There's a lot to reply to and as anyone who checks the Miscellaneous board will understand, I'm really overwhelmed at the moment! So I'll simply say greetings, neighbor' to Jan for the moment and move on with the episodes.
"Comes the Inquisitor" wasn't what I was expecting, simply because for some unknown reason I'd long since decided it was going to be Bester arriving at the station and I don't even know why. I guess despite the senselessness of the idea I'd just gotten used to Walter Koenig being a cunning bastard and doing cunning bastard things.
It was good for its Delenn content, that's for sure, and Wayne Alexander's performance was admirable as well. Not sure how I feel about the whole 'Jack the Ripper' angle; it just feels like something I'd say in Star Trek: The Next Generation and not Babylon 5. I guess I was proven wrong, though, eh?
That thing in the beginning with Vir and Lennier, by the way? Ace. Just ace.
"The Fall of Night" was pretty darn good. I wasn't expecting something too explosive since I'd gotten something like that very recently but I figured that with it being a season finale, a few big things would have to happen, and I was right. Toward the end it really ramps up the intensity.
By the way, to the poster who told me Keffer's gig in this episode 'is a real blast', I can now officially confirm my suspicions regarding what you were really saying, there, and ohoho.
Since this thread doesn't have nearly enough Jeff O'Connor and TheGodBen reaction comparisons already, I'm going to go ahead and say that I didn't laugh when Kosh turned into an 'angel' because I was bewildered and enthralled with the fact that my guess about the Vorlons (they appear differently to everyone, as mythological beings) was correct and I thought it was a really nifty concept. I did laugh a little, admittedly, at Sheridan being stuck in midair.
Actually, I cracked up at first because I thought the SFX team was failing epically at portraying Sheridan falling. I was like, 'yeah, uh, no, he isn't moving.' Then they explained it and I quieted down... mostly.
JMS was talking up how great the whole thing looked in The Lurker's Guide's article on the episode but, and I know it really isn't fair because it's 2011, but I was laughing a little.
Still, it doesn't detract from the drama of it all, which I thought was fantastic. Oh, and the Morden stuff with Londo. Fantastic. (Was that here? Or in the next one? I, er... I can't actually remember...) And Ivanova's narration at the end. Very unique. I liked it.
Which brings us to the last episode I watched, "Matters of Honor".
Hey, look, it's Ivanova's narration in technicolor. Wow, the music really changed this year. I'm not a big fan of the stiller images of the characters compared with season two's more dynamic stuff but the season is young; it will no doubt grow on me. The narration and the music are incredible, though.
So anyway, two big things to talk about with this one. Number one: Marcus. Boy, he looks like the love child between Aragorn and Legolas and he seems poised to be Aragorn. He even treats in a bar, appearing as an enigma to young adventurers. Okay, so the bar scene happens all over the place in fiction and, okay, Delenn isn't really a 'young adventurer', but Lennier definitely has some hobbit-like tendencies so dammit, my point stands.
He's cool, though. I like him a lot so far.
Other thing: White Star. Holy hell yes. I love, love, love the name. I mean, the name itself might not mean much without context but it really strikes a chord if you get it. And the fact that Sheridan took down another 'impossible' ship with the successor of light to the Black Star he became so famous/infamous for is not lost on me. I love the design, I love the maneuvers, I love the fact that we finally saw the Shadows bleed a little, I love the crew, I love Lennier's hilarious comment, I love everything about this ship.
I'm going to be blunt: I want to see the White Star and the Defiant fuse into one, the uh, the Defiant Star, and I want to see it blow things up nonstop for an entire episode. This would make me die a happy man, and I'm not even that big on space fights in general. I just... yeah, this ship rocks already.
Anyway, cool episode.
