B5 Thoughts

I am currently a quarter of the way through Jude the Obscure, and while I know it's going to be incredibly depressing, right now I love it. I've always liked Hardy; he has beautiful descriptive passages and characters who are poignant but nevertheless don't become cloying. And there's something comforting about his relentless pessimism. No matter how bad it gets for any of the characters, you can rest assured that the next chapter will always make it worse.

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( Short comments on 'And Now for a Word'; longer ones on 'In the Shadow of Za'Ha'Dum' )

More B5

"Knives" seems less conencted to the plot arcs, but perhaps Sheridan's parasite is related to the ongoing B4 mystery... Did enjoy the random opera break between Londo and Vir. Haha. And Sam's dad played Londo's buddy! Aw, Sam's dad.

alto2 and I have been discussing LOTR's influence on the show, and I felt the need to write down the following associations I've come up with so far. They aren't one-to-one correspondances, and I don't know how much the similarities will influence the associatees later on, but the intellectual exercise is interesting.

( Potential Spoilers )

While looking up my old posts on The Silmarillion, I ran across my brief fascination with Figwit from the movies. I see the actor has moved on to become one half of the band and star of the sitcom The Flight of the Conchords. See, I knew even in 2003 that he was going places! *g*