i never understood why they had to blow it up. did i misses something? i mean that station is a inportant piece of history. it could be a monument or museum
I really didn't understand the blowing up thing. The story said "we can't leave it here or it would be a menace to navigation." But nobody went there anymore, so who would it menace? And all that schrapnel would be alot more dangerous than one big hunk in orbit.
Glad that JMS got his 5 year masterpiece made, but wish it was still going, or at least would have continued for a few more years, there has been nothing quite like B5 and I envy those who get to see it now for the first time, it is just as powerful now as it ever was. Introduce B5 to people, I have yet to have someone I got to watch it say they did not like it. JMS got the twists and turns in the story just right to keep you hooked, yes an awesome story indeed.
I actually wept when I watched this episode, after watching all the previous ones. And then there is something like 9/11 in the news and I don't feel anything - before the movie about the events in the planes came out of course. Mind is so fucked up thing - feelings have nothing to do with reality.
I always cry at the death of Babylon 5, even though it's a hunk of metal. remember G'Kar's words "Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls". The station deserved a viking funeral, dying in light and fire, not being torn apart. Even after this length of time it is still one of the best written and thought out stories, with every episode linking up from the pilot; Kosh (to the false Commander Sinclair) "Entilzar Valen!" to the the very last scenes. It lives on in it's fans
babylon 5 was decom because its not been trade center anymore,most of trade routs are been moved on minbar and earth alliance not want to fund station anymore if is not used,its also sayed in show or movie,that last few years trading is decreased on B5,so EA finaly decided with sheridans death they and routes moved,they will decom station rather then leave it i only not get it why ISA not buy Babylon 5 ,
Regardless of the symbolism that this scene is suppose to have, the idea that a government or a military would scuttle a perfectly good station is ludicrous.
We do it all the time, while the battleship USS Intrepid may be on berth in New York, the last cruise of USS Oriskany sent her to a watery grave "in fire" demolished and other parts sold for scrap now a scuba diver's paradise.
Both those carriers were out of date at the time of their decommissioning; I mean to say, there were other carriers in service at the time that were doing a lot better job then they were. B5 didn't have this problem.
Actually, the Alliance was doing most of Babylon 5's work, so in other words, the station was obsolete for that very reason.
The only reason anyone even went there in the first place was for trade and commerce and maintain peace (first 3 seasons). Epsilon Eridani was a pretty useless region of space before the station
Assuming it can't be moved to a better location, I don't see why it wouldn't be disassembled, instead of blown up. That's a LOT of resources there scuttled.
@Nogrentain I always took it as symbolic of the statements JMS made in the early years that no matter how successfull B5 got, it would end at 5 years...and no more. I believe in those days he was saying no spin-off's either. While recycling the station certainly makes more sense, dramatically and emotionally it packs more punch blowing it up.
there was so much depth to this show i loved g,kar and londo the best youll never get another show on tv like this, the only thing to come close to it is the revamp of battel star gallatica
I like how J.M. evev appeared as the tech crew who shut the lights off. In the commentary I have, he wanted to be the one for it and told his production crews "Break my heart" (with this scene)
I watch the entire series at least once a year and this scene still cuts me up. Great direction, plot, acting, effects and music throughout. B5 was simply superb.
Ity's stated that unless they destroy the station, it would pose a severe hazard to passing ships in the area. And when the Alliance is doing most of B5's work now, who'd keep it drain their pockets dry just to keep it around?
The very last episode of Babylon 5 is maybe the closest thing any tv show has gotten me to fell a tear... Well maybe also Dragonheart but that was when I was a kid.
was the explosion a bomb? a self destruct or the reactor going critical?
I don't know much about Babylon 5, I only watched it coz of Walter Koenig(Chekov in star Trek) but it is a bit of a sad scene as another very popular scifi show draws to a close
Well...not acording to the book. Anyway..if you check the EP and also this video probably you will note than the explotion begans on the reactor and it looks good enaugth to destroy the station.
The ISS is under Contruction, yes, but its been that way for some time now, and by the time its finished, and i hope it will be, it will only have a few years of full operation, before its first parts get to old, and they start shutting it down.
Thats the way, "modern" politics work, start great, end .... well, way down there... in the ranks
Reminds me of the final episode of Trek Voyager, when the Voyager finally makes it home and Janeway gives the same order she did in the beginning "Mr. Paris, set a course...for home" And this time, you see the ship being escorted right back the beautiful planet Earth.
