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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 20,111 |
| | Posted: | | | | Save 65% on "Babylon 5: The Complete Television Series"Save 65% on all five seasons of "Babylon 5," the epic sci-fi series often considered one of the greatest and most influential TV shows ever made. List Price: $299.98 Yesterday's Price: $177.99 Today's Discount: - $72.50 Gold Box Price: $105.49 (65% off) | | | | Corey |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 6,747 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | Those bad boys are totally worth it even at full price. At 65% off, you would have to be MAD not to pick up this series if you enjoy sci-fi and well-written storylines and multi-show & multi-season story arcs. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | That's about $3.50 a disc.
I paid about $11 at release, but some series you just have to have.
Now that Earth: Final Conflict series ! & 2 is coming out....... | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 1,946 |
| | Posted: | | | | There is an even sweeter deal for the R2 market over at Amazon UK. It's Babylon 5: The Complete Collection + The Lost Tales (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk), or in all 42 discs for the price of 56.87£. This set includes Season 1-5, all movies, Crusade and the Lost Tales. | | | View my collection at http://www.chriskepolis.be/home/dvd.htm
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | One bit of trivia about J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of B5, he produced and wrote almost every show of all five season. When writing the scripts, he would see the show play out in his head and then he would write down what was said and what was done. The show won two Hugos for Best Dramatic Presentation and two Emmy awards - for makeup and visual effects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5 |
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| Registered: December 13, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting cvermeylen: Quote:
There is an even sweeter deal for the R2 market over at Amazon UK.
It's Babylon 5: The Complete Collection + The Lost Tales (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk), or in all 42 discs for the price of 56.87£.
This set includes Season 1-5, all movies, Crusade and the Lost Tales. Thanks for that. Just ordered it.  Never watched this myself, but based on the general enthousiasm I figure it can't be a bad buy. (Not sure what the correct order to watch this is though.  ) |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mallrat: Quote:
(Not sure what the correct order to watch this is though. ) Pilot Film: The Gathering In the Beginning—prequel (optional, filmed after the series) Seasons 1 - 5 Thirdspace The River of Souls A Call to Arms The Legend of the Rangers The Lost Tales |
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| | Posted: | | | | Thanks Doc! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,747 |
| | Posted: | | | | One shouldn't watch "In the Beginning" before episode 4x09 "Atonement" because it contains a lot of spoilers, especially for the early seasons.
I'd watch
The Gathering (Pilot)
Season 1-5
In the Beginning
Thirdspace
River of Souls
A Call to Arms (backdoor-pilot to Crusade)
Crusade
Legend of the Rangers
Lost Tales
And a personal recommendation: One should watch B5 at least twice, because only then one will find most of the hints that were layed out in the early episodes. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting cvermeylen: Quote:
There is an even sweeter deal for the R2 market over at Amazon UK.
It's Babylon 5: The Complete Collection + The Lost Tales (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk), or in all 42 discs for the price of 56.87£.
This set includes Season 1-5, all movies, Crusade and the Lost Tales. I actually got this set myself earlier this year & am currently part way through season 2. Still a good series but the CGI now looks to be quite amateurish compared to modern series. I remember that I was impressed with it at the time. Edit: I've seen pretty much all of the original series (including "The Gathering") & about half of Crusade when originally broadcast just got the various films yet to see. Quote:
And a personal recommendation: One should watch B5 at least twice, because only then one will find most of the hints that were layed out in the early episodes. Definitely. It's got to be one of the most well planned out series I've seen. | | | | Last edited: by Ardos |
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| | Posted: | | | | And thank you too, Karsten! |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,747 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
Quoting cvermeylen:
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There is an even sweeter deal for the R2 market over at Amazon UK.
It's Babylon 5: The Complete Collection + The Lost Tales (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk), or in all 42 discs for the price of 56.87£.
This set includes Season 1-5, all movies, Crusade and the Lost Tales.
I actually got this set myself earlier this year & am currently part way through season 2. Still a good series but the CGI now looks to be quite amateurish compared to modern series. I remember that I was impressed with it at the time. Yes the CGI is not the best, but it's one hell of a story and when this one Omega Destroyer rammed the other one (for reasons I won't divulge here) with the music of Christopher Franke - it was an awesome scene. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: December 13, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 334 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
I actually got this set myself earlier this year & am currently part way through season 2. Still a good series but the CGI now looks to be quite amateurish compared to modern series. I remember that I was impressed with it at the time. Yes, considering the age that I sort of expected that. I don't mind though, gives me that warm nostalgic feeling  . Must be getting old. (I'm about to start on the 4th season of the X-files, also never watched that before, and it's visually outdated in all sorts of ways. Thoroughly enjoying it though  ) And the idea of multiple layers and ongoing subplots sounds very appealing to me! |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mallrat: Quote:
And the idea of multiple layers and ongoing subplots sounds very appealing to me! Never forget: Understanding is a three-edged sword! | | | Karsten
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,918 |
| | Posted: | | | | The CGI sequences were originally rendered in 4:3 NTSC format due to the expenses in rendering with the understanding that costs for re-rendering it later for HiDef would be significantly cheaper.
Unfortunately, the originals were lost so they were forced to remaster the 4:3 NTSC format which is why there is a clear change in quality between live action video (which was filmed in HiDef) and CGI video.
However, they did have the foresight to frame the CGI so that the top & bottom could be removed without ruining the frame. | | | | Last edited: by Dr. Killpatient |
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