B5: Season 3, first four episodes
Mar. 22nd, 2009 11:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieARGH, NETFLIX DISC SLEEVES ARE SO SPOILERIFIC! *attempts mindwipe*
- Hello, Marcus! JMS, I see what you did there with having him lose a brother in battle just like Ivanova. I can't imagine where this might be going! (Actually, I can, thanks to a thousand teenaged fangirls who spoke of nothing else throughout the internets when this was airing. I'm going to try not to hold it against what I know is coming up.)
- Have Delenn and Gabrielle been exchanging staff fighting tips? It's nice to see she has her own counterpart to Lennier's Minbari kung-fu. (And wow, they were so LOTRy in those cloaks. Man. I half-expected them to wander into Rivendell at some point...)
- I know she's God and all, but I don't think even Ivanova could learn an entirely foreign weapons system that quickly.
- On a shallow note: her new freckles are adorable. Claudia Christian apparently got some sun over the hiatus.
- Okay, so you have a shiny new ship that appears to be made of laws of physics-defying material (no way does anything realistic turn that quickly without breaking itself apart). Where are you planning to park it, Sheridan? Presumably EarthGov would figure things out quickly if you left it at B5...
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- G'Kar and Londo stuck together in the turbolift = black comedy GOLD. "Not many fishies...just Londo and meee..." And the insult match at the end was great. So sad, but so funny.
- Londo taking to Lennier in the coma was also nice. Londo, you make it so hard to hate you!
*
- Soooooo, Franklin just shot up with stims in the bathroom, right? He's gonna lose his license before this show is over, isn't he?
- People do the jitterbug in 2260?
- Ah, Garibaldi, you should've asked Ivanova to dance!
- Londo to Vir, re: breaking the Narn's spirits: "Nothing personal." Hrm. I believe we've heard that before. The Centauri are equivalent to soulless bureaucracy?
- That probe looks awfully much like an orange Vorlon ship. HMMMM. I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD MEAN.
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- Uh-oh. Brad Dourif is never good news. He's been typecast as the creepy baddie for too long to play anything else.
- Oh, after that theology lesson, someone's gonna die, and it's probably gonna be Brother Edward.
- ...Who is OBVIOUSLY a victim of a mindwipe gone bad. DUN DUN DUN.
- Um, aside from being able to predict every plot twist up to and including the use of the Centauri telepath and Lyta's counteraction, it was still a good episode? I like Brad Dourif. And I'm glad they came back to that horrific practice of mindwiping and showed that not everyone accepted it. I knew there had to be some holdouts who thought it was worse than the death penalty. And I guess every episode can't be focused entirely on the Shadow war. (Unless forgiveness will play a large part later? I suppose we shall see...)
- What the hell was Lyta doing at the end and why did she have gills? Is Lyta becoming a Vorlon? Was she hosting Kosh inside her body for a while, and then he streamed back into his encounter suit? JMS, you tease!
- Hello, Marcus! JMS, I see what you did there with having him lose a brother in battle just like Ivanova. I can't imagine where this might be going! (Actually, I can, thanks to a thousand teenaged fangirls who spoke of nothing else throughout the internets when this was airing. I'm going to try not to hold it against what I know is coming up.)
- Have Delenn and Gabrielle been exchanging staff fighting tips? It's nice to see she has her own counterpart to Lennier's Minbari kung-fu. (And wow, they were so LOTRy in those cloaks. Man. I half-expected them to wander into Rivendell at some point...)
- I know she's God and all, but I don't think even Ivanova could learn an entirely foreign weapons system that quickly.
- On a shallow note: her new freckles are adorable. Claudia Christian apparently got some sun over the hiatus.
- Okay, so you have a shiny new ship that appears to be made of laws of physics-defying material (no way does anything realistic turn that quickly without breaking itself apart). Where are you planning to park it, Sheridan? Presumably EarthGov would figure things out quickly if you left it at B5...
*
- G'Kar and Londo stuck together in the turbolift = black comedy GOLD. "Not many fishies...just Londo and meee..." And the insult match at the end was great. So sad, but so funny.
- Londo taking to Lennier in the coma was also nice. Londo, you make it so hard to hate you!
*
- Soooooo, Franklin just shot up with stims in the bathroom, right? He's gonna lose his license before this show is over, isn't he?
- People do the jitterbug in 2260?
- Ah, Garibaldi, you should've asked Ivanova to dance!
- Londo to Vir, re: breaking the Narn's spirits: "Nothing personal." Hrm. I believe we've heard that before. The Centauri are equivalent to soulless bureaucracy?
- That probe looks awfully much like an orange Vorlon ship. HMMMM. I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD MEAN.
*
- Uh-oh. Brad Dourif is never good news. He's been typecast as the creepy baddie for too long to play anything else.
- Oh, after that theology lesson, someone's gonna die, and it's probably gonna be Brother Edward.
- ...Who is OBVIOUSLY a victim of a mindwipe gone bad. DUN DUN DUN.
- Um, aside from being able to predict every plot twist up to and including the use of the Centauri telepath and Lyta's counteraction, it was still a good episode? I like Brad Dourif. And I'm glad they came back to that horrific practice of mindwiping and showed that not everyone accepted it. I knew there had to be some holdouts who thought it was worse than the death penalty. And I guess every episode can't be focused entirely on the Shadow war. (Unless forgiveness will play a large part later? I suppose we shall see...)
- What the hell was Lyta doing at the end and why did she have gills? Is Lyta becoming a Vorlon? Was she hosting Kosh inside her body for a while, and then he streamed back into his encounter suit? JMS, you tease!