Sleeping in the Light: Farewell Babylon 5(The Final Moments)

[bigfriends1]

i know its a sad ending but i think its the best they can do for it

[breacat]

Since it's the future I suppose vast sources of metal are easy to come by. It must be since it seems wasteful to blow up instead of scrapping 5 miles worth of steel.

[porpus99]

The two great captains of Babylon 5 had there destiny's tied with the first ones. Sinclair went back threw time to become Vailen, and helped the Vorlons and Mimbari defeat the Shadows. Then Shariden who carried Kosh, and some of Lorians life energy showed the First Ones that the younger races were ready to stand on there own. Because of that, his final destiny laid with the First Ones once more. Beyond the rim.

[falcon3268]

Good job on this video. I hated the thought of Sheridan having died leaving behind so many that loved him.

[Link12ize]

Great times. Tv just not the same anymore.

[WeissesGeschoepf]

T_T My childhood blown up!

[PegasusViperTopGun62]

The sun's coming up!

[blagger56]

Nice to see the master JMS make a cameo in this...

[erinaxxxx]

The first time I saw this I'm sure they edited out Sheridan's last words, "...sun's coming up." So it ended with him saying, "Well, look at that." (40 seconds into the above clip.)

When I saw it the second time it seemed wrong to have those last words. I'd have preferred to have wondered what he was looking at.

[Disorganizer]

A good, powerful ending. Its so much better than Star Trek can ever be. Farscape may have intrigued me just as much, but no series finale was ever so.... complete.

[knoxvilleguy2]

@Disorganizer - It was a fantastic finale, but blowing up the station because it MIGHT be a hazard to interstellar navigation just doesn't make any sense. The station should've been preserved as a historical monument.

It makes as much sense as the BSG finale where they flew the Galactica & the Colonial Fleet into the Sun after reaching Earth, & opting to live on the Earth of 150,000 years ago with little or no technology from the ships.

[Disorganizer]

@knoxvilleguy2

Y, you might be right. but still...when i saw this ep... it wasnt even about the storyline or continuity or any form of logic... it just FELT like the end of a journey sooo damn much. I have to say, I didnt ponder this ending for a second when i watched it.

[knoxvilleguy2]

@Disorganizer - Yeah, I guess I was over - analyzing it too damn much. ;~)

This show had ALL the right stuff. & the ending seemed so similar to the re - imagined BSG's so much that a few comparisons are going to spring to mind unbidden. Having said that, it WAS a work of art.

[Gallowell]

@Disorganizer I agree with you on that one. This was probably the only episode where you could sit back and just know that everything was perfect.

[Gallowell]

@knoxvilleguy2 Well, thanks for blowing the ending to bsg for me. I'd only just started to get into the series after watching the entire first season!

[knoxvilleguy2]

@Gallowell - You should see how they ended LOST. No ? Stargate SG 1. Nope ? Did I leave anything out ? I'll put " **Spoiler Alert** " out next time.....

[Gallowell]

@knoxvilleguy2 Don't watch 'lost' at all. And SG-1 was crap, but nowhere near as bad as it was for Atlantis.

Left out... Space:Above and Beyond, Sliders etc

[knoxvilleguy2]

@Gallowell - I watch very little TV, some good programs are on the Sci Fi Channel ( I REFUSE to call it " SyFy ". So much TV is formulaic, predictable dreck or " Reality shows ".

[sevenofgeorge]

Awesome! This is my favorite of all time for any series finale I've ever seen. I love that JMS shut off the lights and Christopher Franke's music is flawless. B5 rocks!

[wolverineeeeeeeee]

pff i cried:p this is as much a ode to live is it is a ode to the universe and our fears and hopes........

[StephenUK1983]

Yeah Babylon 5 was good, some of it though was just utter cheese.

Lets be honest, how many still remember the line from the Major in charge of Babylon 4 "We...have...become...........­.....UNSTUCK IN TIME......" - wtf....yeah I know, thumb down this comment.

