B5: Season 4, Episodes 9-12
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- Hee, Lennier is sneaky.
- Susan is green leader again!
- Ooooh, G'Kar's new eye is blue. Looks good. And he can see with it when it's turned on, even if it's not in his head. I wonder how this will be used in a future episode?
- Heh. That must've been some kind of Drazi Mardi Gras, Susan. (Tell me someone ficced it!)
- Delenn and Sheridan haven't spent any time alone since Anna Sheridan showed up? Wow.
- *snerk* Sheridan is totally pouting there in the background because Delenn's going to be gone.
- Should they be leaving the station without a Chief Medical Officer for more than a month? This strikes me as unwise. Although I suppose no one else could go--although maybe Lennier might've? Eh, whatever.
- Ignoring the creepy watching-Sheridan-sleep moment there...
- Oh, Lennier. So loyal. So devoted. So much the puppy dog. Is it wrong that I ship Delenn/Lennier so much more than Delenn/Sheridan? Because I totally do.
- Wow. The Minbari are a lot more xenophobic than I realized.
- Oof. Bad greenscreening there.
- Heh, Dukat. I know, I know, but I have to laugh anyway. Any ideas on what sort of accent he's supposed to have?
- Aw, Delenn gave that same advice about looking up to avoid runninng into things to Lennier!
- Oh, wow. So Delenn started the war--sort of. Wow. And now she's trying to atone by turning human and marrying John?
- Yep.
- So the Minbari are a bit like the Vulcans--their incredible passion and capacity for rage is controlled by religion rather than logic, but the same principle applies.
- So...do they keep this dry iced chamber ready all the time or something?
- Haha! So in that ceremony with the red fruit, Sinclair may have mistakenly married his great-great-great-whatever-granddaughter! HA!
- Ohhhh. Thousands of Minbari have human DNA. Wow. And here they are all concerned about racial purity. Whoops. (I assume there's meant to be a parallel here between the Minbari's quest for racial purity and Clark/Earth's quest for ideological purity? And of course neither can achieve these unachievable things, or even really manage to define them in the case of the ideological one? I might possibly like the S3 ep introducing the ideological purity thing more now.)
- Delenn is now...some kind of prize? I know she was already going to marry him, she's doing it of her own free will, they don't necessarily have the women = chattel associations we have, etc. etc., but I'm still a little icked out.
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Of COURSE Marcus would sing selections from Gilbert & Sullivan! And of course it would be "Modern Major General"! (Shouldn't it be "Modern Minbari Ranger"?) He and G'Kar should get together and a do a revue or something.
- I'm glad to see some non-gallows humor coming back. It wouldn't have fit in the last ten or twelve episodes, but I'm happy it's back. I missed it.
Racing Mars
- Sheridan and Ivanova are so cute at the beginning. With the sarcastic waving! Ha!
- And then Marcus and Franklin out-funny them with "I spy." "Even more boxes." Hee!
- Hmmm. You know, fandom struck out mightily on ficcing in the blank of Susan teaching Delenn the finer points of human hygiene, but surely someone, somewhere has written "Susan takes Franklin's place on the mission to Mars, and she and Marcus spend the trip bantering and snarking and snipingand making out." Haven't they?
- Heh, Sheridan called on Garibaldi's loyalty to Ivanova. *fans tiny shipper flame*
- Other than that, that scene was painful. Oh, Michael. I hope everyone finds out about your alternate personality very soon and you can come back to your job.
- "Lyta had a little Vorlon." Ha!
- BWAHAHAHA! I hope someone out there slashes Marcus and Franklin, because that person just had her dreams come true. Hee!
- And of course Marcus has a field day with their newlywed status. He's totally Castle with better fighting skills and less money.
- "Since it never rains on Babylon 5, that should encourage you to spend more time here!" Susan Ivanova = Worst Diplomat Ever. But Also the Funniest.
- Ivanova is now the Godfather. Um, it kind of suits her?
- HEE! And they explained away Garibaldi's sudden hair loss!
- "I'm a Ranger." / "You have the wrong accent." Uhhhh, did JMS once write for Walker, Texas Ranger, I wonder?
- "[Garibaldi's] like a complete stranger." GEE, I WONDER WHY. Oh, someone deactivate him soon!
