"Do not meddle it the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102

3 жыл бұрын

Straczynski actually took the line from J.R.R. Tokiens Lord of the Rings.

@strycian

3 жыл бұрын

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and tasty with ketchup.

@dynamicworlds1

3 жыл бұрын

@@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102 what self-respecting technomage has not read The Lord of the Rings?

@mirrortoyourweakness9769

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, all of you and the likes are clearly from...juvenile losers. lol.

@danieldickson8591

3 жыл бұрын

@@mirrortoyourweakness9769 Then why are you here with us?

"We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers." Such a good line

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

This is 24 kt. Au. I loved this series. Tubi carries this, entire series, mostly ad free.

Reminds me of Arthur C. Clarke's famous quote: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

@ravenmoon5111

2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing

@HorusHeresy1982

2 жыл бұрын

That was the point.

@ronintje7647

Жыл бұрын

40 years ago so many of those items we use today would have been considered magic.

@DrewLSsix

Жыл бұрын

​@@ronintje7647not really.....

@normanred9212

11 ай бұрын

No he is wrong, magic and spiritual energies are real and tech does it's best to replicate it. But think of it this way, how and why they work the way they do with the laws of Earth and the Universe is literally magical. You may know why something may do what it does, but ask Why the Why works and whom or what built it that way.

One of my favorite scenes. Michael Ansara was a splendid actor. Exudes confidence, authority, and subtlety all at the same time.

@Effingbaddude

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky guy was married to Barbara Eden, Jeenie

@AllMuscle1

2 жыл бұрын

The way he speaks reminds me so much of the late Carl Sagan. Even his eyebrows and face as he speaks are a close match. It is incredible!

@lennierofthethirdfaneofchu7286

Жыл бұрын

This scene is almost as good as the one at the end of episode when he gives Molari a prophesy.

@PWingert1966

11 ай бұрын

In some ways he has that quiet Demeanor of Master Po from Kung Fu! He knows much but only gives you what you need for now.

@writerdude2766

10 ай бұрын

He was one of the best Klingons ever, too. Even, or perhaps especially, when he reprised the role on DS9.

"The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor. How to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them. That is why we are going away-to preserve that knowledge." One of my favorite lines from the show

@garylefevers

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@Earthboundmike

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit more simple... Landing thruster, landing thrusters... oh if I were the landing thrusters which button would I be (It's really hard to have favourites with this show though, it's just full of amazing)

@demarcusfaulkner7411

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@michaelweigel8253

3 жыл бұрын

@Driver Nephi I want to know those 14 words.

@dmk941

3 жыл бұрын

@Driver Nephi LOL.....underrated dark joke.

Loved the instant rapport between Sheridan and Elric. The moment the Captain drifts into his reverie of long ago when he was a boy dreaming of far away places in the scent of the orange blossoms is the moment Elric knew he could confide in him.

@ijarhead

Жыл бұрын

How cute

"As Elric spoke, he realized the bitter truth: he had lost his dreams. His dream of growing old on Soom. His dream of Galen becoming a great mage. His dream of the Technomages fighting the Shadows. All his dreams were gone, and no spell could bring them back."

@marcfoster715

Жыл бұрын

Is that from one of the books?

@DrownedInExile

Жыл бұрын

@@marcfoster715 Yup it's from the second book in the tie-in Technomage trilogy.

@morrigan908

5 ай бұрын

I really wish publishers would look at some of these OOP books and try to secure digital rights to them, if they don't have them already. Small bit of profit for them and the authors with minimal effort.

@ZaphodBeeblebrox-sy8ey

3 ай бұрын

Idk. He could have given Londo his little photo op and prevented the shadows from setting up their foothold on the Centauri homeworld. Jus sayin.

4:09 _"With luck you'll never see our kind again in your lifetime."_ And then came Galen.

Michael Ansara....great Actor. Never upset a Technomage lol

@cathymoss6985

3 жыл бұрын

And the voice of Mr freeze on batman tas

@fangfyre3800

3 жыл бұрын

Also played Kang in Star Trek TOS and DS9.

@cathymoss6985

3 жыл бұрын

@@fangfyre3800 I forgot that ty for the reminder

@karazor-el6085

3 жыл бұрын

And Barbara Eden's husband.

@deleonfrancis60

3 жыл бұрын

Don’t mess with a Klingon Technomage

Another words don't mess with the IT department.

