[B5] Season 4's End
Feb. 8th, 2006 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWe watched only three episodes last night, "Endgame" and "Rising Star" from the end of Season 4, and in place of the relatively inessential Season 4 finale "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" the series finale "Sleeping in Light". "Sleeping in Light" was shot during the fourth-season production run, at a time when it wasn't clear whether the show would be renewed for a fifth season. Fortunately, Babylon 5 was picked up by TNT, and "Sleeping in Light" was displaced a season.
"Endgame" demonstrates fairly conclusively that the government of the Earth Alliance under Clark and with the Psi Corps was completely out of control, what with the "Scorched Earth" plan to turn the planetary defenses on Earth and kill everyone being common knowledge. I was surprised that the transition from Clark seemed to go so smoothly, but then I was reminded by Russian Consortium President Luchenko's speech telling people to turn to the courts that, in fact, post-Clark Earth looks something like 1945 France in the middle of the épurations. And sadly, we just know that there are going to be some defenders of the Clark Administration who'll be arguing in a generation's time that "Scorched Earth" and the assassination of President Santiago were faked by alien sympathizers. Cf. USENET.
The Interstellar Alliance is promising. Oh, and I think that Marcus' self-sacrifice has broken Ivanova. She hasn't had a very happy personal life, has she?
"Endgame" demonstrates fairly conclusively that the government of the Earth Alliance under Clark and with the Psi Corps was completely out of control, what with the "Scorched Earth" plan to turn the planetary defenses on Earth and kill everyone being common knowledge. I was surprised that the transition from Clark seemed to go so smoothly, but then I was reminded by Russian Consortium President Luchenko's speech telling people to turn to the courts that, in fact, post-Clark Earth looks something like 1945 France in the middle of the épurations. And sadly, we just know that there are going to be some defenders of the Clark Administration who'll be arguing in a generation's time that "Scorched Earth" and the assassination of President Santiago were faked by alien sympathizers. Cf. USENET.
The Interstellar Alliance is promising. Oh, and I think that Marcus' self-sacrifice has broken Ivanova. She hasn't had a very happy personal life, has she?
