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Babylon 5 5x05-08
So much for slowing down. Onwards!
.... Onwards towards DOOM, that is. And it's interesting how many of these episodes have had a general air of Oncoming Doom hanging over them, even when things are generally pretty good.
I don't really like Sheridan and Lochley turning out to have a sexual history, but oh well. At least Delenn got over her jealousy pretty quickly? (Also: cannot believe when I wrote my missing scenes for 5x02, the one other person besides Londo that I decided to have her interact with as a stranger is the one person she actually knew before B5, although I reread that and I think it reads okay even with the additional context, since they work hard at being publicly formal with each other.)
One of the handful of things I knew about season 5 is that G'Kar ends up as Londo's bodyguard in this season (I'd seen a couple of clips beforehand), but I had no idea how it happened, and I didn't expect it to be Delenn's idea, or to happen this early!
Delenn walking away GIGGLING after she inflicts Londo on his new bodyguard, I just cannot even with that scene.
They're all so cute! I'm really loving the Delenn-Londo-G'Kar triad in general this season (and at the end of last one). She loves these two idiots, she really does.
I predictably loved the Bester episode. I love that we got some closure on the Bester-Garibaldi-Sheridan plot from last season (namely, Garibaldi having to be locked up in the brig to stop him from giving Bester the beatdown of his life).
I had completely forgotten about Lyta being modified by the Vorlons until that came up in the telepath plot - I wasn't expecting anything about that to be revisited now that the Vorlons are gone, but we got that and also Kosh's message from the other side to Sheridan (typically cryptic).
The "Day of the Dead" episode was - something. I like the show leaving it at least somewhat open to interpretation whether the afterlife is canonical in the B5 universe, or whether this was some kind of tech/mental stimulation/etc, leaning towards "probably really dead people" but not making it completely unambiguous. I did not expect most people to have a really good time with their dead loved ones! That's not how it normally goes! Garibaldi and Dodger were especially cute; I love that they just got to have a second fun one-night stand with nothing really attached to it. I'm glad they brought her back, because I had forgotten about her, and I feel like she and Garibaldi have more chemistry, and more of a sense of being MFEO, in one and a half episodes than he and Lise did in their entire storyline. (Also completely here for Garibaldi being hyper-competent with patching the call through from their current location to B5.)
And Londo getting one last night with Adira. T__T Also Lennier with Morden, which I was *not* expecting; I thought it would be either Marcus or Neroon. (Me @ Lennier: Don't listen to him! This is the literal last ghost you should be listening to! Tie him up and gag him!) I liked that they kept the identity of the ghostly guest stars a secret by not putting it up front on the opening credits, so each visitation was a surprise.
The existence of an arguably canonical afterlife in B5 as well as people being able to come back from the dead under certain circumstances may need to be revisited in fanfic, I'm just saying.
.... Onwards towards DOOM, that is. And it's interesting how many of these episodes have had a general air of Oncoming Doom hanging over them, even when things are generally pretty good.
I don't really like Sheridan and Lochley turning out to have a sexual history, but oh well. At least Delenn got over her jealousy pretty quickly? (Also: cannot believe when I wrote my missing scenes for 5x02, the one other person besides Londo that I decided to have her interact with as a stranger is the one person she actually knew before B5, although I reread that and I think it reads okay even with the additional context, since they work hard at being publicly formal with each other.)
One of the handful of things I knew about season 5 is that G'Kar ends up as Londo's bodyguard in this season (I'd seen a couple of clips beforehand), but I had no idea how it happened, and I didn't expect it to be Delenn's idea, or to happen this early!
Delenn walking away GIGGLING after she inflicts Londo on his new bodyguard, I just cannot even with that scene.
They're all so cute! I'm really loving the Delenn-Londo-G'Kar triad in general this season (and at the end of last one). She loves these two idiots, she really does.
I predictably loved the Bester episode. I love that we got some closure on the Bester-Garibaldi-Sheridan plot from last season (namely, Garibaldi having to be locked up in the brig to stop him from giving Bester the beatdown of his life).
I had completely forgotten about Lyta being modified by the Vorlons until that came up in the telepath plot - I wasn't expecting anything about that to be revisited now that the Vorlons are gone, but we got that and also Kosh's message from the other side to Sheridan (typically cryptic).
The "Day of the Dead" episode was - something. I like the show leaving it at least somewhat open to interpretation whether the afterlife is canonical in the B5 universe, or whether this was some kind of tech/mental stimulation/etc, leaning towards "probably really dead people" but not making it completely unambiguous. I did not expect most people to have a really good time with their dead loved ones! That's not how it normally goes! Garibaldi and Dodger were especially cute; I love that they just got to have a second fun one-night stand with nothing really attached to it. I'm glad they brought her back, because I had forgotten about her, and I feel like she and Garibaldi have more chemistry, and more of a sense of being MFEO, in one and a half episodes than he and Lise did in their entire storyline. (Also completely here for Garibaldi being hyper-competent with patching the call through from their current location to B5.)
And Londo getting one last night with Adira. T__T Also Lennier with Morden, which I was *not* expecting; I thought it would be either Marcus or Neroon. (Me @ Lennier: Don't listen to him! This is the literal last ghost you should be listening to! Tie him up and gag him!) I liked that they kept the identity of the ghostly guest stars a secret by not putting it up front on the opening credits, so each visitation was a surprise.
The existence of an arguably canonical afterlife in B5 as well as people being able to come back from the dead under certain circumstances may need to be revisited in fanfic, I'm just saying.
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