Babylon 5 viewing order

[David cgc]

Speaking of other problems with the DVDs, I don't understand why they didn't include the spoiler-free credits for the beginning of season two. It's no surprise what happens to Delenn as soon as the credits pop up the way it is now.

Either laziness or ignorance. They either didn't know there were two versions of the opening that season, or figured they could get away with cutting that corner. They got the change in Ivanova's credit right, but redoing the text overlay would be a lot simpler than scanning another set of visuals.

 

[JoeD80]

They got the change in Ivanova's credit right, but redoing the text overlay would be a lot simpler than scanning another set of visuals.

It's "Lt. Commander Ivanova" in the credits for all of season two on my DVDs. Looks like they just pulled the sequence from "Geometry of Shadows" and used that for all of them.

 

[David cgc]

Hm. So they did. I forgot that Ivanova wasn't promoted in the same episode that Delenn revealed herself, so I figured if it did say "Lt. Commander" in the first two episodes, that meant they'd changed it from the default.

 

[Gov Kodos]

Hm. So they did. I forgot that Ivanova wasn't promoted in the same episode that Delenn revealed herself, so I figured if it did say "Lt. Commander" in the first two episodes, that meant they'd changed it from the default.

I believe she was promoted in the episode with the Lumati Ambassador. I love that one.

 

[Aeon]

She was promoted in The Geometry Of Shadows.

 

[Gov Kodos]

She was promoted in The Geometry Of Shadows.

Ahh, well, so much for my memory.

 

[Phillip Culley]

I've also noticed other credit discrepancies on the DVD, including having Ivanova's credit on 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars' and the 'The Corps is Mother, The Corps is Father' missing the Psi-corps credit on the original R2 release (interestingly the R2 release of Season 2 kept Delenn in her full-Minbari make-up for the first two episodes)

Also, did they originally change the credits for Garibaldi and Zack halfway through Season 4 when Garibaldi quit and Zack became chief of Security? I seem to remember them switching them at the time, but I'm not 100% sure...

 

[JoeD80]

Also, did they originally change the credits for Garibaldi and Zack halfway through Season 4 when Garibaldi quit and Zack became chief of Security? I seem to remember them switching them at the time, but I'm not 100% sure...

Yep those credits were changed in the original run after "Epiphanies."

 

[Distorted Humor]

Corps is Mother, Corps is Father - This was a very well done episode, and I forgot how shocking B5 can be when it does so, when the almost sweet trainee (played by the girl from National Lampoons Vacation) spaces someone. It was also nice to see more of Bester.

 

[timothy]

I picked up season one of babylon 5 this week planning on my own rewatch all so picked up the complete farscape box set @ movie trading company.

 

[shivkala]

Corps is Mother, Corps is Father - This was a very well done episode, and I forgot how shocking B5 can be when it does so, when the almost sweet trainee (played by the girl from National Lampoons Vacation) spaces someone. It was also nice to see more of Bester.

It was nice to see another perspective of the Corps. In some cases, yes it did come across as a propaganda driven organization (the signs, the film, the over-eagerness of the recruits), while at the same time humanizing them. Babylon 5 did a great job of fleshing out its characters and giving human sides to the "villainous" characters, while also showing how the "heroes" could be "dirty" at times. For example, on the Lurker's Page for "Signs and Portents," JMS points out that Morden comes across as friendly and does nothing wrong, whereas Kosh spent the first part of the season being mysterious, manipulating events, tormenting Talia, and yet, we view Morden as the bad guy and Kosh as the good guy.

I unearthed some of my B5 books a few days ago, but I couldn't find the Psi-Corps trilogy (which is fine, considering I did find To Dream in the City of Sorrows, The Centauri Trilogy, and The Technomage Trilogy. Honestly, of these, I would have read the Psi-Corps books last, so I have time to find them).

 

[Snatcher42]

Any updates here? My run-through went right to the wire - I got the last episodes in the night before Netflix removed them from instant streaming (yes I own the DVDs, but I really wanted to see the show in fullscreen again)!

 

[timothy]

I loved B5 books wish they were in e form for my nook argh ...
doing my own rewatch now started with in the begining and then the gathering and finished the first four episodes of season one.

 

[timothy]

just watched the episode "deathwalker" from season one. never understood the whole kosh and ms.winters part of that story. other than that it was a great episode and we see some of the league ships as well like the drazi who i love. there ships look like dragsters. now who were the saucers and that weired spider type ship?

 

[Jan]

A lot of people speculate that the data crystal from Abbut would have been used to restore the 'real' Talia post-Divided Loyalties. I'm not sure I'm convinced of that due to the '"Reflection, surprise, terror. For the future,"' nature of what was recorded.

Not sure of the other ship you describe but the saucers were the Vree.

Jan

 

[Deranged Nasat]

...we see some of the league ships as well like the drazi who i love. there ships look like dragsters. now who were the saucers and that weired spider type ship?

The Iksha had the spiky globe ship. We never hear of them again, strangely, though as Jan says the saucers are from the Vree, who we do hear of/see again. The Vree pilot the larger saucers seen in later seasons, through the Shadow War, etc. The courtroom "grey" alien later in season one is a Vree. And they get name-dropped quite a few times.

 

[timothy]

just watched "signs and portents" who is the actor who plays mr.morden?

 

[Lindley]

Ed Wasser.

 

[timothy]

thanks for that. who was the voice for the computer of B5?

 

[Reverend]

Going by this, it looks like the role was uncredited.