Babylon 5 - I'm finally going to do it

When Ivanova said she would say the mourner's kaddish in English for the benefit of Sinclair I can't help but feel what she really meant was "for the benefit of our non-Jewish, non-Hebrew speaking viewers"

 

Well, they could have used subtitles.

 

Spoiler: hey guys...

You don't have to wave a flag over every little piece of foreshadowing. It sort of ruins the point.

 

shouldn't those "duhn's" be in spoiler code

 

the minbari didn't appear to use INTERLAC (or english) in their ceremony. but then, sinclair is her boss...

 

Hey, you're the one who brought it up. I was just adding ... "ambiance."

 

actually, that was Neroon.

bad, bad Neroon
but then, who watches the watchers...

 

Grail

I honestly don't know what to say about this one. At first I didn't really get what the plot was supposed to be, such as was it about this guy coming to the station looking for the Holy Grail or a coward gaining redemption. I guess it was a combination of both, but it was quite average. There were two scenes I loved though that helped boost it up good:

1) Londo to Vir: With people like you the whole Cintauri Republic will Efficient itself to Extinction

2) The ending with Sinclair, Ivanova, and Mike talking about the Babylon Curse and Ivanova going "boom." Some foreshadowing perhaps.

Oh, and before anyone asks, I did recognize David Warner, the same guy who did Evek (Probably his best Trek character), the holy guy from Star Trek 5 (Talbot? ) and Gorkon.

 

Eyes

Well, I'm glad we haven't heard the last of Bester (I knew we hadn't, but going through these episodes, there's been quite a few surprises already) and this episode was pretty good. It reminded me too much of TNG's Drumhead though, and I thought Picard did it better than Sinclair. Still, the Ivanova story was always great (She has really improved as the season has progessed) and I didn't know Jeffrey Combs was on Babylon 5. That's awesome. Also liked Garibaldi and the Bike and it was great to see Linner do something. Now where is Talia Winters. This being a Psy-Corps episode I thought she would be there.

 

Legacies

I think of the episodes I saw tonight, this one was the best. We got a lot of good juicy stuff on the Minbari (And other than the war, those other things like the culture have been kinda lacking this season) and I think it set up the Season finale, since that episode is titled Chrysalis. I liked Neroon and seeing the two great leaders at the end was a nice touch.

As for the Alyssa story, I think one of the bad things about watching all these episodes in a short time is things are starting to get repetitive. I mean in the previous episode, we had Ivanova just be really angry and hateful and she should be. Well, she was kind of this way again. I know it's the character, but it's come to the point now where it's like "We know you hate Psy-corps, what else is new." I guess having her be a sarrogate mother to the girl was nice, for what it was.

Also, I've noticed G'Kar being quite absent in the last three episodes. I guess this was the time where Katsulas was filming All Good Things...

 

Season 1 Ivanova was really repetitive. I'm pretty sure by the end of Season 1 all you know about her is 1) she hates PsiCorps and 2) she's Russian. For a while, I was pretty sure that was all she was capable of talking about.

 

A part of the problem was that season 1's airing order (which I'm reasonably sure is the DVD's order) was shifted around quite a bit for some reason I don't rightly recall. So you end up with thematically similar episodes appearing in succession when they're supposed to be much more spaced out.

For example I think this part of the season was supposed ot go: -
'Babylon Squared' -> 'Legacies' -> 'Grail' -> 'Signs and Portents' -> 'TKO' -> 'Eyes' -> 'The Quality of Mercy' -> 'Chrysalis'

That is according to the official chronology, anyway. Thankfully the episodes are mostly self contained so showing them out of order doesn't affect continuity and later as the show became more serialised the broadcast order had to be more in line with the events on the show.
One day I might try watching the first season in chronological order, but it'd take an awful lot of disc swapping!

 

Neroon, "Perhaps there was some small wisdom in letting your people live."
Sinclair, "We like to think so."
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i think talia was mostly useless to the show.

 

Could be. But it might also be because for the first season especially, the number of episodes for Katsulas and Jurasik were contracted for may have been much smaller than in subsequent seasons. JMS has mentioned on occasion that he had to keep a chart so he knew which actors would be available to him. Makes sense, considering how large the pool of 'main' characters was and how small the budget was.

Jan

 

And her father died, that's come up a few times.

I know about that guide. I've been the that site a few times and it's a great source of B5 information. Consider it bookmarked.

 

Alyssa - Bless her heart but that little actress was dreadful.

However, this is the point where B5 realy took of for me and I knew I was in for the long haul. If her acting did not scare me away, what would?

 

I saw Tron, but it was so long ago, like Early 90s. I probably should watch it again, especially if what I hear about the remake is true.

 

Remake? I thought we were getting a straight sequel called "TR2N."