THAT was the way they should've done Babylon 5, they should've towed it back to Earth as a symbol of the best of humanity (and Narnkind, and Centauri-kind and Minbari-kind, although the bastards tried to wipe us out at first)
Any comparison between B5(and particularly its sublime end episode)and SHIT TREK:VOYAGER should be met with the ultimate derision. You have ZERO taste and are an oxygen theif.
A bit harsh, but I agree with your basic sentiment even though I liked Voyager.
Voyager's finale was a bit of a let down. Babylon 5's was the opposite. I can watch it here on Youtube without shedding a tear, but every now and again when I watch all 5 series' all the way through I always end up crying at this scene.
For some reason it's always seeing the lights go out on the outside of the station that sets me off. There's something really sad about it and the music is perfect for the scene.
To me at least, the lights going out on the station symbolise the end of a part of my childhood, which I grew up watching B5 with an almost religious obsession. I suppose that's why it always make me cry when I see the station exploding.
Sad scene. Londo reflecting on his life before becoming emperor was the sadest scene to me. At the end of season 4 you could see londo becoming a better person then the drak came to centaui prime.
Same here. The final disc of season 5 is on the way to me via netflix soon. Trying not to watch anything on here regarding Sheridan's fate so I won't spoil it for myself.
Just before season 3 of Bab5 was broadcast, Straczynski was at a con here in Orlando. During the Q&A, someone asked him how it would all end. He said "I'll turn out the lights and we'll all go home". We all thought he was joking, but the son of a bitch was being literal.
This 57 seconds of the final episode of B5 ranks up there with the final scene in Dr. Who: Parting of the Ways where the ninth incarnation of the Doctor (Chris Eccleston) bids farewell to Rose Tyler before he regenerates into his tenth incarnation (David Tennant). Both are excellent scenes.
1) peacefultrees that is the most fucking racist comment i've read, go and die somewhere. 2)About the vid, theres no way they'd blow it up, not only would it be as said, a navigational hazard, but all those resources wasted! All that time and effort to build it! And not only that but seeing a magnificent space vessel/station be destroyed is always sad
I'm more of a Star Trek fan, I never got into Babylon 5, but seriously, WHY did they have to destroy the station??
If Babylon 5 had been a Starfleet station, they never would have destroyed it, in fact, they would have kept upgrading it until the damn thing gained sentience and started a family.
I still think it's a pretty lame idea that there's one lever you can pull that turns off EVERYTHING, plus it's unguarded and easy to do. Man, if only all those crazies who wanted to blow up the station ever knew! And I guess that guy (who was played by Strazinsky) died inside it, because if he turned everything off, he couldn't make it to the launch bay or even an escape pod before the station blew up. Poor dock worker!
1) We see lights turning off after that lever is pulled: nothing more. Proof: the docking bay doors still open and close, and the station is still rotating at the shuttle leaves
2) The idea that Earthforce would allow someone to die to shut down a station is moronic. Presumably, that switch was just a single switch shown being thrown for dramatic reasons. The guy still had pleanty of time to get to the shuttle, I'm sure.
I buyed the B5 DVD Box some years ago and after watching this scene I had tears in my eyes. This is the best emotional end of a Series I've ever seen. The Music is fantastic for this scene.
More importantly, even if the station had outlived it's useful life, destroying it in such a manner leaves millions of tons of debris in orbit around the planet constituting a much greater navigation hazard than the intact station ever could be and at a jump gate no less. If it has to be destroyed it should have been sent into the planet's atmosphere to burn up. That could have been made into an equally moving scene, even dragging it out longer as it slowly burned and disintegrated.
I always interpreted it as being that a fully functional station in the middle of the five great powers and next to a jump gate would pose a problem in the form of Raiders. They could use B5 as a base of operations.
Sending it into the atmosphere might of, I dunno, pissed off Draal or something.
As much as I love B5 and as moving a scene as it is, it really makes no sence at all, even considering that the station's destruction was "prophesized" early in the season 1. Why shut everything down if you are going to overload the fusion generators to destroy the station? cont'd...
I have a hard time watching the scene too, but years later I look back at it and realize that there was really no other way it could have been done. The purpose of the place had been fulfilled, so where do you go from up.
Ya know, Ive always had this fantasy that the Technomages could not allow a place of such history to be destroyed, and so they made everyone think they saw Babylon 5 destroyed via a holospell... I know its just a fantasy of mine, but it makes me happy.
