B5, S04E12-14
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sabotabbyWherein there are excessive plots, macros, and political commentary. Also someone gets an award.
Conflicts of Interest:
This one mostly doesn’t make sense and I’m in it for the B-Plot. Garibaldi is a dick to some client who hired him to find his missing daughter. He pretends to be jerking the guy around and ripping him off only to reunite him with the girl just so that he could be surprised. Seriously, dude. That guy looked old—he could have a heart attack or something. Not cool.
The Sketchy McSketcherson 80s villain dudes (I had to look up their names, and guess what? I get to call their leader “Shady Wade”) have villainous discussions in the hallway, as villains do. I am already sick of these guys. If they’re the Home Guard, I will be kind of disappointed. Though I guess they look a bit like I imagine the Home Guard looks.
Trufax: Decreasing the diversity of the human gene pool does not, in fact, create a master race.
Sheridan has run out of captain-y things to do so he sends Zack to enlist Garibaldi in a Turn In Your Badge and Gun Scene. Wait, what? I get that Sheridan was dead for awhile but how did he not do this immediately after Garibaldi resigned? It is my understanding, from watching an extensive number of police procedurals, that resigning automatically triggers a Turn In Your Badge and Gun Scene.
Garibaldi is pissed off at this for some reason. I’m not sure what he expected would happen. In fairness, when Franklin resigned, everyone went on acting like he was still CMO. But you’d think that punching Sheridan in the face would be a pretty definitive “Take This Job and Shove It” moment.
Thing I do not get #1: Weapons and ID belonging to soldiers and cops are state-issued. Presumably EarthGov issued Garibaldi’s gun and ID. I mean, he wouldn’t have bought it himself. So Sheridan has the right to demand it back. But whose property is it? The station’s?
So anyway Shady Wade wants Garibaldi to be a bodyguard for a contact from Earth. Also to smuggle this person onto the station, past Garibaldi’s former underlings. He is totally cool with doing that because he’s pissed off at Zack.
Thing I do not get #2: With the quarantine, how is the “contact from Earth” supposed to get to B5? I mean, obviously it turns out that the contact is from Mars, but you think that this would make Garibaldi a little suspicious.
But it doesn’t, and he did not overhear Shady Wade’s proclamation that he’s expendable, even though Shady Wade said it very loudly and was right outside the bar. Blah blah, the contact is Lise Hampton, Garibaldi’s ex-fiancée who is kind of the town bicycle except that she marries them first and I’m not sure if Mars has towns. I kind of hate this plot. Her latest husband is some sort of Mars billionaire whom I gather will become important later, and she’s acting on his behalf. This involves smuggling some sort of unobtanium that will prevent the neutrinos in telepaths from mutating into a virus and reverse the polarity of the flux capacitor why I am even recapping this bit. Obviously it’s bollocks or these people wouldn’t be asking Shady Wade to protect them from gunmen who are obviously PsyCorps.
Thing I do not get #3: Why Garibaldi is not more paranoid. Is this a side effect of being mind controlled?
They get away. Oh, and Garibaldi had a back-up ID that worked once before even Zack figured out to shut it off.
Thing I do not get #4: Why Garibaldi would even think this would work.
Thing I do not get #5: So the computer records everyone getting on and off of a shuttle and going through customs. It knows the exact number. We’ve seen that everyone carries digital ID. Why does the computer then not automatically report who was on the shuttle but didn’t go through customs? At least it should have come up with a fake name.
I am spending way too much time on a plot that isn’t very interesting. The best part is that one of the shooters says something like, “to the future” and then kills himself with cyanide. I love a good cyanide suicide. It’s so wonderfully Cold War.
The much better, if shorter plot, is that Ivanova needs shit-tons of power to broadcast Voice of the Resistance (hahaha, I can’t believe they called it that; how does she even keep a straight face?), which means that Franklin finally remembers about Epsilon III. They can’t use the Great Machine to fight a war, but they can use it to power a TV station. Okay. I’m not complaining because she runs into Zathras, and there is a brief snark-off between them, followed by an overlong conversation about this Zathras is a different Zathras. I missed about half the conversation because I was giggling. Ivanova should really let Zathras guest-star on her TV show. They would win the propaganda war in no time.
Oh, and Sheridan tries to repair the Londo/G’Kar relationship. I mean, it’s about politics and diplomacy and cleaning up the Drakh sloppy seconds issue, but it’s really about bringing back the spark into their relationship. I was watching G’Kar the whole time to see if he slipped his eye out and put it in Londo’s pocket, but I imagine that’s too obvious anyway.
