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In which Susan is an unorthodox, yet still terrifically effective, diplomat; Marcus and Franklin pretend to be married (and I ship them, because I ship everyone with everyone at some point); Sheridan actually makes Garibaldi's critique look fairly reasonable; and I *headdesk* into eternity at that stupid, stupid shan'fal thing.
One thing I'm really loving about this season is Sheridan and Ivanova's brother/sister relationship. They're just so cute, especially at the beginning of this one, where she relieves him of duty, tells him he's the one who taught her to negotiate like that, and then they exchange those little waves as she shoos him out of the office. They so obviously care about each other in a completely platonic, but still incredibly thorough, way; it's so sad that they apparently don't talk for twenty years after this season. :(
But back to the funny that is Ivanova setting up some black market connections. Bwahaha: "Oh, is the arm feeling better now?" / "Yeah, except when it rains it hurts where you--" / "Since it never rains on Babylon 5, that should encourage you to spend more time here!" And if they don't, she'll make sure they have accidents. Have I mentioned lately how much I love her? (Yeah, I know, do I ever stop talking about how much I love her?)
I also love Marcus and Franklin together, playing I Spy and threatening murder. Awww. And then they get married! You know, for fake. And Marcus has a field day with it, because of course he would.
I get why Sheridan would be pissed at what Michael says on the ISN broadcast. I'd be a mite teed off myself, and I'd definitely confront him, but the way Sheridan keeps coming back to it reminds me of his treatment of Morden during "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," and that's really never a good thing. He's making Garibaldi's Bester-induced paranoia look pretty damn reasonable. Time to either kick him off the station or leave him alone, friend. (I guess we're meant to assume Garibaldi has something of a point here, although S5 does make me wonder a bit.) (Also, I cannot help but note that Sheridan totally plays on Garibaldi's friendship with Ivanova during one of his "stop hurting the cause" speeches. *g*)
That said, Garibaldi's decision to pal around with Wade, who appears to be a cheap imitation of a rebel biker punk and needs only the motorcycle to complete the image, is not a good one.
Completely randomly, in that scene where Delenn and John are in the garden, is that the Brakiri ambassador with his girlfriend? Awesome. :)
Aaaaand finally, the Stupid Ritual of Stupid. Ack. Can we tie Lennier's actions in "Objects at Rest" directly to this episode? I think we can. His "'Woo-hoo'?" to Sheridan the next morning sounded pretty accusatory. "Do you think having sex with the woman I put on a pedestal is some kind of joke? You are not worthy!"
Lines of Communication
In which we have perhaps the crowning moment of awesome for season four, when Sheridan tries to make Delenn stay home, and she responds, "It pleases me that you care for what I have become. But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." And there is very much an, "I will cut you if you ever try anything like that again," buried in there under all the diplomatic language. And Sheridan's kind of like, "Uh...I think I just said something really stupid, so I'm going to nod and smile and hope my fiancee doesn't kill me."
(This was apparently the episode where Sheridan Is Confused By Women, 'cause you can tell he was just completely without a clue when Ivanova gave him her, "What am I, chopped flarn? You could at least acknowledge that I'm in my nightgown here even if we aren't interested in each other that way," speech. I think Sheridan's pretty much forgotten that Ivanova's a girl by this point, and is surprised to have said fact pointed out to him.)
So anyway, Delenn goes off and kills other people instead of her fiancee! I had forgotten we get the Drakh so early. I was thinking they were more of an S5 thing. (I think possibly I placed pretty much everything after the Shadow War into my mental "S5" category. Not sure why.) And...Delenn, didn't you just have occasion to ruminate on the perils of reacting in anger when you have a big ship with highly lethal weapons at your disposal?
She also totally turns into Dukhat The Scary Grad Adviser here with Lennier: "Be faster." "End this." "Break the laws of physics." *snerk*
And bad, bad things are happening on Minbar, 'cause Delenn kinda broke up their government and then didn't stick around to clean up the mess. Man, what Forell says about what the warriors did the religious is cold (sorry, sorry), perhaps even worse than an outright riot would be. Really, I wonder if at this point it wouldn't be better idea to get rid of the castes all together. They seem to cause more trouble than they're worth. And people can choose which one they want to belong to anyway, so...why bother, you know?
Finally, I headdesk a bit more at JMS's inner twelve-year-old, because this is the second episode in a row with a voyeuristic situation, and NO.
Conflicts of Interest
In which I yell, "GO AWAY FOREVER!!" a lot at Lise, but she never does. :( Lady, he even tells you he can forget you without drinking! TIME TO GO. AND NOT COME BACK. Also, that line, had I noticed it the first time, would pretty much cued an "Oh, shiiiiit" moment. *sigh* My least-favorite part of S5, let me show you it.
Anyway, the best part of this episode--aside from Susan and Zathras, which was hilarious--was the oh-so-meta Daffy Duck cartoon. Garibaldi is Daffy, and Bester is Bugs, pulling his strings and otherwise manipulating him. :(
Finally, I can't let the awful, awful science in this episode go by without acknowledgment: No, genes cannot turn into viruses. You cannot catch a genetic disease. They do not work that way. Plz to be doing some research.
