B5: Season 5, Episodes 13-16
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icepixieOnce Byron and his crew went away, this show got MUCH, MUCH BETTER. That the Alliance is crashing down around everyone's ears is heartbreaking, but it makes for some pretty awesome storytelling nonetheless.
The Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father
- No, the Psi Corps building isn't creepy at all...
- I wonder if the telepaths not speaking telepathically among themselves was merely a courtesy to the actors or if there's a story-related reason for it.
- ...They really shouldn't have tried to visualize/FXize that training exercise.
- Gordon Gordon! Well, not really. But hee.
- OMG, when that blonde lady came into the room to tell them something was wrong, I totally thought it was Talia. She had the same hairstyle, and it was kind of dim in there. I'm still not her biggest fan, but I got a little excited there.
- Telepaths are a bunch of Stockholm syndromers, aren't they?
- AAAAAUUUUUGHHHHH LITTLE GIRL YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY CREEPY GAAAAAH. HE'S NOT FIFTY YEARS OLDER THAN YOU OR YOUR INSTRUCTOR OR ANYTHING. (Yeah, so, since I became a TA? MASSIVE, MASSIVE SQUICK at teacher/student sexual relationships. MASS. IVE.)
- *snort* Bester's expression. He's all OH, GODDAMN IT when he hears he has to go back to B5.
- Calculus FOUR-B?
- Aaaand the Psi Corps is the mafia. "We deal with it within the family."
- OMG, Psi Corps mothership hiding out in hyperspace. The Vorlons made them, and now they have become the Vorlons.
- "Annexing the Sudetenland?" Aw, Zack's been reading up on Earth history! He was so not into it back in season three.
- Hello, casino! It's been two years since we saw you!
- That kid's awfully gleeful about putting unstable telepaths away. I guess she's just the right kind of sociopath for the Psicops.
- And then she got creepy again with the backrub. EW, EW, EW.
- Well, that ending...wasn't terribly surprising, actually.
Meditations on the Abyss
- ...Delenn secretly goes clubbing because her marriage is boring? (Sorry.)
- Heh, Delenn's starting a barfight. Fabulous.
- Lennier!
- Oh, Lennier. You and your unrequited love. :(
- "McBari's. With the golden headbones." Okay, that was cheap but hilarious.
- Yay, Vir gets a promotion!
- Ow, my head hurts from the anvil that was dropped on it. So that promise will come back to bite the Alliance in the ass, yes?
- Aussie Minbari!
- Aw, I liked G'Kar with one blue eye. He was cool-looking.
- G'Kar's study session totally reminds me of Raphael's School of Athens, but with leather instead of togas.
- Both the lamp and river metaphors were awesome. G'Kar is wonderful.
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Yay, Vir! You show them!
- Oh, Findel. You and Marcus would've had a lot to talk about.
- Er...it's the Minbari Dead Poets' Society?
- I'm guessing that conspicuously empty place at the table is for Michael.
- Yep. Oh, Michael. *sigh*
Darkness Ascending
- That's a rather impressive gun dream!Garibaldi has...
- Uh...Lyta? That's...not creepy or anything...
- Bleh, Lise.
- DUN DUN DUN! People! For the love of God, get a damn DOOR for your covert conversations! This is like the fifth time someone has heard a conversation they shouldn't have for purposes of the plot!
- ...Did Lyta grow her hair out in memory of Byron?
- Lise finding the bottle in 3...2...1...
- So you're going to let whiskey control you instead?
- AWKWARD. I guess this is the problem inherent in marrying your co-leader...
- "My pleasure threshold? I don't have one." AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. Okay, I may have just found the one pairing on this show I don't ship. *shudder* That was...I...yeah. NOT SO MUCH.
- Damn, that waiter was pushy, wasn't he?
- So how did the Centauri on that warship not detect Lennier breaking into their hull and stealing their air? (So many things happened in this episode for the sake of plot!)
- Aw, Delenn. Heh, she knows her sci-fi tropes; "He's not dead until we see a body." Classic! (And hey, even then! Lennier could always join Marcus in the cryo facility...)
- Dude, G'Kar. That's pretty crafty.
- LENNIER! Yay, you're back!
And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
- Just from the similarity in title to "Severed Dreams," I had a feeling this one would be momentous. And very sad for everyone. (Well, you know, there was Garibaldi's statement about being at war with the Centauri in the last episode. Details, details...)
- Sheridan and Delenn never actually sleep, do they? We see them in bed a lot, and they're always getting woken up by something.
- I for one was very happy for all the recapping that went on in this episode, because I'd kind of lost track of who knew what and when.
- Oh DEAR. *watches dreams being torn asunder*
- Urk. Will G'Kar never see them again? That sounded an awful lot like a goodbye to Delenn.
- Ummm, as I recall, Michael, you did say something to Zack about Nightwatch...
- Zack is being a bit melodramatic there...
- Aw, now that the have NATO, they're going to get involved in a Cold War with the Centauri. :(
- "You can rely on me." Why do I get the impression he can't?
- One thing I really like about scenes on Centauri Prime is the lighting design. It's very different from the station lighting (since they're simulating natural light), and very pretty.
- ...Garibaldi, did you just start a war? *sigh*
- Alliance go boom. :(
- "They will never put their prime minister in prison!" ..."Shut up." *snerk*
- "So many candles will go out tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all." I think this quote has gotten some common cultural currency. I know I've heard it before divorced from its context (thinking it was awesome even without it). Wish I could remember where.
The Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father
- No, the Psi Corps building isn't creepy at all...
- I wonder if the telepaths not speaking telepathically among themselves was merely a courtesy to the actors or if there's a story-related reason for it.
- ...They really shouldn't have tried to visualize/FXize that training exercise.
- Gordon Gordon! Well, not really. But hee.
- OMG, when that blonde lady came into the room to tell them something was wrong, I totally thought it was Talia. She had the same hairstyle, and it was kind of dim in there. I'm still not her biggest fan, but I got a little excited there.
- Telepaths are a bunch of Stockholm syndromers, aren't they?
- AAAAAUUUUUGHHHHH LITTLE GIRL YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY CREEPY GAAAAAH. HE'S NOT FIFTY YEARS OLDER THAN YOU OR YOUR INSTRUCTOR OR ANYTHING. (Yeah, so, since I became a TA? MASSIVE, MASSIVE SQUICK at teacher/student sexual relationships. MASS. IVE.)
- *snort* Bester's expression. He's all OH, GODDAMN IT when he hears he has to go back to B5.
- Calculus FOUR-B?
- Aaaand the Psi Corps is the mafia. "We deal with it within the family."
- OMG, Psi Corps mothership hiding out in hyperspace. The Vorlons made them, and now they have become the Vorlons.
- "Annexing the Sudetenland?" Aw, Zack's been reading up on Earth history! He was so not into it back in season three.
- Hello, casino! It's been two years since we saw you!
- That kid's awfully gleeful about putting unstable telepaths away. I guess she's just the right kind of sociopath for the Psicops.
- And then she got creepy again with the backrub. EW, EW, EW.
- Well, that ending...wasn't terribly surprising, actually.
Meditations on the Abyss
- ...Delenn secretly goes clubbing because her marriage is boring? (Sorry.)
- Heh, Delenn's starting a barfight. Fabulous.
- Lennier!
- Oh, Lennier. You and your unrequited love. :(
- "McBari's. With the golden headbones." Okay, that was cheap but hilarious.
- Yay, Vir gets a promotion!
- Ow, my head hurts from the anvil that was dropped on it. So that promise will come back to bite the Alliance in the ass, yes?
- Aussie Minbari!
- Aw, I liked G'Kar with one blue eye. He was cool-looking.
- G'Kar's study session totally reminds me of Raphael's School of Athens, but with leather instead of togas.
- Both the lamp and river metaphors were awesome. G'Kar is wonderful.
- BWAHAHAHAHA! Yay, Vir! You show them!
- Oh, Findel. You and Marcus would've had a lot to talk about.
- Er...it's the Minbari Dead Poets' Society?
- I'm guessing that conspicuously empty place at the table is for Michael.
- Yep. Oh, Michael. *sigh*
Darkness Ascending
- That's a rather impressive gun dream!Garibaldi has...
- Uh...Lyta? That's...not creepy or anything...
- Bleh, Lise.
- DUN DUN DUN! People! For the love of God, get a damn DOOR for your covert conversations! This is like the fifth time someone has heard a conversation they shouldn't have for purposes of the plot!
- ...Did Lyta grow her hair out in memory of Byron?
- Lise finding the bottle in 3...2...1...
- So you're going to let whiskey control you instead?
- AWKWARD. I guess this is the problem inherent in marrying your co-leader...
- "My pleasure threshold? I don't have one." AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH. Okay, I may have just found the one pairing on this show I don't ship. *shudder* That was...I...yeah. NOT SO MUCH.
- Damn, that waiter was pushy, wasn't he?
- So how did the Centauri on that warship not detect Lennier breaking into their hull and stealing their air? (So many things happened in this episode for the sake of plot!)
- Aw, Delenn. Heh, she knows her sci-fi tropes; "He's not dead until we see a body." Classic! (And hey, even then! Lennier could always join Marcus in the cryo facility...)
- Dude, G'Kar. That's pretty crafty.
- LENNIER! Yay, you're back!
And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
- Just from the similarity in title to "Severed Dreams," I had a feeling this one would be momentous. And very sad for everyone. (Well, you know, there was Garibaldi's statement about being at war with the Centauri in the last episode. Details, details...)
- Sheridan and Delenn never actually sleep, do they? We see them in bed a lot, and they're always getting woken up by something.
- I for one was very happy for all the recapping that went on in this episode, because I'd kind of lost track of who knew what and when.
- Oh DEAR. *watches dreams being torn asunder*
- Urk. Will G'Kar never see them again? That sounded an awful lot like a goodbye to Delenn.
- Ummm, as I recall, Michael, you did say something to Zack about Nightwatch...
- Zack is being a bit melodramatic there...
- Aw, now that the have NATO, they're going to get involved in a Cold War with the Centauri. :(
- "You can rely on me." Why do I get the impression he can't?
- One thing I really like about scenes on Centauri Prime is the lighting design. It's very different from the station lighting (since they're simulating natural light), and very pretty.
- ...Garibaldi, did you just start a war? *sigh*
- Alliance go boom. :(
- "They will never put their prime minister in prison!" ..."Shut up." *snerk*
- "So many candles will go out tonight. I wonder some days if we can see anything at all." I think this quote has gotten some common cultural currency. I know I've heard it before divorced from its context (thinking it was awesome even without it). Wish I could remember where.