Rumors, Bargains, and Lies:
Can someone please tell me how the religious caste and the warrior caste on Minbar are having a civil war without the participation of the worker caste? I mean, at the risk of being overly Marxist, who is building the weapons, cooking and cleaning after the troops, delivering supplies, etc.
Just kidding. There is no such thing as overly Marxist.
Anyway, there’s a civil war somehow and Delenn meets with Neroon to try to put an end to it. Neroon agrees disappointingly quickly (except not, as we shall see at the end), but the religious caste misinterprets the whole thing as Delenn attempting to surrender and thus try to kill everyone on board. They are foiled only by Lennier being awesome. Again. Everything looks to be resolved and then the plot redeems itself by having Neroon betray everyone. Yay! I was worried that Neroon had been a bit too fangless lately.
Sheridan’s plot is really obvious, and really only works if a) the Non-Aligned Worlds are full of idiots and b) Sheridan’s intentions are actually good and he is not secretly making a power grab. Because B5 and the White Star fleet is rapidly on its way to becoming a superpower. I mean, B5 is armed to the teeth, the White Star fleet are the only ships left with Vorlon technology, and everyone’s taken massive losses in the Shadow War except Earth. So if I was the ambassador of wherever and Sheridan asked to patrol my borders, I probably wouldn’t jump on board. Alas, the show portrays the Non-Aligned as stupid for refusing in the first place, and extra-stupid to be taken in by Sheridan’s fake asteroid war. From their perspective, though, allowing a foreign and vastly superior military presence in their territory—all of their territories, at the same time—is exactly what started off the Shadow War and has the potential to blow up in everyone’s faces.
Is it bad that I kind of want it to blow up in everyone’s face?
On a related note, I watched this with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seaya, who had to sit on her hands even when I was talking to the screen. (I warn people about watching TV with me! But no one listen to Zathras sabotabby.) She did get to tell me, because it’s not a spoiler, about Mira Furlan’s experiences during the breakup of Yugoslavia and how she drew on that to create Delenn’s emotional reaction to the civil war on Minbar and that makes her monologue at the beginning about a million times more powerful. Holy shit.
Moments of Transition:
Okay, everyone, come around. Especiallyseaya.
The First Annual Zipped Lip Award in recognition of ability to suppress spoilers even in the face of extreme adversity and actual proximity is hereby granted toseaya.
Don’t spend it all in one place.
Ladies, gentlemen, and genderqueer, this woman had to sit next to me while watching the previous episode, wherein I announced, “HEY THEY SHOULD HAVE A WORKERS REVOLUTION ON MINBAR THAT WOULD BE COOL,” knowing full well that in the next episode, there would be pretty much that, and managed not to let out a peep. I don’t think I would be so strong.
By the way, sorry the Zipped Lip Award looks so fucking creepy. In my defense, I am on an awful lot of reality altering drugs.
AH SO IN THIS EPISODE…actually most of my comments are rendered superfluous by the ending. Because I was having my usual conversation with the screen—“Minbar’s on fire. Wonder who’s putting out this fire. Oh the wounded are in a makeshift hospital. Hope the workers are getting some kind of salary for taking care of them. How does a civilization even function with only a third of its population engaged in productive labour?”—and basically the answer is, “Really, viewers, did you think we’d forgotten about this?”
So the Minbar have a civil war that goes from “there’s a strong taboo against murder in our culture” to “wheeeee cities are on fire!” really damned quickly. In order to end it, the warrior and religious castes have a contest to see who can chew the most scenery. The winner gets blown up by a giant sky laser thing. Delenn wins, HOBVIOUSLY, but Neroon can’t stand anyone being a larger ham than he is and jumps in to heroically sacrifice himself at the last minute. Then Delenn reconvenes the Grey Council only this time, appoints the majority of it from the worker caste because Space Marxism.
OH MY GOD THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SPACE ELF PLOT IN THE HISTORY OF SPACE ELVES.
(Some of my Google searches are quite strange.)
PSST MINBAR IS STILL AN OLIGARCY BASICALLY JUST SAYING.
