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icepixieWalkabout
Hmmm. I think I was confusing this episode with another one, because I was pretty "meh" about it. I fangirl Franklin, but his string of doomed romances get a little old. I do wonder if his plot is supposed to have some kind of similarity with the revelation that part of Kosh may have survived in Sheridan. Perhaps both stories imply affirmation of and extrapolation from Cartesian dualism, Franklin's through the "walkabout" metaphor of meeting oneself and Kosh's because, well, part of his mind literally exists separately from his body, or at least Lyta thinks it does.
Possibly this gives JMS too much credit. Anyway, the only really worthwhile parts of this episode are the introduction of a new, meaner Kosh and the telepathy-enhanced victory against the Shadows. Speaking of which: Lyta! Man, Lyta gets such a raw deal on this show. "Hey, we aren't even going to bother telling you your buddy died, much less be in any way nice to you, but we need you to go on this suicide mission for us, 'kay?" Much as I loathe the Byron arc, I can totally see why she joins up with his coterie.
I'm rather horrified that bad easy listening apparently persists into the 2260s.
The beginning of the episode, where Susan totally susses out that Michael's hiding something from her in about two sentences, warms my little shipper heart. Awww.
Grey 17 is Missing
On the one hand, it's hard to imagine any episode with Neroon being called "bad." And yet this episode is demonstratively not good, minus, well, the scenes with Neroon in them. (STEAM GUN. SHOOTING BULLETS. WHUT.)
Neroon is such a great non-villainous villain. His criticisms of Delenn are, you know, kind of spot-on. Man, the Rangers' loyalty to her has to be a thorn in his side.
Massive backward- and forward-looking irony in Delenn and Sheridan's conversation on the bench. The war broke her father's heart, you say? Gee, can't imagine why. And she never loved her father more than when she realized he was going to die long before she did? Hmmm. Can't imagine when that might be relevant.
I still don't buy that not even one Minbari hasn't killed another in 1,000 years, and yet they still have a fight-to-the-death ritual. Perhaps we can fanwank it with the idea that people who die in this ritual aren't considered to have been "killed," since we all know how fond these people are of twisting words around until they mean something entirely different from what they started out meaning, but...
Hmmm. I think I was confusing this episode with another one, because I was pretty "meh" about it. I fangirl Franklin, but his string of doomed romances get a little old. I do wonder if his plot is supposed to have some kind of similarity with the revelation that part of Kosh may have survived in Sheridan. Perhaps both stories imply affirmation of and extrapolation from Cartesian dualism, Franklin's through the "walkabout" metaphor of meeting oneself and Kosh's because, well, part of his mind literally exists separately from his body, or at least Lyta thinks it does.
Possibly this gives JMS too much credit. Anyway, the only really worthwhile parts of this episode are the introduction of a new, meaner Kosh and the telepathy-enhanced victory against the Shadows. Speaking of which: Lyta! Man, Lyta gets such a raw deal on this show. "Hey, we aren't even going to bother telling you your buddy died, much less be in any way nice to you, but we need you to go on this suicide mission for us, 'kay?" Much as I loathe the Byron arc, I can totally see why she joins up with his coterie.
I'm rather horrified that bad easy listening apparently persists into the 2260s.
The beginning of the episode, where Susan totally susses out that Michael's hiding something from her in about two sentences, warms my little shipper heart. Awww.
Grey 17 is Missing
On the one hand, it's hard to imagine any episode with Neroon being called "bad." And yet this episode is demonstratively not good, minus, well, the scenes with Neroon in them. (STEAM GUN. SHOOTING BULLETS. WHUT.)
Neroon is such a great non-villainous villain. His criticisms of Delenn are, you know, kind of spot-on. Man, the Rangers' loyalty to her has to be a thorn in his side.
Massive backward- and forward-looking irony in Delenn and Sheridan's conversation on the bench. The war broke her father's heart, you say? Gee, can't imagine why. And she never loved her father more than when she realized he was going to die long before she did? Hmmm. Can't imagine when that might be relevant.
I still don't buy that not even one Minbari hasn't killed another in 1,000 years, and yet they still have a fight-to-the-death ritual. Perhaps we can fanwank it with the idea that people who die in this ritual aren't considered to have been "killed," since we all know how fond these people are of twisting words around until they mean something entirely different from what they started out meaning, but...
