Mr. Garibaldi --- kicking ass and taking names!
Posted on 07/01/2018 5:55:57 AM PDT by Flick Lives
Fans of Babylon 5 have for years hoped for their favorite show to end up on a subscription streaming service. After a short stay on go90, it looks like Babylon 5 fans have good news. Today on Twitter the creator of Babylon 5 announced that all 5 seasons of the show will be coming to Amazon Prime in June 2018.
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One of the first series I watched on Tubi TV was The Goode Family. It was a short animated series by Mike Judge about some Austin liberals who try as best they can to be leftists in good standing, they slip up, hypocrisies are exposed, and maybe some of what they rebel against wasn’t so worth fighting to begin with.
They try to make their dog Che a vegan too but he catches any stray prey he can (squirrels, pets, etc.).
It is truly astounding the number of cast members who have died from Babylon 5. If there is any future revival it will have little connection to what has gone before.
Loved the series but the ending was a you gotta be kidding me moment. I’ll spare the spoilers but all I could think was after 5 years of build up, that’s the pay off?
I gave up television in total in 2008 with the 24-7 pro-Obama media campaign. Pretty much went without for 9 years.
I did have a Netflix DVD account at a point but that’s been closed for years now.
Pretty much did away with nightly tv watching. Watched movies even less frequently (I own a large number and don’t even watch those so much these days).
My tv died in 2008 and didn’t see the point in joining the rat race in buying the “new improved” pixelated digital tvs.
Around 2010 someone gave me an old tube tv which I left unplugged until around 2015 and eventually hooked it up to a digital antenna receiver.
People are going to watch what they want and pay whoever they want to do so. I don’t judge their viewing or spending habits. Just found it odd that replacing one cord with another is “cutting”.
I just cut them out completely. I got tired of them insulting my politics, my religion, my history, my country, my tastes at every turn. Even if a broadcast program didn’t include ‘talking points’ the advertising around it (PSAs, promos for news and other programming, and corporate ads) did. They are unwelcome in my home.
The tv I do watch is largely old movies and old reruns on a couple of the alternate digital broadcast channels. And sometimes that is just background noise while cooking, etc.
If I bothered to get a new needle for my turntable or connect up my stereo, I’d probably tune them out for another 10 years. I am not the target age, sex, color, sexual preference, or economic demographic audience.
Nothing but stupidity and propaganda comes out of it anyway.
AP also recently added Space: 1999 [Season 1 of 2].
I remember watching most of that series, but I missed the final episodes — no VCR/DVR in those days.
I watched the first two episodes last evening on AP. They weren’t too dated [1975-78], except for the bell-bottom slacks. The graphics were okay, too. The series has been remastered for widescreen.
Each season has 24 episodes of about 50 minutes in length with an episode 25 added to Season 2 in 1999.
http://www.tv.com/shows/space-1999/
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07F222W6J/ref=atv_wtlp_wtl_1
B5 was originally syndicated through the PTEN Network. It collapsed after the third season and B5 barely got it’s 4th season and did not look like it would receive a 5th.
JMS wanted to ensure that the main story was completed and that resulted in a compressed 4th season with a lot of side-story being removed. Towards the end of the 4th season, Babylon Productions reached an agreement with TNT that would guarantee a 5th and final season along with 4 telefilms and a spin-off series.
The real problem with the 5th season was that the main story had already been completed. The series finale had actually been shot as the end of the 4th season, but was replaced when TNT picked up the series.
The Eagles were the best part of 1999.
I forgot about PTEN.
A couple of my other favorites were theirs, Time Trax and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.
I was just the opposite, the most powerful forces in the Galaxy are crybaby bedwetters.
It only rates 6.5 on IMBD but maybe I will watch an episode.
It may have been reviewed by a bunch of Libs who are made uncomfortable by how close it strikes to home.
It only rates 6.5 on IMBD but maybe I will watch an episode.
It may have been reviewed by a bunch of Libs who are made uncomfortable by how close it strikes to home.
Hulu is owned by Disney (owns ABC and ESPN), 21st Century Fox, and Comcast (also owns NBC).
I still remember the episode “into the fire”...
Morden: So what are you going to do Mollari, blow up the island?
Londo: Well...now that you mention it...(holds up detonator)
Morden: Noooo!
Mr. Garibaldi --- kicking ass and taking names!
Git the dvd version. Loved or going to watch it again soon I think.
Not as personable as King of the Hill, not as crude as Beavis & Butthead, not as on target as Idiocracy or Office Space.
Sheldon on Babylon 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVFFQYz_Awk
Deep Space Nine was a ripoff of Babylon 5
B5 was a rather a good SF show but uneven in execution. The good episodes were really good but it had its share of clunker episodes too (especially in the filler 5th season). To be fair so did the original Star Trek (3rd season).
B5’s biggest strengths were the planned 5 year plot arc and an outstanding secondary cast (Vir, Morden, Lennier(sp), Londo, G’kar, Girbaldi, Marcus) many of whom I thought were better actors than the mains.
The conputer SFX aged poorly but if you can get past that it’s actually a pretty decent space opera with some nice big plot twists and/or cliff hangers at the end of each season. It tended to lean libertarian in its politics (but not as much as Firefly) and was generally respectful towards people of faith (including Christians and Jews) unlike 90% of the stuff you see today.
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