Sunday, March 15, 2026

When space opera makes sense

 




Some clips from the Tolkienesque space opera "Babylon 5". The Narn ambassador G´Kar almost makes sense here...

Fun factoid: it actually took me a very long time to realize that "Babylon 5" was heavily indebted to Tolkien, probably because I never read Tolkien´s stories as a child. There are also some nods to C S Lewis (where do you think "Narn" come from?) and maybe even Rudolf Steiner. 

This just came up in my YouTube feed the other day, so I decided to link to it for some kind of nostalgic reasons.  


2 comments:

  1. The Vorlons were my fave characters, if one can call them that.

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  2. They were "quite the characters".

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