B5: "All Alone in the Night"
Mar. 17th, 2009 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieLook! I branched out and now have a B5 icon without Ivanova in it! It only took, um, six of them.
Is it just me, or is there a serious lack of screencaps for this show? I figured there would be at least one site in addition to this one, which is good, but has caps that are obviously from the pre-DVD era. Hulu, sadly, makes it very difficult to properly cap.
*
Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha. Little gray aliens with big heads and eyes experimenting on people? Named "the Striebe"? (After Whitley Strieber, I presume?) Oh, my. Okay, so after that I was ready to write off the entire Sheridan plot of this episode, and THEN THEY REVEALED HE WAS A SPY.
At least he's a spy for good? Goodish? I have to admit, I'm rather fuzzy on the conspiracy plotline. So far, I've pieced this timeline together:
Sheridan's dream is obviously significant, and Kosh is acting sketchy, but I don't know why.
I adored the Delenn/Lennier interaction. Lennier is wonderful. I've heard rumors of some kind of Arthurian love triangle between Sheridan, Delenn, and Lennier in S5 which sounded terrible, but I think I could live with it now. (Yes, I am shipping contrarily on this show. I don't know why.) I like Delenn's new S2 wardrobe too.
I don't think I mentioned it before, but Franklin is over here being quietly awesome. I very much liked the doctor in "A Race Through Dark Places" and "GROPOS."
Is it just me, or is there a serious lack of screencaps for this show? I figured there would be at least one site in addition to this one, which is good, but has caps that are obviously from the pre-DVD era. Hulu, sadly, makes it very difficult to properly cap.
*
Bwaaaaaaahahahahaha. Little gray aliens with big heads and eyes experimenting on people? Named "the Striebe"? (After Whitley Strieber, I presume?) Oh, my. Okay, so after that I was ready to write off the entire Sheridan plot of this episode, and THEN THEY REVEALED HE WAS A SPY.
At least he's a spy for good? Goodish? I have to admit, I'm rather fuzzy on the conspiracy plotline. So far, I've pieced this timeline together:
- PsiCorps sekritly grows in power and brings VP Clark, among others in the government, under their sway.
- Clark & Co. sekritly assassinate Santiago and make it look like an accident. Bye-bye
liberalalien-friendly policy, helloconservativepro-human policy. - Is the Mars rebellion connected with this? Or is it just general revolutionary fervor that was going to boil over anyway? (And in fifty years, will English professors have a new body of postcolonial literature to study? Sorry, grad school in-joke.)
- Someone with military sway gets Sheridan appointed to B5 and has him spy on the other members of the command crew to see if they'd be willing to help overthrow the people currently running, or half-running, the government.
- A military coup for the side of all that is good and holy is in the planning stages.
- Meanwhile, Shadows gather, the Minbari bang war drums (as do the Earthers, but in totally the wrong direction), the Narn and the Centauri try to kill each other, and Vorlons are secretive.
- Next season, everything goes to hell in a handbasket.
Sheridan's dream is obviously significant, and Kosh is acting sketchy, but I don't know why.
I adored the Delenn/Lennier interaction. Lennier is wonderful. I've heard rumors of some kind of Arthurian love triangle between Sheridan, Delenn, and Lennier in S5 which sounded terrible, but I think I could live with it now. (Yes, I am shipping contrarily on this show. I don't know why.) I like Delenn's new S2 wardrobe too.
I don't think I mentioned it before, but Franklin is over here being quietly awesome. I very much liked the doctor in "A Race Through Dark Places" and "GROPOS."
