B5: Season 3, Episodes 9-12
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icepixieAfter this set of episodes, "Dem Bones" ("Foot bone's connected to the leg bone...") is ruined for me. *shudders*
Point of No Return
- I buy the ongoing rebellions much more than I did the Nightwatch stuff. No way are people, or the Senate, for that matter, standing for this crap.
- So Ta'Lon has pretty much replaced Na'Toth at this point, hasn't he? Good on the one hand, because the new actress was not nearly as good, but bad in that we never see any female Narn now (and relatively few female Centauri at that).
- "The humans are the key"? Really, G'Kar? I kind of figured we were just upstarts.
- Poor Sheridan. He totally looked like Big Brother while he was reading the executive order over the shot of the riot.
- I have obviously been reading too many Victorian novels lately, because when Zack coughed momentarily while walking down the hallway, all I could think was, "Consumption! He's gonna die!"
- Bwahahaha! Narn security! Awesome!
- Majel Barrett Roddenberry's prophecy is going to come true in the worst way possible, isn't it? Oh, Vir. You don't want to be emperor, do you? The rest was entirely cryptic, of course. Although I have a spoilery idea about the eye...
- Yaaaay, they're letting G'Kar in on the sekrit meetings! He must feel so vindicated. (Anyone know what he said at the end of his conversation with Sheridan about that? Sounded like "to ill," but I couldn't make it out.)
- That scene between Vir and Londo at the end was hilarious. So suspicious!
- Oh, dear. Now The B5-ers have a war on two fronts--Shadows and Earth. This won't be good. That's one of the more depressing endings to an episode I've seen in a while...
Severed Dreams
- I've been waiting for this episode, because I was spoiled--at my request--for the separation with Earth. WHICH WAS AWESOME ON A LOT OF LEVELS. I was totally thinking Draal was going to have to shoot some missiles, and then the Minbari warships arrived, and with Delenn captaining the White Star and being really incredibly awesome OMG. "If you value your lives, be somewhere else." Heh heh.
- More and more the Minbari, or at least the Gray Council, are turning into the elves. "The problems ofthe younger races others are not our concern." And does the Council just stand around all the time in those spotlights, or do they do other stuff?
- Did Delenn call her predecessor "Dukat"? Now there's an image.
- Huh. I guess Martian cities would present incredibly easy targets...
- YAY, THE COLONIES BROKE AWAY!
- Meep, troops marching on ISN.
- When they showed all the ships in hyperspace, I have to admit that my eyes popped out and I muttered something about that being rather a lot to fight against.
- Hmmm. Majel in the last episode said that people call greatness pride when the great person is middle aged; notice what the Council called Delenn. Interesting.
- I was wondering at the time what happened to the EarthForce members who didn't want to break off, but I see it's mostly answered in the next episodes--they get passage off the station. Good for them.
- Now that B5 has declared independence, I'm curious how their government is going to work. Sheridan was military governer, and obviously he's still in command, but are the civilians going to agitate for representation or anything, or just assume things are still like they were in regards to government on the station? Not that they've had time to think about that yet, of course--and possibly there aren't enough human civilians living on the station to justify any action--but in the future?
- Some kind of deranged synthesizer showed up in the music during the battle. The score is always either boring or very questionable. Sigh.
- Haha, someone took a fire extinguisher to the burning console! I don't think we ever saw that on Star Trek, did we? Good thinking, young officer!
- Ivanova, perhaps you should look where you're flying? Just a suggestion. Although the Churchill ramming the other ship was kind of hard to look away from.
- Aha, a big round of applause for saving our butts!
Ceremonies of Light and Dark
- You know, I was thinking at the beginning of this episode about how the olive branch over the B5 logo in C&C didn't really apply anymore, and lo and behold, at the end, they'd changed it to the familiar sword! And done up fancy new tables, too. (Where did they get the materials for that?)
- "The other half of our soul"--I think this is the first I've heard of that outside of the context of Delenn and Sheridan. Is it? Maybe my memory is faulty. I'm suddenly envisioning mass interspecies marriage, though. *g*
- So you want Liebensraum, Refa?
- TWELVE FRONTS?!
- "And because I have poisoned your drink." Londo is offically Machiavelli. (I also think he's bluffing, but that's neither here nor there.)
- "Peekaboo." Tee hee. Um, shouldn't the Terrific Three have locked the door when they're busy changing passwords and such? Your security procedures are getting lax.
