One of the funniest scenes in the show was when Sheridan got into the elevator with Lenir after his night with Delenn and Lenir asked "woo... hoo?" The line and the look on their faces afterwards in particular always makes me lmao
LOL, imagine Sheridan facing off against the Borg... Borg- WE ARE THE BORG, YOU WILL BE ASSI.. Sheridan -UP YOURS!!!!!!!! Borg --> stunned Pikachu face.
@@Marky11694 Federation torpedo's are a thousand times or more stronger then Nuclear weapons. Torpedo's in Star trek can destroy planets in just a salvo it would take half the worlds nukes to do that
@@ChanticoChulo Accept a Torpedo has to be fired while a Nuke can be place nearby or on board for a proximity explosion that would destroy a Borg ship easily if placed close enough to the engine core and they can't adapt to an internal explosion as easily if at all
The special effects were done on a cluster of 486 computers running an early version of Linux. The master computer that controlled the job was an amiga that ran a version of Linux. Linux had ray tracing as early as 2006. It is the clunky Windows version that held and still holds back ray traced frame generation.
The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated on Earth was air-dropped on a parachute to give the bomber enough time to escape (even then it was questionable if they'd survive). The fireball never touched the ground: the shockwave created by the blast bounced off the Earth's surface and pushed it halfway up towards space before the shockwave itself went around the Earth--- three times. The Gaim mines snuck aboard the White Star? Each one was ten times more powerful.
It was unreal for B5 was actually using the Amiga personal computers to make the special effects in the 90's. Imagine if the company never went out of business, but kept on evolving how much further pc's would be today. The Amiga was multimedia before multimedia.
I thought the graphics were more realistic in the first four seasons. They might as well have been filming actual ships as far as I'm concerned. I don't remember exactly what changed, but they did something different in the fifth season which I could tell was CGI in the finished product.
The look on the other Captains face when he ordered ramming speed is why there is a phrase, a picture is worth a thousand words. The actor did it beautifully. The look simply states, if there was ever any doubt that Sheridan would do anything to save earth, he would. And what a privilege to serve and die with a man of such conviction.
Thrawn is really devastating, if he has time to prepare. Leisure time to assauge the situation. He is the batman of Star Wars. He does okay with maybe 1 surprise turn, but any more and his overly complicated and low margin for error plans fail. Often spectaculary, half the times deadly.
I appreciate keeping all of the "Sheridan's Duty/Agamemnon's Final Charge" clip in the video. That scene was just as much about the Agamemnon's journey with Sheridan as it was Sheridan.
I hear the occasional rumor that they're going to reboot it, but I really don't want that to happen. The actors were perfect for their roles and they are the ones that brought the characters to life. I would be interested in seeing a successful spinoff, however.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I don't want a reboot either, just for the popularity to keep it in circulation. Spinoff wouldn't be bad. Hard to continue with do many actors tragically passed away but it might be interesting to see what happens to Centauri prime and telepaths in the long run.
I think all that should be done is for them to redo the cgi a bit, keep the same ship designs and everything, just make it all a bit cleaner. If they do anything at all that is.
I loved Babylon 5. I have the complete original VCR set. As a kid Sheridan set an example of leadership for me and taught me backing down just because someone has power or authority over you is not the answer. Many of my achievements in life came from Sheridan. A fantastically written character second only to Garibaldi (Cause he is a badass smartass.)
The recording he made for his son at the end sums it all up. "If you believe in something, fight for it. Even if you are the only one fighting and the whole world is against you, fight for what you believe." Not an exact quote, but the point remains the same.
makes you realize how little theatrics he needed to get his point across compared to the other diplomats and command staff. its a question of who needed less really. him or sinclair
Imagine if O'Haire had never quit the Job, we wouldve never seen any of this. As sas as it is that we lost sinclair, I think the way it played out suited the character even more, and we got an entirely new one for it
To do it justice would require using the whole speech. I wanted to keep this video relatively short, so that prevented me from including scenes such as that one.
I love how President Clark put Sheridan in charge of Babylon 5 because he thought from Sheridan's war record he'd be a anti-alien but ended up with a man so opposed to him that he basically gave power wait not He gave power to the very man who'd destroy him.
