious and unknown powerful race, then we are led to believe they are angels, and finally to see them as not much better, maybe worse, than the Shadows; interfering with and manipulating races. It is amazing how Kosh as a character was able to show such feeling and emotion and development, when he is just a man in a costume with no ability to show facial reactions. Despite that, we come to appreciate Kosh, that he is different than the rest of the Vorlons, that he has a personal interest in Sheridan, that he is much gentler to Lyta than his replacement is, that perhaps he even has a sense of humor. Eventually we see that the Vorlons are not indestructible or fearless, that Kosh experiences fear, that he is killed, or as Lyta says "they(the Shadows) tore him apart."

"sometimes I talk to ceiling. Sometimes I talk to walls. Sometimes I talk to dirt. I like to talk to dirt. Dirt is use to people walking all over it. Vary sad life. Probably a very sad death. But at least there's symmetry."

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

5 жыл бұрын

"You take, Zathras die. You leave, Zathras die. Either way, it is bad for Zathras."

@Zaluskowsky

4 жыл бұрын

One of those guys where you from wtf to oh good to have you here.

@psychdlc

4 жыл бұрын

Zathras is finite. You are finite. This... is wrong tool.

Everything that most B5 fans already knew. Thanks for the "totally rad" refresher.

This just wrapped up the Comet network. I forgot how good and very sad finale was.

@kennethstevenson4817

5 жыл бұрын

They started airing them all week long right after Star Gate and switched to airing back to back episodes on Weds nights and next week it starts over again.

@fredrubble2439

5 жыл бұрын

@@kennethstevenson4817 oo! Good. I caught it somewhere near the end of season 2. I have a shared TV so I miss some episodes.

@alexwolf3684

5 жыл бұрын

I love watching it on Comet, which is strange considering I have the whole series (and Crusade) on DVD.

OK, there are a few pronunciation issues - but overall, it's a solid piece and given how the jackasses at WB have made B5 hard for people not already familiar with it to get into the series (up until it finally landed on Amazon Prime) - there's a LOT of potential fans out there who have little idea it exists or why they should seek it out. As someone who was there *_In The Beginning_* - I have to say thank you to SyFy Wire for this; I hope it encourages people who've never seen the series to watch it. And yeah, there are some 20+ year old spoilers in here, but as with Londo's vision of his eventual death - *_how you get there_* is even more important than the spoiler. ;)

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

I was there, at the dawn ... of the first season of the greatest sci-fi epic of all time.

@ScottatHouseonaHill

5 жыл бұрын

B5 B4 We're through!

@TheInnerParty

5 жыл бұрын

I remember the usenet group JMS would discuss the show in real time....

@FurrBeard

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheInnerParty Certain shows now could never DARE do that.

I would tell someone I was a sci fi fan and often they would say "Check out Babylon 5, it has a really great story". Many years later, I finally watched it. The first few episodes were pretty rough, but there ws something about it that suggested it was worth sticking with. Man am I glad that I did. Surely one of the greatest space opera's that will ever be made, and the standard by which all others should be judged.

Thank you so much. This was a pleasant walk down memory lane. I loved this series.

"We are made of star stuff". Quoted from Carl Sagan, in the PBS TV series Cosmos, in the early 80s.

I wish they would have adapted or novelized the remaining Ideas for Crusade and the script for the proposed movie. The canon novels were really good and allowed you to see the continued growth of the character like Vir or the secret of the Technomages.

@unlimitedrabbit

5 жыл бұрын

And Bester's fate!

Also...Loren??? REALLY???? LO-RI-EN!!! Why didn't the producers find someone who had at least watched the series or did they just let this chick read the script without a runthrough / rehearsal first???!!!

@sdfried4877

4 жыл бұрын

banshee6k um. Diversity hire?

@MShrader211

4 жыл бұрын

Just saying... let thou who has never mispronounced another's name cast the 1st stone! It happens people, get over yourselves. :-\

Thanks for an entertaining overview. I've been a fan of B5 since the 1993 pilot, and regardless of the comments below, I appreciate that something commemorating Babylon 5 was made. It is a shame that 5 of the cast members are gone, but they live on throught the show and our remembering them. We are forever caught between tick and tock. Thank you Mr Straczynski for your vision. And persistence.