It still makes me cry seeing that ending to such a terrific show, Sheridan dying was sad enough, but then seeing B5 destroyed was even sadder, and the music was so haunting, like a perfect funeral song. I still cry also about the show not being on anymore
There ar many SCI-FI Shows Out there but none of them left the Impact that babylon 5 left. I See the earth mimbari war and the destruction of the station and i never have a dry eye. My most amusing moment for this show is when Sheridan comes back from the shadow homeworld. He walks onto The Station and a Drazi sees him then the Drazi says: Captain Sheridan we thought you were dead.Captain Sheridan looks Over The Railing and says I Was I'm Better now.
You know most TV shows just keep going like Star Trek or Stargate and they suffer because of it one way or another. They change ad alter and eventually it isn't the show that you started with but with B5 it never changed the feeling was the same all the way through. It's what still makes it such a legend and so watchable even now.
Very few moments in TV really move me but damn that music, the way the ships moved to the side and the almost silent destruction was really sad. Btw I thought it was awesome that it was JMS him self who played the guy who "litterally" turned off the lights to the station, talk about class.
About the S1 prophecy: I think that was more a prediction of the premature destruction of B5, during the Shadow war in the alternate (or was it more the original) future where the Shadows attacked the station. She wasn't seeing the decommissioning of the station.
That's the point, she was. It even shows a shuttle of the same color flying away from B5. JMS even talks about in the commentary how there's stuff in season 1 that doesn't get resolved until the very end of the show.
I think in the original draft of the show the station was destroyed by the Shadows in the Z'ha'dum episode, and they had to replace it with Babylon 4.
No, from what I understand, B4 was intended to be taken back in to the past from the beginning - just they were going to do it at the end of the series, had Sinclair stayed, which is why he was much older in the B4 ep. When they changed the main character, they had to come up with a different way to do it.
I'm pretty sure B5 wasn't going to be destroyed by Shadows, except in the alternate history they changed by bringing B4 back in time.
War Without End 1 and 2 also addressed the flashforward from S1 in which the station is being invaded by enemy vessels and is eventually destroyed. They dismissed it as an "alternate universe"... Ivanova was in command in the transmission, meaning Sheridan was away. It's exactly as if the Shadows had decided to attack in Z'ha'dum. Sinclair would then have taken B4 back to Valen times in this arc.
Basicly my point is, Sinclair would've gone to Z'ha'dum to search for his gf who had disappeared on an IPX mission, & probably come back as a Shadow agent after he had married Delenn, the Shadows would've taken out Babylon 5 with Garibaldi being in a Shadow Vessel and Ivanova possibly dying or barely escaping, in S4 everyone would've been fucked until Sinclair came back with B4, beaten the Shadows, & then gone back in time to beat them again.
This scene is one of my favorite sci-fi moments. The music "Dying Station" by Christoper Franke that accompanies the scene makes it that much more moving and bittersweet. Thanks MJS.
I love this show, this episode and this ending, I cannot remember a better ending. I watched this first when I was about 8 it was 3 in the morning and I stayed up to watch the first showing by the end I was in tears. Wonderful ending wonderful show.
This episode STILL makes me cry, even after all these years. BTW, that's JMS himself who pulls the plug on the station at the beginning of this scene. The only time he ever made a cameo appearance on the show that I know of. Guess he was the only one for the job...
One of the very best moments of the series, i love how in the end ships of all mayor races are parked together in the honor parade , stating that now they are friends . Love too that Earth send a Hyperion class cruiser, the ship class wich started the war who started all this.
One if best sifi series on the tv.
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B5 may you rest in piece
pikabko1 3 months ago
NB5 may you rest in piece
pikabko1 3 months ago
No person other than Michael himself had the right to do this.
TheJboy88 6 months ago 2
i never understood why they had to blow it up. did i misses something? i mean that station is a inportant piece of history. it could be a monument or museum
TheUltimateChuchu 6 months ago
I really didn't understand the blowing up thing. The story said "we can't leave it here or it would be a menace to navigation." But nobody went there anymore, so who would it menace? And all that schrapnel would be alot more dangerous than one big hunk in orbit.
starsiegeplayer 8 months ago
Glad that JMS got his 5 year masterpiece made, but wish it was still going, or at least would have continued for a few more years, there has been nothing quite like B5 and I envy those who get to see it now for the first time, it is just as powerful now as it ever was. Introduce B5 to people, I have yet to have someone I got to watch it say they did not like it. JMS got the twists and turns in the story just right to keep you hooked, yes an awesome story indeed.
