Like the other thread, ready to be posted now that I've finished reading To Dream in the City of Sorrows
Incidentally, that book had a LOT of trouble keeping in line with the established timeline of the TV show. It was an interesting read, but you really need to give it a little slack with regards to how many months go by at a time. Anywho!
2259 // Season 2
Incidentally, that book had a LOT of trouble keeping in line with the established timeline of the TV show. It was an interesting read, but you really need to give it a little slack with regards to how many months go by at a time. Anywho!
2259 // Season 2
- No matter how many times I re-watch this show, I still and always think that Delenn's post-chrysalis make-up really sucks. Half the time the 'bone' isn't stuck to her head properly, and all the time the relation between her hair and her head bone doesn't make any sense =\
- The Passing of the Techno-Mages Book II: Summoning Light -- Wow does this ever re-write The Geometry of Shadows! Holy crap... Completely changes the story of the episode. Puts the Techno-Mage trip to B5 in a whole new light, makes it longer, involves Morden, and changes the Londo subplot from light and amusing to both Shadows and Techno-Mages using him as a pawn. Very cool.
- The book also is really neat at showing the growth of the Shadow war machine. Blaylock and Galen's trip to the rim and their encounters with the surgeons and the Drakh and others aligned with the Shadows, neat stuff.
- 2.04 A Distant Star -- No matter how many times I re-watch this episode, it never ceases to bug the hell out of me. A deep space explorer ship going beyond the range of established jumpgates has to be able to generate its own jump points. Unless Earth explorer ships are COLOSSALLY inefficient, there's just no getting around this technological necessity. So the idea of them getting lost and adrift in hyperspace always rings completely false and ridiculous to me.
- There's some really nice foreshadowing going on that does a wonderful job of setting up what Earth becomes under Clark. In Summoning Light/concurrent with The Geometry of Shadows, Sheridan is ordered by Earth to get as much information as possible on the Techno-mages, detaining them if necessary. In 2.06 A Spider in the Web, an Earth Senator orders Sheridan to spy on the business deal that Talia is observing because things are changing back home. And then in a more roundabout way....Control (later revealed to be Talia), working for Bureau 13/Psi Corps, attempts to use Abel Horn to undermine the Mars independence movement. This didn't even completely click for me (the Talia connection) until I was writing this
- A Spider in the Web has some interesting other implications to it too. We're told that Earth was doing experiments with human/machine integration as far back as the 2230s. Could the older races have had a hand in either prompting or inspiring this?
- Let's talk about Talia in Divided Loyalties for a moment. Canon (in the Shadows Past and Present comic) says that Talia was there for the Syria Planum incident, had her memory wiped of what happened, and at the same time was implanted with Control. After the destruction of the original Talia's personality, it seems that Control is in actuality, a complete personality. Does this personality have as much right to life as the original Talia? It seems to be conscious, sentient, aware, and angry at having been imprisoned for years.
- Still on Talia/Control here: Control seems to have been capable of taking some measure of control, as we saw back in A Spider in the Web. Given what we know about the phenomenal powers that Jason Ironheart endowed her with back in early 2258/Season 1--why did Control never call Psi Corps for extraction?
- There's a little bit of a CGI flub in [i]Comes the Inquisitor. Whenever we see the Vorlon ships of the class that Kosh flies, the 'fins' are on the back end of the ship with the pointy 'whisker' things on the front. In this episode, as Sebastian's ship comes through the jumpgate, it appears to be flying in reverse
- Anyone have any guesses as to why the Vorlons abducted Sebastian/Jack the Ripper to be their inquisitor? Kind of an interesting, if puzzling choice, isn't it?
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