OTHER STUFF THAT HAPPENS. Everyone is still being a dick to Lyta even though she totally saved their asses during the Shadow War. I’d feel much worse about it if she weren’t such a terrible actor. Her scene with Zack is excruciating. Basically she can’t get a job because her references suck and so B5 is kicking her out of the quarters that she just moved in to. After Evil!Kosh threw out all of her stuff. Man, this lady can’t catch a break. So Bester tries to recruit her into the PsyCorp in exchange for helping her with the references problem. She also has to agree to give him her body…FOR SCIENCE! After she’s dead of course.
Zack is also after her body, but in the more traditional way. He even offers her a job, which is to scan Garibaldi to see if he’s crazy. She suddenly develops a strong case of the professional ethics and demurs. Then she goes to Garibaldi and tries to get him to hire her, which actually works until Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants declares that he doesn’t want Garibaldi hanging around no stinkin’ telepaths.
Interesting. So either:
1) Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants is out to do something nasty to telepaths as previously surmised, or
2) Mr. Sketch McTrillionairepants is working with the PsyCorp, and made Garibaldi fire Lyta just so that she’d go running back to Bester, who just happened to be on the station wanting to recruit her. Also because she looks good in that uniform, especially with the gloves.
My money’s on the latter. But I’m not a Mars trillionaire so it’s actually just pretend-money.
Also, Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants has not appeared in the show yet. He communicates L-style with initials on Garibaldi’s TV screen. Except that his actual name is William Edgars and the initials are EI for some reason. (Edgars Industries? I don’t know.). I assume this is because he’s going to be played by Leonard Nimoy.
Because there is not already enough plot in this episode, President-For-Life-But-It-Probably-Won’t-Be-Long-For-That Clark has decided to just go whole-hog on civilian targets, bombing a ship with 10,000 refugees on it.
DIGRESSION! How are Lyta’s Earth-based clients getting past the quarantine? Also Bester. How is Bester getting past the quarantine on a regular basis?
Rather than questioning whether or not this report is accurate, given that EarthGov has shown that it regularly lies like a motherfucker and also that video footage is super-easy to alter, Sheridan and Ivanova go straight for the berserk button and decide screw dicking around with the TV station, let’s bomb the shit out of Earth. Much as I love Sheridan shift gears into badass mode, I’d hate to think that this was maybe a Very Cunning Plot on the part of the Machiavellian Magnificent Bastard Clark, who has managed to hold on to power for almost four whole seasons even though B5 managed to basically convince all of the gods to leave the universe because we said so. I mean they took on the Shadows and the Vorlons, I really think they could take on Earth if they convinced, like, the Gaim to help.
(At least I really hope that this is a trap and I didn’t just uncover a massive plothole or something.)
Anyway, have a happy bear:
Conflicts of Interest:
This one mostly doesn’t make sense and I’m in it for the B-Plot. Garibaldi is a dick to some client who hired him to find his missing daughter. He pretends to be jerking the guy around and ripping him off only to reunite him with the girl just so that he could be surprised. Seriously, dude. That guy looked old—he could have a heart attack or something. Not cool.
The Sketchy McSketcherson 80s villain dudes (I had to look up their names, and guess what? I get to call their leader “Shady Wade”) have villainous discussions in the hallway, as villains do. I am already sick of these guys. If they’re the Home Guard, I will be kind of disappointed. Though I guess they look a bit like I imagine the Home Guard looks.
Trufax: Decreasing the diversity of the human gene pool does not, in fact, create a master race.
Sheridan has run out of captain-y things to do so he sends Zack to enlist Garibaldi in a Turn In Your Badge and Gun Scene. Wait, what? I get that Sheridan was dead for awhile but how did he not do this immediately after Garibaldi resigned? It is my understanding, from watching an extensive number of police procedurals, that resigning automatically triggers a Turn In Your Badge and Gun Scene.
Garibaldi is pissed off at this for some reason. I’m not sure what he expected would happen. In fairness, when Franklin resigned, everyone went on acting like he was still CMO. But you’d think that punching Sheridan in the face would be a pretty definitive “Take This Job and Shove It” moment.
Thing I do not get #1: Weapons and ID belonging to soldiers and cops are state-issued. Presumably EarthGov issued Garibaldi’s gun and ID. I mean, he wouldn’t have bought it himself. So Sheridan has the right to demand it back. But whose property is it? The station’s?
So anyway Shady Wade wants Garibaldi to be a bodyguard for a contact from Earth. Also to smuggle this person onto the station, past Garibaldi’s former underlings. He is totally cool with doing that because he’s pissed off at Zack.
