What did you watch today?

[Ulkesh47]

"Intersections in Real Time"

[Jumper_One]

Hunter, Prey
There All the Honor Lies
And Now for a Word
In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
Knives
Confessions and Lamentations
Divided Loyalties
The Long, Twilight Struggle

[Ulkesh47]

"Ruling from the Tomb"

[Jumper_One]

Comes the Inquiisitor
The Fall of Night
Matters of Honor
Convictions
A Day in the Strife
Passing through Gethsemane
Voices of Authority
Dust to Dust
Exogenesis
Messages from Earth
Point of no Return
Severed Dreams

[Cold Fuzz]

110 The Memory of War
111 The Needs of Earth
112 Visitors from Down the Street
113 Each Night I Dream of Home
Movie: The Lost Tales
522 Sleeping in Light

I've had ongoing health issues for a long while now which is why my time on the forums has been sporadic at best. Hopefully the end to those health issues is coming sometime in the middle of next month. B5 and Crusade have done much to lift my spirits with all these health issues. After about 7 weeks, my big re-watch is finished at last. I started right near the end of August and finished the whole thing today. The ending was, of course, bittersweet—the way it would be for any Babylonian.

Around the 18th or 19th, I'll be posting a number of new threads about certain loose ends in the B5 timeline.

[Ulkesh47]

The ending was, of course, bittersweet—the way it would be for any Babylonian.

I'm reaching the end tomorrow, and I'm in total agreement.

As for today, I watched "The Rules of the Game".

[Cold Fuzz]

I'm reaching the end tomorrow, and I'm in total agreement.

As for today, I watched "The Rules of the Game".

I not ashamed to say that there were a few tears when I got to Sleeping in Light earlier tonight. I hadn't watched it in literally years and it still gets to me, especially when it's preceded by the weight of everything that's come before it.

It's interesting to note that there were a few unexpected tears in several B5 and Crusade episodes that never elicited any emotion from me before, namely episodes like The Needs of Earth and The Lost Tales.

[Ulkesh47]

I not ashamed to say that there were a few tears when I got to Sleeping in Light earlier tonight. I hadn't watched it in literally years and it still gets to me, especially when it's preceded by the weight of everything that's come before it.

It's interesting to note that there were a few unexpected tears in several B5 and Crusade episodes that never elicited any emotion from me before, namely episodes like The Needs of Earth and The Lost Tales.

I cry the most during "Sleeping in Light". It is impossible for me to see the wonderful last ten minutes (especially the station exploding) without becoming an emotional wreck. Everything about that sequence is absolutely perfect, and simply beautiful.

I probably get a bit teary-eyed during "Rising Star" when Ivanova laments to Franklin about Marcus. There is a very different kind of tear during Sheridan's rage in "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"; it's that the moment is so intense that I become sensitive to it in some way... I guess it's like I've come to know Sheridan and am invested in him and to see him so completely berserk hits a nerve.

That's similar to a single tear that always comes to my eye during SG-1's "Unending" when Mitchell is destroying his room. It's a tear of sensitivity to what a character is going through, I guess.

[Cold Fuzz]

I cry the most during "Sleeping in Light". It is impossible for me to see the wonderful last ten minutes (especially the station exploding) without becoming an emotional wreck. Everything about that sequence is absolutely perfect, and simply beautiful.

I probably get a bit teary-eyed during "Rising Star" when Ivanova laments to Franklin about Marcus. There is a very different kind of tear during Sheridan's rage in "And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder"; it's that the moment is so intense that I become sensitive to it in some way... I guess it's like I've come to know Sheridan and am invested in him and to see him so completely berserk hits a nerve.

That's similar to a single tear that always comes to my eye during "Unending" when Mitchell is destroying his room. It's a tear of sensitivity to the events, I guess.

That dialogue between Ivanova and Franklin in Rising Star has always been really tough for me to watch ever since it first aired. At first, it was just the sheer shock of what happened. Marcus was one of my favorite characters and to see that twist at the end of Endgame, knowing what would be the result...

In this re-watch though, the tears were because it was knowing that Ivanova and Marcus exit the B5 stage for the rest of the canonical timeline, with the exception of Ivanova in Sleeping in Light. That and knowing the terrible price the civil war exacted on Ivanova emotionally.

There were other episodes in this re-watch that elicited similar responses though at the moment I'm kind of hard-pressed to remember exactly what they are given the late hour.

[Bajka20]

Interludes and Examinations
War Without End (Part 1)
War Without End (Part 2)
Walkabout
Grey 17 Is Missing

[Ulkesh47]

"Appearances and Other Deceits"

[Bajka20]

And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place
Shadow Dancing
Z'ha'dum

[Ulkesh47]

"The Lost Tales"

That title sequence is simply outstanding, perfectly complemented by one of the great G'Kar monologues, from "Objects in Motion".

The first story also contains one of my favorite lines in all of B5, and that's when Father Cassidy says how the Humans penetrated Heaven and found no angels, no choir eternal, "not even a delinquent seraphim left behind by the general evacuation."

[Jumper_One]

Ceremonies of Light and Dark
Sic Transit Vir
A Late Delivery from Avalon
Ship of Tears
Interludes and Examinations
War Without End Part 1
War Without End Part 2
Walkabout
Grey 17 is Missing
And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place

[Ulkesh47]

Ceremonies of Light and Dark

A scene that made me want to stand up and cheer was when Sheridan went after the Sniper. Ah, and the utterly chilling "The hip bone's collected to the leg bone..." sticks out in my memory as well.