SgtRon1805 9 months ago
I actually wept when I watched this episode, after watching all the previous ones. And then there is something like 9/11 in the news and I don't feel anything - before the movie about the events in the planes came out of course. Mind is so fucked up thing - feelings have nothing to do with reality.
Teppo459 10 months ago
It was very fitting to have JMS to shut down the station him self. This part where babylon 5 is decommisioned is very powerful ending indeed.
danielt776 1 year ago
Doesn't watching this almost make you sad seeing BABYLON 5 blow up?
michaelhviper 1 year ago
funny
SOWHATIMADEIT 1 year ago
No!!!
torterra58able 1 year ago
Cries
torterra58able 1 year ago
I always cry at the death of Babylon 5, even though it's a hunk of metal. remember G'Kar's words "Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls". The station deserved a viking funeral, dying in light and fire, not being torn apart. Even after this length of time it is still one of the best written and thought out stories, with every episode linking up from the pilot; Kosh (to the false Commander Sinclair) "Entilzar Valen!" to the the very last scenes. It lives on in it's fans
MrRaziel22 1 year ago 3
good night sweet prince....
mattmanganon 1 year ago
That music still sends shivers down my spine!
timwuk 1 year ago
musn''t cry musn't cry GAHHH MANLY TEARS
OmegaShenron6574 1 year ago 2
babylon 5 was decom because its not been trade center anymore,most of trade routs are been moved on minbar and earth alliance not want to fund station anymore if is not used,its also sayed in show or movie,that last few years trading is decreased on B5,so EA finaly decided with sheridans death they and routes moved,they will decom station rather then leave it i only not get it why ISA not buy Babylon 5 ,
Zagoreni 2 years ago
why earth alliance use stil those hyperion class cruiser ?
soviet1970 2 years ago
the same reason im driving a 30 year old truck.
they still work, and still have a use
baylock80 2 years ago
Regardless of the symbolism that this scene is suppose to have, the idea that a government or a military would scuttle a perfectly good station is ludicrous.
MesPartner 2 years ago
We do it all the time, while the battleship USS Intrepid may be on berth in New York, the last cruise of USS Oriskany sent her to a watery grave "in fire" demolished and other parts sold for scrap now a scuba diver's paradise.
proadmin1 2 years ago
Both those carriers were out of date at the time of their decommissioning; I mean to say, there were other carriers in service at the time that were doing a lot better job then they were. B5 didn't have this problem.
MesPartner 2 years ago
@MesPartner
Actually, the Alliance was doing most of Babylon 5's work, so in other words, the station was obsolete for that very reason.
The only reason anyone even went there in the first place was for trade and commerce and maintain peace (first 3 seasons). Epsilon Eridani was a pretty useless region of space before the station
gribae 2 years ago
Assuming it can't be moved to a better location, I don't see why it wouldn't be disassembled, instead of blown up. That's a LOT of resources there scuttled.
Nogrentain 2 years ago
@Nogrentain I always took it as symbolic of the statements JMS made in the early years that no matter how successfull B5 got, it would end at 5 years...and no more. I believe in those days he was saying no spin-off's either. While recycling the station certainly makes more sense, dramatically and emotionally it packs more punch blowing it up.
JimmyDaKoik 1 year ago
@MesPartner
Have you even seen the series to know the reason why it is done?
gribae 2 years ago
Wonderful scene. It sends shivers down my spine watching it, the music as the ships leave, and Babylon 5 explodes, is truly amazing.
Even now, without the context of watching the show, I get the shivers watching this.
LokiMD 2 years ago
I could just watch this scene over and over for a whole day...
Great show, wish it had more seasons...
Soldierlozer 2 years ago 2
best show ever
petrus4321 2 years ago
there was so much depth to this show i loved g,kar and londo the best youll never get another show on tv like this, the only thing to come close to it is the revamp of battel star gallatica
footlover2345 3 years ago
footlover2345:
Funny you should mention the revamp of BSG, Galactica used the idea of the story arc that JMS pretty much invented.
B5 & BSG are fantastic !!
Honorable mentions to Stargate SG-1 & SG Atlantis as well.
knoxvilleguy2 2 years ago
Beautiful music when it explodes. Franke was an excelent composer.
