OK, so, I'm working my way through #Babylon5 for the first time, and now that I've gotten well past the pretty terrible episodes in the first season, I'm definitely enjoying it more.
But I have to say, they were rather a bit too heavy-handed and obvious about the Neville Chamberlain parallel in "The Fall of Night". "Peace in our time"? Really?!
Like, yeah, we get it, appeasement doesn't work, thanks for beating us over the head with it.
#sf #tv

Caught up with this week's Doctor Who episode, and I... have thoughts. Lots of things I liked, but not my favourite of the season. It was good to see Ruby and her family again, and also to see how UNIT operates when the Doctor isn't there, setting up the spinoff nicely. Really looking forward to seeing more of those characters.

On the other hand, parts of the plot felt weak. Things happened way too easily, and escalated and deescalated pretty fast too. I thought the themes it tackled with how certain social media personas and alt-right grifters are responsible for the spread of disinformation were 100% spot on, but the way everything played out felt a bit sloppy.

Tl;dr, I liked what the episode had to say, but found the execution a bit lacklustre. At the same time I'm very here for Ncuti's speech at the end of the episode and for Kate Stewart's zero-nonsense, entering a grey area, badass approach to handling things.

#DoctorWho#DrWho#TV#SciFi#Television#Entertainment

I decided to start Babylon 5 for the first time a few days ago. It's interesting but disconcerting interacting with a futuristic federation-style space series that isn't Star Trek. #scifi #tv

#QuestionOfTheNight if you could own one fictional vehicle that could fit in a 2 car garage, what would it be? assume that powering it is somehow not a problem, and there's no issues with legality

#fiction #anime #manga #tv #television#VideoGames#TTRPGs#CCG #games#SciFi#Fantasy #books #comics #superheroes #film #movies #books#QuestionOfTheDay

⚙️ Star Trek The Next Generation, Battlestar Galactica, The Expanse, Doctor Who, The X-Files, etc. How much we love sci-fi series! I don't know if we would have enjoyed them as much if the BBC hadn't gotten involved about 83 years ago, when on February 11, 1938, it broadcast the first sci-fi film in history on TV (more specifically, the first sci-fi program-film-whatever made specifically for TV).

⚙️ Initially, I wanted to call it a series, but it was simply a 35-minute adaptation of a part of the play "R.U.R." by the Czech writer Karel Čapek. "R.U.R." stands for "Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots)" and was first staged in 1921. It's about humans who create robots (more closely related to the idea of "androids," "replicants" from Blade Runner, or "cylons" from Battlestar Galactica) that eventually rebel against their creators.

⚙️ The most important thing is that in "R.U.R." the term "robot" was used for the first time.

📸 Photo: a sequence from the BBC adaptation of the play "R.U.R." for the small screen (1938)

#History#Culture#TV#SciFi#Robots#Android#RUR#Czech #czechrepublic #europe#KarelCapek

True.

#startrek #starwars #scifi #sciencefiction #tv #television #racism #racist

@georgetakei

I will be absent too. #Absent from #TV- #Programme #broadcasting
this #unholy and #worthless#Spectacle, where a #Traitor is #inaugurated.

@georgetakei

And by the Way: It's a better #Program than most #TV-#Channels !

#dishwashertv

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Yeesh, these Babylon 5 TV movies are ... not great. Just watched River of Souls (1999). The production values were somewhat lower in the pilot (The Gathering, 1998), as you'd expect, but the writing, acting and overall vibe was significantly better.

Would I be missing much if I skipped A Call to Arms (1999) and went straight so season 6? Would I be better to quit white I'm ahead and pretend everything made after season 5 is fanfic?

#TV#SciFi#Babylon5

It's amazing that none of the streaming studios have funded a Babylon 5 series. Imagine what JMS could have done with the budget NetFix plowed into that woeful Cowboy Bebop reboot.

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