- So...Delenn would like to have sex now.
- That thing on poor Captain Jack's neck wasn't another Drakh, was it? It looked more reptilian than they do. Is it a one-off creature of evil? [Also, Captain Jack. Heh.]
- Ha! They have a female pope! Wow, JMS is an idealist.
- Delenn, I'm pretty sure you can't compare wearing a ring to ten Minbari eavesdropping on your first time together. Just saying.
- Single funniest moment in the entire series to date: "'Woo-hoo'?" *dies laughing*
- Oh, Michael. :(
Lines of Communication
- I like how in this episode, and all of the others on this disc, there's such concentration on showing how life went on on the various planets during the war, and trouble brewed, as it is wont to do. It's like the narrative equivalent of land mines left in places like Bosnia for decades after the ceasfire.
- The leader of the Mars resistance scratched her neck in the opening scene, and I spent the whole rest of the episode wondering if she had one of those things Captain Jack did. They should watch that kind of thing better! Ack!
- So...basically they need some kind of interstellar UN. Like...an Interstellar Alliance, perhaps? With Sheridan as president? *cough*
- Delenn: "I will not be a 1950s housewife." Heh.
- See, I like the brief focus on the propaganda ISN is putting out. I would've been happier to just have this kind of focus on it rather than the entire episode they spent on the last disc.
- Poor, sleepy Susan. In her nightgown. Wondering if she's chopped flarn.
- Heh, she'd rather have a face people fear. Of course she would.
- Aw, she gets stuck with newscaster duties again? That would suck. She obviously hated being interviewed in that first episode they did back in S2 with the news crew. I feel really bad for her.
- ACK, IT'S THE DRAKH! They were allies of the Shadows! In a couple years, they're going to give a nice big plague to Earth! RUN AWAY! (This is why you don't watch the spin-offs before you watch the original series, children.)
- Is every attractive human female guest star going to end up in bed with Franklin for a one-night stand? I guess that's a good thing for him...
- Hmmm. If things are becoming "as they were in the days before Valen," is Delenn, Valen's heir, going to become the new Valen?
- Ohhhh, Minbari, you have screwed up BIG TIME.
- "Touch that button and pray very very fast." Heh. Lennier gets almost as many one-liners as Susan. (I...no, actually, I don't ship it. It's kind of tempting, though.)
- Shouldn't Delenn have recognized in "Atonement" that she acted in error in striking out for vengeance last time? Or is this some kind of tragic cycle thing?
- Meep. Delenn is scary when she's angry.
- ...Perhaps you might consider ditching this caste system you've got going on?
- Time apart is good? You just said you never spend any time together!
- Humans: the best people skills in the galaxy. Can I be an honorary Minbari or something?
- Sheridan has to be dangerous to rebuild? Uh, how, exactly...?
- Poor, poor Marcus.
Conflicts of Interest
- Hmmm. Garibaldi seems really happy with his new job. Please, please don't tell me that he won't be coming back as station security once he regains his true personality. Please? I want him back.
- Ohhhh, poor Susan. I think you probably need more sleep.
- Dude, that cartoon. So meta. Bugs is drawing and erasing Daffy and through control of his world is controlling him, and someone is pulling Garibaldi's strings just as much.
- Zathras!
- "Just covering all possibilities. Zathras does not want you being confoozed." *pat pat* ICON.
- Oh, my. Multiple Zathri.
- "Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Great responsibility. But Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management!" Also ICON.
- "But Zathras have no one to talk to. So Zathras talks to dirt....Sometimes dirt has insects in it. Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet." *giggle* Oh, can we have emo!Zathras every week?
- Contact being Lise in 3...2...1...
- The Rangers are the new UN Peacekeepers. Or, since they "only go where they're invited," they're like Sebacean Peacekeepers who actually uphold their motto.
- And now they're setting up the All Telepaths All the Time I've heard of in S5, aren't they?
- Hmmm. How evil is Edgars going to turn out to be, I wonder? I'm pretty sure he can't be good...
- Hee, Lennier is sneaky.
- Susan is green leader again!
- Ooooh, G'Kar's new eye is blue. Looks good. And he can see with it when it's turned on, even if it's not in his head. I wonder how this will be used in a future episode?
