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Isil'Zha
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The Rangers
11
31%
The Psi Corps
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17%
The First Ones
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9%
The Fivers
2
6%
The followers of Valen
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3%
fgalkin's Bitches
11
31%
Other
1
3%
 
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Ghost Rider wrote:
verilon wrote:
Dahak wrote:And we all know that B% is above all others in stroy complexity :mrgreen:
I didn't know letters could be expressed in percentages... /smartass

That said.. what's so appealing about B5? I've never seen the show..
Mostly because for four seasons it had an interconnected story that was decent.

Why did I say four and not five?

Because five was rushed and blah...many other express this with more vitrol.

Compare to many things we have now it was damn near supreme in terms of writing.
Wasn'T the reason they rushed the fourth season that they feared they wouldn't be getting a fifth, and JMS wanted to finish the story arc?
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verilon wrote:
Dahak wrote:And we all know that B% is above all others in stroy complexity :mrgreen:
I didn't know letters could be expressed in percentages... /smartass
Oops :)
That said.. what's so appealing about B5? I've never seen the show..
It'S one of the few series which actually manage to have a story arc running for several seasons, with high details and intertwinded events.
In short: Taking the viewer as an intelligent person.
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Yes one of the reasons I like B5 a lot, it was intellegently executed and had continuity and didn't rely on Deus Ex Machina to get them out of EVERY situation.

However I never really identified with any group in the series. (although the Narns did seem to be very scrappy) Hmm wonder what Psi-Corps would do with Melange....
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the series was also character driven, as opposed to alot of the episodes in say, star trek, which were driven by some device malfunction or unknown phenomenon just newly discovered.
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Yeah it and SG-1 are like the last TV shows to treat the viewer with a modicum of respect.
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The Yosemite Bear wrote:but what would the narn do with a dune mentat?
Get his DNA and breed Narn mentats, of course.

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Actually Mentats aren't a breeding thing, it's a training thing. They are simply trained since birth to be excellent analysts, and then given lots of drugs to make them human computers.
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Ah, so it makes it even easier for the Narn. :twisted: :D

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however the bene gesserit's selective breeding programs are eventually what led to Paul's birth and abilities as the muad'dib. so breeding can play some part.
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Great the Narns would be convince the the Bene-Gesserits to create a new Narn Messia. Boy those Centarai and the Drahk are fucked...) worse yet, they get Navigators who can open warpgates psionically...
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The universe as we know it is over. :P

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Also, people, start thinking of a name for the group (other than fgalkin's bitches, that is :P )

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here's a name idea that's fairly simple: The Rangers. as in the group of minbari/human soldiers that were trained and created to fight against the Shadows and warn of their coming. 8)
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The First Ones?
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The Rangers?
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I don't want B5 threads abducted from this forum because there's a special usergroup... :evil:
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Did you miss the non-forum part? :roll:

As for the names:
The Psi-Corps
fgalkin's Bitches
The Fivers (terribly original, that one)
Followers of Valen

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hmm Got another very discrimtory clan idea right now....
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fgalkin wrote:Did you miss the non-forum part? :roll:

As for the names:
The Psi-Corps
fgalkin's Bitches
The Fivers (terribly original, that one)
Followers of Valen

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Dahak wrote:
Ghost Rider wrote:
verilon wrote: I didn't know letters could be expressed in percentages... /smartass

That said.. what's so appealing about B5? I've never seen the show..
Mostly because for four seasons it had an interconnected story that was decent.

Why did I say four and not five?

Because five was rushed and blah...many other express this with more vitrol.

Compare to many things we have now it was damn near supreme in terms of writing.
Wasn'T the reason they rushed the fourth season that they feared they wouldn't be getting a fifth, and JMS wanted to finish the story arc?
Yup, it should have ended with a cliffhanger at Intersections in Real Time.
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Poll added.

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Shaidar Haran wrote:Yup, it should have ended with a cliffhanger at Intersections in Real Time.
Evil! Evil! Evil!

I can see that the fifth season could have been done better, but it had some strengths as well. The way they wound things down really reminds me of LotR.
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Ok, who voted for fgalkin's Bitches? Even I didn't vote for that.

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Yeah, I think I'll join. B5 was really great in a lot of ways, and Omegas just plain look cool.
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