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B5, S05E20-22
THE LAST EVER B5 POST!
I know, can you contain yourself? I can’t. I am going to spew gifs all over this post and I expect you to as well. It’s been a very long ride and I’m so happy that y’all stuck with me through it and made hilarious comments and sat on your hands so that I could make ridiculous predictions.
Here we go!
Objects In Motion:
Nothing much happens in this one, and I get the impression that the last three episodes are just going to be people saying goodbye. Leaving this episode: G’Kar, Lyta, Garibaldi, and Lise. Arriving this episode, NUMBER ONE AND HER NEW FABULOUS HAIR. Why did we not have this happen at the beginning of the season, with a story about Number One instead of the Space Hippies? Because she is great. And her hair is great. Seriously rocking that look.
Number One is here with a warning: Someone wants to assassinate Garibaldi and Lise before they reach Mars and take over Edgars’ corporation. That someone looks a lot like George Carlin, don’t you think? It’s a bit unnerving. I can’t look at him, shanking security guards and infiltrating B5 intelligence, without expecting him to crack wise about religion or something. He is foiled and Garibaldi uses Lyta to discover that not one board member, but all of them want to kill him and Lise. I can’t blame them; their arc has been mostly really dull this season.
Meanwhile, one of G’Kar’s admirers, the one responsible for those action figures, gets all upset about him leaving. G’Kar breaks an action figure, sending him into a really silly mini-plot where he aims for G’Kar and shoots Lise instead. Unfortunately, she gets better, but Garibaldi doesn’t wait for her to be off the narcotics before marrying her. You know, I really think most people who go for the marriage thing want some sort of ceremony, even if it’s a very small thing at a courthouse, and want to not be on narcotics at the time. I say this as someone who is currently on narcotics all of the time. You want to be at your best, and laid-up in a hospital bed heavily medicated is not your best. Well, I guess unless you’re Lise. Also, can she even consent under these circumstances?
But then there’s a nice twist where Number One replaces Garibaldi as head of ISA intelligence, and there is much rejoicing. Together, they blackmail and threaten the board of Edgars Industries and get them all to resign and it’s hilarious. She then goes off to have victory sex with Franklin. I’m going to miss this show. I am extra amused that when he was hitting that back on Mars, he never got her name (Tessa, for the curious). OH FRANKLIN.
Hey, I’m really glad that G’Kar at least got a happy ending. I mean, even though we know how he dies eventually.
Objects At Rest:
Wait, I was joking about the last three episodes being just people saying goodbye. But I’m thinking that it’s going to actually be that, with a side of #humblebrag, as the kids say. Leaving this episode: Sheridan, Delenn, Franklin, Lennier. G’Kar appoints Ta’Lon to be the new ambassador, and Ta’Lon must be growing as a person because he does not immediately draw his katana and slice open his hand again. See? Character development! Franklin appoints Dr. Whatsherface as his successor because she’s competent. Actually more competent than he is, so it’s an improvement.
Garibaldi finds the most troublesome people in Edgars Industries and promotes them to the board, then sits around gloating with a cigar. Number of fucks I give about this storyline: 0.
Then Lennier shows up. I had forgotten about Lennier and Morden’s “you’re going to betray the Rangers” thing. Or rather, I’d blocked it out because it was stupid. But I am not so lucky because there is a Coolant Link of Plot Contrivance aboard the White Star and Sheridan, by complete coincidence, gets trapped in it, and Lennier doesn’t help him, and seriously, show? Seriously?
There is no point whatsoever to this, other than it I guess resolves the really lame love triangle, which wasn’t even a proper love triangle since there was no question of Delenn ever choosing Lennier. You know what would have made more sense? If she’d appointed him ambassador, because she never appointed a replacement, and then there was some conflict between his duties to the Rangers and his desire to make her happy, and the betrayal arose out of that. At least there would have been some build-up and it wouldn’t seem like Lennier was replaced by a clone.
Come to think of it, did anyone check to see if Lennier was replaced by a clone?