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

This! This is the best response I have seen in a long while. I think I''ll meme it and print it out work.

@thegoodwin

2 жыл бұрын

It's like..."How did you do that?" IT Dept: "It's magic."

@lauriekutcher4825

Ай бұрын

If you let the magic white smoke out of it, then it won't work

Funny how Michael Ansara often delivered words in his scifi performances that resonate to this day. His Star Trek line, "Only a fool fights in a burning ship." is a warning most of today's leaders ignore at our collective peril.

@JamesRichardsPlays

Жыл бұрын

I personally enjoyed his performance as a technomage more. I had a couple vhs with him as a western performer. I pilfered them from my late grandfather's collection. A few decades later and no method to digitize them, lost them. I found a shop that sells old media, and it looks like someone had the same hobby as my grandfather, a couple vhs tapes had some of Ansara's movies.

@MundaneGray

Жыл бұрын

Kang actually said: "Only a fool fights in a burning house."

This is how you pull off a superior technology faction without them seeming patronizing like the Vorlon

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

I think that they should encounter the Ascended from Stargate / Stargate Atlantis.

Michael Ansara, pure legend. To take such a simple scene, with such a simple backdrop, and then turn it into so smooth and yet chilling all at once. In just one episode he touched the hearts of an entire fanbase with near passive ease.

@Hackenberg

10 ай бұрын

I remember my wife crying like a baby at the end of "Sleeping in Light."

@GaldirEonai

8 ай бұрын

If you don't cry at the end of Sleeping in Light you have no soul. "Every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up."

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@GaldirEonai I MISS Mira Furlan. The last work she did was M Scott Zicree's Space Command, which is / was on here, & looked pretty damn good.

The Techno Mages make the Jedi look brutish mercenaries.

@lour7299

3 жыл бұрын

Only the jedi has the mitochondria that control the Force.. while the technoMage used tricks and trinket

@_Muzolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@lour7299 Ah, but what is a trick? Are you saying, that having telekinetic tapeworms move objects for you is somehow of higher order as using magnetic fields to do the same?

@lour7299

3 жыл бұрын

@@_Muzolf which episode that they have telekinetic tape worm?

@_Muzolf

3 жыл бұрын

@@lour7299 Its a joke reference midiclorians.

@lour7299

3 жыл бұрын

@@_Muzolf ahhh, i did nit get that hahhaha, sorry

That was such an amazing back and forth "magic of the human heart. Focused and made manifest by technology. Every day you here create greater miracles than a burning bush..." "Maybe, but God was there first and He didn't need solar batteries and a fusion reactor to do it." Just bloody magnificent.

@baneblackguard584

2 жыл бұрын

he should have just looked at him and said "Are you certain?"

@Kartissa

2 жыл бұрын

@@baneblackguard584 I think his response was perfect - acknowledging Sheridan's belief without disparagement, while admitting that he didn't actually know the truth, even though he personally didn't believe. At least, that's how I always interpreted it.

@808INFantry11X

2 жыл бұрын

@@baneblackguard584 in a way he did perhaps perhaps not who knows

@cafeeineaddicted8123

2 жыл бұрын

@@baneblackguard584 That might have been useful if he wanted to convert him to his way of thinking, but he didn't. All he needed was to explain what he was in a way that was satisfactory to Sheridan.

@Ishlacorrin

Жыл бұрын

Funny thing is we find out later that 'god' was just the Vorlons and thus the 'burning bush' was just technology.

As a Klingon or as a Technomage.... This actor communicates "Don't mess with me!"

@jamesmartin9401

3 жыл бұрын

Remember he was also Queen Ardala's General Kane on Buck Rodgers. Michael Ansara had a presence, no doubt.

@reelsoffortuneslotsplay4267

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesmartin9401 I was thinking he had talent on and off screen which probably contributed to his confidence... I would think being married to Barbara Eden did not hurt his confidence....

@arekpetrosian4965

3 жыл бұрын

@@reelsoffortuneslotsplay4267 That would either require confidence, or give it. Either way, you're right.

@kurtjk01

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed to both . . . But he also redefined Mr. Freeze in Batman: The Animated Series. And only Batman could even dream of messing with him; even in his own show. The name is Michael Ansara. The profession: Actor Extraordinaire.

