Ending of babylon five?!


Question: The last episode of babylon five shows humanity has evolved to vorlon esq stature ,it's creator said the character at the end was in a battle suit and our sun was being destroyed is there any books or episodes in the B5 universe with an explanation of this?


Answers: The last episode of babylon five shows humanity has evolved to vorlon esq stature ,it's creator said the character at the end was in a battle suit and our sun was being destroyed is there any books or episodes in the B5 universe with an explanation of this?

I assume your referring to the 1000,000 years in the future section of "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars", the last episode in series 4. (there were 5 series - so another 22 episodes came after that).

It hasn't been explained in a book, but I thought the explanation was actually quite clear in the episode. By that time the human race had evolved into non-corporeal beings like the Vorlons, and had decided to move to a new, more suitable planet (the Vorlon home world according to JMS) using Earth's sun as an energy source.

The million years in the future part of the story can also be considered as the climax of a theme that ran throughout the five series of Babylon 5. That of the evolution of life and how it could develop in order to better fulfil it's purpose of understanding the universe.

This is explained very well in a review of Babylon 5 available on the Internet (see link below). Here is a quote from the review.

"We see at least three stages in this [evolutionary] development in the story of B5. Firstly life must have the ability to communicate, first through spoken or written language and then through technology. We understand the universe through our technology and through communication with others.

In the next stage telepathy evolves (with a little help from the Vorlons in the B5 universe), the ultimate consequence of which would be to make the need for written and spoken language redundant, vastly increasing the capacity for learning and understanding.

A further consequence of this is the next stage, development beyond the corporeal, where life no longer has the need of a physical form, where all communication is through thought leading to the development of some form of collective consciousness. Although never explicitly stated it was always implied in B5 that this is how the Vorlon society worked. The other first ones, and perhaps the Shadows were also non-corporeal, and we see that humans have developed to this stage a million years in the future in the episode 'The Deconstruction of Falling Stars'. The theme of development beyond the corporeal is also re-visited in the TV movie 'River of Souls'.

So, at each stage communication becomes more efficient and as a consequence the potential for understanding and the role of life as the consciousness of the Universe is vastly increased."

That was not in the last episode but in one which shows the future of the Rangers in a 500 year interval spanning thousands of years. It was a good episode but where it shows this event to is referring to the time when our sun comes to the end of it's life and humans are looking for a new Earth.

That wasn't the last episode, that was the final episode of the fourth season, when the creator J Michael Straczynski wasn't sure if the series was going to be renewed for another year (he had always planned on doing five). So he presented a series of short episodes from the future of humanity over the next few thousand years.

The actual last episode just had Sheridan going back to B5 20 years later, just before he dies, to see it being decommissioned and the lights turned off.



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