AluminumF0ilHead 3 years ago 15
what do you mean 'was'?
gribae 2 years ago
At the beginning of the clip you see the Master itself, J.M.Straczinsky, turning off the lights - a symbol of closing his awesome B5 story.
Rasputin1971 3 years ago 11
I like how J.M. evev appeared as the tech crew who shut the lights off. In the commentary I have, he wanted to be the one for it and told his production crews "Break my heart" (with this scene)
gribae 3 years ago
I watch the entire series at least once a year and this scene still cuts me up. Great direction, plot, acting, effects and music throughout. B5 was simply superb.
Wingdoss 3 years ago
I nevr understood the destroying of B5
Docthewrench 3 years ago
Ity's stated that unless they destroy the station, it would pose a severe hazard to passing ships in the area. And when the Alliance is doing most of B5's work now, who'd keep it drain their pockets dry just to keep it around?
gribae 3 years ago
The very last episode of Babylon 5 is maybe the closest thing any tv show has gotten me to fell a tear... Well maybe also Dragonheart but that was when I was a kid.
trondy89 3 years ago
was the explosion a bomb? a self destruct or the reactor going critical?
I don't know much about Babylon 5, I only watched it coz of Walter Koenig(Chekov in star Trek) but it is a bit of a sad scene as another very popular scifi show draws to a close
Tomtheflyboy 3 years ago
They let the core get critical levels to self destruct the station.
Axon36 3 years ago
thanks but I red that they place bombs and did a controled demolition but I'm a little confused, I'm gonna have to watch the ep lol
Tomtheflyboy 3 years ago
Well...not acording to the book. Anyway..if you check the EP and also this video probably you will note than the explotion begans on the reactor and it looks good enaugth to destroy the station.
Axon36 3 years ago
Yeah it has to be the reactor its one of my thoughts, I'll ask my brother next time I see him.
Its always the reactor thats used when destroying space ships lol, I suppose as its a big well reactor lol
Tomtheflyboy 3 years ago
this is the only scene in a show that could perhaps bring tears to my eyes....Babylon 5 is number 1 in my book....
RuralTowner 3 years ago
Babylon 5 was a good serie it was my best series of the time and will be it even when i die
2HeadsEagle 3 years ago
The ISS is under Contruction, yes, but its been that way for some time now, and by the time its finished, and i hope it will be, it will only have a few years of full operation, before its first parts get to old, and they start shutting it down.
Thats the way, "modern" politics work, start great, end .... well, way down there... in the ranks
GrandNagusRom 3 years ago
so beautiful
Aeon135 3 years ago
too bad we are not even close to building Babylon-1.
seems there are a lot of people in the United States that have forgotten that strength is needed to keep the peace.
for evil to prosper all good men need to do is nothing.....
wargammer4000 4 years ago
The irony is that Americans who think they know what strength is have pretty much ensured the ruin of the area around the real Babylon (aka Iraq).
For evil to prosper, allow idiots to act.
griggy01 3 years ago 6
Can't argue with that logic.
StarshipMaxima 3 years ago
I love how canada always talk smack about america... its like the little nerdy kid talking smack while behind one of his body guards
Tearvon 3 years ago
@griggy01 "For evil to prosper, allow idiots to act" - That explains a good deal about yanks.
Varrenify 1 year ago
Well....the international Space Station is under construction.....
StarshipMaxima 3 years ago
Legendary
Quincy111 4 years ago
I believe that this is the best ending for a series as well as the best music score for the mood.
Aenarion28 4 years ago
I cannot watch this without crying. I really can't. I didn't cry at Titanic, I didn't cry at Braveheart... :'(
aliceazzo 4 years ago 5
Well, in all fairness, re: Titanic, seeing DiCaprio die could never bring me to tears... :)
Seriously, though, same here. This is one of the few scenes that chokes me up.
nightflyer28 4 years ago
Reminds me of the final episode of Trek Voyager, when the Voyager finally makes it home and Janeway gives the same order she did in the beginning "Mr. Paris, set a course...for home" And this time, you see the ship being escorted right back the beautiful planet Earth.
THAT was the way they should've done Babylon 5, they should've towed it back to Earth as a symbol of the best of humanity (and Narnkind, and Centauri-kind and Minbari-kind, although the bastards tried to wipe us out at first)
StarshipMaxima 4 years ago
Any comparison between B5(and particularly its sublime end episode)and SHIT TREK:VOYAGER should be met with the ultimate derision. You have ZERO taste and are an oxygen theif.
tulinmusclefan86 3 years ago
Damn. That was harsh.
