Babylon 5, episode 3x11 - Ceremonies of Light and Dark

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Aragorn Marcus: "It's like I've always said. You can get more with a kind word and a two-by-four than you can with just a kind word."

I...I think I'm crushing on a tv character from a show that aired more than a decade ago. ASKFHJSDKJW$*&%*(#! How is it that season 3 is so great? I can't stop watching it. I keep staying up way too late to watch this stuff! And that's not even commenting on episode 3x10, Severed Dreams, which was possibly the best and coolest episode of the show so far.

As I watch, I keep getting more and more blown away by how smooth the flow of story events is. It's all so woven together, and continuous, and I love it all. I love G'Kar becoming a true hero of the people, and Lando becoming an even more complicated combination of villain and ally. I love Lennier who has so much complicated anger beneath his beautiful courtly devotion. I love Marcus' crush on Susan and I love love love Delenn. I worry about Franklin and Garabaldi, and I'm so proud of Sheridan. I love that a certain race might be angels, except that they might not. I love whatever prop designer decided that the Shadows' ships would look like big scary black spiders that shoot lasers out of their belly buttons. I love that it's been just long enough since I saw most of this show that I can still be surprised.

EDIT: regarding Ivonova's confession of a secret-- I knew it! I thought I got a vibe there. I'm glad to see it touched on. I wasn't surprised by Franklin's confession, nor Garabaldi's, nor Sheridan's, though they were all wonderfully delivered by the actors. And now I have to sleep.

Comments

[settiai]

Isn't Babylon 5 amazing? I rewatched it for the first time in years last spring, and it just blew me away. There's so much that I missed watching it as it aired, just because I was so young at the time.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

YES IT IS! And there's actually a fandom out there too, though not a big one, it's big enough for me to get a kick out of it. I was just chatting with my dad saying that instead of airing constant marathons of Stargate, the Sci-Fi channel should air Babylon 5 from the start. They could air a new episode every week as if they were just releasing it for the first time.