Did you catch Richard Moll’s appearance as the guy who wears sunglasses on a space station?
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YES, that was exactly the one I was trying to remember. Loved it.
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just watched this one. incredible stuff
the cosmic horror spaceship b plot complemented it pretty well, somehow they sold it to me
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Truly insane editing choices in this clip but
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I’ve been playing Payday 2 lately and Mira Furlan (Delenn) is a character in it. And she uses the exact same voice.
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i think my biggest complaint about babylon 5 so far is that the station staff are… not very interesting people. they’re all pretty mundane type A humans so far. i was sour on the commander at first but he at least has ptsd and jrpg amnesia. the security chief, first officer and chief medical officer all have almost nothing going on. star trek’s tendency to make top-level staff a grab bag of sf weirdos (an android! a former guerilla fighter with complex feelings about the existence of the station! a goo person!) was maybe a little goofy but i don’t think B5 has gained anything from being more grounded. you can’t build a whole station out of o’briens.
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the way i remember it as the show progresses girabaldi gets more and more obsessed with daffy duck but i think the reality is that they just show the poster in his room more often
ivanova’s personality trait is shes russian for a bit but she gets an arc that i really enjoyed
the doctor is just the worst actor ever and gets to express this in increasingly hilarious ways
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i did not in fact realise until very recently that bill mumy was the fucking will robinson of being in danger fame
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Franklin, the Chief Medical Officer, is interesting insomuch as he is just perpetually wrong about everything. The more stridently he believes something, the more likely that the exact opposite is correct. Coupled with his total inability to act, he’s great. Pure FMV Adventure Game “what if I try every wrong choice first” energy
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Yeah, I dunno nothin’ about what makes good acting but good or bad the performance of Franklin perfectly suited the character.
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As the show goes on the major aliens get more foregrounded and it definitely gets better for it.
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Bonus game for watching B5: Look up all the actors and see what characters they were on star trek.
Bester is the most obvious example of course but even Andreas Katsulas (G’kar) was on a bunch of TNG episodes.
It’s especially funny to see how many of them were on Deep Space Nine specifically
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This thread inspired me to dig up all the media I pirated in high school (I am a pack rat who doesn’t do much pirating and still have most of it) and now I’m trying to get all my old doctor whos and Star treks and shit onto a Plex server so I can force my husband to watch a bunch of old sci fi actors pretend to be on drugs/infected by horny disease/crushed by a robot
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making me want to watch through Blake’s 7 again
all these classically-trained actors in-between west end shows or fresh off I, Claudius given directions like “you’re the empress of the universe and also a slutty domme” or “you’re the most evil a man can be without technically harming your shipmates, and you and they all know it”
just ham central
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oh you weren’t kidding
also amused that season 2 has pulled an mgs 2, except the new commander is an equally boring and infallible war hero guy. having a season 2 plot twist use a newspaper headline i had to pause to read in s1 was also pretty funny
so far the best part of the show is
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The new commander is absolutely the reason you can beat up reporters in every mass effect game
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sinclair had to go because his mental illness was fucking with him. having schizophrenia and talking to space angels turns out to be a little maddening (it made his performance make a ton more sense toward the end of the season)
strazynzski kept it a secret for the actor until he died too
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oh jeez 
that explains a lot. poor guy
babylon squared must have written them into a really awkward corner, then. since b5 was in an unusual position with how far ahead it was planned out i’d be curious to learn the ways in which they had to pivot, but idk how much it’s been talked about
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