Thing I do not get #2: With the quarantine, how is the “contact from Earth” supposed to get to B5? I mean, obviously it turns out that the contact is from Mars, but you think that this would make Garibaldi a little suspicious.
But it doesn’t, and he did not overhear Shady Wade’s proclamation that he’s expendable, even though Shady Wade said it very loudly and was right outside the bar. Blah blah, the contact is Lise Hampton, Garibaldi’s ex-fiancée who is kind of the town bicycle except that she marries them first and I’m not sure if Mars has towns. I kind of hate this plot. Her latest husband is some sort of Mars billionaire whom I gather will become important later, and she’s acting on his behalf. This involves smuggling some sort of unobtanium that will prevent the neutrinos in telepaths from mutating into a virus and reverse the polarity of the flux capacitor why I am even recapping this bit. Obviously it’s bollocks or these people wouldn’t be asking Shady Wade to protect them from gunmen who are obviously PsyCorps.
Thing I do not get #3: Why Garibaldi is not more paranoid. Is this a side effect of being mind controlled?
They get away. Oh, and Garibaldi had a back-up ID that worked once before even Zack figured out to shut it off.
Thing I do not get #4: Why Garibaldi would even think this would work.
Thing I do not get #5: So the computer records everyone getting on and off of a shuttle and going through customs. It knows the exact number. We’ve seen that everyone carries digital ID. Why does the computer then not automatically report who was on the shuttle but didn’t go through customs? At least it should have come up with a fake name.
I am spending way too much time on a plot that isn’t very interesting. The best part is that one of the shooters says something like, “to the future” and then kills himself with cyanide. I love a good cyanide suicide. It’s so wonderfully Cold War.
The much better, if shorter plot, is that Ivanova needs shit-tons of power to broadcast Voice of the Resistance (hahaha, I can’t believe they called it that; how does she even keep a straight face?), which means that Franklin finally remembers about Epsilon III. They can’t use the Great Machine to fight a war, but they can use it to power a TV station. Okay. I’m not complaining because she runs into Zathras, and there is a brief snark-off between them, followed by an overlong conversation about this Zathras is a different Zathras. I missed about half the conversation because I was giggling. Ivanova should really let Zathras guest-star on her TV show. They would win the propaganda war in no time.
Oh, and Sheridan tries to repair the Londo/G’Kar relationship. I mean, it’s about politics and diplomacy and cleaning up the Drakh sloppy seconds issue, but it’s really about bringing back the spark into their relationship. I was watching G’Kar the whole time to see if he slipped his eye out and put it in Londo’s pocket, but I imagine that’s too obvious anyway.
Rumors, Bargains, and Lies:
Can someone please tell me how the religious caste and the warrior caste on Minbar are having a civil war without the participation of the worker caste? I mean, at the risk of being overly Marxist, who is building the weapons, cooking and cleaning after the troops, delivering supplies, etc.
Just kidding. There is no such thing as overly Marxist.
Anyway, there’s a civil war somehow and Delenn meets with Neroon to try to put an end to it. Neroon agrees disappointingly quickly (except not, as we shall see at the end), but the religious caste misinterprets the whole thing as Delenn attempting to surrender and thus try to kill everyone on board. They are foiled only by Lennier being awesome. Again. Everything looks to be resolved and then the plot redeems itself by having Neroon betray everyone. Yay! I was worried that Neroon had been a bit too fangless lately.
Sheridan’s plot is really obvious, and really only works if a) the Non-Aligned Worlds are full of idiots and b) Sheridan’s intentions are actually good and he is not secretly making a power grab. Because B5 and the White Star fleet is rapidly on its way to becoming a superpower. I mean, B5 is armed to the teeth, the White Star fleet are the only ships left with Vorlon technology, and everyone’s taken massive losses in the Shadow War except Earth. So if I was the ambassador of wherever and Sheridan asked to patrol my borders, I probably wouldn’t jump on board. Alas, the show portrays the Non-Aligned as stupid for refusing in the first place, and extra-stupid to be taken in by Sheridan’s fake asteroid war. From their perspective, though, allowing a foreign and vastly superior military presence in their territory—all of their territories, at the same time—is exactly what started off the Shadow War and has the potential to blow up in everyone’s faces.
Is it bad that I kind of want it to blow up in everyone’s face?