@lovipoekimo176

2 жыл бұрын

He also voiced Mister Freeze.

This was one of my favorite shows. I love how it told a story. That it sometimes had a few little stories in one big story but still tied everything together. Like how babylon 4 disappeared and reappeared years later leaving more questions then answers. Then a couple of seasons later we get the full picture of what really happened and it was something no one saw coming.

@kurtjk01

3 жыл бұрын

No one listens to Zathras.

@TheFloorface

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurtjk01 not to Zathras no, but they do listen to Zathras

@kizikucalegon8673

2 жыл бұрын

The best question it answered later on is why every sentient race has an equivalent to Swedish Meatballs. It's a throwaway line, but apparently they were Sinclair's favourite food. So he introduced them everywhere he went.

@12Mantis

2 жыл бұрын

@@kizikucalegon8673 Really? I didn't know that........always thought it was just a dish so simple/easy to make that every meat eating race eventually made their own version of it.

@Effingbaddude

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheFloorface not the one

The acting was so amazing. i feel like it was so far ahead of its time

"With luck, you'll never see our kind in your life time!" Galen: No if I have anything to say about it!

This episode made me a Technomage fanboi immediately. The suggestion of knowledge and keeping the mystery of how far it really goes throughout the show was just perfect

@JamesRichardsPlays

Жыл бұрын

I am not a "fanboi", but there was a HUGE potential missed with them and completely ruined by Crusade. It was nice to have Crusade, but TNT really messed things up. JMS was originally against it, but not only caved to what the fans wanted, but TNT's pressures. I don't think he knew when he started they would sink their fingers in so much. By the end of Crusade's run, it didn't resemble the creation of Babylon 5 and JMS' vision of it all. JMS apologized to the fans, the fans apologized to JMS, no one was happy. I appreciate Crusade, but that is as far as I am taking it.

@casbot71

11 ай бұрын

​@James Richards True, but Crusade did have one of the most badass lines ever Gideon: I thought you said you never hold a grudge. Galen: _Well, I don't. I have no surviving enemies..._

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

Ай бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays Crusade didn't do much for me. Caprica ( from BSG ) had MORE potential, but of course, it got the axe.

And there I sit, some eternity after I've seen this scene before, goosebumps all over me.

@zootube323

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. I’d like to know those secrets. Ethically used, they could do a lot of good.

Babylon 5 had some awesome episode names

Love Sheridan's answer sending him on the slowest transport he can find

I love this sequence. So much is magic, magic of the human heart focused and made reality. Medicine, engineering, all of it...transistor, circuit, laser, and crystal. I knew someone for a time, and it was magical. I lost her to cancer, paraganglioma and its complications. I think at one time I must have said the fourteen words...I only hope when it was needed, I said the other seven. I miss you, and I love you, Patty.

@pgsells

Жыл бұрын

"I miss you, and I love you" ... seven words. 😥

@RockinRob2258

11 ай бұрын

It never goes away does it? Even if it did, what kind of person would I be to forget? I won't do that; I couldn't do that.

@RockinRob2258

9 ай бұрын

My next step even almost three years later is, "how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them..."

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@RockinRob2258 LIFE can steal one's dreams, believe me.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

Ай бұрын

@@RockinRob2258 We all want to rediscover stolen dreams.

I always wondered if what the Technomages were really worried about was specifically the return of the Shadows. Since they were created by the Shadows, they might have thought that they'd be dragged back into things as the servants of the Shadows. I suppose they were an answer to the Minbari, or to the Vorlons' creation of telepaths in the younger races - the Achilles' heel of the Shadow vessels and the only thing giving even the Minbari a real chance against them.

@BCWasbrough

Жыл бұрын

Considering the Vorlon's use of planet killers to cleanse systems of Shadow influence, staying FAR away from the coming conflict was a smart move on their part.

Damn ... it's getting time for me to go through this entire series again ...

@ivanfreely6366

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, as the reboot is in the works.

I would love to see a technomage, a vorlon, and a shadow each build an individual figher type vessel just to so who would come out with best looking design and most functional design.

Kang hero of the Klingon empire

@jerseykaari

3 жыл бұрын

Those fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you sound much better in their original Klingon.

@Necromonger69

3 жыл бұрын

Also Kane in Buck Rogers

@bdpickett

3 жыл бұрын

Also Mr. Freeze in Batman the Animated Series.

