Babylon 5

[bdub76]

I'm up to about half way through season two, and still enjoying it! Most of the main characters are pretty interesting, the only one I'm ambivalent about so far is Talia. It's also taken me a while to warm up to Sheridan too, but he's been getting better. I still prefer Sinclair though!

The story behind Michael O'Hare leaving B5 is really depressing:

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And then if you look at the rest of the actors, you'll find a lot of depressing stuff. A lot died at 60 or earlier.

I was lucky enough to hear them at Phoenix Comicon for the anniversary. I didn't expect so many to die since then.

Here's that panel. It's really good:

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[V'Lias]

The story behind Michael O'Hare leaving B5 is really depressing:

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And then if you look at the rest of the actors, you'll find a lot of depressing stuff. A lot died at 60 or earlier.

I was lucky enough to hear them at Phoenix Comicon for the anniversary. I didn't expect so many to die since then.

Here's that panel. It's really good:

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I had read a bit on that, it is very sad. I thought his exit from the series felt a bit unplanned, so I looked it up.

I'll have to check those things out at some point! I'm trying to avoid spoilers for the moment, so I might wait a bit so I don't learn anything too early!

 

[bdub76]

I had read a bit on that, it is very sad. I thought his exit from the series felt a bit unplanned, so I looked it up.

I'll have to check those things out at some point! I'm trying to avoid spoilers for the moment, so I might wait a bit so I don't learn anything too early!

There are no spoilers in the first video. It's strictly about him leaving the show.

 

[V'Lias]

There are no spoilers in the first video. It's strictly about him leaving the show.

Okay, sounds good!

 

[somebuddyX]

Excalibur being pursued by Earthforce during Season 2. So my theory is that there was another Excalibur-type ship out there belonging to the guys that built the Shadow Hybrids. They used it to commit some serious crime, maybe destroying a civilian ship or colony, and framed Excalibur for it. So Gideon goes on the run and then Lochley is tasked with bringing him in. In this art my idea is that Lochley teamed up with Ivanova and used her Warlock-class ship Titans as her command ship. The Titans apparently keeps Ulkesh's ship aboard it (this is real, not something I made up - apparently it fixed itself from exploding?!) and I thought it would be an interesting asset in trying to stop Excalibur, somehow.

 

[David cgc]

The Titans apparently keeps Ulkesh's ship aboard it (this is real, not something I made up - apparently it fixed itself from exploding?!)

Yep. B5 collected the debris for analysis, and the ship slowly reassembled itself, at which point they decided to just lock up that docking bay and never go into it again (until the thing with the oddly-named Titans. Why is it not "Titan"?).

 

[Frightscape One]

Yep. B5 collected the debris for analysis, and the ship slowly reassembled itself, at which point they decided to just lock up that docking bay and never go into it again (until the thing with the oddly-named Titans. Why is it not "Titan"?).

Probably named after the group of gods before the Olympian gods. There were a number of Earthforce ships named after mythological figures: Furies, Prometheus, Heracles, etc.

 

[David cgc]

Probably named after the group of gods before the Olympian gods. There were a number of Earthforce ships named after mythological figures: Furies, Prometheus, Heracles, etc.

Good point, I didn't consider Furies rather than Fury would be a precedent for naming one ship after many things.

 

[somebuddyX]

Yep. B5 collected the debris for analysis, and the ship slowly reassembled itself, at which point they decided to just lock up that docking bay and never go into it again (until the thing with the oddly-named Titans. Why is it not "Titan"?).

I think it's following the same kind of naming as Furies, rather than just Fury I guess. Funny thing is, to me, I heard Furies as Furious, which I then named a star destroyer in my fanfiction after, and then was really surprised when I found out I'd misheard it for over a decade.