I don't really post much to social media anymore, but I thought I would report that after 29 years I finally watched all of #Babylon5 - I gave up during the telepath arc in season 5 when it was first shown.

Turns out that was a mistake, because it got pretty darn good after that! The Centauri story was really well done (and tragic, even though we basically knew what was going to happen).

The LotR analogies I've heard about the show held true given they gave each of the major characters a sending off at the end too 😁 (also "going beyond the Rim" is really obviously "sailing to the West"). And the last episode "Sleeping in Light" was really nicely done and very sad.

Though they did leave a few threads dangling... (like what happened to Bester's girlfriend, and what happened with that urn at the end)

But overall, it's a fantastic show and was really fun to watch it all again :). I'm off on vacation for a few weeks but maybe afterwards we'll watch Call to Arms and Crusade. #scifi

I don't really post much to social media anymore, but I thought I would report that after 29 years I finally watched all of #Babylon5 - I gave up during the telepath arc in season 5 when it was first shown.

Turns out that was a mistake, because it got pretty darn good after that! The Centauri story was really well done (and tragic, even though we basically knew what was going to happen).

The LotR analogies I've heard about the show held true given they gave each of the major characters a sending off at the end too 😁 (also "going beyond the Rim" is really obviously "sailing to the West"). And the last episode "Sleeping in Light" was really nicely done and very sad.

Though they did leave a few threads dangling... (like what happened to Bester's girlfriend, and what happened with that urn at the end)

But overall, it's a fantastic show and was really fun to watch it all again :). I'm off on vacation for a few weeks but maybe afterwards we'll watch Call to Arms and Crusade. #scifi

An apt visual representation of our times.

Walt Miller's interior art for Raymond F. Jones' "Discontinuity" in Astounding Science Fiction (October 1950)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art #artist

One of the many wonderful illustrations featured in Omega: The Last Days of the Earth (1894), a #sciencefiction novel by 19th-century French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion, who was born #onthisday in1842. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/omega-the-last-days-of-the-world-1894 #OTD #scifi

One of the many wonderful illustrations featured in Omega: The Last Days of the Earth (1894), a #sciencefiction novel by 19th-century French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion, who was born #onthisday in1842. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/omega-the-last-days-of-the-world-1894 #OTD #scifi

For All Mankind Season 5 gets a trailer. Watch it here https://bit.ly/4b5loi5

#ForAllMankind #TV #scifi

For All Mankind Season 5 gets a trailer. Watch it here https://bit.ly/4b5loi5

#ForAllMankind #TV #scifi

RE: https://toot.community/@pug50/115912049382548423

It just occurred to me: LLM and Generative AI is exactly what would result if Pakleds were forced to make a Star Trek ship’s computer from component parts.

#StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #AI #GenAI #LLM #Scifi #ImSmart

RE: https://toot.community/@pug50/115912049382548423

It just occurred to me: LLM and Generative AI is exactly what would result if Pakleds were forced to make a Star Trek ship’s computer from component parts.

#StarTrek #TNG #DS9 #AI #GenAI #LLM #Scifi #ImSmart