Babylon 5: Endgame
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beccaelizabethbeen watching Babylon 5
season 4
Endgame
wah! Marcus! :'(
stupid. Why not the machine use like blood transfusion? worked before! but nooooo, he has to go be all sacrificial. (and the voiceover has the guy saying for one to live one must die, which is... irritating).
and in the middle of a battle! not like she would have wanted. >:(
all totally in character, so I just end up wanting to thwap the character, not so much the writers.
mostly.
The bit with the ramming and the kaboom and the fire and the ship appearing - so totally very cool.
Also the bit where everything pays off. Lots of leftover bits from other stories come together and make everything happen. Very cool.
cool enough in fact I end up on here being all incoherent-unless-you've-seen-it.
1 disc left in the season. Shall go watch. Once I've checked my email.
The other arc for the season - the Garibaldi thing...
I have two totally seperate reactions.
One is the one that's all *hugs Garibaldi* and woe and lookit him go through hell, and therefore loves the story, because its all twisty and angsty and cool.
The other reaction is more like... They took a fairly reasonable reaction to Sheridan, the grrr who does he think he is thing, the bit about him having changed, and they made it be the product of psi corp manipulation. Like defusing the opinion by making it what the bad guys think? Putting an extreme version out there so nobody goes with the medium version? And it seems twisty in a manipulate the viewer reaction way, maybe. And also, by making it be psi corp, they make Garibaldi have an instant out. With Londo and his choices, or G'Kar, they have this arc of seems-reasonable-end-up-paying. But Garibaldi has a seems reasonable (albeit extra cranky) but... what? It seems to me there was another perfectly plausible story where he switched sides for real and came back when the other guys went too far. But that wasn't done. And it feels... odd.
Don't know.
I think I maybe can't remember season 5. Like, entirely. I remember about 5 minutes worth for a whole season. Has been long times since I watched. So they probably do something.
But mind control bits always leave me a bit :-/
Also, I'm comparing it to arcs on Buffy that made me :-/ and that doubles the :-/
The telepath final solution bit also does the thing where someone is being too extreme and makes something else look reasonable by comparison. The whole treatment of telepaths thing has been squarely a Psi-Corps-is-evil thing so far, but now they at once show *why* they are, and *how very* they are. Which is interesting.
I'd have more thoughts if I stopped between episodes, but I'm always too wound up and must see the next one right away.
Also: Gathering & Endgame? Double title snap. Highlander also. But Highlander Endgame I will not watch in any version, and B5 Endgame rules.
season 4
Endgame
wah! Marcus! :'(
stupid. Why not the machine use like blood transfusion? worked before! but nooooo, he has to go be all sacrificial. (and the voiceover has the guy saying for one to live one must die, which is... irritating).
and in the middle of a battle! not like she would have wanted. >:(
all totally in character, so I just end up wanting to thwap the character, not so much the writers.
mostly.
The bit with the ramming and the kaboom and the fire and the ship appearing - so totally very cool.
Also the bit where everything pays off. Lots of leftover bits from other stories come together and make everything happen. Very cool.
cool enough in fact I end up on here being all incoherent-unless-you've-seen-it.
1 disc left in the season. Shall go watch. Once I've checked my email.
The other arc for the season - the Garibaldi thing...
I have two totally seperate reactions.
One is the one that's all *hugs Garibaldi* and woe and lookit him go through hell, and therefore loves the story, because its all twisty and angsty and cool.
The other reaction is more like... They took a fairly reasonable reaction to Sheridan, the grrr who does he think he is thing, the bit about him having changed, and they made it be the product of psi corp manipulation. Like defusing the opinion by making it what the bad guys think? Putting an extreme version out there so nobody goes with the medium version? And it seems twisty in a manipulate the viewer reaction way, maybe. And also, by making it be psi corp, they make Garibaldi have an instant out. With Londo and his choices, or G'Kar, they have this arc of seems-reasonable-end-up-paying. But Garibaldi has a seems reasonable (albeit extra cranky) but... what? It seems to me there was another perfectly plausible story where he switched sides for real and came back when the other guys went too far. But that wasn't done. And it feels... odd.
Don't know.
I think I maybe can't remember season 5. Like, entirely. I remember about 5 minutes worth for a whole season. Has been long times since I watched. So they probably do something.
But mind control bits always leave me a bit :-/
Also, I'm comparing it to arcs on Buffy that made me :-/ and that doubles the :-/
The telepath final solution bit also does the thing where someone is being too extreme and makes something else look reasonable by comparison. The whole treatment of telepaths thing has been squarely a Psi-Corps-is-evil thing so far, but now they at once show *why* they are, and *how very* they are. Which is interesting.
I'd have more thoughts if I stopped between episodes, but I'm always too wound up and must see the next one right away.
Also: Gathering & Endgame? Double title snap. Highlander also. But Highlander Endgame I will not watch in any version, and B5 Endgame rules.