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Having started this write-up literally a minute after finishing the show (with the tears still drying on my cheeks, I kid you not) I am ... perhaps not best equipped to give a sane and nuanced Show Is Awesome post. Nevertheless.
So there's this show. It ran on and off from 1993 to 1998, which makes me roughly as behind the curve in reporting my love for it as I was with due South. It almost got canceled quite a lot, and definitely almost got canceled between seasons four and five, which makes season four incredibly packed and season five incredibly not. It had fairly revolutionary effects for its time, being one of the first shows to rely a lot on CGI; the technology holds up abysmally, but I am given to believe that, aside from obligatory sound in space and your usual handwavey hyperspace travel, the physics holds up fairly well. The cast, including some of the main credit cast, has a tendency to get shuffled around a bit, with characters getting written out more or less gracefully. There is apparently a prank script where one of my OTPs got textually written; there are approximately a billion actual scripts where my other OTP was text for real.
Sometimes the things this show says make me uncomfortable; more often, the things it says and the way it articulates those things overjoys me. Sometimes the show kills its lesbians; more often, it passes the Bechdel test every time I've paid enough attention to test it out. Sometimes the show has characters or plotlines that bore me; much more often, I'm glued to the screen and will mainline six episodes a day because I desperately need to know what's going to happen.
The name of the show is Babylon 5, and I'm here to tell you why it's so awesome. Hopefully I can accomplish that without too many major spoilers, because I deeply enjoyed navigating the show blind. ( Squee, with visuals. Also: long and talky, unsurprisingly. )
And, like I said, the show is great. It is not 100% great all the time, and depending on how the fandom is, I might [a] stay joyful forever about it, a la due South, or [b] start deconstructing its fails, of which it has quite a few, a la Doctor Who. In either case, while it isn't perfect, it's fucking fantastic, and especially if you think/know you share narrative kinks with me, you should run, not walk, to see it. It is a show of my heart.
dfljkdsjhsd time to pack for WisCon.
So there's this show. It ran on and off from 1993 to 1998, which makes me roughly as behind the curve in reporting my love for it as I was with due South. It almost got canceled quite a lot, and definitely almost got canceled between seasons four and five, which makes season four incredibly packed and season five incredibly not. It had fairly revolutionary effects for its time, being one of the first shows to rely a lot on CGI; the technology holds up abysmally, but I am given to believe that, aside from obligatory sound in space and your usual handwavey hyperspace travel, the physics holds up fairly well. The cast, including some of the main credit cast, has a tendency to get shuffled around a bit, with characters getting written out more or less gracefully. There is apparently a prank script where one of my OTPs got textually written; there are approximately a billion actual scripts where my other OTP was text for real.
Sometimes the things this show says make me uncomfortable; more often, the things it says and the way it articulates those things overjoys me. Sometimes the show kills its lesbians; more often, it passes the Bechdel test every time I've paid enough attention to test it out. Sometimes the show has characters or plotlines that bore me; much more often, I'm glued to the screen and will mainline six episodes a day because I desperately need to know what's going to happen.
The name of the show is Babylon 5, and I'm here to tell you why it's so awesome. Hopefully I can accomplish that without too many major spoilers, because I deeply enjoyed navigating the show blind. ( Squee, with visuals. Also: long and talky, unsurprisingly. )
And, like I said, the show is great. It is not 100% great all the time, and depending on how the fandom is, I might [a] stay joyful forever about it, a la due South, or [b] start deconstructing its fails, of which it has quite a few, a la Doctor Who. In either case, while it isn't perfect, it's fucking fantastic, and especially if you think/know you share narrative kinks with me, you should run, not walk, to see it. It is a show of my heart.
dfljkdsjhsd time to pack for WisCon.
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