(I think this is heavily influenced by the way I'm watching it - I assume watching over the course of years at an episode a week would have been a different experience)
And it was more normal at the time when the show aired for episodes to function as discrete if linked units rather than installments of contiguous plot. The quotient of metaplot could shift from episode to episode, sometimes the A-plot, sometimes the B-plot, always something contributing to the overall arc, but not always the same amount and not always given the same prominence, and in the meantime you would still get a three-act structure with a story that you could watch and not be totally cliffhung every week. Without spoilers, there will be patches in the show where it is basically all metaplot all the time, but not where you were just watching.
I like that there are a lot of aliens we don't even get a chance to meet properly, and expeditions digging up artifacts all the time that are eldritch and strange and made by aliens who have long since vanished.
The discovery that Shadows ships are cached all across an unknown number of worlds is definitely one of those delved-too-deep moments, except that we've been in the sort of future where so far it's been safe or at least within archaeologically normal levels of hazardous to excavate random alien artifacts, which is a kind of stakes-raising that if I think about it I really like. The Overton window for weirdness in the known universe is exponentially sliding.
This also makes it a very interesting choice that G'Kar picked him, out of everyone on the station, to give the Narn holy book that includes pictures of the ships.
It does! And again it's such a neat choice to give the Shadow-sighting to Garibaldi, even if he didn't understand what he was seeing at the time, because he's not the character you would expect to have an eldritch encounter in his past, and yet. Of the main human characters, he's the one who looks the most standard-issue down-to-earth and he's got all these little filigrees of quirkiness and damage and openness beyond what is expected of a security chief. I loved your pointing out that one of the ways he interacts with people is cooking for them. That's not expected, either.
I figured I needed one, and since I was having zero luck finding something I liked that could be used for generic posts about the show, I just went and got a picture and made one, like our ancestors did.
All through college and even grad school, my laptop wallpaper was an image of the White Star which I pulled off some almost certainly now long-defunct fan site in 1999.
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And it was more normal at the time when the show aired for episodes to function as discrete if linked units rather than installments of contiguous plot. The quotient of metaplot could shift from episode to episode, sometimes the A-plot, sometimes the B-plot, always something contributing to the overall arc, but not always the same amount and not always given the same prominence, and in the meantime you would still get a three-act structure with a story that you could watch and not be totally cliffhung every week. Without spoilers, there will be patches in the show where it is basically all metaplot all the time, but not where you were just watching.
I like that there are a lot of aliens we don't even get a chance to meet properly, and expeditions digging up artifacts all the time that are eldritch and strange and made by aliens who have long since vanished.
The discovery that Shadows ships are cached all across an unknown number of worlds is definitely one of those delved-too-deep moments, except that we've been in the sort of future where so far it's been safe or at least within archaeologically normal levels of hazardous to excavate random alien artifacts, which is a kind of stakes-raising that if I think about it I really like. The Overton window for weirdness in the known universe is exponentially sliding.
This also makes it a very interesting choice that G'Kar picked him, out of everyone on the station, to give the Narn holy book that includes pictures of the ships.
It does! And again it's such a neat choice to give the Shadow-sighting to Garibaldi, even if he didn't understand what he was seeing at the time, because he's not the character you would expect to have an eldritch encounter in his past, and yet. Of the main human characters, he's the one who looks the most standard-issue down-to-earth and he's got all these little filigrees of quirkiness and damage and openness beyond what is expected of a security chief. I loved your pointing out that one of the ways he interacts with people is cooking for them. That's not expected, either.
I figured I needed one, and since I was having zero luck finding something I liked that could be used for generic posts about the show, I just went and got a picture and made one, like our ancestors did.
All through college and even grad school, my laptop wallpaper was an image of the White Star which I pulled off some almost certainly now long-defunct fan site in 1999.