B5: Season 4, Episodes 21-22
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icepixieNow I'm done with season four. Woe, I only have one season left!
Rising Star
- Ah, so Sheridan surrenders himself to the new and better government. I had wondered how that would play out.
- Oh, Susan. Oh, Marcus. :(
- Hmmm. They never actually said Marcus was dead, did they? Bwahahaha! Excellent trick! I assume he's now peacefully sleeping in crygenic stasis, waiting for the ficcers to revive him and pair him up with Susan, yes? (Speaking of which, now that I've got the full story, any Ivanova/Marcus recs?)
- "After a fashion." Oh, dear.
- Annnnd Ivanova's pissed at Marcus for doing that. I had a feeling she would be.
- "And I thought, 'Is this God?'" *snerk*
- Oh, Susan. I know you aren't the huggy type, but I want to give you one so bad right now.
- She knew he loved her? Dude. What went on behind the scenes during the last two years? If I were her, I would've been thinking he was under the influence of a crush, not love, at least until the previous episode.
- And she wanted him? WHERE WAS THIS? Are there webisodes or comics or something that fill in the pieces here? (Also, anyone know what the plan was before Claudia Christian left? Were Ivanova and Marcus a package deal, and he wouldn't have died if she were going to stay for S5?)
- "Did you just say 'boffed'?" Heh.
- "All love is unrequited." Oh, Susan. That's depressing even for you. :(
- Item number five hundred and NINE I didn't need to know about the sex lives of the Centauri...
- Ack, Emperor Londo! Horrible things will happen if you take that position! (Uh...right? I've forgotten exactly how much the future has changed, or if it's changed at all. And also what Londo knows about the future. I need another flow chart.)
- Eeek, Bester!
- I reeeally dislike Sheridan's beard. If only it weren't going to stay around for another year.
- DUN DUN DUN! Telepath war coming sooooon!
- That...actually seems like a very reasonable compromise. I'd take it if I were you, Sheridan.
- Heh. And the bomb is obviously Garibaldi's work...
- Oh, Lennier. "All love is unrequited," indeed.You and Vir should totally get together instead of you pining after Delenn.
- Huh. Haven't seen Sheridan in an EarthForce uniform in a while.
- Whoops! Glitch there--the president apparently can be in two places at once. :D
- A question I should've asked long ago: Are the Centauri, Narn, Humans, and Minbari part of the (former) League of Non-Aligned Worlds? Since all those races have colonies, I would assume not, but I really haven't figured it out. Also, any idea what kind of power the Earth empire wields in relation to any of the other races? I was thinking they were somewhere above the Narn, but below the Centauri and Minbari, but I truly don't know anymore.
- Ah, so that's what all those White Stars will do.
- Here's hoping this Interstellar Alliance will have more luck than the UN.
- Ooooh, gravity!
- Aw, Mars gets freedom!
- Gotta admit, I'm not feeling Lise/Michael. Didn't her husband die pretty recently?
- Speaking of Garibaldi and death...I'm contemplating, in a very vague way, an S5-AU where he and Lise are somehow not affiliated with each other--they decide it's not meant to be, she's killed in the attack, whatever--Susan sticks around B5, and there is an angsty rebound Ivanova/Garibaldi relationship. Except I think I would be really bad at writing that much/that kind of angst. Sigh.
- *sniff* SUSAAAAN! I'll miss you!
- "You cannot make history. You can only survive it." Heh.
- *snerk* at G'Kar's fondness for uncooked rice.
- Ewww! G'Kar! (I knew that eye's mobility was going to show up somehow!)
- Um. Way to give away the entire next season, Delenn...
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
- ...and then JMS takes it a MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE. Uh. So I guess technically we didn't get spoiled for the next episode?
- My first thought upon seeing the title boiled down to, "AAAHHH! Derrida! RUN AWAY!!!" I have been around litcrit for too long. Although, to give me credit, that's exactly what JMS did, so my association was correct. I'm betting he didn't want people to run in fear, though.
