Funko Pops, to me.
I understand that some of them are fairly overpriced, but I also really like them as is. It doesn’t work on all characters, but it sometimes work on a lot and there’s so much representation and variety that it’s good to have a few.
If people want to talk about waste of plastic and vinyl, they should bark at the companies who make teeny tiny figurines that serve no purpose and have so little detail that spending any money on them is a waste.
Babylon 5, that show was brilliant and I don’t get why it gets the hate it does, if you love space courtroom drama and intergalactic diplomatic shenanigans, then Babylon 5 has you more than covered.
You want a deep multi level story? Yep got that.
Space racisim? Got that as well.
A will they won’t they love hate relationship between to opposing alien species who may or may not have killed a substantial amount of each others species? hell yeah we got that in bulk!
That show is worth the watch. If they had just the slightest bit of extra money to get better cgi, we would be talking about Babylon 5 different.
Babylon 5 did an incredible job showing how fascism can slowly take power. Great show.
I agree with you as a contemporary but I do think it’s important to remember that while DS9 started slower it ended up delivering excellent narratives on the same topic.
They are both worth a watch though because Bab5 had a grittiness to it that most other sci-fi wouldn’t embrace until the resurgence of Cyberpunk. Bab5 contains several love letters to Gibson buried in its themeing that even DS9 (the grittiest of Star Treks) didn’t come close to matching.
People hate Babylon 5?
It’s literally got the best character ever.
The first season is a little rough; at first it feels like an inferior Star Trek ripoff, a lot of adventures of the week, the effects and sets are cheesy even by Trek standards, the acting is a little stilted as some of the actors are still finding their strides.
Just before season 2 it gets its shit together and gets GOOD. I’m going to accuse it of having some of the best character arcs ever committed to video tape and some details that are going to make you say “They wrote this in 1996. How did they write this in 1996? How did they know?” upon viewing today.
consider that the CGI for the first season of babylon 5 was made on Commodore Amiga 2000 they were fucking amazing.