StarshipMaxima 3 years ago 4
Heh heh heh! "Oxygen theif". That's a good one! *Giggling over in the dark corner*
madgegn 3 years ago
A bit harsh, but I agree with your basic sentiment even though I liked Voyager.
Voyager's finale was a bit of a let down. Babylon 5's was the opposite. I can watch it here on Youtube without shedding a tear, but every now and again when I watch all 5 series' all the way through I always end up crying at this scene.
For some reason it's always seeing the lights go out on the outside of the station that sets me off. There's something really sad about it and the music is perfect for the scene.
Chibusa 3 years ago 2
To me at least, the lights going out on the station symbolise the end of a part of my childhood, which I grew up watching B5 with an almost religious obsession. I suppose that's why it always make me cry when I see the station exploding.
Well, it's time to start building our own future.
gribae 3 years ago 3
to Joeyjoe, AMEN. But thing is, JMS, learned not to recast. SO we will call it a life lesson.
csharp1976 4 years ago
to think all that good carpet..........tsk...tsk
hurler1348 4 years ago
The guy pulling the lever is JMS, the creator of the series. Seriously.
gucker07 4 years ago
I just hope the Lost Tales is in keeping with the main series, unlike Legend of the Rangers, which was the suckiest suckfest in the whole of suckdom.
joeyjoejoe996 4 years ago
Sad scene. Londo reflecting on his life before becoming emperor was the sadest scene to me. At the end of season 4 you could see londo becoming a better person then the drak came to centaui prime.
lopido 4 years ago
This scene brings tears to my eyes every time I see it. Every time...
arwynt 4 years ago
Same here. The final disc of season 5 is on the way to me via netflix soon. Trying not to watch anything on here regarding Sheridan's fate so I won't spoil it for myself.
Melville10 4 years ago
yeah :(
it was only fitting that michael himself turned it of
levitan71 4 years ago 2
Just before season 3 of Bab5 was broadcast, Straczynski was at a con here in Orlando. During the Q&A, someone asked him how it would all end. He said "I'll turn out the lights and we'll all go home". We all thought he was joking, but the son of a bitch was being literal.
GGUBoss 4 years ago 3
This 57 seconds of the final episode of B5 ranks up there with the final scene in Dr. Who: Parting of the Ways where the ninth incarnation of the Doctor (Chris Eccleston) bids farewell to Rose Tyler before he regenerates into his tenth incarnation (David Tennant). Both are excellent scenes.
Melville10 4 years ago
1) peacefultrees that is the most fucking racist comment i've read, go and die somewhere. 2)About the vid, theres no way they'd blow it up, not only would it be as said, a navigational hazard, but all those resources wasted! All that time and effort to build it! And not only that but seeing a magnificent space vessel/station be destroyed is always sad
ShadeShuriken 4 years ago
Yeah, I'm sad every time I see a magnificent space vessel/station destroyed too. I blame the government.
joeyjoejoe996 4 years ago
Probably just EarthGov trying to bury the home of the troublemakers, take away the only physical reminder of what Sheridan & co did.
If it'd been the Minbari, they would have made it into a museum or something.
nightflyer28 4 years ago
I'm more of a Star Trek fan, I never got into Babylon 5, but seriously, WHY did they have to destroy the station??
If Babylon 5 had been a Starfleet station, they never would have destroyed it, in fact, they would have kept upgrading it until the damn thing gained sentience and started a family.
Long live Babylon 5!
StarshipMaxima 4 years ago
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a nigger wrote this last episode. That's why it's so lame and stupid.Next time get a human to write.
PeacefulTrees 4 years ago
I still think it's a pretty lame idea that there's one lever you can pull that turns off EVERYTHING, plus it's unguarded and easy to do. Man, if only all those crazies who wanted to blow up the station ever knew! And I guess that guy (who was played by Strazinsky) died inside it, because if he turned everything off, he couldn't make it to the launch bay or even an escape pod before the station blew up. Poor dock worker!
isaned 4 years ago
1) We see lights turning off after that lever is pulled: nothing more. Proof: the docking bay doors still open and close, and the station is still rotating at the shuttle leaves
2) The idea that Earthforce would allow someone to die to shut down a station is moronic. Presumably, that switch was just a single switch shown being thrown for dramatic reasons. The guy still had pleanty of time to get to the shuttle, I'm sure.
