Garibaldi's little rant ("I get the third degree and, 'Are you OK Chief?' every time I sneeze") is one of my favorite parts of this episode.
Here's the whole thing about Garibaldi: He's absolutely right about the things he says, in this episode and later ones. I just watched Racing Mars yesterday (so I'm not that far ahead of you), and when he confronts Sheridan about the Cult of Personality and "You even came back from the dead. Can you GET more messianic than that?" - he's RIGHT, which is sort of the bitch of it. In "Apotheosis" - he's right about Lorien and he's right about the captain - Sheridan just came back from the homeworld of the Shadows, and nobody's concerned that he might not be completely himself? WTF? Did Dr. Franklin check the back of HIS neck for epidermal scarring? (OK, maybe he did, 'cause he did run some relatively undefined "tests" on Sheridan - but I kind of doubt it.)
I think from a writing position, JMS did a pretty good job of setting that up; he had to have someone presenting the other side to Sheridan's behavior in Season 4, and if it wasn't someone in the "inner circle", someone viewers already like and trust, it wouldn't make us think. We'd just dismiss it as - "That person sucks. And is wrong. Loser. I hope somebody kills you and makes you eat your own eyeballs." (or something.) But because it's Garibaldi and we're all not *quite* sure what's going on with him at this point, it's a believable counterpoint.
I will say, I buy that Ivanova would do the Voice of the Resistance and trust Lorien just on Sheridan's say-so. Even before he went to Z'ha'dum, she seldom questioned his orders. But I don't think that's Ivanova's fault. I think it's a military thing, something about doing what your CO tells you to do or asks you to do, even if he is your friend.
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Date: 2010-09-03 12:31 pm (UTC)Here's the whole thing about Garibaldi: He's absolutely right about the things he says, in this episode and later ones. I just watched Racing Mars yesterday (so I'm not that far ahead of you), and when he confronts Sheridan about the Cult of Personality and "You even came back from the dead. Can you GET more messianic than that?" - he's RIGHT, which is sort of the bitch of it. In "Apotheosis" - he's right about Lorien and he's right about the captain - Sheridan just came back from the homeworld of the Shadows, and nobody's concerned that he might not be completely himself? WTF? Did Dr. Franklin check the back of HIS neck for epidermal scarring? (OK, maybe he did, 'cause he did run some relatively undefined "tests" on Sheridan - but I kind of doubt it.)
I think from a writing position, JMS did a pretty good job of setting that up; he had to have someone presenting the other side to Sheridan's behavior in Season 4, and if it wasn't someone in the "inner circle", someone viewers already like and trust, it wouldn't make us think. We'd just dismiss it as - "That person sucks. And is wrong. Loser. I hope somebody kills you and makes you eat your own eyeballs." (or something.) But because it's Garibaldi and we're all not *quite* sure what's going on with him at this point, it's a believable counterpoint.
I will say, I buy that Ivanova would do the Voice of the Resistance and trust Lorien just on Sheridan's say-so. Even before he went to Z'ha'dum, she seldom questioned his orders. But I don't think that's Ivanova's fault. I think it's a military thing, something about doing what your CO tells you to do or asks you to do, even if he is your friend.