TV/Movies Megathread

[HVC]

Watched Project Hail Mary. Didn't think I'd like it, earth saving space thriller have gone down hill since Armageddon ( ) but it's really good. Who'd have though all these movies needed was a funny rock.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Book is supposed to be pretty good. Author is.

[viper37]

Babylon 5 is now available on Prime in Canada. So I am now binging it.

A few things didn't age well.  Garibaldi reading a newspaper for example.

I am looking forward to seeing the show unfold in one go this time.

I remember binging it (on vHS!) not too long after it ended, and had a very different appreciation for the foreshadowing than when watching it weekly. That ended up being the best feature of the show for me.

I had put it on pause for a while.  Re-watching it now, up to S4, the episode where ISN visits the independent station (The Illusion of Truth).

Fox News began in 1996. Despite the obvious allusion of ISN = CNN, I do wonder if this was written as an allegory of Fox News or just a general criticism of medias at the time?  Obviously, FN isn't the first media to deliver propaganda, I'm quite certain Confederate newspapers were delivering propaganda during the ACW, as well as many European outlets during WWII, but I'm still wondering.

Anyway.  Everything in this show looks so... Republican/MAGA, sometimes?