RogueShadows 4 years ago
I buyed the B5 DVD Box some years ago and after watching this scene I had tears in my eyes. This is the best emotional end of a Series I've ever seen. The Music is fantastic for this scene.
TrekZero 4 years ago
More importantly, even if the station had outlived it's useful life, destroying it in such a manner leaves millions of tons of debris in orbit around the planet constituting a much greater navigation hazard than the intact station ever could be and at a jump gate no less. If it has to be destroyed it should have been sent into the planet's atmosphere to burn up. That could have been made into an equally moving scene, even dragging it out longer as it slowly burned and disintegrated.
68Jaguar420G 4 years ago
I always interpreted it as being that a fully functional station in the middle of the five great powers and next to a jump gate would pose a problem in the form of Raiders. They could use B5 as a base of operations.
Sending it into the atmosphere might of, I dunno, pissed off Draal or something.
RogueShadows 4 years ago
As much as I love B5 and as moving a scene as it is, it really makes no sence at all, even considering that the station's destruction was "prophesized" early in the season 1. Why shut everything down if you are going to overload the fusion generators to destroy the station? cont'd...
68Jaguar420G 4 years ago
Hey! This guy is J. Michael Straczynski!
Mahapurusalaksana 4 years ago
thanks for uploading.
Sukosu232 4 years ago
Everytime I see the last episode and especially that part I am close to tears
Thx for uploading
FlyingCircus1 4 years ago
And still I cry... The last episode is just heartbreaking. =(
SelinaTT 4 years ago
*Salutes*
Jayson619 4 years ago
I ADMIT IT I CRIED! :P
CdrMcNeil 4 years ago
I have a hard time watching the scene too, but years later I look back at it and realize that there was really no other way it could have been done. The purpose of the place had been fulfilled, so where do you go from up.
fawdown 4 years ago
Ya know, Ive always had this fantasy that the Technomages could not allow a place of such history to be destroyed, and so they made everyone think they saw Babylon 5 destroyed via a holospell... I know its just a fantasy of mine, but it makes me happy.
darquecyde 4 years ago
It still makes me cry seeing that ending to such a terrific show, Sheridan dying was sad enough, but then seeing B5 destroyed was even sadder, and the music was so haunting, like a perfect funeral song. I still cry also about the show not being on anymore
sirevow1 4 years ago
I misss B5. It was the best SciFi series ever made and cant be duplicated
Crosisborg 5 years ago
I missed this series so much I went out and bought the whole collection. B-5 was the best sci-fi show IMO
bigc1966 5 years ago
There ar many SCI-FI Shows Out there but none of them left the Impact that babylon 5 left. I See the earth mimbari war and the destruction of the station and i never have a dry eye. My most amusing moment for this show is when Sheridan comes back from the shadow homeworld. He walks onto The Station and a Drazi sees him then the Drazi says: Captain Sheridan we thought you were dead.Captain Sheridan looks Over The Railing and says I Was I'm Better now.
thrawn323 5 years ago 2
Still makes me cry
*tear*
myrddin13 5 years ago
You know most TV shows just keep going like Star Trek or Stargate and they suffer because of it one way or another. They change ad alter and eventually it isn't the show that you started with but with B5 it never changed the feeling was the same all the way through. It's what still makes it such a legend and so watchable even now.
paulrscott90 5 years ago
Very few moments in TV really move me but damn that music, the way the ships moved to the side and the almost silent destruction was really sad. Btw I thought it was awesome that it was JMS him self who played the guy who "litterally" turned off the lights to the station, talk about class.
Slopmaster 5 years ago
Usually i get dulled to these things after a while but this scene still gets me. I get choked up just knowing it's coming. Curse you JMS!
And as for why it's destroyed..
1) it's prophesied in the 1st season that B5 will be destroyed, and this is the fulfillment
2) it's just a great way to go out with a bang (literally too)
BruisedJinx 5 years ago
About the S1 prophecy: I think that was more a prediction of the premature destruction of B5, during the Shadow war in the alternate (or was it more the original) future where the Shadows attacked the station. She wasn't seeing the decommissioning of the station.
nightflyer28 4 years ago
That's the point, she was. It even shows a shuttle of the same color flying away from B5. JMS even talks about in the commentary how there's stuff in season 1 that doesn't get resolved until the very end of the show.
