Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by compsciphd on Sunday September 08, 2024 @08:10PM
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watching on a small 4x3 TV in the 90s, the CGI didn't bother me.
It was state of the art for 3d CGI during its time, but it also happened at a time when miniature > 3d CGI.
The station still looks pretty great...
Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by willcipriano on Sunday September 08, 2024 @11:05PM
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The CGI doesn't bother me now, the space scenes are a small part of the show.
This isn't Trek where the Enterprise is a character in and of itself. This is more Deep Space Nine.
Babylon 5 is about politics and personalities, the spaceships and stuff are just the background.
Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by devoutsalsa on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:09AM
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In my opinion, the 30 year old B5 CGI is better than the most recent season of Star Trek Discovery in 2024, which I found to be quite bad, especially in the opening scene of the first episode.
Well, comparing things to the STD is not really setting a high bar on anything IMHO :)
Re:The Lurker's Guide to Babylon5
by willcipriano on Monday September 09, 2024 @05:42PM
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B5 was more tasteful with it. They knew the limitations and steered into what they could do well.
Tom Bakers Doctor Who I think is the best example of using a shoestring budget to tell huge sci-fi stories well. B5 takes a lot from that book.
Yeah I thought about Doctor Who too, and if you look on it over its history the designs there are pretty basic and yet I never felt anything was really missing there. It's not about prettiest pictures.
It's no coincidence that you noticed similarities with DS9 - Paramount ripped off[1] the BS5 script J. Michael Straczynski had submitted to them.
I also don’t think it was too bad for its time, but I think it was too early to rely on CGI to that extent. Great show though.