Another Babylon 5 first time viewer.

[The Evil Dead]

Spoiler: More Londo Hijinks from mid-season 4

Londo: "When I said my quarters were cold, I did not mean 'Oh, I think it's a little chilly in here, perhaps I'll throw a blanket on the bed'. No, I said it was COLD as in 'Oh, look, my left arm has snapped off like an icicle and shattered on the floor'."

Jurasik's delivery of these lines is just gold.

The looks between Londo and Vir in one of the final scenes of Point of No Return kill me. "Nonsense!" When they both laugh uncomfortably, pause and just stare at each other.

 

[CorporalClegg]

All this B5 talk is making me really mad I lent my DVDs to a friend.

 

[neozeks]

The only humor on Babylon 5 I remember really working for me was some of Londo's. "Cats. I'm being nibbled to death by cats." I don't know if it was just Peter Jurasik making the material work or what. But, I didn't really tune into Babylon 5 for the chuckles.

Or "If you see something around this big with eight legs let me know. I have to kill it before it develops language skills" (whoops, now I see that's already mentioned, and I messed the quote)

Well, here we go, further two episodes.
First, let me say - COOL new uniforms. Now why doesn't Earth Force have tailors as good as that?
Second - Common, John, just KISS her already!

Ceremonies of Light and Dark - OK, I'm not going to moan how poor Garibaldi (hurt even) doesn't get any rest here, because that's the less important part of the episode. And the more important part works. I liked how Londo casually poisoned Refa. I always like when Sheridan gets angry. Lennier's conffesion - at first I thought it would be cheesy, but they did it tastefully. I'm starting to like Marcus and his witticisms. And the last scene in sickbay was good and symbolic - especially liked Franklin's short and serious 'I have a problem'. Actually, come to think of it, it's a pitty we don't see these other characters interact with Delenn more often. The negatives are just the straightforward hostage plot and some cliched badguys.

Sic Transit Vir - Sweet Jesus, another attempted murder! What's the crime rate on the station anyway?
JK, not a bad episode. Vir has really grown from the first season annoying bufoon (is that the Rom factor?). Some nice humour actually here! Vir's talk with Ivanova. Londo and the bugs. Sheridan's cooking . But I have a problem with Londo. I know he is supposed to be a tragic character, one for whom I should in a way feel sorry. Well, I can't. In this episode he just comes off like an evil racist through and through. And that last scene. I'm a bit troubled by the attempted humorous ending. The girls has just admited killing hundreds of Narn like it was nothing and Vir kisses her and goes 'Oh, well, which marriage is without trouble'?

 

[Mal]

Londo really does have all the best humor.

Spoiler: Season 5

"NOW Vir is ready to be ambassador for the Centauri!"

Spoiler: if...

if vir can be emperor, a small earth cat can be emperor

the only humor that came off well was londo humor.

 

[neozeks]

Just to chime in...

A Late Delivery from Avalon

Hm, a so-so episode. I don't usually like this type of thing, when we have a historical or mythological character as the centerpiece (be it real or pretend). And I don't really like one-on-one alegories, sword-pain etc. My brain is probably not working at the moment, i'm pretty tired, but the symbolism seems not quite right. If the sword represents his pain, why did he find it when he was running in that dream at the beginning? Wasn't he running away from his pain? And why did he seem happy when he found the sword?
Teaming up G'Kar and King Arthur was funny though.
I would much rather have liked if the episode was about that treaty they signed. As it were, we only got a glimpse of that.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

Londo's not the only funny one. Marcus was certainly good for a laugh almost any time he was on screen.

 

[Jan]

Just to chime in...

A Late Delivery from Avalon

Hm, a so-so episode. I don't usually like this type of thing, when we have a historical or mythological character as the centerpiece (be it real or pretend). And I don't really like one-on-one alegories, sword-pain etc. My brain is probably not working at the moment, i'm pretty tired, but the symbolism seems not quite right. If the sword represents his pain, why did he find it when he was running in that dream at the beginning? Wasn't he running away from his pain? And why did he seem happy when he found the sword?
Teaming up G'Kar and King Arthur was funny though.
I would much rather have liked if the episode was about that treaty they signed. As it were, we only got a glimpse of that.

I've always loved this episode but I generally like the off-format ones a lot.

I think that what we saw in the flashback was when David 'became' Arthur. By figuring out that he could give the guilt/sword to the Lady of the Lake he momentarily was happy. But then the Black Knight came and stabbed him because he still had that guilt.

I *loved* the scenes of Arthur and G'Kar. "And they made a very satisfying thump when they hit the floor."

Keep the scene of Delenn accepting the guilt/sword in mind even though you don't care for the episode. Symmetry is a recurring theme in B5.

Jan

 

[neozeks]

Whew, I've been slacking. Watched a whole bunch of episodes but haven't had the time to post (nah, I'm just lazy ). So, now I have to make up for it.

Ship of Tears

Always nice to see Bester again. I really missed the whole telepath/psi-corps thing. I find it to be one of the most interesting themes of the show. A solid episode, though the revelation that the woman was his lover did feel a bit cliched. And who were those aliens in the vision?
Shadows fearing telepaths is an interesting discovery, it can certainly tie the Shadow and telepath arc in an interesting way. Though I wonder how noone figured the whole thing earlier. Did they know about it in the last war, a thousand years ago? The Narn had telepaths then, I guess the Minbari had them too.

War Without End

I'm gonna do both episodes together. Now, i must say I have been spoiled about Sinclair becoming Valen (I saw somewhere on these boards a discussion of the line 'Enthilza (sp?) Valen' from the Gathering so it was not hard to connect the dots). Still, the episode(s) was great! B5 rarely does these truly Sci-Fi stories but I usually like them. I was very impressed how much of it was preplanned all the way back in season one. Then I was even more impressed when I realized how much it probably had to change to adapt to Sinclair's departure. After the disappointments of nuBSG's 'working it out as you go along' system this is simply genius. Sure, when I sat to analyze it later I saw some cracks and contrivances but nothing on the order of, say, BSG's Opera House mystery. And if I learnt something from Star Trek, it's that temporal mechanics gives you a headache, so you better not even think about it.
Other thoughts: Zathras - very good; Ivanova's message from the future - also very good; O'Hare's performance seems to have improved; what was that 'keeper' thingie?? Scary...
Some negatives: yanking Sheridan to the future was a bit pointless; and that 'Butch and Sundance...' part was just embarassing

More later (I'm still lazy)...

 

[Lindley]

(I saw somewhere on these boards a discussion of the line 'Enthilza (sp?) Valen' from the Gathering so it was not hard to connect the dots)

I keep telling everyone, if they don't make a big deal of complaining about "spoilers" there, the newbies probably won't figure out that it is one. And yet they keep making an issue of it.

Kinda like how newbie threads inevitably start getting "hint hint nudge nudge" type posts at all the wrong times, and inevitably someone who comes along and blatantly spoils something related to one of those without thinking.

And then there's the people who try to paint the show on such a high pedestal that it can't possibly actually measure up.....

Eh.....my list of peeves for the day. Glad you're enjoying the series!

 

[Emissary of the Prophets]

My only regret is that I didn't watch it when it was originally broadcast. The things that I've missed...