[B5] Nearing the end of Season 2
Oct. 25th, 2005 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldFour great episodes tonight ("Knives", "Confessions and Lamentations", "Divided Loyalties", and "The Long, Twilight Struggle"), four brief one-line notes about each episode.
"Knives": So only now does Londo start to realize that he's doing something very bad.
"Confessions and Lamentations": Why did I feel like I was watching a science fiction enactment of Randy Shilts' And the Band Plays On?
"Divided Loyalties": Could Ivanova's relationship with Talia possibly have had a worse ending?
"The Long, Twilight Struggle": One thing that Babylon 5 makes clear is that war is not glamourous, rarely more clearly than in this episode.
The only critique that I can raise about these episodes is one raised by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
finfin as we walked to the Bathurst TTC station, that by the 23rd century the idea of the chain of command has been lost. This isn't altogether surprising in the case of Earthforce, given that military's near-complete obliteration by the Minbari, but it is in the case of other agencies and governments, especially the non-human ones.
"Knives": So only now does Londo start to realize that he's doing something very bad.
"Confessions and Lamentations": Why did I feel like I was watching a science fiction enactment of Randy Shilts' And the Band Plays On?
"Divided Loyalties": Could Ivanova's relationship with Talia possibly have had a worse ending?
"The Long, Twilight Struggle": One thing that Babylon 5 makes clear is that war is not glamourous, rarely more clearly than in this episode.
The only critique that I can raise about these episodes is one raised by
finfin as we walked to the Bathurst TTC station, that by the 23rd century the idea of the chain of command has been lost. This isn't altogether surprising in the case of Earthforce, given that military's near-complete obliteration by the Minbari, but it is in the case of other agencies and governments, especially the non-human ones.