I wonder if the cut in Sheridan's cheek wasn't a leftover of when Michael O'Hare was supposed to bethe lead for the show's entire run. It'd be an explanation for Sinclair's scar in War Without End.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Sheridan made one mistake the made me dislike him at least for a bit....I wonder if you'd agree ...if it wasn't for lyta, Sheridan wouldn't have been very successful.....he owed her....he owed her big time.....he expressed his gratitude for her role in winning the shadow war by forcing her into smaller quarters....Sheridan should have moved heaven and earth to get lyta what she wanted....a home for telepaths.....so he repays her for her role in winning the Civil War by putting a gun to the back of her head and threatening to kill her.....what a dick.... He owed her everything and i stead he shit on her....when he put that gun on her head she should have just fryed his mind turning him into a jibbering vegetable.....ive always thought this was a major plot failure
@@willowfrog33 Yes, I do agree with you. I felt that Lyta was perfectly justified in her anger, and I don't understand why Sheridan left her out in the cold like he did. She was part of the team, a team where everyone's needs were met except for hers. Why? To me, it feels like JMS didn't think to properly explain why this dynamic existed. The only answer presented was that people distrusted her because of her connection to the Vorlons, but her siding with them against the second ambassador should have won her a lot of points just like Zack choosing them over Nightwatch did for him.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin agreed but if trust really was an issue they should have made us wonder about her say like Garak on ds9.....I never understood why giving the teeps a planet was such a big deal....i am no expert on interstellar planetary real estate but Sheridan could have made it happen.....anyway...the scene where he puts his gun on her head an threatens her sickens me....it always has.....
I know it's controversial but another epic Sheridan moment is when he's reprogramed by the "Nazi" scientist. Evil Sheridan is both frightening and awesome by how much he really gets into what he's saying.
Funny story about that bear: the episode (one of the few B5 episodes not written by J. Michael Straczynski) was written by Peter David. Peter had the bear made for the episode and gave it to Straczynski (known to his friends as Joe Straczynski, J.S.) as a gag gift. JMS hates all things cute so wrote the "Sheridan spaces the bear" scene and added that scene to Peter's episode. Peter "vowed revenge" and a few years later on his own series Space Cases, had one of his characters find the bear floating in space. The character wondered on screen "What kind of monster would space a perfectly innocent teddy bear?" :-D
Good overarching plot, good characters, decent dialogues, average vfx, average+ acting. Overall decent family scifi show that you can watch over and over again. We need more shows like this rather than trillion-budget propaganda movies that nobody wants to watch.
best apology speech ever!
I often wonder if that's what he would have actually said if he'd gotten the chance.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I read somewhere that JMS said that's exactky what he was going to say :)
@@tatw167 I'm imagining the look on Londo's face while G'kar is laughing in the bushes.
Sounds like me when talking to my retard superiors at work....
Only John Sheridan could fight the Minbari and live. Only John Sheridan could piss off an angel and survive.
Technically, Sinclair was the only himan to be able to physically beat up a Minbari.
One of the funniest scenes in the show was when Sheridan got into the elevator with Lenir after his night with Delenn and Lenir asked "woo... hoo?" The line and the look on their faces afterwards in particular always makes me lmao
LOL, imagine Sheridan facing off against the Borg...
Borg- WE ARE THE BORG, YOU WILL BE ASSI..
Sheridan -UP YOURS!!!!!!!!
Borg --> stunned Pikachu face.
Sounds like a video I need to make now.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin A link pls ^^
Wouldn't be that easy although I never understood why the Federation didn't use Nuclear Weapons planted on Borg Ships
@@Marky11694 Federation torpedo's are a thousand times or more stronger then Nuclear weapons. Torpedo's in Star trek can destroy planets in just a salvo it would take half the worlds nukes to do that
@@ChanticoChulo Accept a Torpedo has to be fired while a Nuke can be place nearby or on board for a proximity explosion that would destroy a Borg ship easily if placed close enough to the engine core and they can't adapt to an internal explosion as easily if at all
Having the bear slap into the Starfury's canopy was icing on the cake.
Not to mention it also showed up as a 3d model on the hud. Speaking of details.
Disappointed the follow up line was cut
The special effects were done on a cluster of 486 computers running an early version of Linux. The master computer that controlled the job was an amiga that ran a version of Linux. Linux had ray tracing as early as 2006. It is the clunky Windows version that held and still holds back ray traced frame generation.
Walk softly, and carry a 500-megatonne nuke.
Two nukes. Really gotta make sure you get them.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Worked against Z'Ha'Dum, too.
@@caddan4175 bellissimo burce
The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated on Earth was air-dropped on a parachute to give the bomber enough time to escape (even then it was questionable if they'd survive). The fireball never touched the ground: the shockwave created by the blast bounced off the Earth's surface and pushed it halfway up towards space before the shockwave itself went around the Earth--- three times.
The Gaim mines snuck aboard the White Star? Each one was ten times more powerful.
That Agamemnon scene is still friking powerful even by today standard.
One of my favorites!
It was unreal for B5 was actually using the Amiga personal computers to make the special effects in the 90's.
Imagine if the company never went out of business, but kept on evolving how much further pc's would be today. The Amiga was multimedia before multimedia.
I thought the graphics were more realistic in the first four seasons. They might as well have been filming actual ships as far as I'm concerned.
