“Wait… is he gonna do the Indiana Jones switcheroo trick to steal the orb?”
“No… he’s gonna do the Lord of the Rings cover-up-the-Palantir trick”
“Wait… is he gonna do the Indiana Jones switcheroo trick to steal the orb?”
“No… he’s gonna do the Lord of the Rings cover-up-the-Palantir trick”
Alas, the original 4:3 has been expanded and then cropped for the 16:9 that one gets nowadays. It does look better in the original aspect ratio, if one can find that.
It holds up well I think in part because it's a vision of the future that is firmly rooted in actual history; which rhymes. Without saying too much: If @bytebro gets some way along, xe might recognize some parallels to stuff that has happened since the 1990s.
And the quotations that I've been adding. (-:
'What are those Earth creatures called? Feathers, long bill, webbed feet, go "quack".'
Takes a while. I only discovered it partway through season 2. Amusingly, I watched something that really needs to be watched in order significantly out of order. But it was enough to quickly get me interested.
And then I watched it in order. 'Oh, that would have seemed like a complete throwaway plot point at the time, wouldn't it?'
'What do you want?'
Babylon 5 5x13: “The Corps Is Mother, The Corps Is Father”
"It also feels a bit out of place in retrospect, now that we know that the much-referenced Telepath War will almost certainly never be put to screen."