- Heh. That must've been some kind of Drazi Mardi Gras, Susan. (Tell me someone ficced it!)
- Delenn and Sheridan haven't spent any time alone since Anna Sheridan showed up? Wow.
- *snerk* Sheridan is totally pouting there in the background because Delenn's going to be gone.
- Should they be leaving the station without a Chief Medical Officer for more than a month? This strikes me as unwise. Although I suppose no one else could go--although maybe Lennier might've? Eh, whatever.
- Ignoring the creepy watching-Sheridan-sleep moment there...
- Oh, Lennier. So loyal. So devoted. So much the puppy dog. Is it wrong that I ship Delenn/Lennier so much more than Delenn/Sheridan? Because I totally do.
- Wow. The Minbari are a lot more xenophobic than I realized.
- Oof. Bad greenscreening there.
- Heh, Dukat. I know, I know, but I have to laugh anyway. Any ideas on what sort of accent he's supposed to have?
- Aw, Delenn gave that same advice about looking up to avoid runninng into things to Lennier!
- Oh, wow. So Delenn started the war--sort of. Wow. And now she's trying to atone by turning human and marrying John?
- Yep.
- So the Minbari are a bit like the Vulcans--their incredible passion and capacity for rage is controlled by religion rather than logic, but the same principle applies.
- So...do they keep this dry iced chamber ready all the time or something?
- Haha! So in that ceremony with the red fruit, Sinclair may have mistakenly married his great-great-great-whatever-granddaughter! HA!
- Ohhhh. Thousands of Minbari have human DNA. Wow. And here they are all concerned about racial purity. Whoops. (I assume there's meant to be a parallel here between the Minbari's quest for racial purity and Clark/Earth's quest for ideological purity? And of course neither can achieve these unachievable things, or even really manage to define them in the case of the ideological one? I might possibly like the S3 ep introducing the ideological purity thing more now.)
- Delenn is now...some kind of prize? I know she was already going to marry him, she's doing it of her own free will, they don't necessarily have the women = chattel associations we have, etc. etc., but I'm still a little icked out.
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Of COURSE Marcus would sing selections from Gilbert & Sullivan! And of course it would be "Modern Major General"! (Shouldn't it be "Modern Minbari Ranger"?) He and G'Kar should get together and a do a revue or something.
- I'm glad to see some non-gallows humor coming back. It wouldn't have fit in the last ten or twelve episodes, but I'm happy it's back. I missed it.
Racing Mars
- Sheridan and Ivanova are so cute at the beginning. With the sarcastic waving! Ha!
- And then Marcus and Franklin out-funny them with "I spy." "Even more boxes." Hee!
- Hmmm. You know, fandom struck out mightily on ficcing in the blank of Susan teaching Delenn the finer points of human hygiene, but surely someone, somewhere has written "Susan takes Franklin's place on the mission to Mars, and she and Marcus spend the trip bantering and snarking and sniping
- Heh, Sheridan called on Garibaldi's loyalty to Ivanova. *fans tiny shipper flame*
- Other than that, that scene was painful. Oh, Michael. I hope everyone finds out about your alternate personality very soon and you can come back to your job.
- "Lyta had a little Vorlon." Ha!
- BWAHAHAHA! I hope someone out there slashes Marcus and Franklin, because that person just had her dreams come true. Hee!
- And of course Marcus has a field day with their newlywed status. He's totally Castle with better fighting skills and less money.
- "Since it never rains on Babylon 5, that should encourage you to spend more time here!" Susan Ivanova = Worst Diplomat Ever. But Also the Funniest.
- Ivanova is now the Godfather. Um, it kind of suits her?
- HEE! And they explained away Garibaldi's sudden hair loss!
- "I'm a Ranger." / "You have the wrong accent." Uhhhh, did JMS once write for Walker, Texas Ranger, I wonder?
- "[Garibaldi's] like a complete stranger." GEE, I WONDER WHY. Oh, someone deactivate him soon!
- So...Delenn would like to have sex now.
- That thing on poor Captain Jack's neck wasn't another Drakh, was it? It looked more reptilian than they do. Is it a one-off creature of evil? [Also, Captain Jack. Heh.]
