- Watching past episodes again.
- Reading the myriad of information on the web about B5.
- Buying Lightwave and making your ship designs then making up some versions of B5 ships and hammering it out.
- Play Master Of Orion and map everything across to B5 terms.
- Throw on a purple sash and beat senseless the first green thing you can find.
- Nominate someone to be Kosh and see how enigmatic they can behave.
- Draw B5 pictures in Glow-In-The-Dark crayon.
- Pretend you're Londo and give your "We're coming to conquer you" speech to the non-aligned worlds.
- Rip out the Lego and make B5 ships out of it.
- Rip out your B5 Micro-machines and do your own CGI sequence
- Heavily modify your Star Wars action figures into B5 characters.
- ...Then do your own episode.
- ...Pitch them against your Star Trek action figures and see who wins.
- Have Ivanova-sex with your SO (or whoever:)
- Assign each other B5 characters and do a live-action reconstruction of your favourite scenes.
- Modify your favourite RPG so you can play in the B5 universe (or use The Babylon Project RPG when it comes out)
- Go Mad.
- Try and have a conversation using only B5 quotes.
- Attempt to make a penny move with only the force of your mind.
- Hunt down all the spiders in your house and put them in a POW camp for shadow-minions.
- Play Wing Commander and pretend the Kilrathi ships are really Centauri ships (they're downright similar).
- Make up stats for B5 vessels in Renegade Legion.
- ...Then replay historical battles from the series.
- Hunt down every movie or show that had a B5 actor in it.
- ...Then try and fit the storyline from them into the B5 arc.
- Watch Movies set in the 1200's and look for evidence of the Shadows.
- Watch old Jack The Ripper movies and look for the Vorlon.
- Watch anything and play "spot the Shadow"
- Wonder whether the Predator was actually a shadow-minion
- ...What about the Alien?
- Get a job at the local TV station in the hopes of one day taking over program scheduling.
- Set up an altar with photo's of B5 cast and crew.
- ...Worship them.
- Rename different parts of your house after places on B5 (Hint: the garage is the Cobra Bay)
- Rename all of your friends' houses after the homeworlds of the different races.
- ...Try and make them appropriate.
- ...Then invite them all over to sort out their differences. Peacefully.
- ...Then invite 250 000 people over to make it more authentic.
- Try and assemble a Narn uniform our of your wardrobe and common household items.
- Try and shape your mashed potato in the likeness of B5 ("This means something...")
- Watch Star Trek and constantly point out how it would have been done in B5.
- Substitute the characters from Blakes 7 into B5 and figure out how things would have been different.
- Come up with a totally outrageous theory, then scour past episodes for supporting evidence.
- Try and figure out who would win a war between the Shadows, the Dominion, The Daleks and the Invid.
- Buy a can of hairspray and give yourself a Centauri hair-do.
- Shave your head and give yourself a Minbari hair-do.
- Buy a huge amount of plasticine and give yourself a Narn head-do.
- Ask all of your friends "Who are you?" until you get a decent answer.
- ...Then ask them what they want.
- Make MPEG's out of B5 CGI sequences for no reason other than to watch them several hundred times in a row.
- Set up your video player to play your B5 tapes backwards - just in case there's secret messages.
- Rewatch all those old Season 3 episodes you get sent over from the States.
- Re-read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in the hope of finding more pieces of the arc.
- Re-read Tolkien's Silmarilion in the hope of finding more pieces of the arc.
- Delve into a copy of The Languages of Middle-Earth and discover how similar Minbari is to Elvish.
- Try to find references to Babylon 5 in jms's other works (eg Captain Power).
- Read the works of Alfred Bester to try to figure out why jms named Bester after him.
- Try to find the works of Alfred Bester.
- Wait at a bus-stop. When you see a woman get off the bus, run up to her while shouting "Deathwalker!" and proceed to beat her senseless with an iron bar.
- Point your pen at someone's stomach and say "beep beep".
- Go to your local video shop and rent _Hexed_ (1993--Arye Gross, _Claudia Christian_[!!!]).
*Laugh* with unrestrained mirth at the piss-poor plot,
*Gasp* with surprise to see CC in skimpy dresses and blonde curly hair,
*Giggle* at the sex-scene--which bears striking resemblance to _sex, human style_ in "Acts of Sacrifice",
*Sigh* with disappointment to discover she uses a body-double.
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