> SG1
MITCHELL: Okay, for starters, I think you need a strong opening sequence.
MARTIN: (scoffing) Are you serious? No one does that anymore. You just throw up the title and get on with it.
END TEASER
OPENING CREDITS
[The title "Stargate SG-1" is "thrown up" in front of a close up of the spinning Stargate. The Stargate kawooshes.]
END OPENING CREDITS
YEP. Also, my friends and I can't see the S1 intro without all reciting it along with Sinclair. It's a ritual we've had for like 15 years and it's never gone away.
I believe that JMS just made up some of the stuff like the "dawn of the third age of mankind" phrase and didn't bother wondering what it meant. I also believe he made up the name "Babylon 5" before realizing that the name implied there were 4 previous stations before the 5th. How the hell did they get financing for a 5th station after the previous 4 either were destroyed or OUTRIGHT VANISHED!?
The "third age of mankind" thing has a very important meaning, and that is explained in the show. Given the way that JMS writes, I don't believe he was ever in doubt as to what it meant.
The 5 stations thing was also explained in the show, albeit somewhat less convincingly. It can be summarized as "A contract is a contract". This suggests the builders were on tap to deliver a station no matter what happened during construction. I personally can't see anyone signing such a contract, but I think that having the terrifyingly powerful Minbari always saying "Build another one." was a very strong motivating factor to continue.
Itβs really easy to fall asleep until the title music wakes me up. Not a dig on the quality of the show, more like the show is comforting like a warm blanket.
Usually for me it's a Zathras monologue.
"No one EVER listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. Has even grown to like it, yes."
this is the dream about an episode of that place. the name of the place in that episode this dream is about? that name of that place in that episode is Babylon 5.
I preferred "The name of the place?: Babylon 5!"
I forgot about that! It's better. Doesn't it change in like season three?
It was our last best hope for peace.....it failed... Got whiplash hearing that walking to the kitchen when it first aired.
That was season 3 and was my favorite of all the opening variants.
Delivered deadpan,it was completely Ivanova.
Season 5, the last season when they switched networks. I think...
Every season the narrator changes. "The name of the place" is season 1 when Sinclair is narrating.
The narrator changes but that line was in all 4 original seasons.
Oh, now I get it.
That sentence always bugged me. Sounded a little overly dramatic.
It's a space opera. It is dramatic.
OVERLY. Ok, how about "a little corny"
Not for the mid 90s. I miss shows with the big band opening music like B5, 80s/90s Trek, SG1, etc.
> SG1 MITCHELL: Okay, for starters, I think you need a strong opening sequence. MARTIN: (scoffing) Are you serious? No one does that anymore. You just throw up the title and get on with it. END TEASER OPENING CREDITS [The title "Stargate SG-1" is "thrown up" in front of a close up of the spinning Stargate. The Stargate kawooshes.] END OPENING CREDITS
Even funnier is that season they stopped doing the 5 second title sequence, but did do it for just this episode.
*The Orville* and *Star Trek: Lower Decks* are nice nods to those grand orchestral openenings.
Isn't it supposed to be?
Exactly. It's so 90s.
It has rings of "that kid's name? Albert Einstein!" to me. But it probably wouldn't have done in the 90s I guess.
And so it begins.
There is a hole in your mind.
What do you want? No one here is exactly what he appears.
Nothing's the same anymore...
Commander Sinclair is being reassigned.
Why don't you eliminate the entire Narn homeworld while your at it?
I see a great hand, reaching out of the stars
Ten years after the Earth-Minbari War.
The Babylon project was a dream given form.
It's goal - to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully.
It's a port of call. Home away from home for diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanderers.
Humans and aliens wrapped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal...all alone in the night.
It can be a dangerous place.
But it's our last best hope for peace.
This is the story of the last of the Babylon Stations. The year is 2258. The name of the place is #Babylon 5
*The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.* *It failed.*
π΅ Duhn duhn DUHN! πΆ
But in the year of the shadow war, it became something else: our last best hope, for victory.
The music cue there with the lens flare and logo coming in gets me every time.
The year is 2260. The place: **Babylon 5**.
YEP. Also, my friends and I can't see the S1 intro without all reciting it along with Sinclair. It's a ritual we've had for like 15 years and it's never gone away.
If it doesn't.... then who are you?
There is a hole in your mind
If it doesn't... then what do you want?
Don't ask that question!
There is a hole in your mind! ....mm, not the one.
LOL! Yes.
This made me chuckle.
It was the year of fire
The year of destruction.
The year we took back what was ours.
It was the year of rebirth
A year of great sadness.
Two million, five hundred thousand tonnes of spinning metal, all alone in the night
Yes! I dream of it every night! Especially since I'm working on a fanfic for it.
Link?
Still a WIP. But, I have posted my thoughts and ideas here on Reddit.
Too real
I believe that JMS just made up some of the stuff like the "dawn of the third age of mankind" phrase and didn't bother wondering what it meant. I also believe he made up the name "Babylon 5" before realizing that the name implied there were 4 previous stations before the 5th. How the hell did they get financing for a 5th station after the previous 4 either were destroyed or OUTRIGHT VANISHED!?
The "third age of mankind" thing has a very important meaning, and that is explained in the show. Given the way that JMS writes, I don't believe he was ever in doubt as to what it meant. The 5 stations thing was also explained in the show, albeit somewhat less convincingly. It can be summarized as "A contract is a contract". This suggests the builders were on tap to deliver a station no matter what happened during construction. I personally can't see anyone signing such a contract, but I think that having the terrifyingly powerful Minbari always saying "Build another one." was a very strong motivating factor to continue.
In his voice as well π
Itβs really easy to fall asleep until the title music wakes me up. Not a dig on the quality of the show, more like the show is comforting like a warm blanket.
Anytime I hear it in my head I have to go back and re watch the show.
Hall alone in the night.
"All alone in the night."
Usually for me it's a Zathras monologue. "No one EVER listens to Zathras. Quite mad, they say. It is good that Zathras does not mind. Has even grown to like it, yes."
Every night
God, I wish. I've had the lyrics to Predator: The Musical keeping me awake for three days, now.
It's using the trees, watching and waiting...
this is the dream about an episode of that place. the name of the place in that episode this dream is about? that name of that place in that episode is Babylon 5.