The Making Of Babylon 5

[@janetchristian]

Hands down THE best science fiction television show of all time, and better than most science fiction movies.

[@dubstepzsi]

Here here totaly agree, i think i am not sure but i think Jmichael is bringing it back as a series. Did you know that that J Michael had the idea in the mid 80's and it took all that time to write and bring it to the screen :) so maybe he is working on a new series now as we speak and will take his time to make sure he gets it right i think thats why it wa such a hit.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

Calm down, it's awesome, but not of all time... the final season kinda pissed in its own mouth.

[@bassplayer1966]

@@CaptainSpalding72 ...still today, not much compares to the Vorlon/Shadows/Emperor Catagia episodes in S3/S4, simply the best!

[@jonreese7066]

8th seasons of Sg1 gave it a challenge still its the most complete

[@UltraSuperDuperFreak]

​@@jonreese7066 There is 10 seasons of SG1 , not trying to be sassy. Just incase you didtn notice. There is also a few movies . Just like Babylon 5 has a few movies. Plus SG1 spinoff SG Atlantis (5 seasons) should count aswell. Since Babylon 5 also hade a "spinoff" for lack of better describetion. Edit: Tried fix some of my bad english :P

[@Keihryon]

It really is a shame that Babylon 5 has seemed to be forgotten. A reboot of this franchise would be awesome. Sadly, no matter who they got, G'Kar just wouldn't be the same.

[@jachim69]

+Keihryon I wouldn't want to see a reboot, but rather more related stories.

[@evertonporter7887]

Matthew Jachimstal I think it should be remastered rather than rebooted. The casting was essentially perfect and the actors really put their heart and soul into their roles.

[@wolfreicherter748]

remastering is the best idea

[@JAnx01]

I wouldn't want a reboot either. Plenty of other good stories in the Babylon 5 universe that have not yet been explored. I'd love to see a series about the arrogant expansionist pre-Earth-Minbari war Earth Alliance and a film about the Earth-Dilgar war specifically. The only trouble is, they wouldn't be able to call that Babylon 5 because it didn't exist yet.

[@Wadj1]

We've lost too many from the show. Rick Biggs, Jerry Doyle, Michael O'Hare, Stephen Furst, Jeff Conaway, Tim Choate (Zathras) and Andreas. So sad.

[@yunoyuluvit]

Watching this in 2017, I feel sad at how many of the cast are no longer with us.

[@ej3016]

2019 🤗😃

[@craigs71]

I’m onto the fourth season again, watched so many times I can’t even remember but I’ll carry on watching nonetheless.

[@tekk9995]

@@ej3016 2020

[@dramaticusflatudicus3839]

2021 and look who we just lost :(

[@mrichar9]

I MISS THIS SHOW. solid characters great spaceship architecture wonderful storyline

[@carolbevis3376]

Me too!

[@tomaskops7119]

I can add only one thing - realistic. No one is ideal soldier or ideal being, like in star trek

[@morganpearson3368]

Best Sci-Fi show EVER!!! I am on my 2nd set of DVD's for it! I watch it at least once a year.

[@FlorinC1984]

If only there was a Blu-ray version... Is there?

[@FlorinC1984]

In all science-fiction, you'd be hard pressed to find an antagonist as cool, suave and frightening as Alfred Bester. The character was made for Walter Koenig and it is easily his best acting performance.

[@nickdufour1868]

true :D

[@ArrowTrajectory]

Gosh I miss this show. Soo many awesome characters (and their actors). Cutting edge CGI. A real-life feel to the activities and settings. Killer soundtracks. You just couldn't wait until the next episode, and next surprise. Plus, I love Claudia Christian.

[@BZUCOSK]

Best sc-fi in the history.

[@flyingninja1234]

altered trajectory - This is a great series. I wish Crusade would've worked out too.

[@evertonporter7887]

If only the writer of B5 had penned the Star Wars prequels.....

