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icepixieTwo more episodes of B5 today. Thoughts:
So apparently a telepathic mindscan requires jazz hands and interpretive dance? And a description of telepath sex requires some kind of ambiguous Eastern European accent? (Oh dear lord, that scene with Talia and Sinclair. Between those two actors and the awful, awful greenscreen effects, it was a screaming vortex of suck.)*
I'm starting to really enjoy G'Kar. He was cool in "Mind War," but he had already won me over at the beginning of "Parliament of Dreams." Gilbert and Sullivan apparently have counterparts on Narn: "So many fishies left in the sea, so many fishies--but no one for meeeee." And then he tells his dinner to stay put. (The Narn are really Klingons in disguise, aren't they? Seriously.) Na'Toth strikes me as an excellent addition as well. She and Ivanova should get together and just snark on people for a few hours.
I remembered Bester as being supremely creepy from my first attempt at this show, and he did not disappoint this time. Eeeek. Who would've ever thought Pavel "nuclear wessels" Chekov could grow up to be an evil and terrifying telepath?
* Watching this show after watching an episode of BSG really, really doesn't do B5 any favors. I know it was made in the mid 90s and that the best episodes are yet to come, but man. The things they could've done in 2009.
So apparently a telepathic mindscan requires jazz hands and interpretive dance? And a description of telepath sex requires some kind of ambiguous Eastern European accent? (Oh dear lord, that scene with Talia and Sinclair. Between those two actors and the awful, awful greenscreen effects, it was a screaming vortex of suck.)*
I'm starting to really enjoy G'Kar. He was cool in "Mind War," but he had already won me over at the beginning of "Parliament of Dreams." Gilbert and Sullivan apparently have counterparts on Narn: "So many fishies left in the sea, so many fishies--but no one for meeeee." And then he tells his dinner to stay put. (The Narn are really Klingons in disguise, aren't they? Seriously.) Na'Toth strikes me as an excellent addition as well. She and Ivanova should get together and just snark on people for a few hours.
I remembered Bester as being supremely creepy from my first attempt at this show, and he did not disappoint this time. Eeeek. Who would've ever thought Pavel "nuclear wessels" Chekov could grow up to be an evil and terrifying telepath?
* Watching this show after watching an episode of BSG really, really doesn't do B5 any favors. I know it was made in the mid 90s and that the best episodes are yet to come, but man. The things they could've done in 2009.
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Date: 2009-03-01 02:50 pm (UTC)That's why I'm afraid to dig out the B5 DVD's. I used to watch B5 at least once a year because I was so in love with the storytelling. Even though season one is not the most brilliant season, it's necessary to understand the rest. And I do so love the rest.
Or I did until I found BSG. Just thinking about what B5 could have been like now is making my brain explode. Guess we'll just never know. *sigh*
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Date: 2009-03-01 03:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-01 05:12 pm (UTC)