Watching Babylon 5 for the first time... *Spoilers, duh*

[RoJoHen]

Spoiler: Ivanova

She's Russian.

 

[Mr Light]

Sinclair: Turns in his girlfriend from the pilot episode for no discernible reason; admits to feeling guilty over his sudden disappearan

You mean like her dead body?!

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I was thinking more along the lines of finding her and bringing her to the station because surely everyone wondered where the heck she'd gone. Dead bodies seem more JMS' style, though...

 

[Mr Light]

So... Sinclair butchered his girlfriend then brought her steaming corpse in and plopped it on a table? This sounds like a brutal ceremony

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I'm picturing Dr. Franklin seeing this and raging but Delenn defending Sinclair for 'shedding his past life'.

It's disturbing.

 

[Mr Light]

Well, Sinclair and Delenn were symbolically married in that ceremony in "Parliament of Dreams". She probably goaded him into it!

Minbari have different ethics than we do

 

[Reverend]

I was thinking more along the lines of finding her and bringing her to the station because surely everyone wondered where the heck she'd gone. Dead bodies seem more JMS' style, though...

She does get mentioned once more in the series...in passing...late in season 5.

Still if you're interesting, the rest of her story--plus what Sinclair and Marcus's activities were during season 2--are told in full in the canon novel 'To Dream in the City of Sorrows'. Though the framing story takes place just after 'Grey 17 is Missing', so be warned of spoilers because they are MAJOR ones, especially concerning Sinclair.

 

[Mr Light]

^^ I thought he was talking about Carolyn and not Catherine.

 

[Reverend]

Ah, so he was. My fault for not paying attention. The reason behind his breakup with Carolyn was mentioned in 'The Parliament of Dreams' I think. Something to do with him not wanting to quit Earthforce and go into business with her like she wanted.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Oh, I think I somehow missed that. Or just forgot about it!

 

[Angel4576]

Even so, you should probably still read the novel that Reverend mentioned if you get the chance, it's a fantastic read IMO.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Will do. I already have plans to catch these trilogies everyone talks about.

 

[Sindatur]

Will do. I already have plans to catch these trilogies everyone talks about.

To Dream in the City of Sorrows, is actually a single book (2 of the original 9 novels from Del Ray are worthwhile, this one, and the Jeanne Cavellos one)

In addition to those two worthwhile Canon ones, are 3 Trilogies (Psycorps, Techomage and Centauri Prime)

 

[Mr Light]

The Technomage Trilogy is incredible. Great action, great revelations vital to the main storyline, great characters. I love it.

Centauri Trilogy is also extremely important to the storyline.

The Psi Corps trilogy others love, I find it a little too non-B5. Also it's a very disjointed story. Book 1 is historical, then the other two tell one character in two vastly separated time periods.

 

[Brian]

You might want to wait until after you watch Crusade (if you intend to) to read the Technomage trilogy. A lot of what is revealed in it was intended to be revealed in Crusade, as I recall. Reading it first may color your viewing of the show.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Ooh, lots of book advice. Noted, Brian.

 

[Bishop76]

Yeah, the 2 of the original 9 books and the trilogies are all definitely worth reading!

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Gonna hit the sack... exhausted. I'll watch more tomorrow!

 

[Jan]

Gonna hit the sack... exhausted. I'll watch more tomorrow!

Well?!?!? Don't leave us hanging with nothing more to do than wonder about ship designations!

Jan

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

But you love to wonder about ship designations, don't you?

Sorry-dorry, you'll get two reviews in a couple of hours since I went ahead and watched both episodes last night...