[B5] Nine episodes, this week
Dec. 7th, 2005 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldOn Monday, the Babylon 5 viewing group caught, from season 3, the episodes "War Without End, Part One", "War Without End, Part Two", "Walkabout", "Grey 17 Is Missing", and finally, "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place". Tuesday, we concluded season 3 with "Shadow Dancing" and "Z'ha'dum", and started off season 4 with "The Hour of the Wolf" and Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?". By this point, Babylon 5 is as addictive as crack.
Spoilers follow, big massive ones, but you know that by now, right?
Sheridan and Sinclair are perfect together; Sinclair becoming Valen is great. I do wonder how he and Zathras managed to hide the station's origins. Franklin, we viewers all agree by now, is a thoroughly unsympathetic character, lecherous and egotistical; Garibaldi, though, in "Grey 17 is Missing," is great. And how can I not say that the fate of Lord Refa, torn apart by a mob of angry Narn after Londo's machinations in Centauri politics, was not entirely fitting? The coordination of his death--that one final word as the House Mollari guards left, "No," was precious--with the gospel tune was great.
It was nice to see the coalition take on the Shadows in "Shadow Dancing." "Z'ha'dum," now, was pure brilliant soap opera, Whedonesque--or rather, proto-Whedonesque--in its combination of intense heartrending passion and trauma with spectacular plot sequences. Poor, poor, Anna. As for the beginning of Season 4, the terrifyingly mad Emperor Cartagia is fantastic, though I wonder that a character who seems to have been a puppet managed to so quickly acquire his own very threatening base of power. No matter; Wortham Krimmer is fantastic. Oh, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
finfin is quite right to note that black insanity is an integral part of Shadow technology, as evidenced by Mr. Morden's reaction to his post-Z'ha'dum chemotherapy.
Spoilers follow, big massive ones, but you know that by now, right?
Sheridan and Sinclair are perfect together; Sinclair becoming Valen is great. I do wonder how he and Zathras managed to hide the station's origins. Franklin, we viewers all agree by now, is a thoroughly unsympathetic character, lecherous and egotistical; Garibaldi, though, in "Grey 17 is Missing," is great. And how can I not say that the fate of Lord Refa, torn apart by a mob of angry Narn after Londo's machinations in Centauri politics, was not entirely fitting? The coordination of his death--that one final word as the House Mollari guards left, "No," was precious--with the gospel tune was great.
It was nice to see the coalition take on the Shadows in "Shadow Dancing." "Z'ha'dum," now, was pure brilliant soap opera, Whedonesque--or rather, proto-Whedonesque--in its combination of intense heartrending passion and trauma with spectacular plot sequences. Poor, poor, Anna. As for the beginning of Season 4, the terrifyingly mad Emperor Cartagia is fantastic, though I wonder that a character who seems to have been a puppet managed to so quickly acquire his own very threatening base of power. No matter; Wortham Krimmer is fantastic. Oh, and
finfin is quite right to note that black insanity is an integral part of Shadow technology, as evidenced by Mr. Morden's reaction to his post-Z'ha'dum chemotherapy.
