Human Peter Jurasik is instantly recognizable even through tinted shades and a Jersey accent that could be used as a crowbar and it is intensely confusing.
I may genuinely have to go look up some clips just to see him in it! (I've never seen Hill Street Blues, although I remember my mom watching it and I can summon up the theme song from memory.)
The other thing I was astounded to find out he was in is Tron, the original movie, and I even remember his character from watching the movie when I was a kid; I just had no idea.
Yeah, crime shows and dramas (also soaps, of both the nighttime and daytime variety) had ongoing storylines at that time, and there were shows that did a nice job with ongoing character development, or had fairly complex storylines. But I think B5 might be completely unique (and vanishingly rare even in the modern prestige TV era) in the sheer level of planning that went into it, including outright showing the viewer part of the ending in season three. (Almost exactly halfway through the show, I now realize.) And now that I've seen the finale, it's fascinating to me that the show doesn't try to rehash any part of that; in an era before DVDs and streaming, it gives viewers credit for knowing what happened to some of the characters' future versions two and a half seasons ago, and being able to slot that into their understanding of how the ending goes together with the other parts we see in the finale.
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I may genuinely have to go look up some clips just to see him in it! (I've never seen Hill Street Blues, although I remember my mom watching it and I can summon up the theme song from memory.)
The other thing I was astounded to find out he was in is Tron, the original movie, and I even remember his character from watching the movie when I was a kid; I just had no idea.
Yeah, crime shows and dramas (also soaps, of both the nighttime and daytime variety) had ongoing storylines at that time, and there were shows that did a nice job with ongoing character development, or had fairly complex storylines. But I think B5 might be completely unique (and vanishingly rare even in the modern prestige TV era) in the sheer level of planning that went into it, including outright showing the viewer part of the ending in season three. (Almost exactly halfway through the show, I now realize.) And now that I've seen the finale, it's fascinating to me that the show doesn't try to rehash any part of that; in an era before DVDs and streaming, it gives viewers credit for knowing what happened to some of the characters' future versions two and a half seasons ago, and being able to slot that into their understanding of how the ending goes together with the other parts we see in the finale.