Another year, another post...
- Brother Theo, the leader of the Human religious group, is played by Louis Turenne--the same guy who played Draal in Season 1's two-parter A Voice in the Wilderness. Given that he returns for a small arc here, and Draal only has a few appearances in the show overall, I can't help but wonder why they didn't just bring Turenne back as Draal in the first place
- Moreshi, the Asian security officer in Convictions, is the same guy who was the jerk Mongol leader in SG-1's Emancipation And Natan of the Lucian Alliance in Exogenesis!
- The excuse that Lennier uses to get the talkative (and seemingly inebriated) traveler away from him in Convictions is that he's contracted "Netter's Syndrome"--undoubtedly a reference to series exec. producer Douglas Netter
- 3.05 Voices of Authority: Ah yes....the reveal that Mr Morden was involved in Clark's assassination of President Santiago. I've never considered this before, but I wonder if--for a time--Clark found himself in Londo's shoes. Undoubtedly he ended up being an evil man himself (what with turning the defense satellites on Earth), but I also wonder if maybe there was a time in which Clark was the one who was hanging on to the bucking horse for dear life.
- 3.05 Voices of Authority: I wonder what exactly the Vorlons did to piss off te First Ones of Sigma 957. They obviously dislike the Shadows enough to get involved on the side of Light, but do so reluctantly because they obviously don't like the Vorlons. I wonder what happened.
- "Some must be sacrificed, if all are to be saved." That's just one of the best lines in any TV show, isn't it?
- 3.10 Severed Dreams: One of the best episodes of the series. Period.
- 3.13 A Late Delivery from Avalon: Oh boy do I ever hate this one.
- 3.14 Ship of Tears: The pilot of the ship being escorted by the Shadow fighters killed himself with acid and then sent off to be autopsied by Franklin--where he was promptly forgotten about in light of the discovery of the telepaths. What was he? Could it have been a Drakh? Streib? Wurt? Surgeon?
- War Without End: Masterful resolution of Babylon Squared. Undoubtedly one of the best time travel stories/trilogies ever told on television. I wonder--was Babylon Squared written when they knew that Michael O'Hare was leaving the series? If not--what was the original intended resolution, had he remained station commander for all five seasons?
- The Passing of the Techno-mages III: Invoking Darkness[/i] -- Lots of interesting things going on here, once Galen gets out of the hiding place. I particularly love that Galen is constantly doing mental exercises to keep himself in control; adds a wonderful new dimension to his character. And then, later on, his proper 'union' with the tech is very interesting. I'll appreciate his character all the more once I get back to Crusade
- The Passing of the Techno-mages III: Invoking Darkness[/i] -- Oh wow! The obelisks on Z'ha'dum with the glowing inscriptions on them--that's the language as the Taratimude, the ancient founders of the Techno-mages!
- 3.22 Z'ha'dum: Interesting that Justin, the older guy on Z'ha'dum, balks at the question "who are you?" when Sheridan asks him. He skirts around it, offering cryptic vagueries before finally coming up with his name. More of that masterfully well-mapped Vorlon/Shadow business
- The Passing of the Techno-mages III: Invoking Darkness[/i] -- This business of the Eye organic machine defending Z'ha'dum is intriguing. When Anna tries to merge with it, it pushes her out saying that this is its machine. And then...Wierden herself is at the heart? How did Wierden found and run the Techno-mages if she was the heart of Z'ha'dum?
- The Passing of the Techno-mages III: Invoking Darkness[/i] -- I'm both amused and put off by the resolution of Galen's trip to Z'ha'dum.... On one hand, I love (and find hilarious) that the ultraconservative Blaylock was essentially right all along with the idea of opening up to the tech. But on the other, all this time and effort is spent talking about single-term spell equations and then the resolution is....a no-term equation? What the hell?
- The Passing of the Techno-mages III: Invoking Darkness[/i] -- I do really love the serenity that Galen has gotten out of the whole experience though. His union with the tech, the freedom with which he uses it now, that he actually liberates a Shadow vessel(!) Very satisfying.
- Chiefly among the things I find strange during 2260 is that Mr Morden operating openly on the station with minimal harassment by station personnel. They mention once in Invoking Darkness that he bribes the right people, but then a few pages later he has several run-ins with Garibaldi. Why is a Shadow agent being allowed to run amok in the heart of the Army of Light, during the heat of the Shadow War?
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