Welcome to my channel. Here you will find a mix of television and movie reactions. Being a massive fan of Science Fiction, expect a lot reactions in relation to that theme.
I've been an avid watcher of both television and movies since a very young age, watching shows such as Classic Doctor Who (S11-14), Blakes 7, Battlestar Galactica, The X Files, and Twin Peaks.
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Funny story, I was running a Star Trek TNG tabletop role-play and needed a scenario on the quick that my players would not be aware of - as they were as steeped in Trek Lore as I was. Babylon 5 was on TV at that time, but nobody was watching it - too dark and weird was the general (and very misguided) concensus. So I used "A Voice in the Wilderness" as the basis for my ad hoc scenario. Whe the game was over, the players congratulated me for having crafted a fantastic story they really enjoyed. I told them wher I got the mustard and this started the life-long fascination with Babylon 5 for most of us. First I acquired the series on VHS tapes, then began collecting the DVD's - I am now on my third series of the DVD's because the first and second were really worn out from muliple viewings. Star Trek was never a thing we returned to after this... And then the Collectible Card Game and the first RPG book became available... We are still playing them to this day.
I make it a point to re-watch Babylon 5 and Crusade and all things connected to it each year again. I have been doing this since 1997 and still play the collectible card game with my friends. This year, I broke that tradition and watched all of your excellent reactions to my absolute favourite TV series of all time. It was like watching it again with my then spouse, who was at first very apprehensive (being a trekkie of sorts) but soon the questions began raining... Who are the Shasows... What do they Want... Why is Kosh so mysterious... Who (and what) is Dellenn... What are G'Kar and Londo up to... Who is good and who is bad (which truly is the wrong question). In short (too late?) I really enjoyed the annual rewatch with you delivering the running commentary.
This was on TV when I was a year old. At best, it was something we read about in SFF articles. Then ... boom! In 1982 the UK had a fourth TV channel - and we were able to watch it for real! My dad was amazed that it was in colour; in 1967-8 most British TV was in b/w. I was already into psychedelic music and New Wave SF; this was the perfect mash-up. I'm turning my young friends on to mind-blowing SF, and is there a better way to start? Be seeing you!
I've taken this so much to heart that my profile picture on Twitter is No.6. Mainly because if you live in South Wales, public transport is so shite that you'll never leave The Village. I was in Barry a month ago, and you'll never believe this ... 13:58
Well Charles got both his brother and sister in law killed for insisting on going to the castle and staying there, ignoring Helen. Helen is by far the most interesting one of the four travellers. The only one with common sense.
Greatings to you Medusa Cascade Hope you check out a very good western movie staring "Stuart Whitman"; IN "RIO CONCHOS" you will be Glad that you did! ❤ Plus His T.V. show "Cimarron strip " you will have the greatest time of your life "I promise you I Really do 🎉 p.s. i would like for you to video the above items above so we the viewer's can see your reaction just as it was for my first time year's ago ... Thank you so much for being you ! Your reaction is like seeing an Angel from Heaven with pure gold in your Heart ❤❤❤
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I love Babylon 5, but I can't watch Sleeping in Light very often because it still wipes me out every time I see it. Add to that the fact that all of the actors except Ivanova and (ironically) Sheridan are no longer with us and it leaves me with a big sense of melancholy. The end credits, where you glimpse everyone involved in the making of the show is particularly poignant, because you know they're thanking the whole production crew, they're stamping their mark on the show and giving us the end of school yearbook. It underlines that this really is the end of the series. Getting to the end of Babylon 5 is like getting to the end of a really good book. It feels like a real accomplishment and you're satisfied with the ending, but you also feel like you've lost a good friend.
The whole show was in colour but they lost all but one of the colour episodes in the same way we lost a lot of Dr Who episodes. Maybe one day a team will colourise these seminal kids SF series.
The record was from the 60's/ 70's MISSION IMPOSSIBLE SERIES. There another limited series from the 70's you should check out KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER. Kolchak inspired THE X FILES , BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER , and ANGEL. They made two Tv movies before the series ( THE NIGHT STALKER and THE NIGHT STRANGLER ).
Wow! This was the most emotionally moving reaction video I've ever seen. I watched Doctor Who religiously right up to the hiatus in ~86 and then lost touch. I always liked Peri as a companion but didn't know what happened to her until about a year ago when I started rewatching old episodes and reading up on plot threads. OMG! If I had seen this in 86 when I was 11 years old I would have been absolutely crushed! All four episodes of Mindwarp are still difficult for me to watch today. I also feel like they took this one too much back to the infamous Twin Dilemma with the Doctor becoming an anti-hero. Again, maybe not his fault but perhaps not what Colin Baker's Doctor needed at the time due to the turmoil happening at the BBC behind the scenes. Apparently JNT, the Doctor Who producer at the time, asked Nicola Bryant how she wanted to go out. She wanted something dramatic to go out with a bang and was happy with Mindwarp. It sounds like lots of the audience weren't too happy with Peri's fate and called into the BBC at the time to complain. I would agree that this one crosses a line. Not only is the ending here so heartbreaking but if you go back to the first 3 parts of this one it's easy to get upset not only at the timelords but at the doctor as well. All the risks he took and the apparent betrayals leading up to this add insult to injury. To think that Peri died thinking the Doctor had abandoned her seems a step too far to take in a program that often light hearted and humorous. It's not surprising they retconned her fate at the end of TOATL though marrying Yrcarnos is a weak conclusion after this. One feels they can't just leave it where they did here even though that was the original intent. The Big Finish dramas, Peri and the Piscon Paradox and The Widow's Assasin, give a much more satisfying conclusion and continuation of this story.
