B5, S05E01-3
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sabotabbyI was going to do these four at a time, but since I seem to be going so long between posts (latest update—having a cold isn't wonderful for my concentration), I'll break it up a bit more.
Anyway! I understand this is the season that wasn't supposed to be. They were going to cancel the show, so JMS quickly wrapped up all plot points, and then it got renewed, and so S5 is all about having a whole show with no more plot points. Ah well, we'll see how it goes, even though my favourite character has been written out.
No Compromises:
Time for a brand new season! There’s a new captain, Lochley, who is rather snippy and suffers from a severe lack of not being Ivanova. Sheridan is now President Sheridan and will be sticking around at least until facilities for the Interstellar Alliance are built on Minbar. The IA wants to buy B5, which is still nominally independent. Most importantly, Sheridan’s facial hair seems to be sticking around. I approve.
Theme music: Not bad. Opening voiceover thing—eh, completely incomprehensible if you’ve just started watching the show, but I vastly prefer it to S4’s. I am sad to report that Dreamy Corwin has not been promoted to the credits.
Other thoughts:
- Lochley was totally on Clark’s side, wasn’t she?
- What’s with the assassin’s music box?
- Awww, I wanted to hear the end of G’Kar’s oath. “Let’s eat,” works fine, though.
- LOLOLOL telepath colony. I bet you can tell what I think of this plot and Too Good For This Sinful World children who can project horrible CGI into people’s minds. I hope Bester kills the everloving shit out of these people.
- Nooo not the Gaim ambassador! I liked her!
- Zach is permanently head of security? Does anyone else think this is a terrible idea?
- Almost as terrible as Garibaldi in charge of the Alliance’s covert ops.
The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari:
Okay guys, here’s a trope I don’t like very much, especially at the moment given my rather fragile health: Character hovers between life and death, all of the other characters appear in their head as representations of their personality, and they need to fight their way back to life. I say this mostly because living or dying under most circumstances has nothing to do with your willpower. I mean it.
But now that my little bias is out of the way, this episode is awesome. Reasons:
- Londo’s brain is freaksome with the Edgar Allen Poe reference in the corner of the frame, pounding away.
- Londo has a guilt heart attack over G’Kar, and can’t return to the world of the living until he apologizes. There was all of the slashfic written about them back in the day, wasn’t there? And, like, Geocities tribute sites about their undying love? I’m just guessing.
- Multidicks make an appearance, and it’s every bit as gross as it was in my head, and then some.
- Did Vir get cute? I think Vir got cute. It’s not just the weight loss—they moved his hairline down and he doesn’t slouch as much.
- AWW THEY WOULD MISS EACH OTHER IF LONDO DIED. I would miss you too, Londo. There are like four characters left that I care about on this show and one appears to have been written out by the end of this episode.
- WTF is Sheridan wearing hahaha is that robes? Why is Sheridan wearing robes?
- Lennier breaks my little heart. Oh dude, Delenn is not even good enough for you. You will make the cutest Ranger.
- Did Delenn and Sheridan just float the idea of a threesome to keep Lennier around, or did I mishear that?
The best thing:
Vir and Lennier in the bar, drinking Shirley Temples and hugging.
Approximate level of cuteness:
+
+
+
+
Oh, and the guy who plays Londo acts the hell out of every scene. Yikes.
The Paragon of Animals:
Sheridan’s model UN club isn’t going so well. No one wants to sign the Declaration of Principles other than G’Kar (who wrote it) and Londo (who is probably sticking all of his tentacles in G’Kar’s pouch at this point). The Drazi rightly point out that they’re not exactly going out to conquer worlds. Good point, Drazi. Of course, the show makes this less interesting by having the Drazi be the villains of this episode, but anyway.
Garibaldi is a Space Fascist and wants to use Byron and his flowing golden locks to spy on people. Um. Sheridan. Why are you even listening to this? The whole thing makes me very uncomfortable, especially when Garibaldi turns out to be right.
I love watching Londo and G’Kar work together. It’s the best thing.
The crisis of the moment is that a heretofore unknown race called the Enfeeli (really, show?) are under attack by raiders. They somehow get in touch with a redshirt Ranger, who manages to explain their plight—via Lyta, because he’s in a coma—before vanishing into horrible CGI. So Sheridan decides to send the White Stars out to help them. ALL OF THE WHITE STARS. I thought Sheridan was supposed to be an awesome strategist. Because even if the Ranger is telling the truth, there’s no proof that the Enfeeli are. And everyone says they want to join the ISA but as we’ve just seen, wanting to join doesn’t mean actually being useful or abiding by its rules.