- I was very bored with the first, oh, half or two thirds, but the last two flashforwards were much better. (Actually, bored may not entirely capture it. There was an element of that--I'd much rather be watching something set in the time and with the characters I'd come to know--but sadness was also there. Until the end, it was like if BSG had gone the way I thought it might--"All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again" with no break in the cycle. Although arguably, they didn't break the cycle even at the end...but more on that later.)
- Heh, "just married" on the shuttle.
- "Perhaps it is everything you say." *snerk*
- Ack, paparazzi.
- 1,000 years? Oh, my.
- Wow, the reporter's coat is screwing with my screen, it's so...squiggly.
- Part of what I hated about the first flashforward is the so-called academics. I would buy their unprofessionalism a bit more if this were supposed to be some kind of popular infotainment-type thing, but they specifically said it was a university lecture. REAL ACADEMICS, IN A REAL ACADEMIC SETTING, DO NOT SOUND LIKE THAT. At least none I've met. Sometimes they sound like that on a news program. Not in class. GRRRRR. The woman in particular sounded like a freaking undergrad.
- Alas. Of course Earth can't stick with the Alliance. Damn rebels.
- When Garibaldi was able to be sneaky from beyond the grave, that was where it started getting good.
- And...Earth has been bombed back to the Renaissance?
- ...apparently so.
- Was the Alliance bombed back in time as well? Or are they just refusing to help bring everyone on Earth back up to speed?
- BWAH! "The blessed Sheridan, who lived and died and was taken bodily into heaven." HE'S JESUS! *has laughing fit*
- So...since the monks are questioning if Sheridan, et. al. from their version of a Bible actually lived, and we know they did, is JMS saying by implication that the events and people in the Bible actually happened and existed?
- Aha. I had a feeling the fat monk would be a Ranger. (Is his last name, Macomber, supposed to be a Hemingway reference?)
- ONE MILLION YEARS?!
- Huh. The world does end in fire, just like Kosh predicted.
- ...Speaking of Kosh, that's an encounter suit that new human ("numan"?) is heading into. O HAI, NEW VERSION OF THE VORLONS! See, the cycle continues. I'm depressed now. :(
- Eh. Obvious tag is obvious.
Rising Star
- Ah, so Sheridan surrenders himself to the new and better government. I had wondered how that would play out.
- Oh, Susan. Oh, Marcus. :(
- Hmmm. They never actually said Marcus was dead, did they? Bwahahaha! Excellent trick! I assume he's now peacefully sleeping in crygenic stasis, waiting for the ficcers to revive him and pair him up with Susan, yes? (Speaking of which, now that I've got the full story, any Ivanova/Marcus recs?)
- "After a fashion." Oh, dear.
- Annnnd Ivanova's pissed at Marcus for doing that. I had a feeling she would be.
- "And I thought, 'Is this God?'" *snerk*
- Oh, Susan. I know you aren't the huggy type, but I want to give you one so bad right now.
- She knew he loved her? Dude. What went on behind the scenes during the last two years? If I were her, I would've been thinking he was under the influence of a crush, not love, at least until the previous episode.
- And she wanted him? WHERE WAS THIS? Are there webisodes or comics or something that fill in the pieces here? (Also, anyone know what the plan was before Claudia Christian left? Were Ivanova and Marcus a package deal, and he wouldn't have died if she were going to stay for S5?)
- "Did you just say 'boffed'?" Heh.
- "All love is unrequited." Oh, Susan. That's depressing even for you. :(
- Item number five hundred and NINE I didn't need to know about the sex lives of the Centauri...
- Ack, Emperor Londo! Horrible things will happen if you take that position! (Uh...right? I've forgotten exactly how much the future has changed, or if it's changed at all. And also what Londo knows about the future. I need another flow chart.)
- Eeek, Bester!
- I reeeally dislike Sheridan's beard. If only it weren't going to stay around for another year.
- DUN DUN DUN! Telepath war coming sooooon!
- That...actually seems like a very reasonable compromise. I'd take it if I were you, Sheridan.
- Heh. And the bomb is obviously Garibaldi's work...
- Oh, Lennier. "All love is unrequited," indeed.
