I find I prefer flawed episodes that really stretch the boundaries of the show, and try to do something different and interesting, than more perfectly-done normal episodes. So I love this episode, flaws and all
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I so wish we'd gotten more cutesy like the lingerie discussion. I must admit, when I watched that for the first time, it so totally read as set-up for me, and I kept waiting for the follow-through where we'd see (or at least be told about) Delenn in said lingerie. And then it just...never happened. Like so many other things with S5, I was disappoint.
So I didn't want to stick a random note in the middle of the post, since I had this whole ~thing going on, but that bit from the +100 act, where we see the securecam footage from the telepath shenanigans on the station - do we ever see an analog of that in S5? I don't remember seeing Garibaldi all beat up and pleading with the telepaths and Sheridan coming on to tell them he wasn't going to negotiate with terrorists. Granted, I've watched the majority of S5 just the one time through, so I may just not be remembering it. But my initial reaction was huh, did JMS forget this part or something?
Ah, okay. That's good to know. I must admit to watching great swathes of S5 by not actually watching the screen, only listening while I cross-stitched.
This was bugging me, and I knew I wouldn't be able to sleep until I answered it (yes I really am that lame), so I looked it up in the Lurker's Guide. Phoenix Rising.
*goes to bed before more unanswered questions are presented*
Thank youuuuuuuu! He is so wonderfully evil. Srsly, he should play bad guys more often. Typecasting can bite me.
That is totally the face I mean. I think there's a lot you can read into that. In looking at it again I'm seeing anything from "my mind is imagining the possibilities for round 2" (Sheridan) to "Half-naked pretty girl is looking at me - what's my next line?" (Bruce.)
What I got from this episode this time that I never got before (because I hadn't read the book yet): JMS is clearly a Walter Miller fan. That last bit is a very clear tribute to A Canticle for Liebowitz if ever I saw one. Great book, which makes me not mind the borrowing/quoting/nodding, though I gotta admit I liked the book better. Having the older monk be a Ranger, who clearly has access to information he's not sharing, makes it somewhat manipulative to me, whereas the idea of these guys slaving away for centuries over the Blessed Saint Liebowitz's barely-pre-apocalyptic grocery list, and basically reliving a bizarre combination of Middle Ages + Edisonian-level tech as they try to rediscover/relearn all this lost tech is fascinating and occasionally downright hilarious.
I love how the Lurker's Guide says that this segment "may" be a nod to the novel. If that ain't a nod,, I don't know what is. The odds that JMS came up with that one entirely on his own seem pretty damn slim to me.
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That is totally the face I mean. I think there's a lot you can read into that. In looking at it again I'm seeing anything from "my mind is imagining the possibilities for round 2" (Sheridan) to "Half-naked pretty girl is looking at me - what's my next line?" (Bruce.)
IDC, I love that expression, whatever it says. :D
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I love how the Lurker's Guide says that this segment "may" be a nod to the novel. If that ain't a nod,, I don't know what is. The odds that JMS came up with that one entirely on his own seem pretty damn slim to me.
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