[bennyenglish]

fair comment but remeber there appealing to the cheesest audiance of all the star trek fans (thumbs down ahhhh) cause they are the majority in american sci fi needs to appeal to that cheese to get there point across b5 however did bring grittyness to sci fi in the usa that let shows like battle star make its comeback which isnt bad for sci fi viewers everywhere

[StephenUK1983]

Oh I know, I did enjoy Babylon 5 and yeah the dumbing down was really obvious at some parts, its like, you know what they are going to say and why but they end up fucking explaining it just in case you can't realise it from the context, like its just a singular clip rather than a part of the larger picture.

[Gallowell]

@StephenUK1983 The whole time travel line I thought was ludicrous, but the series itself makes up for the bad episodes.

[Fbueller129]

I hated the Lost Tales footage of B5 being detonated. There was something more visceral about how they did it in Sleeping in Light. Maybe it was the slow motion aspect or maybe it was just the music.

[dolph9plus]

They skipped Lorien saying " we have been waiting for you "

[minski76]

I just finished watching B5 for the first time... The greatest story TV ever created. Here to stay for future Genreations - and Sleeping in the light made me cry, which is - very rare in front of the TV.

[ikvsabre]

So glad to hear that there are still people discovering this fantastic show.

[Fbueller129]

I bawled my eyes out when first I saw it. I still get a little teary eyed when I hear the music.

[sukneh]

Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.

[BlikstG]

This is without a doubt my favorite ending of any show I've watched. So full of emotion, making it a perfect ending to one of the best sci fi shows ever made.

[southafrikanse]

Just close your eyes, listen and remember Babylon 5. I did this and I got goose bumps just hearing it :)

[COMALiteJ]

B5 fans should get the following IN CONTINUITY novels and comics:

1. The DC comics series, especially the first four issues (focusing on Sinclair just after his arrival on Minbar as the new E.A. Ambassador there), and a later storyline flashing back on how Sinclair and Garibaldi met.

The earlier novels in the numbered series were stand-alone stories of varying quality, and while all are at least partly canon, none are necessary to the plot. That changes with Novel #7.

[COMALiteJ]

Novel #7, "The Shadow Within" by Jeanne Cavelos, focuses on Sheridan's wife Anna and her voyage of exploration to the Rim aboard the Icarus. It tells of her friendship with another of the scientists on that doomed journey: one John Morden. This not only fills in vital parts of the B5 story, but also is a near-required prequel to Cavelos's later "The Passing of the Techno-Mages" trilogy (the last of the B5 novels).

[COMALiteJ]

Novel #9, "To Dream in the City of Sorrows," by Kathryn M. Drennan, is, in the words of JMS hisownself (in the Foreword), every bit as official canon as any episode of the TV series. Every nuance of this novel is fully canon. This is THE official answer to the Sinclair question, and takes up where the first four issues of the DC comics series leaves off, right through just before Sinclair leaves for Babylon 4 and his ultimate destiny. It also features the origin of our favorite Ranger.

[COMALiteJ]

Finally, all three of the trilogies:

• "The Psi Corps Trilogy" by J. Gregory Keyes (including "Dark Genesis: the Birth of the Psi-Corps" [from the discovery of telepathy on Earth to the birth and capture of a certain P12 son of Resistance heroes], "Deadly Relations: Bester Ascendant" [the life of Bester up until he goes to B5 for the first time], and "Final Reckoning: the Fate of Bester" [follows Bester after the Telepath War])

[COMALiteJ]

• "The Centauri Prime Trilogy" by Peter David (who wrote two episodes of the TV series) all focus on the reign of Emperor Londo Mollari from his possession by the Keeper until his mutual death / suicide at the hands of G'Kar, and its aftermath. Features Sheridan's "flash-forward" that he experienced aboard Babylon 4 in "War Without End," as seen from the P.o.V. of that time period! Major characters die in this, and not just Londo, G'Kar, and Sheridan!