@gabrielmichelson9830

3 жыл бұрын

And as lesser-known Jeyal, former husband to Lwaxana Troi and father of her child.

One of my favorite scenes. Michael Ansara was so good in roles like this.

@davidking6750

8 ай бұрын

"how to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them from you" ... that always gets me.

I loved the show. And the Techno Mages were my favorite part. I even read one of the spin-off novels of Babylon 5 about them. In fact basically it was a continuation of the story in this episode in the lead up to it. "The passing of the Techno Mages." It was cool.

@MrPingn

9 ай бұрын

It's a whole trilogy of books. Highly recommended.

The mysteries of laser, circuit and crystal. The mysteries of how electronic waves propagates trough the ionosphere and beyond. Maybe we ham radio operators are radio technomages? And there are cybermages of the computers. We are dreamers,makers and singers. A ham radio operator.

There is a storm coming, a black and terrible storm and I wish I could leave as well.

I can only most highly recommend the technomage book trilogy - so much explained and a crazy ride!

These tecno-mages whould fit right in at comstar.

@KMCA779

2 жыл бұрын

Oh hell no. The last thing Comstar needs is even more advanced tech. They're too conflict adverse to have been at Tukayyid or part of the Word of Blake but they certainly got the image right.

@miked884

11 ай бұрын

​@KMCA779 yes and also glory to Blake

still one of the best shows ever.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

It was Star Trek's polar opposite of Gene Roddenberry's Utopian, universe where humanity was depicted as more enlightened, blah - blah - blah.

I could sure use the ability to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them.

The struggle of the technomages is vast, some proved their mettle, Elric and Galen included.

Technomages were amazing and they picked the best actor to portray their leader.

Boy, that orange blossom sparked a memory of magic.

Well, so far no issues in uploading these clips. Maybe I'll pick a few more of my favorites and send them up...

Someone that can give you a fragment of a memory of your past is a gift to be cherished and a person to place in high regard.

@stevetheduck1425

9 ай бұрын

He was ready to prove to Sheridan that the Technomages knew everything about him, and were always prepared. Succeeded, too.

the techno mages, the psi corp, centauri narn war and the characters that populate b5. that is something i hope we'll see again in our lifetimes.

@Sgt_Glory

Жыл бұрын

But if not, we can be happy we saw it the first time.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@Sgt_Glory Reruns of it are on Tubi. Free streaming. I'm endorsing it sans remuneration.

B5 the best sifiy series ever

Well obviously they left so Clark could not obtain and exploit their secrets and technology. Would have been a real nightmare if he had access to that.

I watched every bit of B5 when it was on, but I have never been generally amused by or attracted to technomages in any setting. B5 did the best job with both technomages and prophecy.

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

The introduction of the Technomages serves two purposes, keeping tropes alive and keeping alive the mystery we all understand; "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

@charlesphillips1468

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays I am well aware of Clarke's Third Law, but I have also usually viewed technomages in any setting as a science fiction extension of Western Esotericism, especially the drive to put enchantment back into the world and reject Cartesian/Newtonian world views. Wikipedia has a good article that explains this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism Technomages pretty much touch everything that is central to Western Esotericism, including 'rejected knowledge' returning. It even takes on a Rosicrucianism slant. All of which just doesn't really impress me and thus I am not especially attracted to the technomage idea (but The Lawnmower Man was ok, an interesting gimmick for a movie).

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

@@charlesphillips1468 And this is why I like engaging. I would have never thought to have link that idea with it. I don't even remember this being brought up in the B5 forums so long ago. I wonder if that was an unintended view that JMS didn't consider... As a plot device in telling an epic, I don't mind a little of it creeping in. For the novelty and momentary fantasy and entertainment, it is fun. But the central ideas, especially what you brought up, don't impress me to any degree outside of enjoying the story. Looking back on my own writings and failed (maybe just shelved) novel attempt, I don't think I ever did have something like it come in though. For one thing, I don't think I have the enthusiasm to make it "believable" and secondly, I aam highly skeptical of something that cannot be tested and falsifiable. The Technomages do keep too much of it secret and the show and novels hid too much in how their technomancy worked. The closest you ever get is a statement of using tech to achieve something akin to magic. Fun for a flash, no real staying power with me. The only thing I really dig is the wisdom from Elrich, not steeped in mystery and arcane poofs.

