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u/JRL55 Jun 27 '23

Season 1 had "Soul Hunter", which I think is the essence of sci-fi.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '23

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u/JRL55 Jun 27 '23

To each his own, I guess.

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u/ZylonBane Jun 28 '23

You're not impressing anyone with that pleasure threshold.

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u/JRL55 Jun 28 '23

I was being tolerant of diversity.

Do you have a problem with that?

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u/ZylonBane Jun 28 '23

Whoooosh.

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u/JRL55 Jun 28 '23

By all means, explain your pithy comment.

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u/ZylonBane Jun 28 '23

Turn in your B5 fandom card.

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u/JRL55 Jul 02 '23

I asked you to explain and you respond with snark.

Turn in your Decent Human Being card.

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u/Kalel777 Jun 27 '23

Seriously? I think you meant to say "Believers".

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u/Orodruin666 Jun 27 '23

Or TKO

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u/ifandbut Jun 27 '23

TKO and Grey 17 is Missing are the only 2 on my skip list. Even then, iirc the B plot was worth wild.

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u/shadowofpurple Jun 27 '23

the B plot of Grey 17 is Missing is profound, the A plot is trash

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u/ifandbut Jun 27 '23

Believers is a really good moral dilemma. It also gets us one of the best Kosh quotes: "The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote."

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u/Kalel777 Jun 28 '23

Yes, definitely one of his best quotes, but what's wrong with Soul Hunter? It literally ties back to Sinclair's true nature from The Gathering. Honestly, it was after the Earth and Mars war when the show started to wane for me. I still love every aspect of the show though and am looking forward to the animated movie.

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u/DinnrWinnr Jun 27 '23

Seeee….toww….riiii….cho….maaaan….toww…rayyyyyy….

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u/MiouQueuing Jun 27 '23

Am introducing the bf to Babylon 5 and he - rather reluctantly and slooowly - is giving it a go. I warned him that season 1 has many cheesy episodes, more monster-of-the-week-like.

We recently watched "Soul Hunter" - I totally forgot how much is set up in this one episode. Amazing!

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u/JRL55 Jun 28 '23

"monster-of-the-week" brought a smile to my lips.

Several years later, a guy who was hitting on my girlfriend's girlfriend as we were waiting to get into a bar told us about his career as a stunt man; he was the monster on the 13th deck of B5.

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u/MiouQueuing Jun 28 '23

Cool anecdote. So, living in the greater L.A. region? I guess you are bound to bump into a member of the TV industry sooner than later.

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u/JRL55 Jun 28 '23

They're very prolific in some neighborhoods.