Blue Chamber

*voice from beyond the veil*

Fear not, Gold One. Look to the SGG...the SGG, my child...

*coughcoughsplutterARRG!!*

Melodramatic? Me? Fie, good lady! What tish, bosh and nonsense!

Granty does have a cold. It's been lurking for a few weeks now, even since I stopped working for xmas, in fact. but today I could feel it crawling into my nose, throat and chest, and my head filling with that horrible mind-fog. Bah!

Ohhhhh - I would let you shower me all day if such things were possible... AHEM, I mean, er, with love and sympathy, of course! I greatly desire a good dose of pampering, chicken soup and brow-mopping.

Men. We're pathetic when we're ill, aren't we?

*drinks virtual cupasoup, feels virtually better*

They say a problem shared is a problem halved. Using that logic I share my infectious diseases with EVERYBODY, in the hope I'll get better faster!

Too late. By reading this blog entry, your computer has just been infected by my new Manfluenza virus (v2.0). It then transmits itself to humans through contact with the keyboard. Sorry, the only way for you to beat it is to GIVE ME MORE SYMPATHY.

Ach, it's just a lurgy. Hopefully. *suffers loudly to ellicit sympathetic noises*

Lost the plot of Razor? No, I pretty much got it all. It was just jumping around a lot chronologically. You have seen the rest of BSG, right?

My office have been pretty healthy so far....but not for much longer, muahahahahahahahaha.

"rather enjoyable". Tsk, and I suppose World War II was 'a spot of fisticuffs'?

But seriously, welcome to the rapidly growing BSG club, m'man. Always nice to meet a fellow fan (or person who has watched it at least once). Hopefully the last year will answer all those lingering questions! Now, if only we could get this silly writer's strike over and done with, season 4 might actually get made!

i don't know, how HAVE you managed to miss it? What underground bunker have you been living in???

I feel bad for you feeling left out of BSG conversations, hon. Not bad enough to part with my DVDs to let you watch them (get your own! Grrrr) but you should not be missing out on what is, on balance, the finest TV show ever to come out of the US in the third millenium so far. If you ever find your way up to Aberdeen I'll be sure to introduce the two of you. I promise you won't regret it.

PS: Don't listen to Ngotadoro. He's obviously not a believer. And it was looking to be such a nice friendship, too....

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*gulp/swallow*

Hmm, I didn't know magical tablets tasted exactly the same as M&M's! YUM! I feel better already!

Ngotadoro: JDT has done me the enormous service of spelling out almost precisely why I love BSG over nearly all others. BSG is about PEOPLE. REAL people. Whereas Star Wars has people in it, they're not really anybody you and I would ever know, are they? They're archetypes more than anything else. Star Wars is cheesy space opera (yes it is, don't deny it ) while BSG is more thoughtful and intelligent, a more mature examination of the human condition, religion, humanity, betrayal and all those grand shakespearean themes.

I do love Star Wars - and of course I mean the original trilogy ONLY - but we're comparing chalk and cheese here.

JDT: Welcome to the BSG club! And thanks for the sympathy - it's greatly appreciated!

You won't find any floppy-eared bipedal donkeys that suddenly find themselves speaking in the Senate

Once upon a time, handheld communicators were sci-fi too...vive la mobile phone revolution! It'll come, don't you worry.

I think that too sometimes! I love the BFG!

There is only one TV show that I have ever loved as well as BSG. My first love, if you will.

Babylon 5.

That show was a revelation to me. There's been nothing like it since, although the Lord of the Rings films came close in terms of my emotional involvement. This may sound extremely sappy but when the last episode finally aired, after five long years of getting to know the characters and watching them struggle and suffer, I wept like a baby.

That's why I was so happy when my parents bought me the complete DVD set for xmas this year (Holy shit - it's gone up £20!). It'd been years since I'd seen it, and I only owned a couple of episodes on VHS; I've been watching a few episodes a day ever since I got home after xmas! Best present EVER.

You have to understand - Babylon 5 isn't like other shows. It was one of the first in decades to use an arc-plot device that was already written across five years of the show, even before the 1st episode had aired. That meant tiny details dropped into early stories, sometimes even as small as a glimpsed headline on a newspaper, would blossom, perhaps years later, to become huge stories in their own right, taking months of episodes to tell! That's why each season has a title. Season 1: signs and portents. 2: the coming of shadows, and so on. Each year built on the year(s) preceeding it, and told it's own story, as well as containing unique plots for each of the main characters.

Contrast this richness with Star Trek's strict, non-continuous one-story-per-week format, and you begin to see why millions flocked to the wonderful storytelling of B5.

After five years we had seen three major wars, dozens of worlds, delights and terrors, characters had grown and either left or died...the last five episodes were all about the cast leaving Babylon 5 for new jobs or whatever - a very sad time - so when the final episode 'Sleeping in Light' appeared, and told the story of the final day of life for the main character, and also gave us the processional destruction of the Babylon station itself...

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It was like real grief in a way, not having it around anymore. Thankfully, though, old TV shows never die. They just get released on DVD and make millions in the process so new stuff is commisioned...!

I try not cry in public, too. But not that much will move me to do so, which is probably just as well.

OH! If you click the link to the Amazon page for the complete DVD set, I've written a User Review, about the third one down! Forgot I did that!

You should definitely try BSG then. It comes at you from a very normal, recognisable perspective - current clothing (suits and ties, etc), phones with cords, that sort of thing. It's just...in space. The Cylons now look like people too (mostly) and possess similar emotions. You'd be right at home.

That was my only review on Amazon ever, inspired by my subject matter. But my old blog, The This Room, has a couple of film reviews I did. And one for a game. I like reviewing things, but it takes a lot of work, in limited time, meaning I don't do them often. Thank you for the compliment.

The cold is better. Still there, still needing sympathy......but I'm taking paracetemol for it so my head feels a little clearer today.

Let's hope so!

You should pass some of those Magical tabletts around, Kim. They do seem to hit the spot. I could use a few this morning as I'm still not feeling too great...

That's the wacky Opera Community for you, SGG. Start a post about being ill, then write loads of comments putting sci-fi shows on pedestals. (Be thankful there has been no mention of Tacos. )

If you enjoy Buffy and Angel (How's that going, by the way? Where have you got to?) then you should have no problems with B5. Let me know when you decide to have a look and I'll advise you on the best order to watch it in.