[@elroyscout]

Dude, I love this show; but even I admit that the Second PlayStation called and wanted its graphics department back

[@OpenMawProductions]

Yeah, no, Christopher. If you tried to load the Babylon 5 assets onto a Playstation 2 they would melt. Some of the models had millions of polygons.

[@banananotebook3331]

10:49 "Most space battles look like a TV Game..." Ironically, my first impression of Babylon 5 was that the CGI kind of reminded me of old video games; but what he's saying is true, it feels like a film sequence, or a cutscene, and less like the kind of bird's eye view in an RTS or something. Now that CGI is so cheap and ubiquitous, it often gets misused, but the scary thing is that the best uses of CGI is when you don't notice it.

[@robertcarpenter8245]

Christopher Franke deserves an Oscar

[@CaptainSpalding72]

EMMY

[@MasterLee1955]

Simply the best ever science fiction tv show, I cried at the end and wanted more.......then found the books that completed the saga. I STILL watch it from beginning to end.

[@mdx7371]

B5 was THE best sci if series ever. Loved watching this documentary. Thanks for posting it.

[@garybrindle6715]

Such an inspiring series,it raised the standard and treated the audience with respect . Writing acting effects music all combined to make an unmissable treat. Looking forward to what comes next.

[@armond39]

Jeffery Sinclaire had the most Commanding voice i've ever heard since Picard of STTNG

[@Yesica1993]

I started off not liking his voice at all, but it really grew on me!

[@Via_The_Void]

Yesica1993 He was a terrific actor, a shame he left so soon. It's also tragic that he's no longer with us. :-(

[@Yesica1993]

tubedavemc Absolutely!

[@acmenipponair]

+Frank Garcia Well yes... but if he would have been commander of B5 in the Shadow war, he would have lost... he was not tough enough.

[@Wadj1]

But he was Valen!

[@WKYanks]

Bester.... what a great character!!

[@FlorinC1984]

Damn fear-inducing, the short creep! But more and more complex withe every new episode.

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Just when you think you have a solid as being a villain, they do the hero and when you think a hero you get a villain or maybe a mix or an antihero(ine). Like G'Kar and Londo enemies to best of friends; Sheridan and Delenn weapons at each other to lovers(can't remember- they have a kid?).

[@0x777]

Bester was one of the best defined villains ever in a TV show and beautifully acted. Koenig was a dream cast, physically unassuming and almost harmless looking, which only added to the incredible creepiness factor that character had.

[@davesworld7961]

I'd seen Walter Koenig in everything Star Trek and never was impressed but Bester was a great character and showed me he's a real actor.

[@WOTArtyNoobs]

The amazing thing about Bester was that he was the villain you loved to hate. Such a full character and most of that was down to Walter Koenig. Whilst Joe wanted the other actors to follow the script, Walter was allowed the liberty to ad-lib and he showed what a great actor he was at the same time. The amazing thing is that originally Joe wanted Walter to play a part that would have been a single episode, but after Walter's heart attack and recovery, Joe wrote an even better part and Bester was the best Sci-Fi villain I've seen.

[@TotallyBaroque]

RIP Mira Furlan, one of my favourites!

[@greggregory2554]

This is the best there ever was. It's absolutely epic and the arcs are still current, actually now more than ever. Mollaris' story was the most significant for me. Seeing his opportunities to be such a great architect of peace consumed by consequence and darkness was so sad. I wonder how many people of power are torn between the same forces today knowing that choosing the right path could lead to their demotion or death. Do you give up the influence knowing that you'll die before seeing the promised land so to speak?

[@kimopuppy]

At a time when most shows were using "stone knives and bearskins," Babylon 5 was pointing to a bold new future and its amazing to see how much progress the industry has made.

[@SagaofaCrew]

You have a wide range of taste within the Science Fiction Genre if you're here - that's better than limiting your scope to the big box office major franchises only, as some people do - Therefore I submit to you my 1984 feature Film which stills struggles to find it's audience. Here's a recent documentary about it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWioi3Vme7Vgn8k

[@bdchiaccio]

Absolutely fascinating and ahead of its time

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

B5 had what Trek lost. It is the writing and not the budgets that brought people to the show.

