But no, the show isn't exactly a laugh riot when compared to Firefly or Farscape, say. I guess there's more humour than Battlestar Galactica... though Tigh's quip about paper shortages is funnier than anything B5 does.
I liked that line, but I didn't like how he and Adama laughed about it for 30 seconds. I understand what the scene was trying to do, but I felt it went on too long. I think the funniest moment in BSG is when Baltar follows Gaeta into the toilets and tries to talk to him about Shelly Godfrey's evidence, that and the scene where Baltar tries to destroy the evidence but God wont allow him. I suppose Baltar came close to being a cartoon character at times, so I guess Londo and G'Kar could yet work out.
Oops.
That certainly makes more sense.
Er...definitely *not* Scot Bakula or Quantum Leap. Try Walter Koenig from Trek TOS.
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TheGodBen's sense of humor may leave you vaguely uncomfortable.
I *thought* he must be joking until the comment about women's clothes. Then I began to doubt.
Don't worry, the joke was a very random throwback to the episode of Enterprise where Dean Stockwell showed up and I joked that a character from a Donald P. Bellisario show had showed up; John Hillerman from Magnum PI. So nobody was supposed to get it.
But for some reason I have decided that whenever I see somebody from Trek on B5 I'm going to call them Scott Bakula, for no reason other than the fact that I find it amusing to think of Scott Bakula playing multiple roles on B5.
No, it doesn't make sense.
The War Prayer (***)
This episode is something of a rarity as it's not written by JMS. In fact, it was written by somebody that used to write for a science fiction series I was a fan of when I was younger; Scott Bakula of Quantum Leap fame. I know what you're thinking; "
Scott Bakula is an amazing actor and a very sexy man, but Ben is being weird by thinking that he wrote for Quantum Leap." And you'd be wrong on all counts (except the bit about me being weird) because Scott Bakula wrote the song
Somewhere in the Night for the episode
Piano Man. JMS was apparently so impressed by the emotion in the lyrics that he hired him to write an episode of B5.
Scott Bakula: actor, singer, writer, gazelle. He makes my female bits go all funny just thinking about him, and that's weird because I haven't had the surgery yet.
For those not scared away by that imagery, I moderately enjoyed this episode, it has an interesting three-plot format where all the plots tie together at some point. The main plot is about some human group attacking aliens, which is interesting but sadly under developed in this episode, we're not given much to go on beyond the fact that Bruce (I can't remember the Australian guy's name so I'm calling him Bruce, not because I'm a racist, but because I'm a Pythonite) doesn't like aliens. Maybe this will be expanded upon later, and this episode does hint at some sort of connection to the assassination attempt on Kosh from the pilot, but even that is dropped after one scene. As it is this plot doesn't seem to do anything other than say that racism is bad, which is a fine message but one which I'm already aware of (except in the case of the English and Australians).
The b-plot is about Ivanova meeting her old flame Bruce, which was a little too obviously tied into the a-plot because this was almost the exact same plot as Sinclair had a few episodes back, and I doubt the show was going to have the exact same plot repeat so close to one another.
The c-plot about Londo is okay, but it's yet another story about an old traditionalist learning that love is nice. It's not awful, but it has been done many times and the humour is tired if you've watched more than five episodes of Married with Children. Still, it has slightly redeemed Londo after he passed out on that table.