@MShrader211

4 жыл бұрын

I plan to live forever, thank you very much. :-p

Did she actually ever watch the show? The first time she says Mimbari she pronounces it Mumbari. She also pronounces DeLenn (Duh-Lynn) as Day-Len the first time she pronounces it. She ALSO pronounces Lorien (Lore-E-N) as Loren (Lore-N)when she mentions him. Really......... She also mentions trap doors for characters and mentions SPECIFICALLY replacing Patricia Tallman's character with Andrea Thompson's character in season 1 after the premiere pilot episode. But then FAILS to mention they replace Andrea with Patricia (swapping characters back and totally dropping Andrea) in season's 2-5. Patricia had a WAY bigger character than Andrea's and you make it appear the opposite. Patricia even had MAJOR plot points and episodes centered on her character!!

G'Kar is easily the favorite. The episode where he gives that epic speech "No dictator, no invader..." is still stunning. Lots of great episodes. Though I think D'lenn's speech "If you value your lives, be somewhere else" is the most effective threat ever issued on TV.

By Far my favorite Television Series from when I was a teenager...

It was simply a fantastic story. I loved the entire show and characters. Time to rewatch all of this again.... It is a pity there is no blu ray version of this...

They need to bring this show back but have it set a few hundred years after the ending. I want to see the rise of Centauri Prime, the descendants of Sheridan and Delenn also to see the final destruction of Drahks. There is so much a new series can build off of. My favorite character G'Kar he is in my opinion the strongest and deepest character in the show.

@rayniblick5099

5 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. They could do so much and yes G'kar was a fantastic character my favorite as well.

@perfectsplit5515

5 жыл бұрын

Just realized - Optimus Prime, Rodimus Prime, Centauri Prime, Sentinel Prime, Amazon Prime

@voltairedecent255

5 жыл бұрын

G'Kar was my least favorite character at the beginning of the series. By the end, him and Londo were my two favorites.

Babylon 5 was awesome, and still is. I have all of it on DVD. And I loved all of the characters and the actors.

WTF? MOON-bari? DAY-linn? I think this narrator should maybe watch the show before commenting on it.

My favorite episode, well that's hard to narrow down to just one but I got to give a shout out to a 1'st season episode where all the Embassadors share thier personal religious seromonies to the crew of the B-5 crew meanwhile there's a subplot where G'Kar is being target for assassination by a rival klan. This also where we see G'kar's need for his attache N'toth and were we see Londo get drunk and pass out while proclaming everything is cute while Vir Cotto excames "He's become one with his inner bieng!" Only to have Ivanva say:'He passed out!" which Vir promply responds by saying:"Well,that too!"

@Chase0420

5 жыл бұрын

I like the Earth display. Introduces them to our hundreds of religions

@mikegrossberg8624

5 жыл бұрын

"Everyone is cute! Even I am cute! But in purple I am STUNNING!" Plop

@edwinchristensen1439

5 жыл бұрын

I agree this is one of the best of the first year of B5 my favorite part is the end where we meet the various faiths of the earth a vast lineup they, go through about 20 before the episode ends and they were just getting started.

@Keihryon

5 жыл бұрын

My favorite part in that episode is when Delenn is doing her ceremony, and in the background of one of the shots you can see G'Kar switch his little red fruit with Ivanova's.

Well, I've never seen Picard and Riker pull a breakfast prank on Dr. Crusher...

Babylon 5 has always been one of my favorite sci-fi shows ever. There are so many fantastic episodes, so many fantastic quotes, but one of my favorites I have yet to ever hear anybody ever mention, then again, maybe I've not come across others. In the first season, during a week when the various species are sharing their religions and their cultural iconography, Commander Sinclair sets up an introduction to the Ambassadors, to give them a chance to maybe understand humans better. Sinclair had arranged a representative to be their for EVERY religion of the planet. That all-inclusive simple respect and courtesy was very meaningful to me.

"We are all gray" ... the one sentence who defines B5 for me. Every Charakter has his dark and light sides, his hero moments and his darkest hours. Nobody is totaly good or evil ... good I love this show.

Sad she didn’t mention why Sinclair left the series and the secret JMS didn’t reveal till after the actor that played Sinclair died

@MShrader211

4 жыл бұрын

Good Lord! Is everyone dead??? I'm feeling really ancient right now reading thru this stuff dang-it. :-( We really gotta do something about this aging problem people, it's killing us! :-| Scientists can make a common round-worm live 300 times longer than it's natural life span, just when are they planning to bring this marvel up to homo-sapiens level I have to ask? Arghhhhhh!