Everyone treats Lyta like shit because she’s Lyta. Even Byron, though he’s just doing it to prove a point.
We get some delicious Bester backstory, which is that it is a horribly traumatic thing for a telepath to be in someone’s head at the moment of death, and Bester used to do it all the time, voluntarily. What the fuck, Bester? I hope we get to hear more about this.
Blah blah, the Drazi were working with the raiders and planning to lead the White Stars into an ambush (why would they do this? Can they even do this? Aren’t the White Stars the most awesome ships in the galaxy at this point?) but Byron finds out just in time by scanning the Drazi ambassador without his consent, and the Enfeeli are fine. Yay? And everyone happily signs the Declaration that G’Kar wrote. But then G’Kar has edits and has to go get all the signatures again. Hahaha. Actually, I thought the Declaration was pretty good, given JMS’s cheesy prose.
I do not like the idea of having telepaths around spying on everyone, Garibaldi. This is exactly why no one likes telepaths.
Hey, you know who might be useful right about now? Ivanova. Though maybe she's not Drazi leader anymore. I still think she could keep them in line better than Sheridan did, and without resorting to creepy telepaths.
ETA: Hey, how do Sheridan and Delenn sleep together? I don't mean sex. I'm wondering how they share a bed. They're shown sleeping in a regular flat bed but we've seen that Delenn has been sleeping in a tilted bed, so as not to tempt fate, her entire life. Did she just compromise on this? Or is she not planning to get a good night's sleep for 20 years?
Anyway! I understand this is the season that wasn't supposed to be. They were going to cancel the show, so JMS quickly wrapped up all plot points, and then it got renewed, and so S5 is all about having a whole show with no more plot points. Ah well, we'll see how it goes, even though my favourite character has been written out.
No Compromises:
Time for a brand new season! There’s a new captain, Lochley, who is rather snippy and suffers from a severe lack of not being Ivanova. Sheridan is now President Sheridan and will be sticking around at least until facilities for the Interstellar Alliance are built on Minbar. The IA wants to buy B5, which is still nominally independent. Most importantly, Sheridan’s facial hair seems to be sticking around. I approve.
Theme music: Not bad. Opening voiceover thing—eh, completely incomprehensible if you’ve just started watching the show, but I vastly prefer it to S4’s. I am sad to report that Dreamy Corwin has not been promoted to the credits.
Other thoughts:
- Lochley was totally on Clark’s side, wasn’t she?
- What’s with the assassin’s music box?
- Awww, I wanted to hear the end of G’Kar’s oath. “Let’s eat,” works fine, though.
- LOLOLOL telepath colony. I bet you can tell what I think of this plot and Too Good For This Sinful World children who can project horrible CGI into people’s minds. I hope Bester kills the everloving shit out of these people.
- Nooo not the Gaim ambassador! I liked her!
- Zach is permanently head of security? Does anyone else think this is a terrible idea?
- Almost as terrible as Garibaldi in charge of the Alliance’s covert ops.
The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari:
Okay guys, here’s a trope I don’t like very much, especially at the moment given my rather fragile health: Character hovers between life and death, all of the other characters appear in their head as representations of their personality, and they need to fight their way back to life. I say this mostly because living or dying under most circumstances has nothing to do with your willpower. I mean it.
But now that my little bias is out of the way, this episode is awesome. Reasons:
- Londo’s brain is freaksome with the Edgar Allen Poe reference in the corner of the frame, pounding away.
- Londo has a guilt heart attack over G’Kar, and can’t return to the world of the living until he apologizes. There was all of the slashfic written about them back in the day, wasn’t there? And, like, Geocities tribute sites about their undying love? I’m just guessing.
- Multidicks make an appearance, and it’s every bit as gross as it was in my head, and then some.
- Did Vir get cute? I think Vir got cute. It’s not just the weight loss—they moved his hairline down and he doesn’t slouch as much.
- AWW THEY WOULD MISS EACH OTHER IF LONDO DIED. I would miss you too, Londo. There are like four characters left that I care about on this show and one appears to have been written out by the end of this episode.
- WTF is Sheridan wearing hahaha is that robes? Why is Sheridan wearing robes?
- Lennier breaks my little heart. Oh dude, Delenn is not even good enough for you. You will make the cutest Ranger.
- Did Delenn and Sheridan just float the idea of a threesome to keep Lennier around, or did I mishear that?
The best thing:
Vir and Lennier in the bar, drinking Shirley Temples and hugging.
