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[Nimrod Yanai]

Well, the Leviathan DLC gives us a few more striking similarities...
Dr. Bryce's daughter Ann went with her ship, the Icarus, to recover an ancient artifact.
In Babylon 5, Anna Sheriden went with the the ship Icarus to Za'ha'dum, to research the remaining of an ancient civillization.

[Aleguzzler]

Forgot about this one, sound familiar?



Start it at approx :42

Modifié par Aleguzzler, 30 novembre 2012 - 01:20 .

[The Devlish Redhead]

DinoCrisisFan wrote...

Anyone else notice similarities between Mass Effect and Babylon 5?
Babylon 5:
Mass Effect:

Similarities
-Both use jumpgates for FTL travel
-Both have a large multi-species space station for diplomacy and commerce
-Both have a security council of the most powerful races
-Both Captain Anderson and Sinclair get transferred in the beginning
-Both feature an ancient race that is hellbent on wiping out the galaxy (Reapers = Shadows)
-Both have a unified Earth, but both do maintain some regional diversity
-Things get caught up in the politics and so very little, if anything important gets accomplished
-Human colonies get attacked = Narn colonies get attacked
-One man and his team can stop everything (Sheppard = Sheridan)
-Both involve the protagonist going away for years (Sheppard's death = Sinclair's disappearance)
-The corporations are almost as powerful, if not more so, than governments
-Both involve a species that has to be in an environmental suit (Quarians = Vorlons)
-Both involve a species that has been oppressed (Krogan = Narn)
-Both involve an aggressive species that had to be exterminated, but later come back (Rachni = Dilgar)
-Both involve ancient species that have gone extinct or "passed beyond the barrier"
-Humanity is relatively new to the galactic community in both
-There are major tensions between humans and non-humans in both franchises

You know what I never thought of that till I saw this list....... There's a lot here to consider.

What about the B5 universe races vs Reapers

[Nimrod Yanai]

I just noticed something else, too.
I'm watching Thirdspace, which was a B5 movie, and I noticed, basically, indoctrination. They find an artifact that makes people work for the bad guys, while they're trying to return to this universe.

[gamerjes]

Every current SciFi franchise, or slightly aged in B5's case, has stood on the shoulders of those that came before them. The SciFi genre is a constant cycle of create, copy, improve, repeat. As long as there is differences, even small ones, between the generations, people don't mind much. Take a look at how many movies ripped of the creature design of "Alien"... it is an industry standard, and a profitable one.

[a pepper]

Mass Effect is a Space Opera. It's obviously taken ideas from lots of other Sci-Fi and Space Operas, and Space Operas owe a lot to other styles of fiction, as well as scientific theories. Ideas seldom emerge from a vacuum.

I've never watched B5 but I don't doubt there's a lot of that in Mass Effect. I'm a fan of some other Space Operas, though, and I can clearly see the influences there, I mean the whole Quarian-Geth situation, and indeed the cycle of the created rebelling against their creators is obviously inspired by BSG. All the lore, story and characters feel like new variations on things I've seen before.

Hell, the voice cast looks like the guest list for a Sci-Fi convention: Seth Green, Tricia Helfer, Armin Shimmerman, Michael Dorn, Michael Hogan, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lance Henriksen, Claudia Black, Adam Baldwin, Dwight Shultz. All names familiar to Sci-Fi fans.