If you have Netflix DVD service, last I heard it was available there. Otherwise you might try the library or used.
Jan
Babylon 5
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If you have Netflix DVD service, last I heard it was available there. Otherwise you might try the library or used.
Jan
The complete box set, new, including the movies and Crusade, is available for around $100 or £70. Individual seasons of B5 can be bought for around $15 or £10. Bargain.
Or we could just wait a century for the copyright to lapse.
I'm exactly that patient and cheap.
I'm exactly that patient and cheap.
^^ It'll be extended by then. 
Right on on Amazon USA each season and the set of movies are $8.49 each.
Wow! Sharing this around. Everybody should have a set to lend out to potential fans, shouldn't they?
Jan
Wow! Sharing this around. Everybody should have a set to lend out to potential fans, shouldn't they?
Jan
I plan on asking my sister to just borrow her's so yes.
You'll get less than half way through, and see that one of the disks are terribly corrupted.
Then you'll get into an argument with your sister about paying to replace it.
"Sigh"
Then you'll get into an argument with your sister about paying to replace it.
"Sigh"
You are a horrible person. If that happened I would just download the disc and never tell my sister there was an issue. I mean come on now.
Surely she'd notice that the new diskface is a hand-drawn manga of the White Star blowing up a Shadow Destroyer?
The DVDs will be fine.
But if you mansplain that even unwatched DVDs have a life expectancy of barely ten years, she'll make that #### a Christmas present for someone, and maybe even you, after she's replaced her collection with high res Blurays.
(I want to say that her name is Heather?)
But if you mansplain that even unwatched DVDs have a life expectancy of barely ten years, she'll make that #### a Christmas present for someone, and maybe even you, after she's replaced her collection with high res Blurays.
(I want to say that her name is Heather?)
One thing I find interesting is that the human race (as a whole) was placed in the position of being an underdog.
In terms of sophisticated technology, humanity ranked low compared to other species. Which was a disaster during the Earth-Minbari War. The Minibari, who were too formidable, have been compared to Spanish conquistadors, while Earthlings have been compared to Aztecs.
In terms of sophisticated technology, humanity ranked low compared to other species. Which was a disaster during the Earth-Minbari War. The Minibari, who were too formidable, have been compared to Spanish conquistadors, while Earthlings have been compared to Aztecs.
Isn't it hubris when writers elevate humans above their foes with clichés about we, as the underdog, overcoming the odds with some cleverness? I have to groan with any ending that goes something like this: "Of all the civilizations I have encountered across the cosmos, you humans are unique. You are at your very best when things are at their worst."*
Oh, please...
It's too self-congratulatory for my tastes. Such an ending has credibility and objectivity only when the writer is not human. i.e., never. I'm not saying Babylon 5 comes out and hits you on the nose about it. But the mention of "underdog" reminds me of so many that do.
* I enjoyed Starman despite the cliché.
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Pretty much every story I've ever come across dealing with humans first encounters with alien has had the humans as a lot less technologically advanced than the aliens. Enterprise, SG-1, Farscape, and Mass Effect come to mind first as examples, but there have been a lot of others too.
^ Andromeda also springs to mind.
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