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Babylon 5 - (1994 show) 01

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105946/

Upon contact with aliens, humans set up a space station to promote ambassadorial relations among species.

Easily among the best television I’ve seen. Everything about this series is phenomenal: acting, stories, sets, etc. Unfortunately, the graphics do appear dated in places, but it otherwise holds up very well.

Mandatory viewing.



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Babylon 5 - The Gathering - (1993 movie) dvd cover

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106336/

The feature-length movie and test pilot for Babylon 5 – (1994 show).

This is the first item to view in the Babylon 5 viewing order. See Babylon 5 binge 01 notes.

  • Properly titled Babylon 5: The Gathering
  • This is technically “film 0”, as it is the feature-length pilot episode.
  • Movie Box, cd 1 – Babylon 5 – The Gathering – (1993 movie)

    • The first disk, which is labeled “1”. It is extremely important to get this right! Look at the number and title on the disk.
  • SPOILER ALERT – Although there is important information in the introduction to the station, I think it’s important to skip to 1:15.



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Futurama (1999-2013) logo

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0149460/
https://www.cc.com/shows/futurama

A failure of a delivery boy is frozen for a thousand years, where in the year 3,000 he’s an interstellar delivery boy who continues to fail a lot.

A hilarious and intelligent show, with many subtleties. Watch an episode or three, and if you’re interested then you’ll enjoy the rest. Highly recommended.

I watched a couple of seasons before my interest petered out. I want to do other things with my time.



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Doctor Who (2005-) image

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0436992/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vvcq

The last of a powerful race tours time and space, regularly ending up in trouble.

Playful fun. Occasionally attempts to glide past some significant issues with time travel but is generally bubblegum. Doesn’t take itself too seriously. Recommended until it goes woke.



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Alien Nation (1989-1990) poster

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096531/

A buddy cop series, but with aliens, with overtones of very difficult social topics.

This is surprisingly good, either in addition to, or separate from, the movie. While I didn’t particularly like the movie, this series is recommended. Anyone who liked the original movie should definitely continue the franchise with this series.

  • This continues from Alien Nation – (1988 movie), including a story arc.

    • I don’t know what it is about the series, but it has left a much stronger positive impression than the film.



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The 4400 (2004-2007) series

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0389564/
https://web.archive.org/web/20071225184752/usanetwork.com/series/the4400/

People at various times are abducted by aliens only to be returned in an extremely showy way, but with amnesia and superhuman abilities.

A series about as impressive as this sentence.



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12 Monkeys (2015-) image 1

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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3148266/
https://www.syfy.com/12-monkeys

Survivors of a plague that wipes out most humans make a desperate bid to undo it all by sending a man back in time.

I suppose it’s inevitable that a television series based around time travel will get convoluted really quickly because they stretch things out. Still, this doesn’t feel very good to me.



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