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[sholio]

I have just watched through Babylon 5 5x16 and

WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT JMS

I thought I was prepared but I was not prepared for the emotional roller coaster I have just been on.

I will write a post about that but first I think I need to lie down for a few minutes.

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[sovay]

I will write a post about that but first I think I need to lie down for a few minutes.

*checks episode numbers*

*hugs*

[sholio]

*hugs back*

I cannot believe how hard that episode sucker-punched me! I literally had to go calm down for a while afterwards - I mean, not in a bad way, not in an "I am not okay" way (except colloquially), but just because I was massively emotionally overwrought after watching it. I thought I was prepared, I thought I knew what I was in for, but *boy was I wrong.*

Hats off to the entire crew, because I have not had a canon kick my feet out from under me like that in a long, long time. I would say probably the only times I can think of that I encountered a narrative that really did it to me like that were a long time ago, when I was still learning narrative "rules" and I was experiencing my first times encountering various types of soul-destroying plot twists. I thought I was too jaded and too wise to narrative structure to get taken down like that, but ... nOPE.

[epeeblade]

Well, I stopped watching B5 in season 4, so I guess I missed a few things...