@charlesphillips1468

3 жыл бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays You may want to continue working on your novel, working and living while writing is a good way. My own project started 28 years ago and I just published it on my website last spring after I finally decided I'd run out of time and that it was as good as it will be. My project is a free science fiction setting macrosocial, macrostructural simulation game. It may provide framework, context and inspiration (well, I hope anyway) for a generation of science fiction writers after me. But it's mostly will, you have to see something sublime in what you are doing to continue for that long.

@TheEDFLegacy

2 жыл бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays This is why I consider computers to be magical in a sense... Sure, I know how it works on a basic level, but how on Earth did someone even figure out how to turn basic elements into a technology that has utterly transformed everything we know from the bottom up?

If the technomages could see potential destinies, then Ansara Mage would know that Sheridan would one day meet with Lorien. probably why he spoke with him so easily compared with others. He knew he could trust him. Just as Galen (Son of the Killer of Darth .. being cryptic there) did as well.

my favorite episode, and has Michael Ansara. i want to hear some more Narn opera.

@kosh9639

3 жыл бұрын

xD...

Kang koor and koloth😊. The spells he was referring to sound a lot like the magic of Odin in Norse mythology😊

Michael Ansara who played the Techno-mage was married to Barbara Eden at one time.

One of my favourite episodes! Thank you!

Awesome series! The writing, the acting... man, I miss watching it. I used to race home from work, make some popcorn then drop myself on the couch and let the episode take me far away. Good times!

He's going someplace where a warm hand waits for his.

One of the best episodes of a great series.

This performance by Ansara and his performance as the voice of Mr Freeze made him a personal favorite. It is a genuine shame about his passing, he was talented and by my guess a very humble man. One of my favorite quotes is said by him, “yes…it would move me to tears….if I still had tears to shed.” Mr. Freeze, Batman TAS Heart of Ice.

@stevetheduck1425

9 ай бұрын

'This is how I shall remember you... surrounded by ice, never changing, and I shall think of a place where a warm hand is in mine.'

@rowanaforrest9792

Ай бұрын

I also remember his role in the great old miniseries "Centennial," in which he played the fateful role of a Native American leader. There was never any mistaking his face, voice, or bearing.

At the end of the Shadow War, Sheridan and Delenn were discussing the magic going away, and how they should now create their own magic. This episode was meant to be a one-off, introducing us to a mysterious group that we'd never see again. But then they brought them back for another special to give Sheridan advice or warning. Sometimes it's good to have mysteries that are never resolved.

ahhh this is the best clip of this ... some others cut off before the orange blossom ending !This is the best clip of this scene

"Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever". Ah-Ha! He's a pickup artist. He dresses like one too. 😆

Definitely one of my top ten episodes, hell, probably closer to the top five!

Best B5 scene ever. We are the dreamers, shapers, singers and makers....

Oh, if Technomages only really existed on Earth. How many lessons in manner an respect that need to be taught.

ANCIENT QUESTION: No one will ever be able to answer with any certainty: What is the TRUE DIFFERENCE between Magic, Science or Sorcery? I suppose its ultimately based on what you choose to believe.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

Any science advanced FAR ENOUGH is or can be indistinguishable from magic. Clark's Law. Kryptonian or Asgardian technology would be indistinguishable from it. Mjolnir would be considered " magic " when it's likely highly advanced tech, as would the staff used by Loki. Wonder Woman & Superman are considered godlike.

Greatest sci fi series ever.

This is by far one of Michael Ansara's best performances ever!

So many artists from B5 are gone now. I noticed on the series illustration, Bruce Boxleitner is the only one left alive on that photo.

@JamesRichardsPlays

8 ай бұрын

We still have nine others who were considered Main Cast in all five seasons who are still alive and kicking around this dust ball of a planet. ;) Unfortunately, four of their characters were killed off, one is missing and who knows what the others would be doing if the story continued. If we wanted more B5, we would need not only a reboot starting at The Gathering, but a cast of young and terrifyingly healthy old actors. It is kinda sad, but I have only thoughts of celebration and admiration of what not only the cast, but the entire crew and support staff that made this timeless series. All the political, ideological, societal and moral issues present in the series are STILL relevant today. I finished binge watching the entire series with my 19 year old goddaughter and she thought it was an awesome, poorly budgeted and produced current series. When I told her the last episode aired in 1998, well before she was born, she was amazed. So much so she bought a few USB drives and plans to give them to a few of her college friends.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays Some members of Generation Y - Z will be beholden to her.

