Ah, marathoning... B5 holds up very well to that treatment. In fact, it probably doesn't make much sense any other way.
Back when I was first into B5 and was trying to convert everyone in sight, I had missed most of the first season and didn't have any tapes of anything earlier than mid-second season... until a kind, kind person on the internet made me 8 tapes with most of the first two seasons on them. So I promptly recruited everyone I knew for a weekend catch-up marathon.
The only catch was, the tapes were compiled from copies of copies of copies of tapes that fans who were lucky enough to catch the first season had traded. The quality was, well, it was of the kind best described by an old VHS-based fansub site when giving a C- rating: "WTF?? Is that Ranma or Shampoo??" The quality of the Gathering movie was so bad, it made the acting in the pilot look good. (But maybe that was because we couldn't hear half the dialogue even with the volume turned all the way up.)
We watched the Whole. Freaking. Thing. in two days. (Well, season 1 anyway.) Fond memories...
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In fact, it probably doesn't make much sense any other way.Back when I was first into B5 and was trying to convert everyone in sight, I had missed most of the first season and didn't have any tapes of anything earlier than mid-second season... until a kind, kind person on the internet made me 8 tapes with most of the first two seasons on them. So I promptly recruited everyone I knew for a weekend catch-up marathon.
The only catch was, the tapes were compiled from copies of copies of copies of tapes that fans who were lucky enough to catch the first season had traded. The quality was, well, it was of the kind best described by an old VHS-based fansub site when giving a C- rating: "WTF?? Is that Ranma or Shampoo??" The quality of the Gathering movie was so bad, it made the acting in the pilot look good. (But maybe that was because we couldn't hear half the dialogue even with the volume turned all the way up.)
We watched the Whole. Freaking. Thing. in two days. (Well, season 1 anyway.) Fond memories...
How are the G-Defend translations coming? ;-)