[@char1737]

ro me i see so many themes that i can relate to love, loss , sacrifice, and that in a early episode i heard a name of Achilles ( it was a Transport ship in the episode signs & portents) witch became name of my beloved husky , Achilles, so many details that stand out for me a great show !

[@southernknight9983]

Then direct me to the books, not this piss poor show.

[@Red_Lanterns_Rage]

awesome show, action packed, fun, funny and emotional at times, very well written too which isn't surprising if they had Star Trek TOS writers....also a rest in peace to those involved with the show no longer with us, you're missed and remembered, much love......

[@JohnRodriguesPhotographer]

Love this series. As soon as it came out in DVD, I bought the entire series and all the movies.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

I remember this show was always hard to watch.... it was on in the glory days of syndicated shows- It usually aired on Saturday nights, 1am, sometimes 2am. I would come and finish my night off with this...if I forgot to record it and watch it Sunday morning.

[@Ohforgodssakethatsme]

I remember at one point it was so hard to find that I thought it had been cancelled. I didn't find out until I read an article about the show in one of those free tv guide things you could get in grocery stores.

[@magicstix0r]

OMG that Amiga running Video Toaster tho...

[@dmtd2388]

not toaster but all CGI scenes was rendered on network Amiga workstations with Lightwave

[@magicstix0r]

Back then you could only get Lightwave bundled with a Video Toaster...

[@sbi168]

Love it. I only just watched through the whole series again a few months ago. Kinda makes me want to watch it all over again.

[@tnetroP]

I loved this series back in the day. It had a great combination of story telling, seasonal arcs and fantastic (for the day) CGI. This show simply would not have been possible without the Amiga, Lightwave, the GenLock and ScreamerNet network rendering (which together made up the Video Toaster).

[@theforgottenelitedangerous4827]

imagine they clean up the CGI with modern ones , no remake but a touch up with modern tech

[@juriskrumgolds5810]

Well, CGI is pretty solid even nowdays. At least I'm not ashamed of it, the only thing bothering are explosions in Season 1 and they were fixed in Season 2. I'm much more bothered with some sets being too small, which is practical, not digital.

[@PeXis]

You don't really "clean up" the CGI. You'd really have to do it from scratch Especially since they lost the original 3D scenes or something like that. I'd like to see a fan project to remake the effects. I actually started to learn 3D animation 20 years ago using free fan made high quality babylon 5 ship models.

[@thegreatagitator4675]

R.I.P. Ron Thornton Your work lives on.

[@wendyarmstrong7034]

Loved it when Bruce boxlietner came on board and I loved the John and Delenn relationship

[@xenenlighten7970]

Would love to see the animation in this show re-done on today's tech. Would be amazing.

[@Reyfox1]

I have the entire series and movies on DVD. Love watching this tv show.

[@junito1957]

the best dam scifi show ever WAY BETTER THEN sw , st and bsg or anything else NOTHING COULD BEAT B5 WHEN it come to scifi , space story and now they planing on doing a reboot 2016 first in the big screen then a tv show

[@WKYanks]

I sure hope that happens!!

[@Via_The_Void]

Kevin Lounsberry Best American sci-fi show of all time, and I'm a fan of the Star Treks but Babylon Five feels more real.

[@junito1957]

right about that Kevin those shield from st are alway coming down

[@ogs_Boga1900]

Kevin Lounsberry dude i dunnu what ur saying. B5 CGI has better narration and feel then recent star trek 2.i agreee its a bit cheese , but that were the 90s- and this is for the best(rather then the porn-violence shit of today)

[@WKYanks]

I don't know that I want BAB5 "redone". That look is just as much a part of BAB5 as cheesy set are in Star Trek (TOS). I fully support new BAB5 though.

