Day 4 - Random Love Month - Babylon 5

[alexcat]

In the late 90s, my friend Barbie sent me a box of home copied videos of season 1 of Babylon 5 along with copies of the guidebooks for each season. SciFi tv was showing an episode every night at 7 as well. And boom, I was hooked!

I hung out online at a chat place called Delphi Forums back then and I joined a group led by a guy named Mike Helba. I helped run it for several years. I believe that Mike might have been one of the people who began DragonCon in Atlanta. He was a great guy and I've lost touch over the years, but he was instrumental in the making of a fangirl - I learned how to run and moderate chatrooms and how to run message boards from working with him. I also have a 12 inch Garibaldi that he gave me asa thank you for helping him out.

I have added many fandoms over the years but I've never left babylon 5. At the current time, I run three communities here on DW (And LJas well) - babylon5_love, universe_today and b5_revisited, all communities made by ruuger, who wanted to step away from running them.

While B5 is an old television show, it is not dead. New fans come to the show all the time - it reminds me of Tolkien. It is a large body of work that has an actual story arc that plays out over 5 years. There are books and spinoffs as well.

It's also a friendly fandom. I invite any of you looking for something new to come give B5 a look. We might even be doing a new rewatch beginning at b5_revisited.

Comments

[kitewithfish]

Actually, your posts on B5_revisted have inspired me to find where the show was streaming and start watching - I just finished watching the episode Season 1:13 "Signs and Portents" and I think I'm hooked!

[alexcat]

I think it's probably one of the best shows ever! I believe Amazon Prime members can stream it as well.

[kitewithfish]

That is actually how I am watching it! I had started the first season a few years ago on Hulu, but then they pulled it. It was long enough ago that I had to restart, but I'm definitely enjoying myself more the second time around.

[shipperslist]

Oh, B5... ❤️ I’ve introduced my kid to it a couple of years ago but we didn’t get very far—my sets don’t have subtitles and we’re not native English speakers. But his language skills have gotten way better so I thinks it’s time for take 2.

[alexcat]

If you're watching DVDs or streaming, sometimes you can go back and listen again if you don't catch it the first time too.

[shipperslist]

Yeah, I have DVDs.
The movies have Finnish subtitles but the boxes only have English for hearing impaired. And Portuguese, Italian, and German but...I'm not gonna go there. :D

[ruuger]

You've done a fantastic job at keeping the communities alive, and I thank you for it :)

edit to add: Accidentally posted the comment before I was finished... I meant to also say that I remember the Delphi Forums and Mike. It was one of the best fannish forums that I've been a member of.

[alexcat]

It was. Mike's a nice guy. Didn't you have a site called Bester's something?

[ruuger]

I did: 190 Bester Place. It was around from 1999 to about five years ago, I guess, when the other B5 site that was kindly hosting mine went down.