“Friends” are people that hang out with you irl. They come in “circles” of decreasing friendliness and increasing number of participants, including an extended one with the most people.
Chains and a pickup truck help. Most people like riding in pickup trucks, and you can use the chains to lock them to a friend rack when you’re not using them
Babylon 5 is one of the more underrated TV sci-fi shows of all time. The CGI and such is super old, and the acting comes across a bit hacky, but it’s well worth checking out. It delved into deeper issues (which today are sadly relevant) long before others that are similarly well-known for that (like Star Trek Deep Space Nine), and went deeper still.
Like poverty, inequality, misunderstandings, religion, politics, specifically fascism, and so on.
This meme is purely about the similarities in the names - but the show itself is worthy of having been included alongside of Star Wars.
Fun Fact: DS9 was a ripoff of Babylon 5. Literally and directly. JMS pitched Babylon 5 to Paramount, who rejected it, so he went and pitched it to TNN about the time Paramount started up a new Star Trek show about a space station nominally run by humans from Earth that’s involved in conflict and diplomatic intrigue with a wormhole nearby.
As much as I like B5 and JMS, DS9 was already in preproduction with the suspicious similarities already in place when he pitched the show. Paramount asking him during the pitch if he’d be interested in making it a Trek show was almost certainly an attempt to poach him for DS9, since they saw how similar the core concepts were. Paramount actually got very hands-off with DS9, and I suspect it was to ensure they didn’t let the pitch influence the show and open them up to a lawsuit.
Also, JMS didn’t go to TNT after Paramount, he went to PTEN. PTEN was terribly run and B5 was literally their only show by the time production started on season 4, with PTEN folding during production. TNT picked up the show for season 5, then ordered a sequel show that they immediately got buyer’s remorse on and fucked with so they could cancel it within the terms of the contract.
It hurts that in my whole extended circle of friends I’m the only one that will understand this.
Babylon 5 is severely underrated.
Please explain
“Friends” are people that hang out with you irl. They come in “circles” of decreasing friendliness and increasing number of participants, including an extended one with the most people.
One day I hope you will make a friend. :-P
How would one, hypothetically, go about acquiring these “friends”?
Chains and a pickup truck help. Most people like riding in pickup trucks, and you can use the chains to lock them to a friend rack when you’re not using them
Lol! I meant about the meme
But thank you I needed that laugh
The character they brought is named Londo and is from an excellent sci-fi series from the 90ies called Babylon 5.
Ah ok thank you!
How much do you need explained? The Star Wars part, the Babylon 5 part, or both?
The Babylon 5 part
Babylon 5 is one of the more underrated TV sci-fi shows of all time. The CGI and such is super old, and the acting comes across a bit hacky, but it’s well worth checking out. It delved into deeper issues (which today are sadly relevant) long before others that are similarly well-known for that (like Star Trek Deep Space Nine), and went deeper still.
Like poverty, inequality, misunderstandings, religion, politics, specifically fascism, and so on.
This meme is purely about the similarities in the names - but the show itself is worthy of having been included alongside of Star Wars.
Oh wow thank you!
Fun Fact: DS9 was a ripoff of Babylon 5. Literally and directly. JMS pitched Babylon 5 to Paramount, who rejected it, so he went and pitched it to TNN about the time Paramount started up a new Star Trek show about a space station nominally run by humans from Earth that’s involved in conflict and diplomatic intrigue with a wormhole nearby.
As much as I like B5 and JMS, DS9 was already in preproduction with the suspicious similarities already in place when he pitched the show. Paramount asking him during the pitch if he’d be interested in making it a Trek show was almost certainly an attempt to poach him for DS9, since they saw how similar the core concepts were. Paramount actually got very hands-off with DS9, and I suspect it was to ensure they didn’t let the pitch influence the show and open them up to a lawsuit.
Also, JMS didn’t go to TNT after Paramount, he went to PTEN. PTEN was terribly run and B5 was literally their only show by the time production started on season 4, with PTEN folding during production. TNT picked up the show for season 5, then ordered a sequel show that they immediately got buyer’s remorse on and fucked with so they could cancel it within the terms of the contract.