I decided to try something a little different with my review of In the Shadow of Z’Ha’Dum. I wrote down what I was thinking as I watched, so some of this may be a little random, but hey that's how my mind often works. It's an interesting way to do a review. I don't know that I'd do it this way a lot, it's kind of exhausting, and I'm sure there were ( Read more... )

I guess you could call And Now For A Word a concept episode.

I’ve seen this done on other shows, if it works it’s very amusing and clever. It works for Babylon 5 here. We’ve often seen the crew and others on the station watching news reports on the monitors in their quarters or around the station. It’s used as background, although I think a reporter ( Read more... )

There All the Honor Lies is largely about ones past affecting their present, at least that's how I saw it. Two of the stories in the episode are about this. The light storyline featuring Ivanova was not, though.

Sheridan is taking lessons from Kosh. Exactly why he's taking lessons or what Kosh is teaching him isn't really covered, although I think ( Read more... )

Hunter, Prey is an absolute tease of an episode. I probably should explain why I’d say that before talking about the events of the episode proper.

The most mysterious of all the alien races that appear regularly on Babylon 5 are the Vorlon. Viewers…no even the people on the station, known next to nothing about them. There may be others aboard the ( Read more... )

Acts of Sacrifice is one of those rare episodes of a TV show that really hits you hard and makes you think. It’s got two quite heavy and dark stories and one light one, but they’re all perfectly placed and brilliantly acted, and I think you need the levity of Ivanova’s story (why didn’t Claudia Christian get her own spin off? She’s brilliant) to ( Read more... )

The chickens come home to roost in All Alone in the Night, and the way the story moves forward highlights what a waste of an episode Gropos really was.

Sheridan goes to check out a report of attacks on merchant ships nearby, he says to Ivanova that it’s just routine and he needs to keep his flight hours up. There’s shades of the time Ivanova and ( Read more... )

I’d have to say that Gropos has probably been the weakest episode of season 2 so far. It’s not that it’s bad as such, just that it has very little connection with the rest of the season, and seems to be rather unnecessary.

Rather than review the fairly sketchy story I’m going to speak about the obvious inspiration behind most of Gropos. It manages ( Read more... )

Before doing a proper review of The Coming Of Shadows I’m going to start this one off a bit differently.

A few episodes ago I said that of all the alien races on Babylon 5 I’m most interested by the Centauri. As The Coming of Shadows largely centres around them I learned a few things. So what The Coming of Shadows taught me about the Centauri:

1 ( Read more... )

A Race Through Dark Places is, as the title suggests, a fairly dark episode in many ways. It’s a definite change of pace from the lightness and humour of Soul Mates. It is however not without it’s lighter moments.

Happily for me, it was a telepath heavy episode and that always means plenty of Talia. She didn’t appear much early in the season, but ( Read more... )

At some point most long running shows that aren’t comedy will do light, or out and out comedy episodes, this seems to happen more frequently on genre shows for some reason and they generally do one of these type of episodes a season. Soul Mates is Babylon 5’s second season attempt at this.

I remarked earlier in the season that the show had wrong ( Read more... )