I'm re-watching yet again....into Season 2/2259 now, but I thought I'd throw out some things I found interesting this time around; things I may not have caught before or which puzzled me a little.
Some thoughts for discussion, anyway. Liven this board up a bit!
2257 // The Gathering
2258 // Season 1
Food for thought and discussion, I don't know if I'll be able to do this again for Season 2//2259, but I'll try
Some thoughts for discussion, anyway. Liven this board up a bit!
2257 // The Gathering
- Why did that Minbari attempt to poison Kosh, anyway? I don't think we ever really got a good answer to that. Was he just some crazy guy, from a crazy sub-group, looking to start a war for no apparent reason?
- Given that we know that the Vorlons are beings of energy, how could Kosh have been poisoned at all?
2258 // Season 1
- In the very first episode, Midnight On the Firing Line, they play a voiceover of Sinclair's last memory at the Battle of the Line. No visual accompanies this until it appears later in the season, several times, and then again eventually in In the Beginning. What a wonderful bit of pre-planned continuity!
- In 1.04 Infection, Dr. Franklin tells his old prof that he couldn't find any information on Interplanetary Expeditions. Considering how well-planned out the B5-verse is, I find this to be a bit of a shocking oversight. IPX is a huge corporation, and pretty darn well-known. Considering this was an episode that was written by JMS himself....well, what's going on with that?
- In the same episode, Infection, they say that the organic Ikarran technology comes from a world that went extinct "a thousand years ago." We know that a thousand years prior to the TV series is when the previous Shadow War ended, so were these Ikarrans involved in some way? (This is a speculation question with no canon answer)
- In 1.06 Mind War, when Jason Ironheart 'evolved' into some kind of energy being, he told Sinclair that he'd see him in a million years. Now...is there more to Sinclair's fate than we know, or was Ironheart speaking figuratively about mankind in general?
- 1.06 Mind War again: Since this was a teek evolving into energy, does this mean that telepaths really are the future of human evolution, as the Psi Corps always maintained? Were those series antagonists really right in their arrogant presumption all along? And consequently--can we thank the Vorlons for accelerating the natural evolution of humanity, rather than blaming them for making weapons to fight the Shadows?
- When Sinclair starts to remember his Minbari interrogation in 1.08 And the Sky Full of Stars, he asks the Grey Council "what do you want?" and it echoes numerous times before the scene changes! Wow! BEAUTIFUL bit of foreshadowing there!
- 1.09 Deathwalker: The end of the episode implies that the whole reason for Kosh's bizarre commissioning of Talia in this episode is because Vorlons are leery of telepaths. But, as we learn later in the series, the Vorlons are responsible for creating telepaths in the first place! So what was this episode's b-plot really all about?
- In 1.20 Babylon Squared, Delenn takes the triluminary that she uses for the chrysalis in the season finale. We end up finding out later on that the triluminary(ies) was/were a gift from Valen/Sinclair, coming from Epsilon III in the first place. But the Minbari who gives it to her tells her there are two others. Why? What happened to them? Do they do something different than the one(s) that transform Delenn into partial human and Sinclair into partial Minbari?
Food for thought and discussion, I don't know if I'll be able to do this again for Season 2//2259, but I'll try
However, I can address these two points pretty quickly. With the Wind Swords being the most radical clans of the Warrior Caste, I'd say they intended to make humans pay for Kosh's death. It's an interesting plot really. The Wind Swords know that the Vorlons are very powerful and would likely exact revenge for the death of Kosh. My making it seem like the humans were responsible, I think the Wind Swords were hoping the finish humanity off by having the Vorlons do it for them.
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However, I do want to keep the B5 subforum active as well. I owe that much to my favorite sci-fi series of all time.
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