My rewatch of Babylon 5 continues........ Such an emotional ride

[Gingerbread Demon]

Season 3 is a full on wild ride.... It most certainly is.


You guys were right about the feels too, this season hits all the emotions, happy, sad, and a lot of anger.... Two characters made that one happen lots and lots. That political officer bitch (am I allowed to say that?) and the guy that took control of Nightwatch .. Both of them quite literally took the bullshit Clarke was spinning as if they had both been brainwashed. She seemed to have her head so far up her own ass she couldn't see what was around her. How does someone even get like that without being manipulated into believing that even?


It does leave me with a lot of questions that I feel leave room for your own interpretation. The show doesn't have to spell everything out and I think they left a lot of stuff out for us the viewers to figure out on our own.


Here's my list of questions.


Was Clarke always this way and wanting a coup even had the shadows not come along?

Did he have all this BS stuff like Nightwatch all planned and ready to go?

The Psi Corp wanting to play nice with the shadows too. But why?


I'm having the time of my life with this rewatch but it's an emotional ride. I think Severed Dreams is one of the penultimate episodes, Sheridan speech time........ I can't wait.

 

[Forbin]

Hell, even the opening credits of S3 get your blood pumping!!

Shari Shattuck plays the political officer, and despite the creepy character, holy cow is she beautiful!!

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Hell, even the opening credits of S3 get your blood pumping!!

Shari Shattuck plays the political officer, and despite the creepy character, holy cow is she beautiful!!

Indeed she was. But she was super creepy. I wonder what happened to her later

 

[David cgc]

Indeed she was. But she was super creepy. I wonder what happened to her later

She seems like a survivor. Probably was never conclusively linked to ordering or participating in any crimes or atrocities, and continued on in her career like nothing happened, like Mr. Wells from the season two finale who still had his same job in Crusade, or Clark's speechwriter who was a talking-head pundit on ISN before his body was even cold in the season 4 finale.

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Something I only noticed recently in that scene is her threat/foreshadowing about how Sheridan's reputation as a war hero would be turned against him if he didn't follow the party line.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I'm watching it right now, but just found out it's leaving Amazon Prime again in five days. I know it's on Roku TV but Roku TV sucks. Why can't Babylon 5 stay on any good streaming service for more than a short time?

 

[korblborp]

I'm watching it right now, but just found out it's leaving Amazon Prime again in five days. I know it's on Roku TV but Roku TV sucks. Why can't Babylon 5 stay on any good streaming service for more than a short time?

it's been on tubi for a good while, and still is. i only knew it was on aPrime because i saw it there after i wanted to watch an episode during the superbowl and couldn't, and got mad at tubi and switched services...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I'm watching it right now, but just found out it's leaving Amazon Prime again in five days. I know it's on Roku TV but Roku TV sucks. Why can't Babylon 5 stay on any good streaming service for more than a short time?

I'm up to "Secrets of light and dark" wow another group of baddies on the station.

 

[JD]

Season 3 was when the show really hit it's stride.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

it's been on tubi for a good while, and still is. i only knew it was on aPrime because i saw it there after i wanted to watch an episode during the superbowl and couldn't, and got mad at tubi and switched services...

Is Tubi free and if so does it have the same problems of Roku TV as mid-sentence ad breaks?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Is Tubi free and if so does it have the same problems of Roku TV as mid-sentence ad breaks?

Tubi is free but has ads but I love it for obscure oddball stuff

 

[Forbin]

On the B5 Facebook groups, someone occasionally mentions how much they love the finale, "Asleep in the Light."
Gotta be a bot.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

On the B5 Facebook groups, someone occasionally mentions how much they love the finale, "Asleep in the Light."
Gotta be a bot.

For a short while when the show was brand new after the finale I woke up to catch the sunrise for a few weeks and it was a lovely experience

 

[korblborp]

Is Tubi free and if so does it have the same problems of Roku TV as mid-sentence ad breaks?

i think they're usually in places actual ad breaks were

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I just ended season 3

I really have forgotten how good of a show this was.

The whole of season 3 takes you through such a wide range of emotions from happy and funny to downright angry.

Of course there's a few duds along the way like Grey 17, but overall the good episodes outweighed the bad ones.

Those final few moments. Chills

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

And now we have finished

I ended season 4 and what a fantastic series. I tried to like season 5 but just couldn't I only watched two of my favourite episodes "A view from the gallery" and "Day of the dead" and then put the DVDs back on the shelf for another time.. I just couldn't. I tried to watch the whole Byron thing but nup, nope just didn't like it. Sorry

 

[Forbin]

Yabbut after Byron, the series gets back to its old self.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

What about:
+ The 5x TV Movies:
_ - "B5: The Gathering"
_ - "B5: In the Beginning"
_ - "B5: Thirdspace"
_ - "B5: The River of Souls"
_ - "B5: A Call to Arms"
- "B5: Legend of the Rangers"
- "B5: Crusade"
- "B5: The Lost Tales"
- "B5: The Road Home"

Did you finish watching those on your Re-Watch?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What about:
+ The 5x TV Movies:
_ - "B5: The Gathering"
_ - "B5: In the Beginning"
_ - "B5: Thirdspace"
_ - "B5: The River of Souls"
_ - "B5: A Call to Arms"
- "B5: Legend of the Rangers"
- "B5: Crusade"
- "B5: The Lost Tales"
- "B5: The Road Home"

Did you finish watching those on your Re-Watch?

Only watched all the B5 movies, Thirdspace is my favourite....

I did watch the last two episodes of season 5 back to back because Sleeping In Light is one of the best episodes ever of anything.

But you know what had they ended the series at season 4 I would have been happy.

 

[Picard1994]

Was Clarke always this way and wanting a coup even had the shadows not come along?

Did he have all this BS stuff like Nightwatch all planned and ready to go?

As much as I love Babylon 5, this, in my opinion is one big flaw of the show. We didn't get to see enough of Clark or got an explaination of why he did what he did. If not a complete episode showing his point of view then at least one scene would have done.

 

[DonIago]

But you know what had they ended the series at season 4 I would have been happy.

I suppose I can't speculate on whether I would have missed something that had never been made, but I thought the Centauri Prime arc at the end was spectacularly tragic and did a good job of filling in the blanks between where we were and where we knew things would eventually go for some of the characters.