Babylon 5

I saw a marathon of Captain Power one time when I was like five and I still think about that show to this day. I didn't even know there was supposed to be an interactive bit with a laser gun until years later, I just thought the show was neat.

Official details and trailer all dropping tomorrow

Teaser for the trailer

The trailer for "The Road Home"

How does this look for a potential work page?

The Way Home is an animated film set within the Babylon 5 universe, written by orignal show creator J. Michael Straczynski.

Taking place before the Series Finale, former Babylon 5 commander, John Sheridan, President of the Earth Alliance, and hero of the Shadow War, is taken across timelines after being exposed to tachyon energy on Minbar.

Offical Trailer

• Call-Back: As in the original series the trailer shows that still no one listens to Zathras.
• Dimensional Traveler: Due to being unexpectedly exposed to tachyons, Sheridan begins to drift across different timelines, where things went very differently for the B5 station.
• Oh, Crap!: Said word for word by Sheridan when he's told the Minbari generator runs on tachyon's, and he's in for something screwy.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Including the station itself, presumably after Sheridan triggers it's self-destruct in one of the many timelines

Trivia

• Character Outlives Actor: Due to the passing of many of the B5 cast since the shows end, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Richard Biggs, Tim Choate, Andreas Katsulas and Michael O'Hare, all of their characters had to be recast for this animated continuation.
• Role Reprisal: JMS was able to get together as many of the living cast as he could to reprise their roles for this film. This includes, Bruce Boxleitner, and John Sheridan, Claudia Christian as Susan Ivanonva, Patricia Tallman as Lyta Alexander and Peter Jurasik as Mollari.

Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 16th 2023 at 1:04:37 PM

Needs more tropes, two of those are trivia entries.

Edited by DeadlyAssassin on Jun 15th 2023 at 7:51:04 PM

Any more observed from the trailer?

Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 16th 2023 at 9:16:06 AM

Stuff Blowing Up: Including the station itself, presumably after Sheridan triggers it's self-destruct in one of the many timelines.

Edited by Zarius on Jun 16th 2023 at 2:03:46 AM

its Tachyons not Tacyons.

Call-Back; as in the original series the trailer shows that still no one listens to zathras.

Is the moments of transition/moments of revelation bit a quote from the series as well? Certainly reference episode titles.

Think that's enough to start a page?

Yeah, three is the requirement but all of them need to mention that the info is from the trailer iirc.

There, Babylon 5: The Road Home, now to crosswick.

(Edit)

Should the page be named Babylon 5: The Road Home, instead? Something bother's me about how I originally wrote the name.

Edited by Avenger09 on Jun 16th 2023 at 5:13:24 PM

Yeah, it needs a Colon so it reads Babylon 5: The Road Home. I went ahead and submitted a Wiki Word request for it. This will also make it consistent with the primary Babylon 5 page. I added a few tropes from the Trailer too.

Edited by AFP on Jun 18th 2023 at 11:56:09 AM

Was B5 ever considered a kid-unfriendly show? I know JMS wanted it to be "adult" but I don't see why children couldn't enjoy it too(and that's definitely not a bad thing).

There's a difference between "families can watch it if they want" and "it's for kids".

I wasn't suggesting B5 was a kids show.

One of JMS' rules when creating the show was no cute kids or robots. B5 isn't exactly torture porn, but it touches on a lot of adult themes. I passed on my love of B5 to my little brother was in his early teens at the time.

Yeah. It's what I'd call a genuine 'family' show, as in while it's not graphically violent or anything, it also doesn't talk down or pander to its viewers whoever they might be.

Like a cool older sibling who knows what your limits are and lets you watch horror movies.

Edited by Chortleous on Jun 21st 2023 at 4:43:24 AM

Plenty of kids shows also tackle pretty heavy topics (I recall such topics being a staple of Saturday morning cartoons like Exo-Squad, X-Men, and Sonic the Hedgehog when I was a kid), a lot of the difference is in the overall tone.

Compare Babylon 5 to Avatar the Last Airbender. Both talk about oppressive governments, xenophobia, having to work up to making great personal sacrifices for the greater good, the cost of war, and even have a funny guy who hits people with a staff, but Babylon 5 overall sticks to a more serious delivery even with the comic relief bits.

It's probably fine in general, but I think younger kids would find many of the more philosophical/political episodes rather boring. It's probably more of a case by case thing than a general audience thing.

Yeah, I think Avatar is more oriented towards a younger audience, with more comedy and action.

Edited by Redmess on Jun 24th 2023 at 2:27:12 PM

Yeah, it’s not kid-inappropriate for the most part, and I watched it as a teen and liked it, but it’s a lot of dialogue and diplomacy and younger kids would probably be bored.

Where would a show like the Dan Dare cgi series be? It's got death, drama, and outer space adventure too.

Edited by Avenger09 on Jul 2nd 2023 at 6:10:50 PM

It's finally happening, Blu-Ray release for the entire original series

Edited by Zarius on Jul 19th 2023 at 11:01:42 AM

The Road Home is now streaming, and it sounds like a lot of folks got their Blu-Ray copies in the mail yesterday.