In which Susan is an unorthodox, yet still terrifically effective, diplomat; Marcus and Franklin pretend to be married (and I ship them, because I ship everyone with everyone at some point); Sheridan actually makes Garibaldi's critique look fairly reasonable; and I *headdesk* into eternity at that stupid, stupid shan'fal thing.
One thing I'm really loving about this season is Sheridan and Ivanova's brother/sister relationship. They're just so cute, especially at the beginning of this one, where she relieves him of duty, tells him he's the one who taught her to negotiate like that, and then they exchange those little waves as she shoos him out of the office. They so obviously care about each other in a completely platonic, but still incredibly thorough, way; it's so sad that they apparently don't talk for twenty years after this season. :(
But back to the funny that is Ivanova setting up some black market connections. Bwahaha: "Oh, is the arm feeling better now?" / "Yeah, except when it rains it hurts where you--" / "Since it never rains on Babylon 5, that should encourage you to spend more time here!" And if they don't, she'll make sure they have accidents. Have I mentioned lately how much I love her? (Yeah, I know, do I ever stop talking about how much I love her?)
I also love Marcus and Franklin together, playing I Spy and threatening murder. Awww. And then they get married! You know, for fake. And Marcus has a field day with it, because of course he would.
I get why Sheridan would be pissed at what Michael says on the ISN broadcast. I'd be a mite teed off myself, and I'd definitely confront him, but the way Sheridan keeps coming back to it reminds me of his treatment of Morden during "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," and that's really never a good thing. He's making Garibaldi's Bester-induced paranoia look pretty damn reasonable. Time to either kick him off the station or leave him alone, friend. (I guess we're meant to assume Garibaldi has something of a point here, although S5 does make me wonder a bit.) (Also, I cannot help but note that Sheridan totally plays on Garibaldi's friendship with Ivanova during one of his "stop hurting the cause" speeches. *g*)
That said, Garibaldi's decision to pal around with Wade, who appears to be a cheap imitation of a rebel biker punk and needs only the motorcycle to complete the image, is not a good one.
Completely randomly, in that scene where Delenn and John are in the garden, is that the Brakiri ambassador with his girlfriend? Awesome. :)
Aaaaand finally, the Stupid Ritual of Stupid. Ack. Can we tie Lennier's actions in "Objects at Rest" directly to this episode? I think we can. His "'Woo-hoo'?" to Sheridan the next morning sounded pretty accusatory. "Do you think having sex with the woman I put on a pedestal is some kind of joke? You are not worthy!"
Lines of Communication
In which we have perhaps the crowning moment of awesome for season four, when Sheridan tries to make Delenn stay home, and she responds, "It pleases me that you care for what I have become. But never forget who I was, what I am, and what I can do." And there is very much an, "I will cut you if you ever try anything like that again," buried in there under all the diplomatic language. And Sheridan's kind of like, "Uh...I think I just said something really stupid, so I'm going to nod and smile and hope my fiancee doesn't kill me."
(This was apparently the episode where Sheridan Is Confused By Women, 'cause you can tell he was just completely without a clue when Ivanova gave him her, "What am I, chopped flarn? You could at least acknowledge that I'm in my nightgown here even if we aren't interested in each other that way," speech. I think Sheridan's pretty much forgotten that Ivanova's a girl by this point, and is surprised to have said fact pointed out to him.)
So anyway, Delenn goes off and kills other people instead of her fiancee! I had forgotten we get the Drakh so early. I was thinking they were more of an S5 thing. (I think possibly I placed pretty much everything after the Shadow War into my mental "S5" category. Not sure why.) And...Delenn, didn't you just have occasion to ruminate on the perils of reacting in anger when you have a big ship with highly lethal weapons at your disposal?
She also totally turns into Dukhat The Scary Grad Adviser here with Lennier: "Be faster." "End this." "Break the laws of physics." *snerk*
And bad, bad things are happening on Minbar, 'cause Delenn kinda broke up their government and then didn't stick around to clean up the mess. Man, what Forell says about what the warriors did the religious is cold (sorry, sorry), perhaps even worse than an outright riot would be. Really, I wonder if at this point it wouldn't be better idea to get rid of the castes all together. They seem to cause more trouble than they're worth. And people can choose which one they want to belong to anyway, so...why bother, you know?
Finally, I headdesk a bit more at JMS's inner twelve-year-old, because this is the second episode in a row with a voyeuristic situation, and NO.
Conflicts of Interest
In which I yell, "GO AWAY FOREVER!!" a lot at Lise, but she never does. :( Lady, he even tells you he can forget you without drinking! TIME TO GO. AND NOT COME BACK. Also, that line, had I noticed it the first time, would pretty much cued an "Oh, shiiiiit" moment. *sigh* My least-favorite part of S5, let me show you it.
Anyway, the best part of this episode--aside from Susan and Zathras, which was hilarious--was the oh-so-meta Daffy Duck cartoon. Garibaldi is Daffy, and Bester is Bugs, pulling his strings and otherwise manipulating him. :(
Finally, I can't let the awful, awful science in this episode go by without acknowledgment: No, genes cannot turn into viruses. You cannot catch a genetic disease. They do not work that way. Plz to be doing some research.