[@dennispersson9466]

It's now 2020. About 3 yrs. ago, I found a 5 season 'Special Edition' set for $3. After i got it home, i found out why. ALTHOUGH it says made in America, 2 of the 5 Seasons have the same quality as late 50's, early 60's, Japanese Science Fiction and Karate movies were known for : you would see the lips move, then here the voices, or the other way around. I tried 3 different DVD players, but got the same results, so OBVIOUSLY, SOMEBODY shafted me. Yard sale lesson learned. Thank God, i still have my VHS tapes from taping the TV shows (but only the movies & the finale special). Zathras tell me to tape it ALL, BUT did i listen? "NOBODY listen to poor Zathras"!

[@davesworld7961]

Currently watching it on Movie Pro app.

[@lorsdornick1200]

Star Trek's and B5's Walter Koenig (ok, mostly Star Trek). Fascinating that a clip this young (yes, B5 is 25 years old) is heralding CGI.

[@Wadj1]

Miss it SO much.

[@thomaskirkness-little5809]

Koenig was so good in Babylon 5.

[@kennethhiggins6249]

The core is mother the core is father!

[@JamesSavik]

B5 and Battlestar Galactica(2003) are the only sci-fi series worth watching. They both have a complete story arc that wasn't just canceled at the end of a season.

[@gilgamesh310]

Eh, Battlestar Galactica has a very faulty story arc. The writers didn’t know where to take things after about halfway through season 3. It’s still good, though.

[@dietermarx4225]

I watch them all the time year three starts tomorrow 9:30 a.m

[@JFinSD2]

t strikes me that Garibaldi is kind of like John McClane in space. When Garibaldi tells Londo that he is glad he didn't have to shoot him because of the paperwork, I can easily see McClane (Bruce Willis) saying the same thing.

[@OpenMawProductions]

John Fuentes Garibaldi was definitely the space-McClane. He suffered from many of the same personal issues. Including a failed marriage and a drinking problem.

[@Wadj1]

Continuing the Bruce Willis theme, I think I remember reading that Jerry Doyle auditioned for Moonlighting.

[@thejackedupreviewshow6924]

My Mom thinks the same thing

[@noahbawdy3395]

I miss this show very much.

[@Fenris77]

7:41 I allways thought Na' Toth looked good but Caitlin Brown looks hot!

[@Wadj1]

Caitlin Brown is beautiful, and the day I met her, she was a delight.

[@t3amtomahawk]

​@@Wadj1 She set up a lot of fan events. Such a cool person

[@Jimvanhise]

This show only ended 20 years ago yet most of the primary male cast members are now deceased. Bruce Boxleitner is one of the only main male cast members left. There's a convention panel with the cast of B5 on KZbin and they presented a tribute to deceased cast members and even more died after that!

[@NicolaosKomaros]

Looks like the Shadows are still here

[@tomaskops7119]

@@NicolaosKomaros They will be always here

[@freewilliam93]

"Hes THE ONE you can count on." Subtle.....

[@Wadj1]

Entil Zha Veni In Valen's Name ;)

[@AshwinRamdin]

In 2024, this is still the best SCI-FI show ever. We don't need a reboot, just updated CGI. JMS unfortunately is a big ass, who is blocking fans, who have found the original models and recreated the CGI in 4K.

[@tartankiltington]

man, that's awful, never thought he would do something like that

[@robertcarpenter8245]

B5 is my favourite show. And I just found out after 50 years that Chekovs real last name is pronounced Kaynig, Who knew? Well not me obviously!

[@deviantaffinity1626]

Robert Carpenter Me, too. I've been mispronouncing it for 38 years.

[@TheMastermind729]

I knew it because I had a teacher with that name.

[@les4767]

It's natural...I mispronounced it because of "Space 1999" and it's commander, John Koenig(Martin Landau) His name was pronounced Koh-nig.

