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

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I plan to indulge in all the DVDs and special episodes, most of which I haven't seen at all (except for The Gathering, which aired first I believe.)

Your last entry mentioned it was like LOTR and I've never thought of it like that before.

Once you see it, you can't not see it. I noticed it ages ago with the name Z'ha'dum because I read The Fellowship of the Ring back in 8th grade, around the same general period as the show was airing. I had thought the writer's just stole the name and the idea of falling+rebirth because they were fans, but since rewatching I've notice a lot stronger areas of similarity. I think it's different if you've read the book than if you've just seen the movies... names are a huge part of the book, but more easily ignored on film when you can visibly distinguish between all the important people. And I remember thinking from the start that Marcus was like Aragorn... in fact when the movies were being made my family was like, "They should cast that one guy... from that show... he looked exactly like Aragorn..." And the funny thing is that the actor for Marcus has very similar facial features to Viggo Mortenson. A bit more delicate and he's a bit slimmer, but the cheekbones and eye-to-nose line are quite close. I think it just means that everyone who ever read LOTR had the same hive-mind concept of how Aragorn *ought* to look. Though Marcus's character is much more light-spirited and talky, he's practically a crossover in and of himself.