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

[vickiso.livejournal.com]

My bf got me into B5 when we first started dating. Third season is so wicked, but wait til you get to 4th....

There's also a really cool episode much later called Day of the Dead...fun times....

[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.

[serhenya.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Babylon 5! Marcus and Ivanova are my favorite characters with G'kar close behind. I finished watching the whole show a couple months ago, including movies and DVD special. Your last entry mentioned it was like LOTR and I've never thought of it like that before. If you get the chance, watch the commentaries made by the actors. They are hilarious.

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

I love that it's been just long enough since I saw most of this show that I can still be surprised.

That was the neatest thing for me, too. I watched (erratically at best) when the show was on, and only re-discovered it a couple of years ago, and finally watched start to finish. Once shows reach a point where I can predict what's going to happen from the first few minutes of an episode, or alternately if they never make any sense at all; they're over. B5 never got there; constant surprises and joyful discoveries.

I love Lennier who has so much complicated anger beneath his beautiful courtly devotion.

Lennier is my current particular obsession although I adore them all.