Yaaay, Babylon 5!

[lwood]

I have just purchased Volume 14 of jms's script books for Babylon 5--because I'd picked up volumes 1-13, 14 will have with it the free Volume 15, full of fangirl completeness goodies.

I never bought a single toy--I did buy one accessory, a Ranger pin for lferion because it was the Right Thing for her Ranger costume. I have the Centauri, Psi Corps, and Technomage trilogies of novels, and To Dream in the City of Sorrows, because they are the most canon.

When I go to a new job, I name my stationary workstation zog, and my laptop anla-shok. My server is named lorien in a double-canon nod.

I first saw Babylon 5 while visiting talek in Colorado. I seem to recall we were in a third party's basement, with those carefully-hoarded tapes that were, then, the hallmark of that sort of fen: Denver was a market where the show's schedule was best divined with Whack-A-Mole. The Bay Area is kinder in that regard (and our fen more fanged), so the task was easier when I came home and started up what would become a most happy habit.

I still have complete VHS tapes of Seasons 4 and 5, taped from broadcast, plus the last few of Season 3. They fill a whole drawer, whereas the DVD's that replaced them are a fraction of the space.

It was never about the toys; it was about the words, and now I will have them.

'scuse me while I curl up on top of my hoard and make contented puffs of smoke.

-- Lorrie

Comments

[wynkat1313.livejournal.com]

ok... you just hit my lust button... drool. enjoy your read!

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*grin* I'd been reading them each as they had come out! *nomnomnom*

-- Lorrie

[mlion.livejournal.com]

:grin: Sounds delicious.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*nomnomnom*

[wednesday]

demiurgent just picked up the books he was short specifically to get Volume 15.

I am borrowing it when he is done, oh yes, yes I am.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

It was only when gathering the order numbers from my CafePress account (and thereby discovering I had two, yonks!) that I found out the reason I was missing #8...was because I had never ordered it. DUH!

Just to make veryvery sure, I not only ordered 8 before filling out the "yes I can has #15" form which must happen before ordering #14, I waited until the form was approved.

CAN HAS!

-- Lorrie

[thorolf.livejournal.com]

Denver was a market where the show's schedule was best divined with Whack-A-Mole.

I nearly sprayed chai all over my newly configured cubicle at work, thankyouverymuch...

The Denver market's scheduling of B5 is one large reason I am only belatedly discovering the joys of watching it. It seemed that every time I managed to be home at the same time an episode was being broadcast, it was the one where Ivanova is put in charge of a diplomatic mission - and sealing the deal with probably my favorite faked orgasm of all time.

It's funny - but not so much the third time you see it in a year when you know that there are at least a couple of other episodes they could have been showing.

I'm in the process of acquiring the DVD sets. So much good SF, so little time...

[lwood.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I'm drooling over here

[lasirena23.livejournal.com]

You know, I am a total fan of BSG and Lost right now. I very excitedly talk about them before and after every episode. But there's a part of me that still thinks Babylon5 is the greatest tv show ever put out. JMS is so brilliant. It was so thoughtful, and such interesting complex characters.

Yay you on your dragon pile. envy!