Since I have been rewatching the series, this episode hits close to home. I've been working in healthcare for 10 years now. So I was on the frontlines when covid hit. Seeing the damage done, the lives lost, and being both praised and despised, it left some scars. But I still do the job because it must be done.
Shallow Proclamation is on The Daemons now, and posted in their Discord community has been an 8 second video of Katy Manning laughing over what Nick Courtney said when they made the end scene. "I think that just says it all. The Brig is an alcoholic + Mike Yates is gay." To which I have posted: gender equality question for Katy Manning, and a blow that we missed the chance to ask Nick Courtney it. Why is it gay for men to dance with each other, but not for women to dance with each other ? I actually raise this regularly when things I belong to organise Scottish ceilidhs. It discriminatorily makes it twice as hard for unconfident or autistic men to obtain partnered dances
Of course they turned on Xur. If you presume to be in command on a Kodan ship, you better have paid your dues, because they won't obey someone they consider a weakling or a fool... certainly not for long anyway.
@medusacascade True, But you've also said you're back, And will be posting videos a bit randomly, It's just with 2 - 5 months between uploads it's not entirely unfair to wonder if there will ever be another.. Anyway Best wishes & hope things are looking better for you soon..
@medusacascade Did i EVER say it was? Just pointing out it's not unreasonable for there to be questions from people concerning the future, I did not say anything else or criticise you for any issues that are causing you problems.. Nor did i ever say it wasn't your hobbie ect.. In fact i wished you the best.. 👍
I was six when I saw this at an old couples house. It came on TV while I was alone and mother and her church cronies has a meeting in another room. I was too afraid to go to the toilet so peed in their hallway.
This was the first episode of Babylon 5 that I watched and I basically fell in love with the series. It was on at 6pm on Tuesdays (1995), while I was at work and this was the first opportunity I got to watch it. The part that grabbed me was Delenn's explanation of the Shadows. It was VERY reminiscent of Lord of the Rings - an enemy that was fought to its defeat by a coalition of armies; defeated but not destroyed; going back to its stronghold and rebuilding in secret before stretching out its hand once more. Even without knowing any of the characters or backstory, I was hooked.
If I remember correctly, Keffer was added as the hot shot pilot by the producers. JMS didn't want the character in the first place. As soon as they stopped paying attention he killed him but did it in such a way as to move the story forward.
I make it a point to re-watch Babylon 5 every year, but his year I opted to wet my appetite with your reaction videos - which to me where a dream given form, a chance for me to relive something I have always loved through the eyes of another true believer. Thank You
Now imagine how brutal this was watching it when it first aired. Those season cliffhangers were murder. And the story was so deep, if you missed an episode one week, you were completely lost on the next episode. I missed the siege on Earth episode, so I went from the Torture episode to the post-war aftermath. It was unforgiving. What made it worse was there was no repeat of this episode, as the original broadcaster PTEN shutdown at the end of S4, right as TNT picked them up. I didn't have cable, so I didn't get to see that episode or S5 for over a year.
How you end a series is as important as how you begin a series. Maybe more important. The ending of Babylon 5 was as close to a perfect ending as I have seen. Congratulations for making it through to the end. Now, Babylon 5 is in your blood.
There was a small layer of complexity I missed. It would have been nice to have a non-believer among the clergy, as part of that group -- maybe from some humanist society. And for all of them to mention that they had run into difficulties within their own group -- that some church leaders (and their equivalents in other religions and among the humanists/atheists, of course) are cooperating with Clark, some out of fear, others because they genuinely accept the party line. I mean, that's what would realistically happen (think of some church leaders, including the Pope, colluding with fascist regimes in the 1930's and 1940's; or the fact that during many wars, including ideologically-driven ones like the American Civil War, both factions had the active support of blessing of religious leaders and communities).
Colin Baker is my favourite 1980s Doctor Who, so for a long time I was baffled as to the absolute hatred people had for him. But as it turns out, Androzani is NOT the final story of the season, Twin Dilemma is, which is Colin Baker's first story, and it was quite poor after the bloodbath that was Androzani, which meant that the season ended with a sour taste in people for Colin that lasted a whole nine months or more. Cynical ploy by Michael Grade who REALLY wanted the show AXED, if you ask me.
McGoohan always denied it, but in the first drafts of the Prisoner scripts, the character was named Drake. Writer George Markstein said he conceived the series "after McGoohan resigned" from Danger Man.
It's a great episode. Maybe he wasn't the real King Arthur, but it didn't matter. He aspired to be. He follows the path of honor & bravery. In that regard, the spirit of Arthur & the knights of the round table live on, inspiring others to rise above themselves to be something greater. That is something every generation, every world needs. There is a legend in England that has persisted for over a thousand years now. That in England's darkest hour, King Arthur & Excalibur will return to save the land & her people. I would like to think Deleen will keep Excalibur enshrined in a holy temple on Minbar until the return of the King comes to pass. There is indeed great power in such legends.
