[B5] Tuesday's two episodes
Mar. 15th, 2006 10:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldWe only watched three episodes last night, "A View from the Gallery" and "Learning Curve". They were worth it. First, a note on the Earth Alliance.
In response to my despair at Earth's extremism,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eveglass made the salient point that, quite possibly, just a day after the fall of the Clark regime no one knew about the extent of its very bad decisionmaking. People on Earth would understandably be more concerned with their own direct experiences of oppression than with events in the wider galaxy. This is particularly true since the Earth Alliance was effectively controlling the free flow of information from the wider galaxy, even on the dissident world of Mars. People might not even have heard of the alliances with the Shadows and the massacres of colonists, never mind the profound risk from the Vorlons or the full extent of Psi Corps involvement. Clark's party may yet lose the election.
"A View from the Gallery" was written by the great Harlan Ellison, who provided an interesting take on Babylon 5's universe-sweeping drama by giving a ground-level view through the maintenance techs Mack and Bo. It reminds me of the third-season Buffy episode "The Zeppo", though differing in taking the perspective of two characters entirely off the map. It's fun.
"Learning Curve" wasn't quite so far, only reiterating that it is a very bad idea indeed to attack Minbari authority figures. Despite his worrying tendencies of late towards Machtpolitik, Garibaldi is quite right to note that the Minbari just don't back down from fights. Delenn's worrying fondness for terror as a means of communication frightens.
In response to my despair at Earth's extremism,
eveglass made the salient point that, quite possibly, just a day after the fall of the Clark regime no one knew about the extent of its very bad decisionmaking. People on Earth would understandably be more concerned with their own direct experiences of oppression than with events in the wider galaxy. This is particularly true since the Earth Alliance was effectively controlling the free flow of information from the wider galaxy, even on the dissident world of Mars. People might not even have heard of the alliances with the Shadows and the massacres of colonists, never mind the profound risk from the Vorlons or the full extent of Psi Corps involvement. Clark's party may yet lose the election."A View from the Gallery" was written by the great Harlan Ellison, who provided an interesting take on Babylon 5's universe-sweeping drama by giving a ground-level view through the maintenance techs Mack and Bo. It reminds me of the third-season Buffy episode "The Zeppo", though differing in taking the perspective of two characters entirely off the map. It's fun.
"Learning Curve" wasn't quite so far, only reiterating that it is a very bad idea indeed to attack Minbari authority figures. Despite his worrying tendencies of late towards Machtpolitik, Garibaldi is quite right to note that the Minbari just don't back down from fights. Delenn's worrying fondness for terror as a means of communication frightens.