Londo just keeps digging himself deeper here.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

He learned enough that he knew to destroy any Shadow influence, even destroying an island & ready to kill himself if it came to that. GROWTH.

One of my favorite B5 episodes, but I got to say, re-watching it after reading the Technomage trilogy is fascinating because it ends up being a completely different story. (the second book is mostly this episode but from the technomages point of view)

I’d love to just to sit down with him and chat about stuff. Even if he doesn’t tell you the fourteen words. Just to talk with someone like that can to me teach you about them and your thoughts and self.

Back then they KNEW (or at least Straczynski did) how to write a great story and characters. Now compare this to crap current day hollywood tries to peddle.

@Dawt_Calm

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely. What Straczynski did was take a sci-fi novel and make it into a 5 year show. The story arcs both small and large were very well done. Part of the problem with a lot of books being adapted to movies or TV is that you lose so much. It's always little more than a shadow of the book. Pun intended. Because they don't take the time to world build, most shows up until that time were doing a show of the week episode, where you could watch it as a stand alone episode and it didn't usually effect the overall story. Each story was neatly wrapped by the end of the episode, for the most part. This weeks episode is about psychic ability. This is the monster of the week episode, this episode is about addiction etc. What Straczynski did with B5 flew in the face of that, he really hashed out these ideas over a long period of time. That made the character development in B5 top notch. It didn't hurt that the relatively unknown actors turned out to be perfect for their roles. IMO the alien characters turned out to be more interesting than the human. In most sci-fi shows that's not the case. Not that there are no great alien characters in other shows, but they're usually ancillary compared to the human characters. B5 puts them out front in a big way, the show hinges on that. Putting more alien characters out front is mirrored in DS9. When I say "mirrored" I mean they copied that from B5. There was a lawsuit that Paramount lost because Straczynski had submitted B5 to Paramount first but they turned it down. Suddenly they had a great idea for a show with a space station by a wormhole, with many other similarities. Not gonna complain too much about that because we got characters like Garak and Dukat etc. So there's that. Wait am I ranting. Sorry about that. Was bored.

@krzosu

3 жыл бұрын

@John Daniels While The Expanse is quite cool the complexity of it's writing in comparison to B5... well it's way more simplified - B5 had so long and intricate story arcs, plots ,character developments that were literally spanning through enitre show - The expanse is more focused on delivering single contained stories with one maybe two lingering plots in the background like the protomolecule itself or tensions between the earth/mars/belt. With B5 this was way more intricate often with foreshadowing of things to come in entire seasons later. So nah while i like The expanse and indeed think currently it's the best Sci-fi show airing at the moment - nah B5 was way better written mate - Boomer juice or not :P

@WilbertLek

3 жыл бұрын

Anyone peddling "god" crap doesn't know what the Gre'Thor they're talking about.

@jdbarr769

3 жыл бұрын

Expanse? Surely you Jest!

@jdbarr769

3 жыл бұрын

God is a Person who creates. Your comment was created. Now imagine a hypocritical baffoon claiming your comment self created out of thin air.

Little space dragons and vultures pecking at molari....nice touch. Classic.. 👍🥴

_"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it."_ - Florence Ambrose (Freefall #255)

@guspaz

Жыл бұрын

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke, 1968 "[...] an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicians [...]" - Isaac Asimov, 1952

*_"Then perhaps it is Magic. Magic of the human heart. Focused and made manifest by technology."_*

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you write a dialogue. God i miss that quality....

@Jokie155

3 жыл бұрын

Ah yes, draw from one example and leave no room for other writers to find their own style.

@marcmagnier

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jokie155 Ha yes, draw from one sentence and make wild conclusions.

@JnEricsonx

3 жыл бұрын

So happy I met JMS back in 2010. And Peter Jurasik and the late Andreas Katsulas a few years before that.

This dialog makes my skin tingle every time I see it.

Sheridan foreshadows sending a Babylon station back 1000 years in time.

Wish we could have seen more of the Technomages.

@JamesRichardsPlays

11 ай бұрын

I am going to repair that statement with "Wish we could have seen more of the Technomages, beyond the train-wreck that was was Crusade" ;) I did read the novelizations. Not bad.