I don't remember exactly what changed, but they did something different in the fifth season which I could tell was CGI in the finished product.
Lightwave 3D helped many a movie during those times. Now it's abandonware or something like that.
Such a great character played by an excellent actor!
He's one of the few actors I like in every role in which I see him!
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I had no idea he was in Tron until a couple of months ago :D
@@Daktangle Londo is in Tron as well, as a side character I think
The look on the other Captains face when he ordered ramming speed is why there is a phrase, a picture is worth a thousand words. The actor did it beautifully. The look simply states, if there was ever any doubt that Sheridan would do anything to save earth, he would. And what a privilege to serve and die with a man of such conviction.
The one man to destroy a mimbari cruiser and not just any cruiser, but the flagship cruiser.
Best sci-fi Fleet Admiral ever! Sorry Thrawn...
Thrawn: I have you surrounded. You cannot escape.
Sheridan: Then I'll see you in hell. *Flips nuke switch*
Thrawn is really devastating, if he has time to prepare. Leisure time to assauge the situation. He is the batman of Star Wars.
He does okay with maybe 1 surprise turn, but any more and his overly complicated and low margin for error plans fail. Often spectaculary, half the times deadly.
Daugherty OUT
Sheridan never made Fleet Admiral neither did Thrawn to be honest.
*Girabaldi voice* They don't even have fleet admirals in B5!
Basically said "Up Yours" to a God
And lived
I appreciate keeping all of the "Sheridan's Duty/Agamemnon's Final Charge" clip in the video. That scene was just as much about the Agamemnon's journey with Sheridan as it was Sheridan.
All power to the engines, give me ramming speed. After seeing this scene for over 1000 times, I still get the chills in my spine
Me too! The effect of the music, the character's expressions, and the ship coming in to save them seemingly a moment too late is epicness personified.
3:47 I finished babylon 5 tonight, the ending was beautiful and really sad, had me in tears!😂 Definitely now holds a special place in my heart
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! Getting ready to do another re-watch myself. :)
Just finished the series for a second time last week. It still holds up.
RIP Mira Fulan (7 September 1955 - 20 January 2021)
2:43 This scene always reminds me of the beginning of "First Contact" where Worf is about to ram the Defiant into the borg cube.
“Perhaps it is a good day to die! RAMMING SPEED!”
Timeless series that deserves more love. There's a slow reactor movement starting that I hope will help with that.
I hear the occasional rumor that they're going to reboot it, but I really don't want that to happen. The actors were perfect for their roles and they are the ones that brought the characters to life.
I would be interested in seeing a successful spinoff, however.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin I don't want a reboot either, just for the popularity to keep it in circulation. Spinoff wouldn't be bad. Hard to continue with do many actors tragically passed away but it might be interesting to see what happens to Centauri prime and telepaths in the long run.
I think all that should be done is for them to redo the cgi a bit, keep the same ship designs and everything, just make it all a bit cleaner. If they do anything at all that is.
@@ruthgar9753 The digital B5 Encyclopedia has some remastered clips in it. They look amazing!
I loved Babylon 5. I have the complete original VCR set. As a kid Sheridan set an example of leadership for me and taught me backing down just because someone has power or authority over you is not the answer. Many of my achievements in life came from Sheridan. A fantastically written character second only to Garibaldi (Cause he is a badass smartass.)
The recording he made for his son at the end sums it all up.
"If you believe in something, fight for it. Even if you are the only one fighting and the whole world is against you, fight for what you believe."
Not an exact quote, but the point remains the same.
My favorite series ever!
"Captain, I'm sorry, we thought you were dead."
(in British accent) "I got betta."
Morning, gentlemen. This is your wakeup call.
I'm getting ready to do a part two, and now I'm adding that one to the list.
makes you realize how little theatrics he needed to get his point across compared to the other diplomats and command staff. its a question of who needed less really. him or sinclair
He can almost compete with Delenn on terrifying you into submission with a single stare.
Almost.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Marriage of two true warriors.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Also think if I remember it right that the y were the ones facing off each other in the war in those very ships..
Don't mess with Captain Tron.
We will be very lucky to see such quality SF again...
The best man to lead...is the one everyone roots for.
Zootie zoot zoot.
The VERY BEST, EVER put on television...
Imagine if O'Haire had never quit the Job, we wouldve never seen any of this. As sas as it is that we lost sinclair, I think the way it played out suited the character even more, and we got an entirely new one for it
From what I understand, O'Haire didn't quit exactly. He had some serious health issues.
@@kjohnson9306 yea, exactly. Well "had to quit the job" then, better?
"Every time I say, NO"
Always found it funny that the Starfury had a Teddy Bear in its targeting package memory
3:25 - Delenn underestimating how tough the Earthforce Omega cruisers are.
