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Almost done with season four! What!
4x18 "Intersections in Real Time"
Well, that was a lot, and I think that's all I really have to say about it. Poor Sheridan! (Orion: So this show aired on TV, huh; you'd just be watching The Price is Right and then suddenly you're watching this ...)
4x19 "Between the Darkness and the Light"
Oh, now we're talking! This episode had SO MUCH!
As much as I wish Garibaldi's friends would give him a little more credit, I did really love the scene with him, the Mars resistance, Franklin, and Lyta. Franklin wanting to hear his side of it, and knocking Number One aside before she can kill him! Franklin and Lyta back to back with guns, defending him from their allies! And then Garibaldi willingly submitting to a telepathic scan, which we know is awful for him even without Lyta having to push through Bester's blocks, but he's eager for her to do it just to prove to his friends that he's telling the truth - that was great.
And it's SO NICE to have him working with the others again. LOVED LOVED LOVED the jailbreak with Franklin, Garibaldi, and Lyta breaking out Sheridan. The bickering/banter, the sneakiness, the fights! Garibaldi's reputation as a traitor actually being useful to get them inside! That was terrific, everything I hoped for - well, except that it cut away mid-escape with Sheridan still weak from being tortured, Garibaldi stabbed, and absolutely no resolution to speak of, and the next time you see any of them, they're in different storylines. I .... I am so tempted to write missing scenes.
LONDO!! Rallying the League to send ships to help the White Star fleet! (LMAO at Lennier speculating on why Londo called a meeting and didn't tell Delenn about it: "Knowing the Ambassador, I'm already depressed by the options.") But it was for a good cause, keeping Delenn out of it to avoid putting her in a bad position - she's obviously so touched by the whole thing, and somehow I just find it kind of cute that Vir and G'Kar are standing next to each other when Londo and G'Kar are explaining their plan to Delenn; we see them together so rarely.
And the spacefight was so tense! The new Earth dreadnoughts are horrendous, thank you for that, Shadows. And I love the White Stars being able to spin on a dime in a spacefight, that's such a cool visual!
IVANOVA NO
4x20 "Endgame"
MARCUS NO
The previous episode very legitimately made me think they'd killed Ivanova! There were even tearful goodbyes! I was thinking "But I didn't know she died! I thought she was in the next season!" But I didn't know Marcus died either! How very dare! I actually thought he was the main character in one of the spinoffs! What! I'm unexpectedly emotional about his death. I was just starting to really like him!
(Kudos to the show for once again remembering the magic healing device, though. I had to explain it to Orion since he missed season one and early season two.)
This episode was mostly fight, but it was really exciting and excellent! Loved everybody doing their part - Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta with the resistance on Mars, Sheridan commanding the Agamemnon one last time. And that's what they wanted the telepaths for!
Even knowing that they (probably) weren't going to completely obliterate Earth, the whole sequence with the entire Earth defense grid of spaceguns turning to point at Earth and the President effectively going down in a murder-suicide with his planet was so tense. Sheridan ordering the Agamemnon into a suicide charge at the last weapons platform was a GREAT scene - I was pretty sure he was going to be in the next season so I didn't know quite how they were going to get out of that, but having the guys they were fighting just half an episode ago show up to save them (and Earth) was really excellent too.
4x21 "Rising Star"
Aftermath, glorious aftermath. This was all character stuff and I loved it. (Okay, I guess there was plot. But mostly it was the character scenes we deserved.)
The scene with Ivanova crying on the floor in her hospital gown and Franklin comforting her was really touching. And, as this show does, occasionally funny. ("I wish I'd boffed him when I had the chance!")
Loved Bester's conversation with Sheridan; it was exactly the right combination of threatening and genuinely touching in places. They kept Carolyn out of the fight because of him! (Really, they're better people than he deserves. T_T) I notice the only part of Sheridan's speculation about Bester fixing a war between the normals and telepaths that Bester denied was that he was going to lose ...
Sheridan's political fate makes total sense from a realistic standpoint - there are going to be consequences. I love that he had an ace up his sleeve all along, as he does.
Other things I want missing scenes for: the alien ambassadors on Earth. What little we saw of that was great; I want more! *bangs fist on table* Let them be tourists! And Delenn and Sheridan's wedding! We didn't see it, but I love that they apparently had everyone there who was around for it. <3
Londo and G'Kar were a self-indulgent delight in this episode. Bickering in the shuttle bay - about sex, no less (really cannot get over that a Centauri gesturing to their sides is obviously their version of a human pointing to their crotch, and somehow Londo does it in such a way that you can tell it's a vulgar gesture even though it's completely innocuous from a human standpoint). And their chorused "You're late!" to Vir! And Delenn telling them first about the new Alliance - their interactions with Delenn are honestly very cute in this episode, too - and voluntarily sitting together at the press conference (!!); then relaxing after the wedding*, watching the news broadcast and bickering. ("Stop eating that, you don't even know what it is!") They are incapable of even being friends like sane people; it's great.
*Covered in bits of sparkly confetti, which it took me a rewatch of that scene to notice.
ETA: Also enjoyed seeing G'Kar in his iridescent ceremonial armor at the press conference, instead of the more informal quilted coat he typically wears around the station. It's been so long since we've seen him in it that I wondered if he even still had it.
We stopped here, but tomorrow we are boldly forging onward into season five!
