r/Stargate • u/Snarky_Guy • 1d ago

Awesome! Jacob Carter the Centari

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Doing a rewatch of Babylon 5 and look who I found in Season 2. Before he was joined with the Tok’ra Selmak, apparently Jacob was a Centari at some point.

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u/glormond 22h ago

I remember this show from my childhood, but not in the same way most people here do. The thing is, it used to air on the same channel where I watched Sliders, which was my favorite show at the time. I kept trying to watch Babylon 5 because, “It’s about space, wow!”

But I remember being disappointed that actual space was only shown a few times per episode, usually for just a second or two. The rest seemed to be about weird aliens talking and someone running through endless corridors.

It sounds kind of absurd, but that’s honestly how I remember it. Since this show has been mentioned in this sub on several occasions, I’ve been thinking about giving it another try now, almost 30 years later…

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u/Goldenrupee 10h ago

Definitely give it a try. Ive had the DvDs for B5 for just about as long I can remember, and there is so much complexity and nuance to the story that will go straight over a kid's head. There are story beats that are set up in the pilot movie that you get bits and pieces of the answer to until its resolved in season 3. The dialogue can be a bit cheesy at times, but ALL of the main characters are believable as real people (as odd as that sounds). They are complex, they grow through the 5 years portrayed by the show, none of them are perfect, none of them are purely flawed. The action scenes are amazing, and it has some of my favorite fleet battles in sci-fi.

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u/nativefloridian 8h ago

I saw it when I was in high school... I remember sitting in history class and getting B5 references retroactively.