Let’s see if we can start a trend here,
I’ll start off
Season 1, Garibaldi investigates raiders attacking a convoy and Ivanova speaks to him she says,
‘You eat like a starving man’
Garibaldi in one of the most awkward piece of dialogue in the series
‘seeing 12 bodies does that too you’
Some of the best were some of the worst…(paraphrased) the only person to survive a minbari battle is behind me…yadda yadda…be somewhere else.
There was a scene in the first season where Commander Block-of-Wood and his girlfriend, captain of the merchant ship Can’t Act for Shit, are discussing their plans for the evening. The captain mentions that on her last port of call, she bought some “frictionless” sheets, and she can’t wait to try them out with the commander.
That always bugged me. If the sheets really are frictionless, it would be impossible to sleep on them, let alone fuck on them. As soon as you jumped in bed, you’d slide right out the other side and land on the floor.
I hate to break it to you, but people say things and use terms that aren’t technically accurate.
Yeah, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what was happening in that scene. It was pretty clear that the writers were trying to create a bit of sci-fi fluff, and didn’t really think through what they were saying.
I do. I think you’re being too literal.
Well, possibly, but then she’s basically just talking about silk sheets, and they’re trying to make it sound all science fictiony. Either way it’s a stupid line.
You’d stay in bed as long as you made sure that you didn’t give yourself any tangential velocity. And even if you did, you could presumably stop your sideways motion by grabbing the head board or something.
Agree that sex in such a bed would probably be more challenging then fun, though. But then, thats probably true of a lot of real-life kinks to.
You’d think that, but after the Silk Licensing Wars of 2362, the Silk Road Hegemony locked up the rights so tightly that even THEY can’t call them silk sheets anymore. What you failed to hear was the ‘Frictionless’ is actually the brandname, and it’s spelled:
Phricktionlezz™
And after the President’s horribly debilitating (and embarrasing, considering who else was involved) accident with a set in 2441, Congress enacted a law requiring ABS, Traction Control, and Orientation Management and Mitigation (OMM) technology be included with every set.
But just try telling that to the audience and people will bitch about exposition, and “Show, don’t tell!” and, well, considering the subject, you can see the problem.
I refuse to look it up, but Zach recounting the story about Vir pulling a sword and threatening some Drazi merchant.
Paraphrased: “He was shaking so badly I thought his molecules were going to vibrate through the deck!”
Ugh. What is this, TNG season one?
-Joe
Nah, it’s just Zach being a dork. It’s what he does best.
And I’m seeing that this is gonna be one of those varying mileage threads. I thought “Be somewhere else” was one of the best lines in the series.
Zach trying to hit on the Political Officer during her one episode on the show was pretty painful, but see above, re: Zach being a dork, and the fact that it was pretty obviously meant to be a pretty painfully bad pickup line.
Really? I always saw him as more of a good-natured goon.
Harry Dresden is a dork.
-Joe, dork
How about when they go to Babylon 4 and that commander says ‘We’ve become UNSTUCK. IN. TIME!!!’
The line itself is clumsy and awkward, it’s only good because Mira Furlen is exactly the right kind of actress needed to give that line the right amount of heft.
Straight to Hell!
Cited from any number of Episodes.
Did we really need the phase, “warrior, religious, worker” repeated 10 trillion times I got the concept during the first million.
“God sent me” beats “Be somewhere else” for pants-wetting enemy taunting any day of the week.
Team Ivonava!
Yeah, she does this scene very well, even if most of the dialog is very cliche.
In the pilot episode, I believe, Sinclair is being interviewed by a reporter who asks him why it is called Babylon 5. He explains Babylons 1-3 were sabotaged during construction and Babylon 4 just vanished.
Because something like that wouldn’t have made the news and the reporter wouldn’t have known? I always cite this as the clumsiest exposition I’ve ever heard.
Very true, they could have just as easily put that in by having the reporter saying “given the first three Babylon projects were destroyed before completion, and that B4 just vanished without a trace, aren’t you worried about serving on B5?” and it would have been less ham-fisted.
My favourite worst line has got to be Marcus (who was pretty much king of them).
"Captain, if I were you, I’d quit while I was ahead. Back on Minbar, there was a saying among the other Rangers: “The only way to get a straight answer out of Ranger One was to look at every reply in a mirror while hanging upside down from the ceiling.”
Sheridan: [laughs] Did it work?
Marcus: Oddly enough, yes. Or after a while you passed out and had a vision. Either way, the result was pretty much the same."
It’s possibly the worst exchange of dialogue that I’ve ever heard on a TV show and completely failed to establish Sinclair’s mystical character as deep and enigmatic as intended, it just made Marcus sound like a dick (as usual).