- Something else I'm curious about: Do Delenn and Sheridan know they're destined to get married? Obviously Lennier does--although I suppose he could've just been commenting to Marcus on what he'd been seeing between the two, and not know about any kind of prophecy--but I can't remember the Delenn ever speaking of it. I kind of think this is what keeps me from buying wholeheartedly into their relationship, in that it smacks of predestination and lack of free will. I felt the same way about Aragorn and Arwen (well, what little we see of them together, particularly in the books)--it has to happen, they're both okay with it, the end. Eh.
(...Actually, come to think of it, there is a prophency that they'll get together, right? I know I remember hearing this, but I'd be willing to believe it comes from later in the series, and hasn't been spoken of publically in the show yet.)
- The AI from hell was some much-needed levity in this episode. I kind of wish they could keep it. :D
- Heh. Delenn and Lennier are like Jehovah's Witnesses--they wander around talking to people, but no one wants to come to their ceremony, read their literature, or talk to them.
- Have we seen Boggs before? Also, this was the part where they ruined the bone song for me. Ack.
- Oh, Marcus. There was too little Marcus in the two episodes before. I had to ask if he could deliver on his promise to flatten everyone in the room in ten minutes, and...apparently he could. And then he's irritated that he now has to wait for someone to wake up. Ha! Also, "They said I carried around a lot of repressed anger. I am not repressed anymore." HEE!
- And Lennier just got frakkin' scary there. *backs away slowly*
- Of course Lennier loves her, and of course he thinks it's pure and chaste now. Just wait. He's Lancelot waiting to happen, that one.
So now that they're all independent and stuff, the Shadows are going to show up in the next episodes and beat their asses, aren't they? (Don't tell me!)
- "You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with a kind word alone." *snerk*
- You know, Sheridan bluffs someone in pretty much every episode. The man must be an excellent poker player.
- "I think I loved Talia." Oh, Susan.
- I like the sentiment, but I have to say that I'm not a fan of the new uniforms. The old ones were ill-fitting, but these are just too moddish. (The patches on the arms are better, though--more colorful.) I'm also imagining several entertaining ways Delenn managed to get their measurements...
- So the Minbari ships are just hanging around, then? I guess they're the one race in the galaxy not at war with someone at the moment, and thus have nothing better to do...
Sic Transit Vir
- I thought this was going to be a comedy. It was a comedy. And then it got REALLY DEPRESSING at the end. *sigh*
- Poor Susan and her dreams.
- Wow, they sped through spring in the last couple episodes--I think they said it was April 9th in "Severed Dreams," and now it's mid-July.
- I actually thought the Narn joke was pretty funny. And then Vir opens the door to a room full of Narn.
- Sheridan's coffee is...green? Algae coffee? (Sorry.)
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Londo has a space roach in his quarters! And he SPEARS IT WITH A DECORATIVE SWORD. And then swears it's evolving before his eyes, and he must kill them all before they develop language. Londo, I know how you feel. Your killing-the-roach dance is not unlike my own when faced with those things. And, for the record, mine are at least that big when they show up, which has thankfully only been three times since I moved in.
- Delenn totally knows what Sheridan means when he says he wants to see her that night. She's playing dumb like Fraser does. (Awesome crossover 'ship of the day!)
- Vir's finacee is reminding me of a character in a Shakespearean comedy. Or perhaps a particularly eloquent pod person. She's creepy, either way. (And then she got REALLY CREEPY at the end, OMG.)
- "Abraham O'Lincolni"?
- Oh, Sheridan's poor kitchen. Delenn, you might wish to have Lennier teach him to make flarn. (I chuckled at her ruse with the salt and pepper. Heh.)
- "We have six." THINGS I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW, ITEM NUMBER 5,429. And, um, I know he was referring to bases, but I can't help but remember (because the image is burned into my mind, thank you so much, show) that the fertility statue had six...appendages...and wonder if there's a connection.
- Another fault with the uniforms: the old ones had a zipper instead of endless snaps on the jacket. These things matter!And I'm not thinking about putting it on, either...
- Susan, you should look into a class on better timing...
- Vir, you are so sweet. You are the Oskar Schindler to the depravity of theNazis Centauri.
- Do we ever find out what happened to the Narn Vir's finacee had tied up in her quarters?
