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

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Yikes, thanks for passing along Laurie's comments. That quite made my day...if not my weekend.

I usually have a look at anyone who friends me, and I was just (fervently) discussing BSG and B5 with my husband, so your post on that caught my eye. I am still quite unsure of LJ etiquette about friending and commenting and don't usually say much.

Feel free to browse as much as you want. I post my fic open (well, there's one adult one that's locked cause there's arguably underage characters in it) and I try to remember to put in the season before the cut (probably ought to check that again. I'm still trying to figure out tags, and re-doing old stuff more accurately.)

If you don't mind I'll check back in as you review. I read a few people who are watching relatively de novo; it's always fun to compare reactions. I found I had totally different reactions to certain story arcs when I was younger than I do now. I think that's an interesting mark of 'standing the test of time'.

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*waves* It was a pleasure, darling, and wholly deserved!
Spreading the good J/D ficness is compulsory with me :D :D