How do you make a Sci-Fi series instantly better?

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 4:36 am

How do you make a Sci-Fi series instantly better?  Add more Babylon 5, of course!

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 5:53 am

Agreed

[Tok`ra]

posted on December 23rd, 2010, 4:32 pm

Last edited by Tok`ra on December 23rd, 2010, 4:34 pm, edited 1 time in total.

B5 had awesome opening themes.

Also the yo way yo song in lexx was pretty awesome too.




edit: I May edit the link if I find a better one of it.

posted on January 2nd, 2011, 8:35 pm

YouTube
- Lexx Intro
YouTube
- Lexx: season 1 intro
YouTube
- Lexx Season 2 Original Opening
YouTube
- Lexx Soundtrack- Season 3 Opening Theme

Your Choice. But I think Season 2 and 3 are the one you wanted.


But I like Farscape more
YouTube
- Farscape Season 1 Opening
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orh5IePXv_4&playnext=1&list=PL6C7B26A52CEA5512&index=48[/url%]
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sdZVqapWa0&playnext=1&list=PL6C7B26A52CEA5512&index=49[/url%]

But not that much like the bab5 intros.

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02bueOnZtNo[/url%]

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 1:18 am

Yeah, that song was pretty good.

Lexx started out nice, but it ended up way too silly for my tastes.

Still was one of the better sci fi series out there.

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 8:30 pm

I never got why people liked B5 so much, every plot got moved forward by either sheer stupidity or the fact that those black shirts  couldn't hit anyone

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 8:33 pm

It's all a matter of taste, no different to you liking Enterprise while many other Trekkies would claim such a thing.

posted on January 3rd, 2011, 10:32 pm

On Babylon 5 I only liked the interaction between Mollari and G'Kar. The only two characters I kinda cared about (at least until Mollari went out of character and became the shadow's puppet which messed it up for me).

The human characters however really annoyed me by behaving like children all the time.

posted on January 4th, 2011, 2:50 am

Yea I didn't mind Mollari becoming bad because it made sense but then he suddenly grew a conscience and I was like ok I guess 

posted on January 6th, 2011, 8:30 pm

I never got why people liked B5 so much, every plot got moved forward by either sheer stupidity or the fact that those black shirts  couldn't hit anyone

Sounds like you gave up during the first season (unless black shirts means Shadows, who actually just missed when firing at main characters, they tended to hit everyone else.) It gets better later in.

posted on January 6th, 2011, 9:06 pm

Sounds like you gave up during the first season (unless black shirts means Shadows, who actually just missed when firing at main characters, they tended to hit everyone else.) It gets better later in.

I had a very different impression. The story lateron ruined the characters I cared about or made pointless additions to them, replaced characters I cared about with dumb and uninteresting ones. The plot got weirder and weirder from season to season and I totally lost my interest to go on watching it. For example, the only thing about Sheridan that I liked was his common backstory with Delenn, however Sheridan was not a very intelligent person (he asked questions about self-explanatory things so he totally sucked). Not to mention Lennier throwing his actually interesting "weird-monk-style" away for becoming a Ranger, which was out-of-character in a very dumb way.

posted on January 7th, 2011, 3:48 am

Yea I totally agree that characters just got dumb and the plots were just weird, and by black shirts I mean the security guys for B5

posted on January 7th, 2011, 7:00 pm

This.

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posted on January 7th, 2011, 7:19 pm

That was a really well done intro!

posted on January 8th, 2011, 6:04 am

I had a very different impression. The story lateron ruined the characters I cared about or made pointless additions to them, replaced characters I cared about with dumb and uninteresting ones. The plot got weirder and weirder from season to season and I totally lost my interest to go on watching it. For example, the only thing about Sheridan that I liked was his common backstory with Delenn, however Sheridan was not a very intelligent person (he asked questions about self-explanatory things so he totally sucked). Not to mention Lennier throwing his actually interesting "weird-monk-style" away for becoming a Ranger, which was out-of-character in a very dumb way.

I actualy think Lennier's joining the rangers was more of a devolpment for his characther that fit the changes shown in his culture.

Think about it, in the start the mimbari were a caste based culture, then Delins changes and the shadow war threw that into whack, it was just his way of adapting to the changes.

Plus as I understood it Lennier was quite  young in the begining of the show, so if he was young making a major change as his whole culture undergoes changes made sense.

As for season to season dumbing down, I think it progressed quite nicely for the most part, however the way some bits were handled. Geraboldi's getting whacked out by the psicorps for example, he was one of my favorite characthers and that kinda ruined it, of course I dunno if that was result of other issues like the actor not having full time to devote or something. The way they did the shadow allies after the war I didnt really like. Molari for example, his interaction with G'kar was ruined by that.

Now the final season I really didnt like.

So B5 wins the war... sherridan leaves for Earth to take over ....... and some random earthforce chick takes over AND you have PsiCorps allowed to still exist and cause trouble.

That said, it was pretty much entirely the script, the actors did a prety good job.

Tho I still wonder why Checkov was in a Psi Corps uniform.