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icepixieThe Long Night
aka The Prep Work.
Also, it's kind of...the episode where the seconds get to shine? Ivanova forces Sheridan not to protect her, Lennier totally starts the ball rolling on the battle plan, and Vir, of course, gets to kill Cartagia. Guess who's least pleased with these events.
It's interesting that Londo thinks the only thing he has left is his honor. What, exactly, does honor mean to Londo?
Sheridan's sending of Erickson and the rest of the people on that White Star to certain death still makes me go O.O . It's pretty much the only way to do it, but man...that had to hurt.
That Part of "Ulysses" in 3...2...1... Very fitting, though. And I like the callback to Sinclair.
Into the Fire
You know, I think Shelley summed up my feelings on this episode. Everything after is just so much blather:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Delenn can talk about making their own magic all she wants, but I've seen season five. The Shadows and Vorlons were way cooler.
(Also: "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!" BRB, HEADDESKING FOREVER. I mean, I know pretty much anything was gonna be anti-climactic, so I agree, why not ride that and not even have a battle at all, but WAS THAT REALLY NECESSARY? Also, even if it didn't turn into a bloodbath, did you really need every one but Ivanova on one ship? This strikes me as foolish.)
So. Theories on what, exactly, is beyond the Rim? 'Cause the way Lorien and the Shadows and Vorlons were talking about it, it seemed kinda like it might be a metaphor for heaven (live forever! meet old friends! I your quasi-creator god will be thereand forgive your sins!), except I don't think it's intended to be so. Obviously there's a certain similarity to the elves passing into the west in LOTR, but here the "space between galaxies" is, you know, KNOWN, and...our best guess is that there ain't nothing there besides a few rogue stars.
...Ahaha, what if Lorien is lying to them and actually sending them all to certain death? That would be kind of hilarious.
Please, please tell me that at the beginning, when Lorien says they need to have all of the First Ones, I am not the only person who responds with, "Gotta catch 'em all!"
*
Probably there could be more on both of those, but I'm currently being distracted by my AU, which I have somehow hit 8,000 words on now. I don't even know. It's been kind of like taking dictation lately. (I still have at least 2,000 words to go, probably more like 3,000. Aaaaaahhhh.)
Also, the last bit I wrote is so ridiculously, disgustingly cute that I feel like I should probably cut it on principle, but it's just sitting there, staring at me with big doe eyes, and I haven't the heart. I think both Ivanova and Delenn might also hurt me if I try to take away this particular bit of happy they get.
aka The Prep Work.
Also, it's kind of...the episode where the seconds get to shine? Ivanova forces Sheridan not to protect her, Lennier totally starts the ball rolling on the battle plan, and Vir, of course, gets to kill Cartagia. Guess who's least pleased with these events.
It's interesting that Londo thinks the only thing he has left is his honor. What, exactly, does honor mean to Londo?
Sheridan's sending of Erickson and the rest of the people on that White Star to certain death still makes me go O.O . It's pretty much the only way to do it, but man...that had to hurt.
That Part of "Ulysses" in 3...2...1... Very fitting, though. And I like the callback to Sinclair.
Into the Fire
You know, I think Shelley summed up my feelings on this episode. Everything after is just so much blather:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Delenn can talk about making their own magic all she wants, but I've seen season five. The Shadows and Vorlons were way cooler.
(Also: "Now get the hell out of our galaxy!" BRB, HEADDESKING FOREVER. I mean, I know pretty much anything was gonna be anti-climactic, so I agree, why not ride that and not even have a battle at all, but WAS THAT REALLY NECESSARY? Also, even if it didn't turn into a bloodbath, did you really need every one but Ivanova on one ship? This strikes me as foolish.)
So. Theories on what, exactly, is beyond the Rim? 'Cause the way Lorien and the Shadows and Vorlons were talking about it, it seemed kinda like it might be a metaphor for heaven (live forever! meet old friends! I your quasi-creator god will be there
...Ahaha, what if Lorien is lying to them and actually sending them all to certain death? That would be kind of hilarious.
Please, please tell me that at the beginning, when Lorien says they need to have all of the First Ones, I am not the only person who responds with, "Gotta catch 'em all!"
*
Probably there could be more on both of those, but I'm currently being distracted by my AU, which I have somehow hit 8,000 words on now. I don't even know. It's been kind of like taking dictation lately. (I still have at least 2,000 words to go, probably more like 3,000. Aaaaaahhhh.)
Also, the last bit I wrote is so ridiculously, disgustingly cute that I feel like I should probably cut it on principle, but it's just sitting there, staring at me with big doe eyes, and I haven't the heart. I think both Ivanova and Delenn might also hurt me if I try to take away this particular bit of happy they get.