[COMALiteJ]

• "The Passing of the Techno-Mages" Trilogy by Jeanne Cavelos. If this trilogy were "The Lord of the Rings," then Novel #7, "The Shadow Within," would be its "The Hobbit." Follows Galen starting with his apprenticeship under Elric, the passing of the Techno-Mages and what REALLY happened during "The Geometry of Shadows," and also lots more details about what happened in (and on) "Z'ha'dum"!

DC comics graphic novel, "Babylon 4: In Valen's Name." Babylon 4 is found for a third time by B5!

[spmcghee]

thanks this bit tore me to bits i just loved the series it was well done.

simon

[shiirad]

I've been trying to find a clip of that episode -do you know if one exists?

cheers,

Siir

[Ryshtyanna]

B5 told their stories like no other sci-fi show ever could. Their series, despite being sci-fi, was based on spirituality rather than techno-garble. No other series has been like it and there will never be one that could measure up to the standard JMS put into this show.

The primary focus of B5 and how they developed each character is how we should all be as people and as a society. It's all about spirituality and what we do with it as we grow that matters. B5 showed that brilliantly.

[shiirad]

Very nicely said...

[Yuurei21]

"I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us, and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we have gone, our voices will linger in these walls."

[Deniedfate]

"There will never be another" This series is the best series eva!

[JelloDVDs]

Yey Great Seiries. BEST SEIRIES EVER TO EXIST!!!!!

[seph1r0th400]

This sequence always makes me cry

[arwynt]

"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There will never be another. It changed the future and it changed us." Simply and exactly that...

[thrawn323]

an old show with countless great moments so many happy memories and lesseons to live by.

[WolfFaerie]

Awesome show and great song too.

[fisnationstate]

T_T After 25/26(?) ratings The 5-star marathon has been broken.

[harleykman]

@fisnationstate I wish you had shown the credits with the photos of all the crew members

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[mosca2001a]

This scene (and episode) I have always found as one of my favorite, but the most depressing int he whole series, esp. the decommissioning of B5

[thejawajedi87]

There can be new beginnings...Even for people like us...

Boy I miss this show. Thanks very much!

[padawanmage71]

It's so appropriate to see JMS shut down the station.

[JelloDVDs]

Who is JMS?

[RogueCannon]

The creator, writer, owner and exec producer of B5

[JelloDVDs]

Oh Thanks! :)

[COMALiteJ]

JMS stands for Joe (J.) Michael Straczynski.

[Lynnianaa]

This clip brings back so many heartfelt memories... Thank you, thank you... <3

[Trek001]

I like what they have done to B5. They replaced the original sequance with charge packs

[RogueCannon]

Its funny, the guy who actually turns off the lights is Strczynski himself.

And rightly so.

Damn this always near makes me cry...

[COMALiteJ]

Straczynski said afterwards on GEnie (an online service of the time, where he first talked about B5 online) that nobody but he would turn off the lights.

[walkingtree9]

Hey! An old -time Genie-ite! Ah, the days of the old SFRTs... those were the days.

(I mostly lurked, you wouldn't remember me.)

[COMALiteJ]

HI, wt9!

(I wish I could do the big ASCII 3-D "Hi" here I used to do on GEnie!)

[ikvsabre]

I miss GEnie sometimes

[susan0815]

The Final was so sad!!!!!But it is a perfect end!!!!Thanks for posting!!!

susan

[fisnationstate]

Thanks. The last scenes truly deserve 5 stars. It is the best scifi show ending. The music was great.

[Trek001]

what does Garibaldi pick up just before he enters the lift?

I've heard that it is either a award trophy or a shot glass

[fisnationstate]

It's a shot glass. During the series, especially in the 5th Season , Garibaldi had a drinking problem.

Strczynski said if one of the characters would take a shot glass from B5, it would be Garibaldi.

[gribae]

@fisnationstate Strakzynksi actually said, if you want to be technical, is if one of the characters would STEAL something from the space station

[Thestuka1]

@Trek001 Its a shot glass