4x18 "Intersections in Real Time"
Well, that was a lot, and I think that's all I really have to say about it. Poor Sheridan! (Orion: So this show aired on TV, huh; you'd just be watching The Price is Right and then suddenly you're watching this ...)
4x19 "Between the Darkness and the Light"
Oh, now we're talking! This episode had SO MUCH!
As much as I wish Garibaldi's friends would give him a little more credit, I did really love the scene with him, the Mars resistance, Franklin, and Lyta. Franklin wanting to hear his side of it, and knocking Number One aside before she can kill him! Franklin and Lyta back to back with guns, defending him from their allies! And then Garibaldi willingly submitting to a telepathic scan, which we know is awful for him even without Lyta having to push through Bester's blocks, but he's eager for her to do it just to prove to his friends that he's telling the truth - that was great.
And it's SO NICE to have him working with the others again. LOVED LOVED LOVED the jailbreak with Franklin, Garibaldi, and Lyta breaking out Sheridan. The bickering/banter, the sneakiness, the fights! Garibaldi's reputation as a traitor actually being useful to get them inside! That was terrific, everything I hoped for - well, except that it cut away mid-escape with Sheridan still weak from being tortured, Garibaldi stabbed, and absolutely no resolution to speak of, and the next time you see any of them, they're in different storylines. I .... I am so tempted to write missing scenes.
LONDO!! Rallying the League to send ships to help the White Star fleet! (LMAO at Lennier speculating on why Londo called a meeting and didn't tell Delenn about it: "Knowing the Ambassador, I'm already depressed by the options.") But it was for a good cause, keeping Delenn out of it to avoid putting her in a bad position - she's obviously so touched by the whole thing, and somehow I just find it kind of cute that Vir and G'Kar are standing next to each other when Londo and G'Kar are explaining their plan to Delenn; we see them together so rarely.
And the spacefight was so tense! The new Earth dreadnoughts are horrendous, thank you for that, Shadows. And I love the White Stars being able to spin on a dime in a spacefight, that's such a cool visual!
IVANOVA NO
4x20 "Endgame"
MARCUS NO
The previous episode very legitimately made me think they'd killed Ivanova! There were even tearful goodbyes! I was thinking "But I didn't know she died! I thought she was in the next season!" But I didn't know Marcus died either! How very dare! I actually thought he was the main character in one of the spinoffs! What! I'm unexpectedly emotional about his death. I was just starting to really like him!
(Kudos to the show for once again remembering the magic healing device, though. I had to explain it to Orion since he missed season one and early season two.)
This episode was mostly fight, but it was really exciting and excellent! Loved everybody doing their part - Garibaldi, Franklin, and Lyta with the resistance on Mars, Sheridan commanding the Agamemnon one last time. And that's what they wanted the telepaths for!
Even knowing that they (probably) weren't going to completely obliterate Earth, the whole sequence with the entire Earth defense grid of spaceguns turning to point at Earth and the President effectively going down in a murder-suicide with his planet was so tense. Sheridan ordering the Agamemnon into a suicide charge at the last weapons platform was a GREAT scene - I was pretty sure he was going to be in the next season so I didn't know quite how they were going to get out of that, but having the guys they were fighting just half an episode ago show up to save them (and Earth) was really excellent too.
4x21 "Rising Star"
Aftermath, glorious aftermath. This was all character stuff and I loved it. (Okay, I guess there was plot. But mostly it was the character scenes we deserved.)
The scene with Ivanova crying on the floor in her hospital gown and Franklin comforting her was really touching. And, as this show does, occasionally funny. ("I wish I'd boffed him when I had the chance!")
Loved Bester's conversation with Sheridan; it was exactly the right combination of threatening and genuinely touching in places. They kept Carolyn out of the fight because of him! (Really, they're better people than he deserves. T_T) I notice the only part of Sheridan's speculation about Bester fixing a war between the normals and telepaths that Bester denied was that he was going to lose ...
Sheridan's political fate makes total sense from a realistic standpoint - there are going to be consequences. I love that he had an ace up his sleeve all along, as he does.
Other things I want missing scenes for: the alien ambassadors on Earth. What little we saw of that was great; I want more! *bangs fist on table* Let them be tourists! And Delenn and Sheridan's wedding! We didn't see it, but I love that they apparently had everyone there who was around for it. <3
Londo and G'Kar were a self-indulgent delight in this episode. Bickering in the shuttle bay - about sex, no less (really cannot get over that a Centauri gesturing to their sides is obviously their version of a human pointing to their crotch, and somehow Londo does it in such a way that you can tell it's a vulgar gesture even though it's completely innocuous from a human standpoint). And their chorused "You're late!" to Vir! And Delenn telling them first about the new Alliance - their interactions with Delenn are honestly very cute in this episode, too - and voluntarily sitting together at the press conference (!!); then relaxing after the wedding*, watching the news broadcast and bickering. ("Stop eating that, you don't even know what it is!") They are incapable of even being friends like sane people; it's great.
*Covered in bits of sparkly confetti, which it took me a rewatch of that scene to notice.
ETA: Also enjoyed seeing G'Kar in his iridescent ceremonial armor at the press conference, instead of the more informal quilted coat he typically wears around the station. It's been so long since we've seen him in it that I wondered if he even still had it.
We stopped here, but tomorrow we are boldly forging onward into season five!
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yeah... :(
And, you've summarized perfectly why I love Ivanova's grief scene.