- "Offical Babylon 5 Sneak-in-Residence." Heh. You know, I'm pretty sure this is one of the episodes I saw when I was first watching this show. I felt a definite flicker of remembrance there.
Point of No Return
- I buy the ongoing rebellions much more than I did the Nightwatch stuff. No way are people, or the Senate, for that matter, standing for this crap.
- So Ta'Lon has pretty much replaced Na'Toth at this point, hasn't he? Good on the one hand, because the new actress was not nearly as good, but bad in that we never see any female Narn now (and relatively few female Centauri at that).
- "The humans are the key"? Really, G'Kar? I kind of figured we were just upstarts.
- Poor Sheridan. He totally looked like Big Brother while he was reading the executive order over the shot of the riot.
- I have obviously been reading too many Victorian novels lately, because when Zack coughed momentarily while walking down the hallway, all I could think was, "Consumption! He's gonna die!"
- Bwahahaha! Narn security! Awesome!
- Majel Barrett Roddenberry's prophecy is going to come true in the worst way possible, isn't it? Oh, Vir. You don't want to be emperor, do you? The rest was entirely cryptic, of course. Although I have a spoilery idea about the eye...
- Yaaaay, they're letting G'Kar in on the sekrit meetings! He must feel so vindicated. (Anyone know what he said at the end of his conversation with Sheridan about that? Sounded like "to ill," but I couldn't make it out.)
- That scene between Vir and Londo at the end was hilarious. So suspicious!
- Oh, dear. Now The B5-ers have a war on two fronts--Shadows and Earth. This won't be good. That's one of the more depressing endings to an episode I've seen in a while...
Severed Dreams
- I've been waiting for this episode, because I was spoiled--at my request--for the separation with Earth. WHICH WAS AWESOME ON A LOT OF LEVELS. I was totally thinking Draal was going to have to shoot some missiles, and then the Minbari warships arrived, and with Delenn captaining the White Star and being really incredibly awesome OMG. "If you value your lives, be somewhere else." Heh heh.
- More and more the Minbari, or at least the Gray Council, are turning into the elves. "The problems of
- Did Delenn call her predecessor "Dukat"? Now there's an image.
- Huh. I guess Martian cities would present incredibly easy targets...
- YAY, THE COLONIES BROKE AWAY!
- Meep, troops marching on ISN.
- When they showed all the ships in hyperspace, I have to admit that my eyes popped out and I muttered something about that being rather a lot to fight against.
- Hmmm. Majel in the last episode said that people call greatness pride when the great person is middle aged; notice what the Council called Delenn. Interesting.
- I was wondering at the time what happened to the EarthForce members who didn't want to break off, but I see it's mostly answered in the next episodes--they get passage off the station. Good for them.
- Now that B5 has declared independence, I'm curious how their government is going to work. Sheridan was military governer, and obviously he's still in command, but are the civilians going to agitate for representation or anything, or just assume things are still like they were in regards to government on the station? Not that they've had time to think about that yet, of course--and possibly there aren't enough human civilians living on the station to justify any action--but in the future?
- Some kind of deranged synthesizer showed up in the music during the battle. The score is always either boring or very questionable. Sigh.
- Haha, someone took a fire extinguisher to the burning console! I don't think we ever saw that on Star Trek, did we? Good thinking, young officer!
- Ivanova, perhaps you should look where you're flying? Just a suggestion. Although the Churchill ramming the other ship was kind of hard to look away from.
- Aha, a big round of applause for saving our butts!
Ceremonies of Light and Dark
- You know, I was thinking at the beginning of this episode about how the olive branch over the B5 logo in C&C didn't really apply anymore, and lo and behold, at the end, they'd changed it to the familiar sword! And done up fancy new tables, too. (Where did they get the materials for that?)
- "The other half of our soul"--I think this is the first I've heard of that outside of the context of Delenn and Sheridan. Is it? Maybe my memory is faulty. I'm suddenly envisioning mass interspecies marriage, though. *g*
- So you want Liebensraum, Refa?
- TWELVE FRONTS?!
- "And because I have poisoned your drink." Londo is offically Machiavelli. (I also think he's bluffing, but that's neither here nor there.)
- "Peekaboo." Tee hee. Um, shouldn't the Terrific Three have locked the door when they're busy changing passwords and such? Your security procedures are getting lax.
