Amusingly, Crusade was the first piece of the B5 universe I actually watched regularly. Yeah, I got into the whole damn series/universe backwards.
And no, the technomages never really get a reason for doing what they do, or at least I don't remember that they did. (Perhaps one was planned? I hear that the first season was supposed to end with Galen revealing that Clark's government had discovered their Shadow connections and wanted to create some kind of black ops unit out of them, and that was why Elric, et al, were heading for the Rim.) We do get to see the extent of Galen's cyborg modifications--let's just say there's a reason they all wear long sleeves and high necks--which are apparently excruciatingly painful to put in.
But yeah. Rule of Cool. Technomages are cool.
Indeed. And it's sort of amusing to see the fantasy novel that JMS obviously wanted to write poking through here.
Aww, Claudia Christian chasing a bird. <333
Have you listened to the commentary? It's hilarious. She, Jerry Doyle, and Bruce Boxleitner are all like, "It's been twelve years and we remember basically nothing, so we're just going to snark on the episode and tell you the funny stories we do remember." They all make a big deal about Sheridan's orange obsession, and one of them--I think BB--characterizes him as a big happy golden retriever puppy, which...seems accurate, really.
Tangentially, I am seriously impressed with your Franklin voice in that parenthetical aside. I could HEAR him. *thumbs*
Thanks! I adore hearing that from people.
I don't think we ever hear him say "y'all"--though of all of them, he does sound the most likely to do so. (Although now I have this image of G'Kar in my head going, "'Y'all'! What a wonderful word. Narnish has no second-person plural pronoun, so I must adopt this." And then the Humans start looking at each other all "WTF?")
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Date: 2010-06-24 03:10 am (UTC)And no, the technomages never really get a reason for doing what they do, or at least I don't remember that they did. (Perhaps one was planned? I hear that the first season was supposed to end with Galen revealing that Clark's government had discovered their Shadow connections and wanted to create some kind of black ops unit out of them, and that was why Elric, et al, were heading for the Rim.) We do get to see the extent of Galen's cyborg modifications--let's just say there's a reason they all wear long sleeves and high necks--which are apparently excruciatingly painful to put in.
But yeah. Rule of Cool. Technomages are cool.
Indeed. And it's sort of amusing to see the fantasy novel that JMS obviously wanted to write poking through here.
Aww, Claudia Christian chasing a bird. <333
Have you listened to the commentary? It's hilarious. She, Jerry Doyle, and Bruce Boxleitner are all like, "It's been twelve years and we remember basically nothing, so we're just going to snark on the episode and tell you the funny stories we do remember." They all make a big deal about Sheridan's orange obsession, and one of them--I think BB--characterizes him as a big happy golden retriever puppy, which...seems accurate, really.
Tangentially, I am seriously impressed with your Franklin voice in that parenthetical aside. I could HEAR him. *thumbs*
Thanks! I adore hearing that from people.
I don't think we ever hear him say "y'all"--though of all of them, he does sound the most likely to do so. (Although now I have this image of G'Kar in my head going, "'Y'all'! What a wonderful word. Narnish has no second-person plural pronoun, so I must adopt this." And then the Humans start looking at each other all "WTF?")