@Avallachgrey

11 ай бұрын

@James Richards fair enough but I didn't count crusade. Lol

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@JamesRichardsPlays Crusade had good intentions. The ones that weren't used to pave the road to Hell.

@DanielAppleton-lr9eq

4 ай бұрын

@@Avallachgrey You chose wisely, to quote the ancient knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Scientist - Warriors Not to be messed with. You don't mess with Cochise either.

Michael Ansara also played King in ST:TOS, ST:DS9 and ST:VOY, he also Princess Ardala's 2IC, Cain, in "Buck Rogers and the 25th Century".

A fairly respectable imitation of Carl Sagan.

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

I was wondering she someone would get around to it ;) buuuuut. .... I'll let others.

Maybe in a way it is magic, the orange blossom hints at that. Nice touch at the end.

This one of my favorite scenes from the Babylon 5 series.

Superb series. Almost time for my Annual Boxed Set Marathon. {:o:O:}

I really miss this show.

Techno-mages are cool...😎😎😎

That Technomage versus Bester, who would win?

"We know how to be poor" Oh crap. I think I may be a techno mage!

GREAT WORK

Londo and Sheridan get taught lessons by Mr Freeze

I don't remember this episode. Michael Ansara was one of my favorite Actors.

One of my most favorite episodes from one of my most favorite shows, but one of the few things that ever annoyed me in B5 is how much that flower does NOT look anything like an orange blossom. All they got right was the color lol

Luckily Galen hung around. Good old Galen.

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say he hung around. I think he went against Elrich's "suggestions" and returned to the IA when news of Earth's quarantine reached their cabal.

The first name that comes to mind when I saw the mage. Wes Studi!

@3:47 it would have been nice if they could’ve returned and imparted that idea to the Narns after what they went through

Loved Babylon 5 and Crusade and the idea of the Techno-Mage. What is a Techno-Mage ? Someone who uses tech to simulate the effects of magic. 🙂

90's SciFi costumes were so Puffy back then

My personal choice for Professor X

Awwww, you cut out the best parts. Narn opera ! 500k shares in Spooland !

@JamesRichardsPlays

3 жыл бұрын

XD Yeah, I know. I was mainly concentrating on the wisdom of the character of Elric. I re-cut it again to be just the Orange Blossom scene for another discussion on another platform.

Интересно, кем впоследствии оказались техномаги. Жаль,что эта история не получила продолжения.

@Teardehawkee

2 жыл бұрын

There starting it up again......maybe we'll get answers about them.

Did He ever get Flounders Brother Car back in One Piece, and explain how His Brothers Car is the Leader of A New Cult Classic: The Seashore songs and Dancing with Vir, that's Sweeping the Station that led to lack Security Protocols and Driving The Babylonians off the Station in the First Place, these Deep Questions were never fully Explored or even Brought up what a missed opportunity

It makes me think that these technomages weren't necessarily so smart. Maybe they just got thier hands on some First One technology, reverse engineered it and used that as a basis for all of thier other stuff. OR, as a hedge, maybe the Vorlons helped them as well, to use in the coming Shadow war.

@nickmitsialis

3 жыл бұрын

I had heard/read in some 'canonical'(?) materials that the Technomages used to be tools of the Shadows (not just any First one!) and they are the source of the tech. No idea if it's true or how they broke away from being The Shadows' puppets.

@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickmitsialis In some of the books that came later there was a bit of info on their origin. They were created by the shadows, essentially as agents of chaos. They managed to break free and when the shadows were about to return they preferred to leave known space rather than risking becoming the tool of the shadow race again.

@nickmitsialis

3 жыл бұрын

@@gameoverinsertcointocontin8102 I'[m surprised the Technomages survived. The Shadows didn't seem like a bunch who forgave such things.

@sunnchilde

3 жыл бұрын

@@nickmitsialis I don't know, but I can't see the Shadows tolerating any impudence from any of thier servants.

@totemictoad4691

3 жыл бұрын

@@sunnchilde in essence they broke free during a hibernation period when only the other 'servant' races were awake, none of whom dared to wake up the bosses to deal with it, yeah the implication is they ran and hid because while they could fight the drakh or the streib, hte shadows would be like,,, lol primatives SNAP and your tech is off

R.I.P. Michael George Ansara.......