[@Meshal11YouTube15]

‎‏ What is the name of this fonts of English Letters that They wrote In The End Credits from The Making of Babylon 5? ( 18:25 , 18:47 🤔)

[@avro206]

Awesome series. Rewatching now. The effects don't age well though. But the story....wow

[@brucebolduc4568]

Right? I remember how impressed I was with the effects when it originally aired, Now 25yrs later I'm re watching and they look so cheesy. Lol,,, Still a great story though

[@alexpratt71]

Always loved B5 👏👏👏

[@paulowilliams6671]

RIP Michael O'Hare

[@mrksaratov]

Perfect. Thank you!

[@smiff4748]

I really miss Babylon 5.

[@pantylpan]

Лучший сериал, какой я когда-либо видел.

[@rrrosadorr]

Interesting BTS video about B5's first season. B5 was a great series. The pilot movie ("The Gathering") and seasons 1 -5 are available on Amazon Prime Video.

[@tedpilledtonysoprano5512]

Weird to see candid footage of O'Hare.

[@ksmurphy151]

Wish they would bring this show back...

[@Jebbidan]

Fun fact: all episodes of the freakin babylon 5 was done by videoToaster (the very first personal video editing software) for the commodore amiga computers

[@dramaticusflatudicus3839]

Well, technically the pitch, pilot and first season. After that they moved off Amigas and on to PCs. Absolutely revolutionary at the time though. So easily forgotten...

[@Jebbidan]

@@dramaticusflatudicus3839 yeah......i mean, I wish commodore amiga computer and video toaster get more recognition instead of being forgotten

[@dramaticusflatudicus3839]

@@Jebbidan absolutely agreed

[@georgetempest2469]

Aah, the days of Commodore Amiga graphics - bloody awesome! I just wonder - it still is so popular and there are a lot of followers, but why has the series and the movies completely died on the torrent sites. Nobody is seeding this anymore :o(

[@enragedbagels]

If you love it so much, why are you stealing from them? pay for it and support it you selfish ass

[@evertonporter7887]

Elliot McGrath Where can I buy this series?

[@yunoyuluvit]

Everton Porter, Amazon (DVD, or download) iTunes...

[@MaxDamageTV]

I'd rather a torrent, at least with that theres more chance you'll eventually help someone else to see it, appreciate it, and share it. Also, I doubt JMS needs your money by this point.

[@davidweihe6052]

MaxDamageTV> Also, I doubt JMS needs your money by this point. He isn't the sole owner of the show and all the residuals. There are others who get paid something whenever you buy the DVDs.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Groundbreaking science fiction series.

[@bungiesnowflake]

Actors are the only people who matter. Everybody else is a replaceable cog. Actors are special, different, and better than the rest of us. They can evoke thoughts, ideas and emotional responses that the masses cannot understand, duplicate, or even comprehend. To even try to understand what goes on in the superior and creative mind of an actor is simply not possible.

[@jacquie58]

Best sci fi show ever. 😊

[@Cyberpuppy63]

Seems somewhat "strange" Walter Koening has been doing this stuff for nearly 50 years. His "first" casting in Star Trek was in 1966-1967.

[@CaptainSpalding72]

67

[@nickdufour1868]

He played the best bad guy in this tho I'm sure he loved that part :D

[@richarddavis4954]

Still knocks just about any other space show off, only the Expanse for me comes close now

[@greywolf271]

I wish Walter had used his character voice to introduce this.

[@robertcartier5088]

No reason to... No one would have cared because his character had not been introduced yet. He announces his role in the show at the end of this video. But, if you meant Chekhov's voice, then yeah. ;-)

[@PiotrPerviakov]

Thanks from 2024 😍

[@sanstx3987]

Best scifi series ever. The revival of the series would have time here already. Carefully only of course, attaining the old level would be heavy.

[@greggregory2554]

***** True. It's improbable considering the political influences that will more than likely shape the remake. I doubt the Earth civil war ark would fly today but it would be good to see how they tackle it. What do you think?

[@Keihryon]

+Flux Machina Why wouldn't the ECW work today?

[@sanstx3987]

+Keihryon ECW?

[@Keihryon]

***** Earth Civil War

cause of President Clark and Trumptards

[@michael_swardh]

In 2021 the technology looks so old... I hope the new TV-Show will be just as great as the old one.

