Was the season 1 esp 9 a SiFi attempt to let us know something? For those who didn't watch or don't remember a space Nazi comes to the station with an immortality drug, the catch is you have to kill someone to make it. It ends with the Vorlons destroying her while telling the crew "You are not ready for immortality."
To be honest most of B5 seems to be a SiFi take on today's headlines, here hoping real life has as good an upswing after the bad guys got shoved into the light.
Dasting. I used to watch it back in the day when it aired but I haven’t watched it in years. Looks like I got a new show to binge.....
You have to understand, this is the purpose of storytelling. It doesn't mean that the writers are DS (though I'm aware that's possible and with Hollywood usually probable too). But we tell stories to each other to learn about human behavior, about archetypes and how they interact with each other, which ones are the strongest, which ones should we be wary of. Vampires exist as a story to warn of super rich people drinking the people dry of their livelihoods (and also probably from historical instances of people getting adrenochrome or some other product from sacrificial victims). In the story of Elizabeth Bathery, she kills virgin maidens and bathes in their blood to stay beautiful and young. We've been telling stories like this for a long time.
Once again, I'm not saying you're wrong, because I don't know, maybe DS or weird adrenochrome freaks DID write that episode. Entirely possible!
But I just wanted to illustrate to any who'd read that storytelling, as a tool used throughout history, is a lot more powerful and than most people realize!
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I watched this awesome show again and it is full of stuff several 17 in plain sight. the messages they drop are like wow. the dark versus the light. the propaganda, the hidden government agendas, the battles within our own government, the agencies with their own plans. Just wow watch the whole thing again it will blow you away.
Season 3 episode 19 is titled "Gray 17 is missing."
https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Grey_17_is_Missing
I am really starting to wonder what J. Michael Straczynski knew as he wrote most of this show.
Recently rewatched this show. I’ve always loved it, but it seems even more relevant now than ever before. G’Kar, Delenn, Vir, and even Londo....the arcs they go through are amazing. Who are you? What do you want? Brilliant.
See also the "Phage" in Star Trek, who can only survive by harvesting organs from other humanoid species.
babylon 5 has always been incredibly relevant, especially now. for instance that one fake news episode.
I'm certain that you meant "relevant" rather than "irrelevant".
Damn autocorrect
Best Sci-FI ever IMO.
J. Michael Strazinsky originally penned the scripts to be for the “new” at the time Star Trek series Deep Space Nine. However it was deemed too violent or some such for the Star Trek universe, thereby spinning into its own show. My question would be, though, who are the Vorlons (government and big tech?), and who are the Shadows (Deep State, Cabal)? As John Sheridan said to both groups...”Get the HELL out of our galaxy!!!”. Captain, sir, I AGREE.