There was a Twitter campaign last year to support the #Babylon5 remake. I tweeted 100 reasons I love Babylon 5. I will repost all 100 here, to count down to #TheRoadHome release next month. (There are more than 100 reasons I love Babylon 5; that's just where I stopped the tweets :P )
Reasons I love #Babylon5 1/100: At this point I don't love it just because it's good (though it is, and you should watch it), but because I've loved it for decades and it's familiar, like a dear old friend.
Reasons I love #Babylon5 2/100: The mix of long arc and standalone episode content is EXACTLY my jam. The long arc is amazing, btw, and there's little bits and pieces of the main story in all episodes, even if it doesn't seem like it on first viewing.
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 5/100: The pretty space backgrounds, but ALSO, have you ever seen space ships this creepy looking?? Wait until you hear them! :D
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 9/100: Related to reason 8, this piece of music. Listen to it and find yourself full on sobbing by 3:40. https://youtu.be/FPMddFcDoas
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 12/100: Watching with people who are new to it is endlessly satisfying! (This had an embed of an older tweet with a gif, and the caption "Me, making people watch Babylon 5 with me :D" I can't download the gif, so have a still instead)
@Lotje@jynersolives we named one of our cats (now departed) Galen after the techno mage in Crusade. The cat was dumb as a rock, so didn’t live up to his namesake. Our other one at the time was Delenn.
PS. Now we have River and Simon in a never ending homage to niche Sci Fi.
Reasons I love #Babylon5 , 19/100: Robert Englund, as Jeremiah, picking up the Zarg's hand to get a good look at the knife claw lolol (@mpatterson42 kindly made this gif for me :GrinLotje: )
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 27/100: Zathras. Also Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, Zathras, and Zathras. :D And the apparent raccoon infestation on Epsilon 3. https://youtu.be/v79fYnuVzdI
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 28/100: Complex characters. This man is definitely a bit of a fuckboy, can be a smug asshole and overly irritable, especially when dealing with addiction, but he is also extremely principled and committed to doing the right thing, regularly risking his career and his life.
(The original tweet was full of abbreviations because I couldn't fit everything. I have written out all the words here for clarity, so I've it's a little different, but I still consider this a repost of the original :P )
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 29/100: Regent Virini's obsession with pastels :D I still use "I think we're well beyond pastels now" as a signature in lots of places. https://youtu.be/BaUoRZLjl2k
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 31/100: Some really interesting characters we only see a few times. Like Draal. "Quickly, what is the third principle of sentient life?"
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 41/100: The tragedy of Emperor Turhan traveling all that way when dying, to apologize to a Narn in person, only to die before he gets the chance & for scheming schemers to use his death to further their own shitty agenda. https://youtu.be/IydexlGiAxA
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 44/100: Those ranger pins are so cool! Maybe not the BEST idea to wear them openly when you're still trying to keep your organization secret, but, super cool :D
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 48/100: It's been 25 years and I still jump and cheer a little when the Agamemnon appears on the other side of the explosion. HERE BE S4 SPOILERS, DO NOT WATCH IF NEW TO B5. https://youtu.be/MXkIuVLnsFE?t=183
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 49/100: This utterly terrifying moment. How creepy would it be to get a distress call featuring .. yourself. From the future??
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 50/100: Tricia O'Neil as the president of Earth in In the Beginning, when Earth is about to fall to the Minbari. https://youtu.be/NzJaQtZty5M?t=101
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 55/100: It's got a couple archaeologist characters who are NOT assholes who endanger everyone around them/the whole universe for ambition or profit reasons (tbf it's got some of the other kind too :P )
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 56/100: I know I already said "pretty space backgrounds" AND "the White Star" BUT, "White Star ships seen against pretty space backgrounds" still counts :D
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 61/100: The fact that from S1E1, Ivanova only wears one earring (except when dressed up). It's never mentioned or focused on in any way, until it's explained several years later.
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 64/100: The utter disdain for the other faction + annoyance at Ivanova not comprehending the situation in these Drazi's expressions :D "Purple! How are you not getting this??"
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 71/100: Vir inventing a whole fake bureaucrat to do important work, but failing to come up with a better name than Ambrahamo Lincolni.
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 72/100: These things. No idea how they're supposed to be operated, because there's so few buttons, but you can do basically anything with them. Still, I love them :D
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 85/100: When we learn that one of the many things Lennier learned in the Temple where he spent most of his life is kicking people's asses.
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 90/100: "We have come home." He's such a speech-er, but this is a pretty good one :D (Video very spoilery, be warned) https://youtu.be/JgGVyNdn0Jg
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 98/100: This Centauri in the background, nodding along with everyone else complaining about Humans and their colonialist tendencies. Bro. You're a Centauri. Maybe sit this one out.
Reasons I love #Babylon5, 100/100 : [original tweet as it appeared when I first wrote these] I've reached 100, so, I'll take a break. Rest assured, there are many more reasons to <3 B5! I asked my friends which scene I should pick for my last post [FOR NOW!] and @mpatterson42 immediately suggested this v. appropriate one.
This is not pasta but it's bagna cauda. It's a completely different dish.
It's a preparation made with garlic and desalted and deboned anchovies, cooked slowly in olive oil, reducing it to a sauce. It's consumed by dipping various types of vegetables into it.
I have a friend from Piemonte (bagna cauda is typical from that region) and he has always jokingly said that bagna cauda must have a lot of garlic and should be eaten together so that we can shield from each other. 😂
in E. E. "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, the big brained Arisians played a game: Visualization of the Cosmic All. By raw brainpower they deduced what was going to happen.
I and others could do this with Babylon 5. Something would happen. We'd say, well that implies that X will happen. And in a few episodes, X would indeed occur.
@Lotje
Example: the Alien Healing Machine introduced in The Quality of Mercy.
In any other show, you'd never see it again. But in B5 it reappeared in Revelations and Endgame, just where one deduced it.
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