(hell, there is still fallout from the Minbari-Earth War over a decade ago). Which is realistic, and also lets the writers throw plot curveballs all over the place.
Yup. Of course, by "writers" you mean JMS. I think he holds the record for the most episodes written by one guy in a row.
A last notable thing: a sign that the student may be surpassing the master, as Sheridan amends one of Ivanova’s oddly specific death threats. She takes the criticism rather in stride and endeavors to follow the correct line from now on.
I need another reminder. What did he say again?
(I just realized in watching this that my three favourite characters right now are all aides/second-in-commands. I wonder why that is. It’s not that I dislike Sheridan, Delenn, or Londo, but they’re all such big personalities that I find the people who have to live in their shadows so much more fascinating.)
One of my favorite super hero writers, Kurt Busiek (Astro City, Arrowsmith), often writes about non supers living in the shadows of others.
Anyway, it opens with Lennier being a prick to Zack. Yay!
I knew you would love this bit too.
Have we even seen Minbari with facial hair before?
Doesn't the loud, hammy Mimbari-who-wants-to-be-BRIAN BLESSED! have a jawline beard? More Mimbari facial hair to come.
Oh. I did not see that coming at all. And I am impressed that the show has dropped hints that make this all make total sense for four seasons but held out until now. That is really cool.
JMS is good like that.
They’re in some kind of transport ship and Marcus is bored and can’t stop playing with his Denn'Bok (no, not like that; the actual weapon) and Franklin threatens to shoot him, so Marcus starts singing “The Major-General’s Song” and just give these two a spin-off already.
They become the new Londo and G'Kar in a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movie kind of way.
Marcus and Franklin’s Big Gay Road Trip to Mars gets a lot gayer when they meet a smuggler named Captain Jack who sets them up with fake IDs as a young married couple. Marcus is clearly enjoying this too much, and by “too much,” I mean “exactly the right amount. Also, I love that they slip in that gay marriage is a thing that exists in the future and no one thinks it’s a big deal or anything. Mostly, though, I suspect a million fanfics were launched from this.
I tried so hard to be mum about this.
who seems to have swallowed Xanax by the wee fistfuls
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I knew you would love the Fox News episode.
(hell, there is still fallout from the Minbari-Earth War over a decade ago). Which is realistic, and also lets the writers throw plot curveballs all over the place.
Yup. Of course, by "writers" you mean JMS. I think he holds the record for the most episodes written by one guy in a row.
A last notable thing: a sign that the student may be surpassing the master, as Sheridan amends one of Ivanova’s oddly specific death threats. She takes the criticism rather in stride and endeavors to follow the correct line from now on.
I need another reminder. What did he say again?
(I just realized in watching this that my three favourite characters right now are all aides/second-in-commands. I wonder why that is. It’s not that I dislike Sheridan, Delenn, or Londo, but they’re all such big personalities that I find the people who have to live in their shadows so much more fascinating.)
One of my favorite super hero writers, Kurt Busiek (Astro City, Arrowsmith), often writes about non supers living in the shadows of others.
Anyway, it opens with Lennier being a prick to Zack. Yay!
I knew you would love this bit too.
Have we even seen Minbari with facial hair before?
Doesn't the loud, hammy Mimbari-who-wants-to-be-BRIAN BLESSED! have a jawline beard? More Mimbari facial hair to come.
Oh. I did not see that coming at all. And I am impressed that the show has dropped hints that make this all make total sense for four seasons but held out until now. That is really cool.
JMS is good like that.
They’re in some kind of transport ship and Marcus is bored and can’t stop playing with his Denn'Bok (no, not like that; the actual weapon) and Franklin threatens to shoot him, so Marcus starts singing “The Major-General’s Song” and just give these two a spin-off already.
They become the new Londo and G'Kar in a Bob Hope/Bing Crosby road movie kind of way.
Marcus and Franklin’s Big Gay Road Trip to Mars gets a lot gayer when they meet a smuggler named Captain Jack who sets them up with fake IDs as a young married couple. Marcus is clearly enjoying this too much, and by “too much,” I mean “exactly the right amount. Also, I love that they slip in that gay marriage is a thing that exists in the future and no one thinks it’s a big deal or anything. Mostly, though, I suspect a million fanfics were launched from this.
I tried so hard to be mum about this.
who seems to have swallowed Xanax by the wee fistfuls