On a related note, I watched this with
seaya, who had to sit on her hands even when I was talking to the screen. (I warn people about watching TV with me! But no one listen to sabotabby.) She did get to tell me, because it’s not a spoiler, about Mira Furlan’s experiences during the breakup of Yugoslavia and how she drew on that to create Delenn’s emotional reaction to the civil war on Minbar and that makes her monologue at the beginning about a million times more powerful. Holy shit.Moments of Transition:
Okay, everyone, come around. Especially
seaya.The First Annual Zipped Lip Award in recognition of ability to suppress spoilers even in the face of extreme adversity and actual proximity is hereby granted to
seaya.
Don’t spend it all in one place.
Ladies, gentlemen, and genderqueer, this woman had to sit next to me while watching the previous episode, wherein I announced, “HEY THEY SHOULD HAVE A WORKERS REVOLUTION ON MINBAR THAT WOULD BE COOL,” knowing full well that in the next episode, there would be pretty much that, and managed not to let out a peep. I don’t think I would be so strong.
By the way, sorry the Zipped Lip Award looks so fucking creepy. In my defense, I am on an awful lot of reality altering drugs.
AH SO IN THIS EPISODE…actually most of my comments are rendered superfluous by the ending. Because I was having my usual conversation with the screen—“Minbar’s on fire. Wonder who’s putting out this fire. Oh the wounded are in a makeshift hospital. Hope the workers are getting some kind of salary for taking care of them. How does a civilization even function with only a third of its population engaged in productive labour?”—and basically the answer is, “Really, viewers, did you think we’d forgotten about this?”
So the Minbar have a civil war that goes from “there’s a strong taboo against murder in our culture” to “wheeeee cities are on fire!” really damned quickly. In order to end it, the warrior and religious castes have a contest to see who can chew the most scenery. The winner gets blown up by a giant sky laser thing. Delenn wins, HOBVIOUSLY, but Neroon can’t stand anyone being a larger ham than he is and jumps in to heroically sacrifice himself at the last minute. Then Delenn reconvenes the Grey Council only this time, appoints the majority of it from the worker caste because Space Marxism.
OH MY GOD THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SPACE ELF PLOT IN THE HISTORY OF SPACE ELVES.
(Some of my Google searches are quite strange.)
PSST MINBAR IS STILL AN OLIGARCY BASICALLY JUST SAYING.
OTHER STUFF THAT HAPPENS. Everyone is still being a dick to Lyta even though she totally saved their asses during the Shadow War. I’d feel much worse about it if she weren’t such a terrible actor. Her scene with Zack is excruciating. Basically she can’t get a job because her references suck and so B5 is kicking her out of the quarters that she just moved in to. After Evil!Kosh threw out all of her stuff. Man, this lady can’t catch a break. So Bester tries to recruit her into the PsyCorp in exchange for helping her with the references problem. She also has to agree to give him her body…FOR SCIENCE! After she’s dead of course.
Zack is also after her body, but in the more traditional way. He even offers her a job, which is to scan Garibaldi to see if he’s crazy. She suddenly develops a strong case of the professional ethics and demurs. Then she goes to Garibaldi and tries to get him to hire her, which actually works until Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants declares that he doesn’t want Garibaldi hanging around no stinkin’ telepaths.
Interesting. So either:
1) Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants is out to do something nasty to telepaths as previously surmised, or
2) Mr. Sketch McTrillionairepants is working with the PsyCorp, and made Garibaldi fire Lyta just so that she’d go running back to Bester, who just happened to be on the station wanting to recruit her. Also because she looks good in that uniform, especially with the gloves.
My money’s on the latter. But I’m not a Mars trillionaire so it’s actually just pretend-money.
Also, Mr. Sketchy McTrillionairepants has not appeared in the show yet. He communicates L-style with initials on Garibaldi’s TV screen. Except that his actual name is William Edgars and the initials are EI for some reason. (Edgars Industries? I don’t know.). I assume this is because he’s going to be played by Leonard Nimoy.
Because there is not already enough plot in this episode, President-For-Life-But-It-Probably-Won’t-Be-Long-For-That Clark has decided to just go whole-hog on civilian targets, bombing a ship with 10,000 refugees on it.
DIGRESSION! How are Lyta’s Earth-based clients getting past the quarantine? Also Bester. How is Bester getting past the quarantine on a regular basis?
