would that work as a better deterrent? I mean, knowing that you would continue to exist as someone else rather than a nice, clean death?
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I'd like to believe that if science did evolve to the point where we could wipe someone's mind and replace it with a better, saner mind ... we could maybe fix what was wrong with that person in the first place, before they murdered a bunch of people and without having to completely reboot them.
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I don't think it's off topic.
Isn't discussing the issues arising form the show part of the point of a re-watch discussion thread?
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Well this was it...one last ep...
1. You sort of forgot how 'cleanly' the Shadows wiped out the Narn outpost...
2. So close Mike...
3. Wow...Sinclair and Sakai were actually getting engaged...
4. Poor Lennier...
WE know how this'll play out though...it was another wierd ep to watch...Comment
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That's the main point of rewatches for me, really seeing how you get there. And did you notice Delenn start to build the holder for the triluminary quite early on? IIRC it was in "And the Sky Full of Stars", when the Minbari threatened Delenn with death if she told Sinclair the truth about what really happened, but it could have been as early as "Parliament of Dreams".sigpic
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I certainly noticed it some point mid-season...and of course there was the reference to "Chrysillis"...the amount of stuff I only half remembered even from the eps I watched first time round made this Rewatch worth doing.
S2 is going to be a crazy one because I only ever managed to watch a few eps from that season...will be putting the Rewatch on ice for a bit though. Off on a canal trip before the end of the coming week and when I get back I'll catch up on more current stuff then...off to 2259...Comment
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It is for me, but I wasn't sure this was that kind of a thread.Originally posted by Raw_Deal View PostI don't think it's off topic.
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When do you think you'll be able to continue your rewatch, Matt?sigpic
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Good to know, I'll keep an eye out for this thread.
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OK people...we come to season 2...this is an interesting one. Technically this is a Rewatch but once again I didn't jump on board B5 till S3 and the amount of S2 eps I watched in reruns prior to this I can count on one hand. The opening ep was not one of them!
This season aired late '94/early '95(I think), and I'd have been a Year 7 pupil living in Teddington in the burbs of London watching stuff like Bugs, New Adventures of Superman and Gladiators amongst other shows. Seaquest DSV as well I think. First trip abroad would have been summer of '95 to Portugal...
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Anyway, on with "Point of Departure".
1. Sheridan was still commanding the Agamemnon at this point...woah...
2. Is it me or does Sheridan look bleeping young here?
3. So this is where we find out about Minbari souls.
4. How long can the Minbari hold a grudge? For that matter, why did Sheridan get given B5?
5. Obvious emphasis on Ivonova's history with Sheridan.
6. Oh for crying out loud mate...giving a speech to an empty room?
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The speech to the empty room made me chuckle. Sheridan looked very young in the first half of the season. After that he seemed to bloat a bit. I always liked him best in the beard, though.
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The speech was to avoid jinxing himself, right? It didn't matter whether anyone listened to it, only that he gave it that day. Kind of like people who won't change their socks until after the playoffs because their team won when they wore them, or in my case, never saying "how much worse could things get?"sigpicComment
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Yeah, he did. But to think such superstitions surviving to the 24th century... boggles the mind!sigpic
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The origins of some of our current superstitions go back centuries, so why not?sigpicComment
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