Why is babylon 5 the best space show?

why is babylon 5 the best space show?

After watching this show it became obvious where the Mass Effect writers got alot of their ideas from. The Citadel is literally Babylon 5 just with a different name and look.

damn i see it now
narn = krogran
minbari = asari
centauri = turians
vorlon = hanar

90s/00s sci-fi shows in general, but yeah Babylon 5 in particular. Also influenced by Star Trek, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Andromeda, etc

I remember thinking it was a boring soap opera or some shit. Maybe i will give it another try.

Don't forget The Shadows = The Reapers.

I only watch sci-fi shows with fuckable aliens, and even the one that was supposed to be attractive was fucking BALD. 0/10 would not fap.

yeah there was a distinct lack of fanservice in B5, you had some hot psychics and that was it

She gets hair later on, don't ask how. Just watch the show, its kino.

Anon the B5 station itself is just a bunch of O'Neill colonies.
While the citadel is a stanford torus with the city itself on petals that can close up to create an o'neill cylinder. But in mass effect they have artificial gravity, in B5 they don't (except when they do).
Either way its pretty standard "Semi-realistic space-opera" space colonies.

after watching trek and stargate it feels nice to watcha show where it feels like the world is moving along regardless of the events of the show. there's stuff going on in the 'background' not directly tied to the main story. like a rebellion on mars and political changes on earth. there's 'realistic' political factions like martian seperatists,telepaths,aliens with old grievences... all the political factions are believable not not forced like in other settings

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hair that manages to somehow get combed under her bone ridge

this will never not trigger the shit out of me. I understand the actress didn't want to shave her head and wear a bald cap forever, but jesus its bothered me for decades.

I can't jerk it to to no french lady from Lost lookin' bitch

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Literally unwatchable nerd shit

the Babylon station is able to spin, creating artificial gravity.

After initially writing it off for its home computer graphics, I tried to get into it but was so infuriated by an early episode centred on the doctor that I dropped it and never went back.

That's simulated gravity, artificial gravity is what they have on the ranger and mimbari ships to explain why they don't need rotating bits like the earth ships.

Spin the drum!

moonwalks through your intergalactic politics with a couple war crimes and two fingers way up

i think in the original oniell cyllinder concept it had transparent parts.

i thought the citadel was like that too only it keeps the surface of the petals pressurized using some kind of magic force field like the one your character uses (kinetic barriers)

why the hell do their feet look so huge

You know what they say about guys with huge feet…

niggers

What? This shit is an old as fuck concept. Look up oneill cylinders and all that. It comes from old scifi.

Babylon 5 was great but its human ships have the same problem as star wars: decks aligned horizontally like they're on an ocean ship. Ships would be like a skyscraper so you'd have force holding you to the deck while under thrust.

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I might be wrong, its been a long time since I've read the codex, but one of the things element zero and mass effects fields are good at is creating artificial gravity and inertial dampening.
But yeah, the basic o'neill cyllinder is a long tube with "stripes" of land and water, the water is over the "windows" but its closed on both sides and pressurized.
If you make one big enough it should be able to generate internal weather systems, but because of how things are spinning the cyclonic storms will form and spin on their sides.
Really you'd need to build them in pairs spinning the opposite directions to keep the torque from spinning it.
You'd also use mirrors to reflect sunlight into the colony, and not rely on raw ass sunlight while maintaining a 24 hour day/night cycle.

The only sci fi shows from that era I've watched are firefly and farscape
Farscape is my all time favourite show

Babylon 5 sucks and it’s boring as fuck. Sheridan is a shitty captain compared to Sinclair and Garibaldi’s arc was retarded. The only interesting parts were watching Katsulas and Jurasik act circles around everyone else.

t. Farscape enjoyer

decks aligned horizontally like they're on an ocean ship

Anon because most of the big earth ships have huge rotating sections with an "up" and "down." The only other ship you see the inside of is the ranger ships which have artificial gravity.
Also the star furies are given a lot of praise for being designed to operate in 3d where they can point different directions than they're moving.

while maintaining a 24 hour day/night cycle

I don't think that's something that will last forever. One aspect of scifi I feel is not explored as much as it should be is that the longer humans are out in space, the more they will change and drift away from the old terrestrial norms. There's no need to stay on a 24 hour clock except that our bodies are used to it. There's no need to simulate gravity except that's how humans at the moment like it. Humans of the future could be completely adapted to only live in zero/low-G and a vastly different sleep wake-cycle among other things.

no b5 spinoff where G'kar and Londo retire to space florida and share a condo

No, only a tiny fraction of the big earth ships have rotating sections. Does this guy have rotating sections? No. Does it have horizontal decks. Yes.

Our biological animal has a circadian rhythm that's based on four billion years of evolution on a planet where (for the most part) days were about 24 hours long.
Even when they've done experiments where they put people in complete isolation with no access to time keeping, they'll still keep by habit a regular number of hours up, and the number asleep. Without having the sun dictating that you WILL start to shift around a 24 hour period, but this is because humans are social animals, and if inside of a large enough group you have someone who is ALWAYS awake, then you have a natural lookout for lions and tigers and shit like that.
Also if you plan on keeping contact with earth (or wherever) its convenient to keep yourself on a similar schedule so you can figure out what time it is in tokyo without needing a slide ruler.
The TL:DR you'll naturally fall into a 24-26 hours sleep-wake cycle, its built into you on a cellular level.

There's no need to simulate gravity

There's health reasons to have gravity.

Play a character who is a member of an organization that seeks to control the minds of society.

Lyta was so much better

Leaves to become a news anchor at CNN

A bit on the nose, don't you think?

ME writers actually said b5 was a strong influence.