B5RobMan 4 years ago
I think in the original draft of the show the station was destroyed by the Shadows in the Z'ha'dum episode, and they had to replace it with Babylon 4.
d3p3ch3mod3 4 years ago
No, from what I understand, B4 was intended to be taken back in to the past from the beginning - just they were going to do it at the end of the series, had Sinclair stayed, which is why he was much older in the B4 ep. When they changed the main character, they had to come up with a different way to do it.
I'm pretty sure B5 wasn't going to be destroyed by Shadows, except in the alternate history they changed by bringing B4 back in time.
nightflyer28 4 years ago
War Without End 1 and 2 also addressed the flashforward from S1 in which the station is being invaded by enemy vessels and is eventually destroyed. They dismissed it as an "alternate universe"... Ivanova was in command in the transmission, meaning Sheridan was away. It's exactly as if the Shadows had decided to attack in Z'ha'dum. Sinclair would then have taken B4 back to Valen times in this arc.
d3p3ch3mod3 4 years ago
Basicly my point is, Sinclair would've gone to Z'ha'dum to search for his gf who had disappeared on an IPX mission, & probably come back as a Shadow agent after he had married Delenn, the Shadows would've taken out Babylon 5 with Garibaldi being in a Shadow Vessel and Ivanova possibly dying or barely escaping, in S4 everyone would've been fucked until Sinclair came back with B4, beaten the Shadows, & then gone back in time to beat them again.
d3p3ch3mod3 4 years ago
Really emotional, but I never got why they had to blow it up. I thought decomissioned meant they shut it down and use the spare parts of something.
CoolKidHalter 5 years ago
I don't know about you, but it is always when the obs dome goes up that I get hit the hardest.
sword4thelord 5 years ago
This scene is one of my favorite sci-fi moments. The music "Dying Station" by Christoper Franke that accompanies the scene makes it that much more moving and bittersweet. Thanks MJS.
LochlynDeckard 5 years ago
This is the only moment in a TV show that has EVER made me break down in tears, truly gut-wrenching.
VyseN1 5 years ago
that music makes me want to cry
buffybot101 5 years ago
Jesus, how can you watch that and not cry?
It's the sadest moment in the show and also it is the reason why this show is the best ever created.
Because it has a begginig and AN END.
Most SF writers don't know how to put an end to things. That's why Star wars and star trek were ruined.
Goodbye Babylon 5.
Good bye old friend. You will be remembered in the eternal night of the stars.
yoyo1poe 5 years ago
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buncha homos talking bout they cried...jesus!!
rankcon 5 years ago
*heul*
Tekker1982 5 years ago
a sad scene indeed, but one of the best in the series. I was in tears too.
PolTen72 5 years ago
At least when the final switch had to be pulled, they let Joe Straczynski, the B5 creator, be the one to do it on camera...In Valen's name!
Remo53 5 years ago
I miss Babylon 5 all over again
after watching this clip.
Wish the SciFi channel would bring
It back one more time.
vidmonger 5 years ago
I love this show, this episode and this ending, I cannot remember a better ending. I watched this first when I was about 8 it was 3 in the morning and I stayed up to watch the first showing by the end I was in tears. Wonderful ending wonderful show.
madnessofmike1984 5 years ago
I cried too.
TribbleTrouble 5 years ago
I cried during this entire episode. :(
EvolutionStratus 5 years ago
It was the most Glorious and saddest moments on B5
KaFaraqGatri 5 years ago
This episode STILL makes me cry, even after all these years. BTW, that's JMS himself who pulls the plug on the station at the beginning of this scene. The only time he ever made a cameo appearance on the show that I know of. Guess he was the only one for the job...
DJKosh 5 years ago
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rankcon 5 years ago
I saw this when I was like 11 and I cried T-T. I love Babylon 5 best Sci-Fi series ever. Cool that in the end B5 succeeded in it's mission :).
SeleucusNicator 5 years ago
Unlucky I am, even I have seen all of the episodes, I don't recall this episode :S
Ryko777 5 years ago
It's the last one, "Sleeping in Light". ;)
Darkury 5 years ago
you got a good point on the Hyperion Class cruiser.
wilvincent 5 years ago
One of the very best moments of the series, i love how in the end ships of all mayor races are parked together in the honor parade , stating that now they are friends . Love too that Earth send a Hyperion class cruiser, the ship class wich started the war who started all this.
sparrowlt 5 years ago