{"id":30555,"date":"2012-10-09T07:02:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T13:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/a-look-back-at-babylon-5-and-sf-fandom.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T07:21:18","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:21:18","slug":"a-look-back-at-babylon-5-and-sf-fandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/a-look-back-at-babylon-5-and-sf-fandom.html","title":{"rendered":"A look back at &quot;Babylon 5&quot; and SF fandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was there, on\u00a0r.a.s.tv.b5.mod (or the email echo of it). \u00a0Heck, I&#39;ve got a box or two in the basement of printouts of those posts I made &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I really keep meaning to circle back around to watching B5 again, one of the most epic (and groundbreaking) SF shows of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, it&#39;s probably time to get rid of the crate of videotapes I lovingly made of each episode as it came out (except for the one I missed which a fellow fan in <i>Hawaii<\/i> sent me a dupe of). As fascinating as the show are the commercials recorded on those VHS tapes, including a few years worth of O.J. Simpson case news blurbs.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tor.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fblogs%2F12_09%2FEntilzhasheridan.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2012\/10\/all-alone-in-the-night-when-babylon-5-invented-21st-century-fandom'>All Alone in the Night: When Babylon 5 Invented 21st Century Fandom | Tor.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBabylon 5 and the beginning of 21st century fandom\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZhnjKrSFoY7' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was there, on\u00a0r.a.s.tv.b5.mod (or the email echo of it). \u00a0Heck, I&#39;ve got a box or two in the basement of printouts of those posts I made &#8230; I really keep meaning to circle back around to watching B5 again, one of the most epic (and groundbreaking) SF shows of all time. Alas, it&#39;s probably &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/a-look-back-at-babylon-5-and-sf-fandom.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A look back at &quot;Babylon 5&quot; and SF fandom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-babylon-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49720,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/01\/emotional-moments-from-sf-tv.html","url_meta":{"origin":30555,"position":0},"title":"Emotional moments from SF TV","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Mar-15 10:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A cool article\/video if only because it includes some (very justifiable) bits of #Babylon5 in the mix (along with BSG, TNG, and X-Files).YMMV, of course. 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