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We have Babylon to thank for this
Well, then I can't complain, lovely sci-fi production.
Yeah but no matter how hard I look I can't find the first 4
Don't mind the first 4, the best one is Babylon 7
Should I watch 5 and then 7? What about 6?
Don't worry about Babylon 6.
Worry about the sequels, where Babylon 7 8 9
I get the joke, but it also makes me wish for a bunch of Babylon 5 sequels and prequels.
Sounds scary
Forget about 6, 5 is fine, sure, watch it first, why not
This isn't helping my anxiety about watching things in order but ok I guess.
Oh, I feel you. People say they like Doctor Who, yet they never watched An Unearthly Child. Pathetics.
Zathras took B4 so that The One could use it.
Our mistake was not embracing base-12 time, it was failing to embrace a base-12 counting system.
100% this.
Not true. You have math thank for that and there is a good reason for numbers like that (and why Babylonier used them). They are very useful to do calculations in your head, especially division because the have a lot of factors. The concept is called highly composite numbers (HCN) and superior highly composite numbers (SHCN). They are practically "anti-primes". That's why base-6 or base-12 are objectively a better number system than base-10 but it's pretty much too late to switch now.
And I thank them.