As if there wasn’t enough dumb going on, YOU GUYS I WOULD HAVE LIKED IT BETTER IF THEY JUST LEFT LONDO ON THE THRONE LOOKING SAD. He shows up on Minbar, spontaneously, with his security detail hanging back, to give Sheridan and Delenn Sealed Evil in a Really Ugly Can. Seriously, I hope they put that urn away the second he left, because it is really fugly. And it has a Trapper Keeper in it, obviously. If I knew an untrustworthy bastard who was acting strangely and gave me a present for my future kid that’s probably a pretty valuable (if fugly) heirloom on his home planet, I would probably X-ray that shit. Just saying.
Then Sheridan remembers that he won’t live to see his kid’s 21st birthday and records some hoary wisdom.
That is the whole episode.
Sleeping in Light:
Sheridan dies at the end. And Babylon 5 blows up good. They probably didn’t need a whole 44 minutes for this.
Ivanova, though! She is a general and takes over the Rangers and that is rad. I could do without Lorien being the last person Sheridan sees before dying or ascending or whatever. That’s got to suck. Also, Londo, G’Kar, and Lennier are all dead (*emo tear*) and Vir is Emperor (awesome!) and Garibaldi has a kid and Franklin has grey hair and glasses (good look for him).
And…that’s it. I wish I could write something more substantial about the last few episodes, but they honestly go like this:
“I know we’ve had our differences, but you’re a good friend, and I’ll miss you.” *handshake* *hugs*
Kind of anti-climactic. The last three episodes probably could have been a single episode.
Thoughts on the show overall: Obviously I was into it, or I wouldn’t have kept watching, especially since most of the last season was kind of awful. And I truly appreciate the impact it had on genre TV—you really need to watch every episode, in order, and other than Twin Peaks, I don’t think any other show did that back then. I maybe would have switched the order of wars, so it didn’t fizzle out at the end, but I did like the idea that after the huge conflicts, there were all of these little fires to put out and diplomatic kerfuffles and that nothing ever completely got resolved. It’s messy and sprawling and its reach exceeds its grasp—just like real life.
Here's one more sad lizard, just for old time's sake. Because I'll miss this show.
So, yeah, it's been a trip. Thanks for getting me into it, intertubes. Anything else I should see?
I know, can you contain yourself? I can’t. I am going to spew gifs all over this post and I expect you to as well. It’s been a very long ride and I’m so happy that y’all stuck with me through it and made hilarious comments and sat on your hands so that I could make ridiculous predictions.
Here we go!
Objects In Motion:
Nothing much happens in this one, and I get the impression that the last three episodes are just going to be people saying goodbye. Leaving this episode: G’Kar, Lyta, Garibaldi, and Lise. Arriving this episode, NUMBER ONE AND HER NEW FABULOUS HAIR. Why did we not have this happen at the beginning of the season, with a story about Number One instead of the Space Hippies? Because she is great. And her hair is great. Seriously rocking that look.
Number One is here with a warning: Someone wants to assassinate Garibaldi and Lise before they reach Mars and take over Edgars’ corporation. That someone looks a lot like George Carlin, don’t you think? It’s a bit unnerving. I can’t look at him, shanking security guards and infiltrating B5 intelligence, without expecting him to crack wise about religion or something. He is foiled and Garibaldi uses Lyta to discover that not one board member, but all of them want to kill him and Lise. I can’t blame them; their arc has been mostly really dull this season.
Meanwhile, one of G’Kar’s admirers, the one responsible for those action figures, gets all upset about him leaving. G’Kar breaks an action figure, sending him into a really silly mini-plot where he aims for G’Kar and shoots Lise instead. Unfortunately, she gets better, but Garibaldi doesn’t wait for her to be off the narcotics before marrying her. You know, I really think most people who go for the marriage thing want some sort of ceremony, even if it’s a very small thing at a courthouse, and want to not be on narcotics at the time. I say this as someone who is currently on narcotics all of the time. You want to be at your best, and laid-up in a hospital bed heavily medicated is not your best. Well, I guess unless you’re Lise. Also, can she even consent under these circumstances?
But then there’s a nice twist where Number One replaces Garibaldi as head of ISA intelligence, and there is much rejoicing. Together, they blackmail and threaten the board of Edgars Industries and get them all to resign and it’s hilarious. She then goes off to have victory sex with Franklin. I’m going to miss this show. I am extra amused that when he was hitting that back on Mars, he never got her name (Tessa, for the curious). OH FRANKLIN.