Approximate level of cuteness:
+
+
+
+
Oh, and the guy who plays Londo acts the hell out of every scene. Yikes.
The Paragon of Animals:
Sheridan’s model UN club isn’t going so well. No one wants to sign the Declaration of Principles other than G’Kar (who wrote it) and Londo (who is probably sticking all of his tentacles in G’Kar’s pouch at this point). The Drazi rightly point out that they’re not exactly going out to conquer worlds. Good point, Drazi. Of course, the show makes this less interesting by having the Drazi be the villains of this episode, but anyway.
Garibaldi is a Space Fascist and wants to use Byron and his flowing golden locks to spy on people. Um. Sheridan. Why are you even listening to this? The whole thing makes me very uncomfortable, especially when Garibaldi turns out to be right.
I love watching Londo and G’Kar work together. It’s the best thing.
The crisis of the moment is that a heretofore unknown race called the Enfeeli (really, show?) are under attack by raiders. They somehow get in touch with a redshirt Ranger, who manages to explain their plight—via Lyta, because he’s in a coma—before vanishing into horrible CGI. So Sheridan decides to send the White Stars out to help them. ALL OF THE WHITE STARS. I thought Sheridan was supposed to be an awesome strategist. Because even if the Ranger is telling the truth, there’s no proof that the Enfeeli are. And everyone says they want to join the ISA but as we’ve just seen, wanting to join doesn’t mean actually being useful or abiding by its rules.
Everyone treats Lyta like shit because she’s Lyta. Even Byron, though he’s just doing it to prove a point.
We get some delicious Bester backstory, which is that it is a horribly traumatic thing for a telepath to be in someone’s head at the moment of death, and Bester used to do it all the time, voluntarily. What the fuck, Bester? I hope we get to hear more about this.
Blah blah, the Drazi were working with the raiders and planning to lead the White Stars into an ambush (why would they do this? Can they even do this? Aren’t the White Stars the most awesome ships in the galaxy at this point?) but Byron finds out just in time by scanning the Drazi ambassador without his consent, and the Enfeeli are fine. Yay? And everyone happily signs the Declaration that G’Kar wrote. But then G’Kar has edits and has to go get all the signatures again. Hahaha. Actually, I thought the Declaration was pretty good, given JMS’s cheesy prose.
I do not like the idea of having telepaths around spying on everyone, Garibaldi. This is exactly why no one likes telepaths.
Hey, you know who might be useful right about now? Ivanova. Though maybe she's not Drazi leader anymore. I still think she could keep them in line better than Sheridan did, and without resorting to creepy telepaths.
ETA: Hey, how do Sheridan and Delenn sleep together? I don't mean sex. I'm wondering how they share a bed. They're shown sleeping in a regular flat bed but we've seen that Delenn has been sleeping in a tilted bed, so as not to tempt fate, her entire life. Did she just compromise on this? Or is she not planning to get a good night's sleep for 20 years?
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Date: 2012-05-24 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-17 07:29 am (UTC)*Propped up against a wall or shield, with their knees drawn up in front of them. You know. The position of everyone waiting forever in a lineup by a wall ever.
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Date: 2012-05-24 05:50 am (UTC)Sadly it was basically JMS' way of fucking with the actors. But they were fitting Andreas Katsulas for the manboobs - or womanboobs - or just boobs, I guess.
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Date: 2012-05-24 02:30 pm (UTC)Is this available on the internet? It has to be, right?
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Date: 2012-05-24 03:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-05-24 02:31 pm (UTC)Well, IIRC Delenn says "Oh Minbar, three is holy" and Sheridan is all WHAHUNH.
See, now that is an invitation to a threesome if you ask me.
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Date: 2012-05-24 05:30 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-05-24 05:30 pm (UTC)When Lochly showed up on Crusade she was pretty cool. Sadly, everyone was sick of working for TNT.
Actually Claudia Christian wanted to have a clause in the contract that guaranteed that she could take off during the season to work on movies during the season. JMS was playing on the TNT team and was practically shoving the contract in her face. She said no clause, no signature and the Captain Lochly character was born.
She does show up in the last episode since that was originally written for season 4.
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Date: 2012-05-25 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-06-17 05:45 pm (UTC)Really, any fault lies with the network for not renewing it sooner. If everyone had known there was another season coming, they wouldn't have had to look for alternative jobs.
So, yeah, it kiiiind of worked out to her "asking" for more money per episode? But she didn't just go "Well if you want me back you need to pay me more oh well screw you then." Or them going "No oh and you're fired."
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