[@colinfarren8326]

So many great characters, Londo, G'Kar etc, the wonderful Peter Juraskik and Andreals Katsulas (probably spelt wrong)

[@les4767]

Jurasik, Andreas, yes.

[@henrymccoig2440]

This and The Expanse are the best sci-fi ever put on tv.

[@Medicranger]

2021 and the only ones left are Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Peter Jurasik, and Bill Mummy...

[@juliemcneely-kirwan9314]

Sorry to lose so many of these actors so young. Especially Richard Biggs.

[@michaelweigel8253]

The Video Toaster 3D program made this show possible

[@fandomvault4901]

I'd love to see some babylon 5 audio dramas & books

[@ManiacMitrandir]

Long live Babylon 5!

[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

Is N’grath on Andromeda pilot episode as well?

[@enragedbagels]

Anyone know what music is in the background at 15:53?

[@maxpower6110]

I think it's just the opening theme music, possibly from season 2.

[@Mopsisgone]

Walter Koening forever! And now I can pronounce his name! :D xxx

[@SagaofaCrew]

You have a wide range of taste within the Science Fiction Genre if you're here - that's better than limiting your scope to the big box office major franchises only, as some people do - Therefore I submit to you my 1984 feature Film which stills struggles to find it's audience. Here's a recent documentary about it - kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWioi3Vme7Vgn8k

[@mortarmopp3919]

Looks like someone was asleep at the switch at the end.

[@creatorsremose]

How hot can a girl be to still be beautiful with Narn make up... You're my eternal crush, Natoth!

[@flyingninja1234]

I remember Zima had product placement in this series. He he.

[@Fenris77]

Unlike Star Trek the Next Generation that seemed as if it had so many plotholes they all converged into a black hole Babylon 5 had a beginning a middle and an end!

[@PittPanthers90]

Are you sure.... There is a hole in your mind :)

[@tomast9034]

now you sound like zathras :D

[@Fenris77]

​@@tomast9034 Zathras sound not like Zathras... Zathras sound like Zathras

[@Fenris77]

@@PittPanthers90 Quite sure, Star Trek baldie was episodical and wanted to go on and on and on... B5 had a plan from the start basically.

[@janetmassa2061]

I love, love, love Babylon 5! I would love to see it be rebooted. Even though it is an old series now, the special effects were amazing!

[@antonybullock2240]

A totally underrated TV show which should really have a re-release with updated modern CGI as it's really starting to look extremely dated.

[@AmigaOS]

Heh Amiga 2000 & Newtek Lightwave NTSC 2.9 9:52

[@colinfarren8326]

and Walter presents, he was dead good as Bester and he loved it. You can see he relishes the part of being the macavillian PsyCop.

[@neddystark3351]

The best wig on B5 was Walter's, hand's down.

[@Teardehawkee]

It coming back ......All B5 fans!

[@bonec85]

are there anywhere full interviews with actors??

[@Zamolxes77]

The best show in sci-fi, hands down. Too bad the cgi starts to show its age, back when it came out, it was amazing !

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

Great TV series ...

[@avro206]

I have been saying Walters last name all this time!!!!

[@jas9509]

A wonderful, great series. And yet it hasn't aged well visually. Some sets and some prosthetics have a supercheap looking!

[@optimalsupreme5080]

Well contrary to what some might believe .The whole series was made on Amigas. Really, and still the Amiga far outshines pc=macs.

[@thegreatagitator4675]

Not the whole series, just the pilot movie and the first season.