- Ha! They have a female pope! Wow, JMS is an idealist.
- Delenn, I'm pretty sure you can't compare wearing a ring to ten Minbari eavesdropping on your first time together. Just saying.
- Single funniest moment in the entire series to date: "'Woo-hoo'?" *dies laughing*
- Oh, Michael. :(
Lines of Communication
- I like how in this episode, and all of the others on this disc, there's such concentration on showing how life went on on the various planets during the war, and trouble brewed, as it is wont to do. It's like the narrative equivalent of land mines left in places like Bosnia for decades after the ceasfire.
- The leader of the Mars resistance scratched her neck in the opening scene, and I spent the whole rest of the episode wondering if she had one of those things Captain Jack did. They should watch that kind of thing better! Ack!
- So...basically they need some kind of interstellar UN. Like...an Interstellar Alliance, perhaps? With Sheridan as president? *cough*
- Delenn: "I will not be a 1950s housewife." Heh.
- See, I like the brief focus on the propaganda ISN is putting out. I would've been happier to just have this kind of focus on it rather than the entire episode they spent on the last disc.
- Poor, sleepy Susan. In her nightgown. Wondering if she's chopped flarn.
- Heh, she'd rather have a face people fear. Of course she would.
- Aw, she gets stuck with newscaster duties again? That would suck. She obviously hated being interviewed in that first episode they did back in S2 with the news crew. I feel really bad for her.
- ACK, IT'S THE DRAKH! They were allies of the Shadows! In a couple years, they're going to give a nice big plague to Earth! RUN AWAY! (This is why you don't watch the spin-offs before you watch the original series, children.)
- Is every attractive human female guest star going to end up in bed with Franklin for a one-night stand? I guess that's a good thing for him...
- Hmmm. If things are becoming "as they were in the days before Valen," is Delenn, Valen's heir, going to become the new Valen?
- Ohhhh, Minbari, you have screwed up BIG TIME.
- "Touch that button and pray very very fast." Heh. Lennier gets almost as many one-liners as Susan. (I...no, actually, I don't ship it. It's kind of tempting, though.)
- Shouldn't Delenn have recognized in "Atonement" that she acted in error in striking out for vengeance last time? Or is this some kind of tragic cycle thing?
- Meep. Delenn is scary when she's angry.
- ...Perhaps you might consider ditching this caste system you've got going on?
- Time apart is good? You just said you never spend any time together!
- Humans: the best people skills in the galaxy. Can I be an honorary Minbari or something?
- Sheridan has to be dangerous to rebuild? Uh, how, exactly...?
- Poor, poor Marcus.
Conflicts of Interest
- Hmmm. Garibaldi seems really happy with his new job. Please, please don't tell me that he won't be coming back as station security once he regains his true personality. Please? I want him back.
- Ohhhh, poor Susan. I think you probably need more sleep.
- Dude, that cartoon. So meta. Bugs is drawing and erasing Daffy and through control of his world is controlling him, and someone is pulling Garibaldi's strings just as much.
- Zathras!
- "Just covering all possibilities. Zathras does not want you being confoozed." *pat pat* ICON.
- Oh, my. Multiple Zathri.
- "Everyone always coming to Zathras with problems. Great responsibility. But Zathras does not mind. Zathras trained in crisis management!" Also ICON.
- "But Zathras have no one to talk to. So Zathras talks to dirt....Sometimes dirt has insects in it. Zathras likes insects. Not so good for conversation, but much protein for diet." *giggle* Oh, can we have emo!Zathras every week?
- Contact being Lise in 3...2...1...
- The Rangers are the new UN Peacekeepers. Or, since they "only go where they're invited," they're like Sebacean Peacekeepers who actually uphold their motto.
- And now they're setting up the All Telepaths All the Time I've heard of in S5, aren't they?
- Hmmm. How evil is Edgars going to turn out to be, I wonder? I'm pretty sure he can't be good...
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Date: 2009-05-06 06:24 am (UTC)How much do you bet they don't talk about the Minbari war in their marriage? EVER?
Also, you were spoiled for the great-granddaughter thing for a very short time! I totally had this icon on my computer, and it is so necessary for this post. :)
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