25 years later, and still no B5 miniseries on the telepath war...

G'Kar said it best... "No one here is exactly who they appear to be"

Best Space adventure ever, and this is from a fan of Star Trek. Babylon 5 had it all. Grear character, awesome real looking space battles, and beautiful costumes. I want a Star Fury!

The Moom-bari? WTF? Commander Sheridan? Don't you mean captain!? Stop singing the praises of the show and actually sit down and watch it!

@marvinhuth4487

4 жыл бұрын

"Dellen".....i total agree with you. person on screen is reading a script. person who wrote the script apparently did not test well with audiences......... i want my ad-money back.

Love this show, just recently watched the entire series again on Amazon.

Babylon 5 +Arcs {Minor & Major} +Character Development +Drama/ Comedy/ Glorious Climaxes/Supremely Intelligent +Movies +Spin-Offs

Thank you for this. I usually go back to watch the entire series every decade or so. Love it!

My favorite character? Lyta Alexander. SPOILER ALERT! Loved her when she returned augmented by the Vorlons. She was described as a psychic nuke.

@jdlech

5 жыл бұрын

Loved her character... till she decided to get romantically involved with G'Kar and left Zack Allen in the lurch. I felt so bad for Zack, losing the game of love to an alien reptile.

@starbrand3726

5 жыл бұрын

@@jdlech Well, she wasn't really romantically into G'Kar. I think they were more like kindred spirits.

Who am Day-Lin? Is that Delenn’s wonky sister? 😝

You basically just layed out everything we DID know about Babylon 5

Love your presentation, kept me locked to the screen

any time someone talks a Babylon 5 is good.

Out of a stellar cast, I have to say that Vir was my favorite character. He tried so hard to be a moral compass for Londo, but Londo wouldn't have any of it. I also was a fan of the late, great Stephen Furst since Animal House. BTW, why did the person reading the script call Delenn, 'Valen'??? That was a silly error, compounded by the fact that she later (properly) called Sinclair Valen. One oddity is that she didn't recognize that "We are all star stuff" was a Carl Sagan quote (Delenn was quoting Carl Sagan)

@macswanton9622

4 жыл бұрын

-word. Exactly.

@JerseyDevilBM

4 жыл бұрын

Sadly, I didn't know that about her quote either and I'm a die-hard B5 and sci-fi fan. Never watched or read a lot of Sagan (aside from "Contact"and his efforts on behalf of SETI).

Fantastic video! You really did a great job telling this story!

Maury Povich: You said this video was going to be about Babylon 5: Everything You Didn't Know, That was a lie!

It was a great show. :)

Babylon 5 was orignally pitch to paramount, they declined and took the idea to create DS9.

“Everything you didn’t know” Spends at least half of the episode recapping things that all fans already know. I tapped out after that.

I remember being in college and watching the B5 pilot thinking this was something big happening. Had a friend at the time actually “no one cares about sci fi and fantasy anymore. Many felt that way. I laughed and said “ok sure, just wait and see” too funny.

Yep, she said, "Star Track." Twice. >, "...JMS -- as I call him..." How about: As the fans call him... The problem with this overview, is that fans already know all this; seeing the high-points are fun, but her asides/attempts at humor or "coolness," are frequently too childish. There are too many spoilers to show this to someone who hasn't seen the series.

Writer of the script was spot on, but the person reading it wasn't all that good.

During the run of the show, Mr. Straczynski had a chat room in the old GEnie network on Monday nights in which he directly chatted with us fans about the program. He didn't give us spoilers, but he did talk about what was in his own head for the episodes we'd seen. Very, very cool.

Thank you. I enjoyed the presentation.

B5 is one of the best Sci-Fi shoes EVER!!!!

"Everything you didn't know".... Um.... WTF! You just gave a basic synopsis for the entire five seasons. You could have found that any place. Clickbait o Rama!

This is the best B5 vid I’ve seen so far. Good job :)

My favorite character was always Londo. He was gray, he stood between the light and the dark, or something like that. It is easy to write a hero (Sinclair, Sheridan, Delenn, even Vir), it is easy to write a villain (President Clark, Morden, Bester, the Shadows in general), it is hard to write a character who always has mixed motives, it is much more realistic but harder to balance and maintain. His character was simultaneously repulsive and tragic, petty and noble. Quite the achievement.