- Something else I'm curious about: Do Delenn and Sheridan know they're destined to get married? Obviously Lennier does--although I suppose he could've just been commenting to Marcus on what he'd been seeing between the two, and not know about any kind of prophecy--but I can't remember the Delenn ever speaking of it. I kind of think this is what keeps me from buying wholeheartedly into their relationship, in that it smacks of predestination and lack of free will. I felt the same way about Aragorn and Arwen (well, what little we see of them together, particularly in the books)--it has to happen, they're both okay with it, the end. Eh.
(...Actually, come to think of it, there is a prophency that they'll get together, right? I know I remember hearing this, but I'd be willing to believe it comes from later in the series, and hasn't been spoken of publically in the show yet.)
- The AI from hell was some much-needed levity in this episode. I kind of wish they could keep it. :D
- Heh. Delenn and Lennier are like Jehovah's Witnesses--they wander around talking to people, but no one wants to come to their ceremony, read their literature, or talk to them.
- Have we seen Boggs before? Also, this was the part where they ruined the bone song for me. Ack.
- Oh, Marcus. There was too little Marcus in the two episodes before. I had to ask if he could deliver on his promise to flatten everyone in the room in ten minutes, and...apparently he could. And then he's irritated that he now has to wait for someone to wake up. Ha! Also, "They said I carried around a lot of repressed anger. I am not repressed anymore." HEE!
- And Lennier just got frakkin' scary there. *backs away slowly*
- Of course Lennier loves her, and of course he thinks it's pure and chaste now. Just wait. He's Lancelot waiting to happen, that one.
So now that they're all independent and stuff, the Shadows are going to show up in the next episodes and beat their asses, aren't they? (Don't tell me!)
- "You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than with a kind word alone." *snerk*
- You know, Sheridan bluffs someone in pretty much every episode. The man must be an excellent poker player.
- "I think I loved Talia." Oh, Susan.
- I like the sentiment, but I have to say that I'm not a fan of the new uniforms. The old ones were ill-fitting, but these are just too moddish. (The patches on the arms are better, though--more colorful.) I'm also imagining several entertaining ways Delenn managed to get their measurements...
- So the Minbari ships are just hanging around, then? I guess they're the one race in the galaxy not at war with someone at the moment, and thus have nothing better to do...
Sic Transit Vir
- I thought this was going to be a comedy. It was a comedy. And then it got REALLY DEPRESSING at the end. *sigh*
- Poor Susan and her dreams.
- Wow, they sped through spring in the last couple episodes--I think they said it was April 9th in "Severed Dreams," and now it's mid-July.
- I actually thought the Narn joke was pretty funny. And then Vir opens the door to a room full of Narn.
- Sheridan's coffee is...green? Algae coffee? (Sorry.)
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Londo has a space roach in his quarters! And he SPEARS IT WITH A DECORATIVE SWORD. And then swears it's evolving before his eyes, and he must kill them all before they develop language. Londo, I know how you feel. Your killing-the-roach dance is not unlike my own when faced with those things. And, for the record, mine are at least that big when they show up, which has thankfully only been three times since I moved in.
- Delenn totally knows what Sheridan means when he says he wants to see her that night. She's playing dumb like Fraser does. (Awesome crossover 'ship of the day!)
- Vir's finacee is reminding me of a character in a Shakespearean comedy. Or perhaps a particularly eloquent pod person. She's creepy, either way. (And then she got REALLY CREEPY at the end, OMG.)
- "Abraham O'Lincolni"?
- Oh, Sheridan's poor kitchen. Delenn, you might wish to have Lennier teach him to make flarn. (I chuckled at her ruse with the salt and pepper. Heh.)
- "We have six." THINGS I DID NOT NEED TO KNOW, ITEM NUMBER 5,429. And, um, I know he was referring to bases, but I can't help but remember (because the image is burned into my mind, thank you so much, show) that the fertility statue had six...appendages...and wonder if there's a connection.
- Another fault with the uniforms: the old ones had a zipper instead of endless snaps on the jacket. These things matter!
- Susan, you should look into a class on better timing...
- Vir, you are so sweet. You are the Oskar Schindler to the depravity of the
- Do we ever find out what happened to the Narn Vir's finacee had tied up in her quarters?
- "Offical Babylon 5 Sneak-in-Residence." Heh. You know, I'm pretty sure this is one of the episodes I saw when I was first watching this show. I felt a definite flicker of remembrance there.