Rather than questioning whether or not this report is accurate, given that EarthGov has shown that it regularly lies like a motherfucker and also that video footage is super-easy to alter, Sheridan and Ivanova go straight for the berserk button and decide screw dicking around with the TV station, let’s bomb the shit out of Earth. Much as I love Sheridan shift gears into badass mode, I’d hate to think that this was maybe a Very Cunning Plot on the part of the Machiavellian Magnificent Bastard Clark, who has managed to hold on to power for almost four whole seasons even though B5 managed to basically convince all of the gods to leave the universe because we said so. I mean they took on the Shadows and the Vorlons, I really think they could take on Earth if they convinced, like, the Gaim to help.
(At least I really hope that this is a trap and I didn’t just uncover a massive plothole or something.)
Anyway, have a happy bear:
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Date: 2012-04-10 02:38 am (UTC)Agreed, but some of your subsequent criticisms are a bit nit-picky.
Thing I do not get #1: Weapons and ID belonging to soldiers and cops are state-issued. Presumably EarthGov issued Garibaldi’s gun and ID. I mean, he wouldn’t have bought it himself. So Sheridan has the right to demand it back. But whose property is it? The station’s?
Yup, the station seceded and is now it's own sovereign government. The badge and the weapon come with the job either way. The thing is, he still has his grandmother's police pistol. Maybe he has no bullets for it and wouldn't shoot it on the station, but he could at least bluff with it. But then, how did grandma get to keep her side arm?
Thing I do not get #2: With the quarantine, how is the “contact from Earth” supposed to get to B5?
Shady people have shady ways. Also, I presume there were many Earthlings already doing business in space prior to B5's breaking away. They would not be coming from Earth, but from the alien worlds they were doing business with. They would be on alien transports or their own ships coming from the opposite direction than Earth. But they can probably still get messages from Earth and may have been advised to stay away until this business blows over.
Thing I do not get #3: Why Garibaldi is not more paranoid. Is this a side effect of being mind controlled?
I agree. Perhaps being self-employed has made him cocky.
Thing I do not get #4: Why Garibaldi would even think this would work.
a) It's Zack, who is not the sharpest pencil in the box, b) He probably figured he could get in and out before Zack or anyone else noticed, and c) he might have imagined that Zack would look the other way after being guilt-tripped about the link and weapon. Also, see previous comment about being cocky. Perhaps he felt he could bully/manipulate his way out with Zack. After all, he is in dry drunk "you are either for me or against me" asshole mode now.
Thing I do not get #5: So the computer records everyone getting on and off of a shuttle and going through customs. It knows the exact number. We’ve seen that everyone carries digital ID. Why does the computer then not automatically report who was on the shuttle but didn’t go through customs? At least it should have come up with a fake name.
Yup. You are correct. This is a plot hole you could fly the station through. Red flags are by definition not something you put off looking at until tomorrow if your job is security and protocols would certainly flag that automatically.
They can’t use the Great Machine to fight a war, but they can use it to power a TV station.
Well, it was their ace up the sleeve, which the Shadows might have blown up. Earth Alliance doesn't have planet killers.
She did get to tell me, because it’s not a spoiler, about Mira Furlan’s experiences during the breakup of Yugoslavia and how she drew on that to create Delenn’s emotional reaction to the civil war on Minbar and that makes her monologue at the beginning about a million times more powerful. Holy shit.
This.
So if I was the ambassador of wherever and Sheridan asked to patrol my borders, I probably wouldn’t jump on board.
Priorities. Apparently, they trust holy Sheridan with their lives, but not their wallets. Their governments are in charity-begins-at-home mode and unwilling to expend any effort to help their former allies.
So Bester tries to recruit her into the PsyCorp in exchange for helping her with the references problem.
I kept wondering why she didn't get hired by the station. With a full-out war with Earth looming, they don't need a resident telepath? That said, the contract scene with Bester was good.
DIGRESSION! How are Lyta’s Earth-based clients getting past the quarantine? Also Bester. How is Bester getting past the quarantine on a regular basis?
See comment above. Also, Psi Corps is tight with Clark. Who is going to question what Bester is doing?
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Date: 2012-04-10 06:46 am (UTC)I also love the fact that JMS keeps setting up Garibaldi to die horribly.
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Date: 2012-04-10 10:03 pm (UTC)Ugh. So he was typecast?
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Date: 2012-04-10 06:49 am (UTC)I was also one of the few people that didn't mind the season 5 storyline with the hippies. Don't know if I will like it if I see it again. Probably not.
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Date: 2012-04-10 08:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-11 03:31 am (UTC)That award is super creepy.
Heh.
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