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It was released earlier today.  I’ve watched this trailer for Babylon 5: The Road Home at least five times now… and I am stoked.  It looks beautiful.  And it seems that they’ve done an excellent job at casting the voice actors for the characters whose original portrayers have “gone beyond the Rim” over the years.

(I’m hoping that we get at least one look inside Garibaldi’s quarters aboard Babylon 5.  Just to see if the painting of Daffy Duck is still there.)

Anyhoo… enjoy!

Babylon 5: The Road Home hits digital download, 4K, and Blu-ray on August 15th, 2023.

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I’m feeling some geeky gears in my gray matter starting to rotate like they haven’t in a VERY long time.

Babylon 5 – the single greatest television series that the Nineties ever spawned – is coming back as an animated film.

The show’s creator J. Michael Straczynski unloaded the news on Twitter earlier this afternoon.  More details are coming soon, including the movie’s title and release date.

I cannot emphasize enough how stoked I am about this.  Babylon 5 was like an extra few years of education on top of what I got in college.  The five-season story about that miles-long space station all alone in the night, the “last best hope for peace” in a galaxy rife with plotting and intrigue, shattered the ceiling both as a broadcast series and for what the medium was capable of giving viewers.  Had it not been for Babylon 5 paving the ...

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Hey, do you have HBO Max?  Because if you haven’t heard already, all the cool kids are binging on Babylon 5.

 


Yes, THAT Babylon 5.  The Nineties-era science-fiction television epic.  The story of that five mile long space station and the people inhabiting it, “all alone in the night.”  Some have argued that it might be the single greatest television series of its time.  It was certainly ahead of that time.  Had it not been for Babylon 5 breaking the path ahead, a lot of series might not have seen the light of day.  It set out to tell a story spanning the length of five seasons, and it pulled it off magnificently.

And it has received a remaster of sorts.  The video has been cleaned up and its legendary CGI effects (which I think still hold up even today) have been sharpened a bit.  All five seasons ...

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Ten years ago tonight, the Babylon Project came to a magnificent end as “Sleeping in Light”, the series finale of Babylon 5 – considered by many to be the greatest television show of the Nineties – was broadcast on TNT.

I have not written nearly enough about Babylon 5 on this blog. J. Michael Straczynski’s soaring, spanning epic about the Babylon 5 space station and the people within it, I can confidently attest, had the most profound impact on my personal philosophy of any work of televised fiction. From the first time I heard about it in an issue of Starlog in the summer of 1992, I knew this would be one to watch for. And it did not disappoint: the shot of the Vorlon fleet coming through the jumpgate in the pilot movie should have been fair warning to everyone that science-fiction television would never be the same....

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Well, almost a complete set. But it is the part that counts most!

As I’ve said here before, I’m not much of a television watcher. A show has to be very good before I invest my valuable time in sitting down to enjoy it on a regular basis. And it takes nothing less than storytelling of the highest caliber to keep me captivated and coming. That’s why I love Lost so much. And ten years before that, there was Babylon 5.

This was the standout science-fiction show of the Nineties. And easily one of the best shows of that era, period. Babylon 5 broke bold new ground and in my sincere opinion set the pace for all the good shows that have followed. I don’t know if there had been this kind of thing attempted before with American television that Babylon 5 pulled off: a broad, sweeping epic boasting ...

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