To be fair to her, in her experience earth cruisers were usually nothing but fragments by the time they were in visual range.
Also from her angle she could probably only see the explosion
The omega cruisers blew up a lot on the show.
Im surprised your didn't include the "we are here to place President Clark under arrest" speech.
To do it justice would require using the whole speech. I wanted to keep this video relatively short, so that prevented me from including scenes such as that one.
I said I was surprised, I never said I was disappointed. Sorry for the miscommunication.
@@theraptorstalon7589 No problem. I just felt you were due an explanation because it is a pretty epic speech.
Very awesome. Great job.
I love how President Clark put Sheridan in charge of Babylon 5 because he thought from Sheridan's war record he'd be a anti-alien but ended up with a man so opposed to him that he basically gave power wait not He gave power to the very man who'd destroy him.
His record made him look like a hard-nosed jarhead. 😆
I wonder if the cut in Sheridan's cheek wasn't a leftover of when Michael O'Hare was supposed to bethe lead for the show's entire run. It'd be an explanation for Sinclair's scar in War Without End.
Bab5 best cast story and crew classic show
Outstanding!
Thanks!
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Sheridan made one mistake the made me dislike him at least for a bit....I wonder if you'd agree ...if it wasn't for lyta, Sheridan wouldn't have been very successful.....he owed her....he owed her big time.....he expressed his gratitude for her role in winning the shadow war by forcing her into smaller quarters....Sheridan should have moved heaven and earth to get lyta what she wanted....a home for telepaths.....so he repays her for her role in winning the Civil War by putting a gun to the back of her head and threatening to kill her.....what a dick....
He owed her everything and i stead he shit on her....when he put that gun on her head she should have just fryed his mind turning him into a jibbering vegetable.....ive always thought this was a major plot failure
@@willowfrog33 Yes, I do agree with you. I felt that Lyta was perfectly justified in her anger, and I don't understand why Sheridan left her out in the cold like he did. She was part of the team, a team where everyone's needs were met except for hers. Why?
To me, it feels like JMS didn't think to properly explain why this dynamic existed. The only answer presented was that people distrusted her because of her connection to the Vorlons, but her siding with them against the second ambassador should have won her a lot of points just like Zack choosing them over Nightwatch did for him.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin agreed but if trust really was an issue they should have made us wonder about her say like Garak on ds9.....I never understood why giving the teeps a planet was such a big deal....i am no expert on interstellar planetary real estate but Sheridan could have made it happen.....anyway...the scene where he puts his gun on her head an threatens her sickens me....it always has.....
@@willowfrog33 She betrayed his trust destroying Z'ha'dum. And he was the Vorlon safeguard if she rebelled. He's just doing his job.
Well fit too
Who else says "up yours" to a Vorlon? And by the way, up the Vorlon's what?
Not sure I want to know that much about Vorlon anatomy to be honest.
@@AuthorDodgeMerrin Pretty sure they are energy beings and no longer have anatomy.
Encounter suit.
0:25 Trying to write that certain letter to that certain person
2:23 Stellaris players after beating 2 Awaken Fallen Empire in the War of Heaven event line
I know it's controversial but another epic Sheridan moment is when he's reprogramed by the "Nazi" scientist. Evil Sheridan is both frightening and awesome by how much he really gets into what he's saying.
The 2 thumbs down were probably from the Vorlon's and Shadow's. They didn't like being yelled at.
HE SPACED THE BEAR
Funny story about that bear: the episode (one of the few B5 episodes not written by J. Michael Straczynski) was written by Peter David. Peter had the bear made for the episode and gave it to Straczynski (known to his friends as Joe Straczynski, J.S.) as a gag gift. JMS hates all things cute so wrote the "Sheridan spaces the bear" scene and added that scene to Peter's episode. Peter "vowed revenge" and a few years later on his own series Space Cases, had one of his characters find the bear floating in space. The character wondered on screen "What kind of monster would space a perfectly innocent teddy bear?" :-D
That bear was cute, too. =( I don't know why he would have such a negative reaction to it.
@@BladeOfLight16 He just hates all things cute and cuddly. ;-)
@@rossglenn7600 well when you’re as angry and bitter as him cute and cuddly makes you angry…
Alexander the great in space :) love this man
Fiancé got me into this and in 2 weeks he’s managed to seriously convert me !!!
It certainly has its way of hooking you given the chance.
Do they have a special button for ramming speed?
Babylon 5: Leave your F's at the door because we give none
This is a small grip, but did any else feel that the only let down with B5 was the cinematography.
Good overarching plot, good characters, decent dialogues, average vfx, average+ acting.
Overall decent family scifi show that you can watch over and over again.
We need more shows like this rather than trillion-budget propaganda movies that nobody wants to watch.