Hey, I’m really glad that G’Kar at least got a happy ending. I mean, even though we know how he dies eventually.
Objects At Rest:
Wait, I was joking about the last three episodes being just people saying goodbye. But I’m thinking that it’s going to actually be that, with a side of #humblebrag, as the kids say. Leaving this episode: Sheridan, Delenn, Franklin, Lennier. G’Kar appoints Ta’Lon to be the new ambassador, and Ta’Lon must be growing as a person because he does not immediately draw his katana and slice open his hand again. See? Character development! Franklin appoints Dr. Whatsherface as his successor because she’s competent. Actually more competent than he is, so it’s an improvement.
Garibaldi finds the most troublesome people in Edgars Industries and promotes them to the board, then sits around gloating with a cigar. Number of fucks I give about this storyline: 0.
Then Lennier shows up. I had forgotten about Lennier and Morden’s “you’re going to betray the Rangers” thing. Or rather, I’d blocked it out because it was stupid. But I am not so lucky because there is a Coolant Link of Plot Contrivance aboard the White Star and Sheridan, by complete coincidence, gets trapped in it, and Lennier doesn’t help him, and seriously, show? Seriously?
There is no point whatsoever to this, other than it I guess resolves the really lame love triangle, which wasn’t even a proper love triangle since there was no question of Delenn ever choosing Lennier. You know what would have made more sense? If she’d appointed him ambassador, because she never appointed a replacement, and then there was some conflict between his duties to the Rangers and his desire to make her happy, and the betrayal arose out of that. At least there would have been some build-up and it wouldn’t seem like Lennier was replaced by a clone.
Come to think of it, did anyone check to see if Lennier was replaced by a clone?
As if there wasn’t enough dumb going on, YOU GUYS I WOULD HAVE LIKED IT BETTER IF THEY JUST LEFT LONDO ON THE THRONE LOOKING SAD. He shows up on Minbar, spontaneously, with his security detail hanging back, to give Sheridan and Delenn Sealed Evil in a Really Ugly Can. Seriously, I hope they put that urn away the second he left, because it is really fugly. And it has a Trapper Keeper in it, obviously. If I knew an untrustworthy bastard who was acting strangely and gave me a present for my future kid that’s probably a pretty valuable (if fugly) heirloom on his home planet, I would probably X-ray that shit. Just saying.
Then Sheridan remembers that he won’t live to see his kid’s 21st birthday and records some hoary wisdom.
That is the whole episode.
Sleeping in Light:
Sheridan dies at the end. And Babylon 5 blows up good. They probably didn’t need a whole 44 minutes for this.
Ivanova, though! She is a general and takes over the Rangers and that is rad. I could do without Lorien being the last person Sheridan sees before dying or ascending or whatever. That’s got to suck. Also, Londo, G’Kar, and Lennier are all dead (*emo tear*) and Vir is Emperor (awesome!) and Garibaldi has a kid and Franklin has grey hair and glasses (good look for him).
And…that’s it. I wish I could write something more substantial about the last few episodes, but they honestly go like this:
“I know we’ve had our differences, but you’re a good friend, and I’ll miss you.” *handshake* *hugs*
Kind of anti-climactic. The last three episodes probably could have been a single episode.
Thoughts on the show overall: Obviously I was into it, or I wouldn’t have kept watching, especially since most of the last season was kind of awful. And I truly appreciate the impact it had on genre TV—you really need to watch every episode, in order, and other than Twin Peaks, I don’t think any other show did that back then. I maybe would have switched the order of wars, so it didn’t fizzle out at the end, but I did like the idea that after the huge conflicts, there were all of these little fires to put out and diplomatic kerfuffles and that nothing ever completely got resolved. It’s messy and sprawling and its reach exceeds its grasp—just like real life.
Here's one more sad lizard, just for old time's sake. Because I'll miss this show.
So, yeah, it's been a trip. Thanks for getting me into it, intertubes. Anything else I should see?
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But season 2 is not a favorite among viewers - they don't like the dock workers and they miss all the favorites who aren't in it as much.
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The main addict character DOES hit a point of recovery that lasts until the end of the series, but he spends the first four seasons failing to recover and relapsing.