- Huh. Haven't seen Sheridan in an EarthForce uniform in a while.
- Whoops! Glitch there--the president apparently can be in two places at once. :D
- A question I should've asked long ago: Are the Centauri, Narn, Humans, and Minbari part of the (former) League of Non-Aligned Worlds? Since all those races have colonies, I would assume not, but I really haven't figured it out. Also, any idea what kind of power the Earth empire wields in relation to any of the other races? I was thinking they were somewhere above the Narn, but below the Centauri and Minbari, but I truly don't know anymore.
- Ah, so that's what all those White Stars will do.
- Here's hoping this Interstellar Alliance will have more luck than the UN.
- Ooooh, gravity!
- Aw, Mars gets freedom!
- Gotta admit, I'm not feeling Lise/Michael. Didn't her husband die pretty recently?
- Speaking of Garibaldi and death...I'm contemplating, in a very vague way, an S5-AU where he and Lise are somehow not affiliated with each other--they decide it's not meant to be, she's killed in the attack, whatever--Susan sticks around B5, and there is an angsty rebound Ivanova/Garibaldi relationship. Except I think I would be really bad at writing that much/that kind of angst. Sigh.
- *sniff* SUSAAAAN! I'll miss you!
- "You cannot make history. You can only survive it." Heh.
- *snerk* at G'Kar's fondness for uncooked rice.
- Ewww! G'Kar! (I knew that eye's mobility was going to show up somehow!)
- Um. Way to give away the entire next season, Delenn...
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
- ...and then JMS takes it a MILLION YEARS IN THE FUTURE. Uh. So I guess technically we didn't get spoiled for the next episode?
- My first thought upon seeing the title boiled down to, "AAAHHH! Derrida! RUN AWAY!!!" I have been around litcrit for too long. Although, to give me credit, that's exactly what JMS did, so my association was correct. I'm betting he didn't want people to run in fear, though.
- I was very bored with the first, oh, half or two thirds, but the last two flashforwards were much better. (Actually, bored may not entirely capture it. There was an element of that--I'd much rather be watching something set in the time and with the characters I'd come to know--but sadness was also there. Until the end, it was like if BSG had gone the way I thought it might--"All of this has happened before; all of this will happen again" with no break in the cycle. Although arguably, they didn't break the cycle even at the end...but more on that later.)
- Heh, "just married" on the shuttle.
- "Perhaps it is everything you say." *snerk*
- Ack, paparazzi.
- 1,000 years? Oh, my.
- Wow, the reporter's coat is screwing with my screen, it's so...squiggly.
- Part of what I hated about the first flashforward is the so-called academics. I would buy their unprofessionalism a bit more if this were supposed to be some kind of popular infotainment-type thing, but they specifically said it was a university lecture. REAL ACADEMICS, IN A REAL ACADEMIC SETTING, DO NOT SOUND LIKE THAT. At least none I've met. Sometimes they sound like that on a news program. Not in class. GRRRRR. The woman in particular sounded like a freaking undergrad.
- Alas. Of course Earth can't stick with the Alliance. Damn rebels.
- When Garibaldi was able to be sneaky from beyond the grave, that was where it started getting good.
- And...Earth has been bombed back to the Renaissance?
- ...apparently so.
- Was the Alliance bombed back in time as well? Or are they just refusing to help bring everyone on Earth back up to speed?
- BWAH! "The blessed Sheridan, who lived and died and was taken bodily into heaven." HE'S JESUS! *has laughing fit*
- So...since the monks are questioning if Sheridan, et. al. from their version of a Bible actually lived, and we know they did, is JMS saying by implication that the events and people in the Bible actually happened and existed?
- Aha. I had a feeling the fat monk would be a Ranger. (Is his last name, Macomber, supposed to be a Hemingway reference?)
- ONE MILLION YEARS?!
- Huh. The world does end in fire, just like Kosh predicted.
- ...Speaking of Kosh, that's an encounter suit that new human ("numan"?) is heading into. O HAI, NEW VERSION OF THE VORLONS! See, the cycle continues. I'm depressed now. :(
- Eh. Obvious tag is obvious.