Day linn???? Daaaa lennnnn. Who is this chick? Obviously she hasn't seen ONE episode if she can't pronounce Delenn's name right. Anyways, huge Star Trek fan but B5 blew away anything Star Trek ever put out. I miss this show.

@UltimateTrekkie1

4 жыл бұрын

That’s incredibly obvious. I respectfully disagree, though-B5 didn’t blow Star Trek out of the water.

I like all of the characters in this show.

The one character no one has mentioned is Kosh's ship. Soft spoken but a force not to mess with.

Although the "we are all star-stuff" line was basically a quote of Carl Sagan, a line which he famously uttered in the PBS series "Cosmos", and which I'm sure JMS appropriated as a fitting homage to Sagan.

The only thing I don't know about B5 that I don't already know is when is it coming back? Please Mr. Straczynski. B5 is the best Sci-Fi franchise that doest have the word Star in the title.

@Keihryon

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately he does not have full rights to the IP. Warner Bros. control most of the rights to the IP, and they refuse to let it see the light of day. Why? I don't know, but hollywierd is full of petty people.

@mikesurlygentlemanwalton

5 жыл бұрын

@@Keihryon wow, I just read a few articles on the ownership of the IP and wow is it the most petty stuff I have ever heard. Just makes no sense.

@vicsrealms

5 жыл бұрын

It is too bad they never got around to finishing Crusade.

Sci-fi doesn't get any better than Babylon 5.

Hey great vid, love that hair.

In the very early preproduction designs for the characters, Sinclair was the one who had a beard. Maybe Sheridan's beard was an homage to that. Also, Delenn was originally conceived as being a bluish male Minbari, G'Kar was "Jackarr," Londo Mollari was Londo "Collari" and had short hair, and "Khosh Naranek" was much more physically humanoid but with four-fingered hands sporting claws. Just check out "Early B5" online, and you can see the designs for these and other characters.

JMS did file suit, it was settled out of court

@Allan_aka_RocKITEman

5 жыл бұрын

@Carlos Hernandez >>> you commented that elsewhere. Read my reply.

4 Seasons, not 5. The 5th season was a last minute tack-on since they weren't sure it would happen, Straczynski compressed years 4 and 5 of his story into what turned out to be season 4. What ended up as Season 5 was a pale comparison to what came before it.

@RobertGladys

5 жыл бұрын

Not true. The episode "sleeping in light" was added to the end of season four in case they didn't get to make a fifth season. But it was always planned as a five season run

@pinkmonkeybird2644

5 жыл бұрын

No one I know who loves the show thinks Season 5 was well done. They had so much they could have covered better - the telepath war (not just Byron), Garabaldi getting Bester out of his head, rebuilding Earth after the devastation of Clark, the fate of Centauri Prime, Vir becoming emperor, the return of the technomages, the fate of G’Kar. Instead, they introduced a horrible new leader of B5 who was inexplicably Sheridan’s ex-wife) while Sheridan was basically president of an office on the station. They also destroyed several characters who didn’t deserve their fate, particularly Lyta and Lennier. Lyta risked everything so many times for Earth, and they threw her away suddenly like trash. And then the writers had to demonize Lennier for secretly loving Delenn. It was so out of character for both, and they were rapidly written out of the show before any sort of redemption. I really hated that bit of plot. Maybe it would have been better to stop at Season 4 and let Season 5 have been Crusade.

@MandalorV7

5 жыл бұрын

Even then that speech John gave in Season 5's first episode blew me away.

@jonnunn4196

5 жыл бұрын

Original Plan was 5 seasons. Original Network did indeed announce they'd wouldn't pick up a 5th season resulting in moving dealing with Clark to 4th season; (Shadow War was going to end in season 4 anyway). In addition this is responsible for three of the movies. Yes, TNT then renewing it for the 5th season meant that every episode they had originally planned as a breather episode for season 4 ended up in season 5. There's still some good episodes in season 5 such as the fall of Centauri Prime. Crusade's main problem is it aired completely out of order and consequently that it didn't even get to finish the first planned season.

My favorite quote, " no boom today, boom tomorrow, always a boom tomorrow "

This should've been titled Babylon 5: If you've never watched it, you NEED to watch it. I knew everything that was talked about so it isn't really everything I didn't know.