[@optimalsupreme5080]

Wrong the whole series especially when you know some who where in there making it. You know its funny .when pcs people think they can do that quality know they pcs people lie a,and say they did all the stuff Amiga did..really now Im sure you will say the Amiga never was in the Toaster oven or toaster screamer.get a life. What was one quote from Mik ..i had to use the toaster over with the PArisc /Alpha /SGi combo in the toaster Screamer/oven that was/is only amiga based. in the every season or it would have taken me years ..it was a joke ,but long time none the less. That was first hand account from one of many who made that show and Jurassic park way after the show ,and in the newtek mag.. oh and what made the Dino Movie from Disney world. .Amiga..,and Avatar that right.. So everything you guys claims is new. hairs and such is, and has been done on amiga ,but better pfft. Read the last of credits Yes they still use the classic amiga..why its the best period .Im not saying there are 50 million of them,and thats all they use.No ,but its there. Plus ,here a hint in the background when you see a or what looks like a smiley face on a system or a monitor ..Thats an amiga in disguise .It says powered by Amiga. That was on the Avatar movie and Titanic movie.oh booh who when you find out what the amiga is called now . you will sh^& bricks ,but booh who thats where u get the many core tech ...I dont want to here any bs anymore you pc or amigas wannbes can lie so much its so funny. Really, i was at newtek with the engineers they have said the exact same-thing. Amiga cant be beat period. HERE ENDTH THE LESSOn

[@thegreatagitator4675]

Optimal Supreme I don't care for your childish, condescending tone, but whatever you (incoherently) present here as facts is simply not true. 1. I also know people that worked on the show, one being Adam Lebowitz. 2. Amiga (A4000+VT) hardware was used for the pilot and the first season. Foundation Imaging switched to Pentium/Alpha-based machines when season 2 came around, later followed by SGI workstations. 3. Lightwave was used on Jurassic Park only for animatics. The actual CGI was done in Alias/SoftImage and rendered with RenderMan. 4. No Amiga hardware was used in the production of either Titanic or Avatar. 5. I've also met some of the people behind LW in the early 90s, Allen Hastings and Tim Jenison. 6. My first DEC Alpha workstation (running Windows NT) in 1995 rendered about 30 times faster than my fully upgraded A4000. DECs also reportedly outclassed the Screamer, at significantly lower costs. Let's take the rose-coloured glasses off and face facts. I loved my Amigas(all of them), but by late 1994 it was painfully obvious...their time was over. I'm speaking from two decades of professional background in broadcast and computer graphics, just to put things into perspective.

good thread

[@aliservan7188]

I really hope they remaster it

[@deviantaffinity1626]

ali Servan Sadly, that is probably not going to happen. Appearantly, they lost/deleted all of the 3D renders for the ships, planets, ect. That would make a proper remaster a massive and expensive undertaking. Imagine how blocky and jagged the CGI would look upscaled to HD or 4K. Still. I am currently re-watching the series on Amazon Prime and I hardly notice most of the aged special effects. Babylon 5 is just that immersive.

[@colinfarren8326]

IT was a dawn of a new age indeed.

[@IdleByte]

News of a new show otw from CW?!?!?!

[@noahbawdy3395]

Bester was one of the best characters of all time.

[@tomast9034]

damn i knew i know baxter from somewhere...

[@mikedignum1868]

Wasn't this the first tv series to use the new CGI ?

[@JustinThorLPs]

It's funny that when J. Michael Straczynski lists off the people who made the original Star Trek such a success, he doesn't say Gene Roddenberry first, but he lists Harlan Ellison, the man who issued exactly one script. And it was so heavily rewritten because of how intentionally destructive to the lore of Star Trek it was. And would have been discarded if the show could financially have done so at the time.

[@madmechanicus9405]

B5's writing and acting will be a benchmark for SciFi-Shows for decades to come in my opinion. Modern shows with bigger budgets like STD, Picard or Disney Star Wars dont even come close to it except for the CGI and i wouldnt watch a show for the CGI alone.

[@BenjaminWirtz]

The show ended just over 15 years ago and half the cast is already dead.

[@acmenipponair]

+Benny W Well, it's a different think, when you make a space opera like TOS with officers who seems to be right out of academy (although already surfing some years in space) and a cast of ambassadors, where the oldest ones even had seen the whole human story by eyeview and where you have realistic commanding hierarchie, so that you don't move from Academy directly onto the brigde of the flag ship ;)

[@bdchiaccio]

Gutwrenching