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4th February 2006, 08:53 PM
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| Brian G. Turner  | Babylon 5: Season 2 Watching Season 2 now - seen a number of episodes on video a few years back, but good to see the series more complete. The first episode starts off very strong - Sheridan is immediately introduced as inuitive and strategic, and potentially more confrontational when required than Sinclair. So it was pretty appalling to see the third in the series - Geometry of Shadows - which so far as I've seen, is the most appalling Babylong 5 episode ever made - Sheridan becomes a bumbling and naive officer, Ivanova stops being assertive, and the Drasi civil strife lacks any kind of meaning. Oh, and the technomages - just seemed like a wasted, pointless, concept. Good to see things back to normal after with the Explorer vessel trapped in Hyperspace... |
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4th February 2006, 11:57 PM
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| KenDodd'sDad'sDog'sDead  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Essex
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| Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 I rather liked that episode (didn't it win an award?). I hadn't actually considered Sheridan's change in character though, I must admit. I liked the foreboding atmosphere in this episode - the technomages with their air of mystery and power fleeing from the coming storm added something powerful to the threat of the shadows, I thought. Plus the CGI dragon was cool.  However, the highlight of this season had to be Severed Dreams or the 2 parter War without end. |
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5th February 2006, 09:19 AM
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| Brian G. Turner | Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 Those are brilliant, too, but I think you just jumped a season. I agree with your comments on the other thread - Season 3 was brilliant, and the height of SF on TV, in my opinion. I was so disappointed with Season 5, though. |
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5th February 2006, 07:15 PM
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| KenDodd'sDad'sDog'sDead Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Essex
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| Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 Quote:
Regarding season 5 - I think that was a problem for MJS. He originally had a 5 year story arc planned, but the show was going to be axed after season 4. He had no choice at the time to squash 2 years in to season 4. But then Sci-fi channel (I think) came to the rescue to fund a 5th season and JMS was left with a problem of finding a new story arc for the final year. He didn't do a bad job under the circumstances (though it was considerably weaker than the other seasons), and it paved the way for Crusade - I really wished that show continued. I always wanted to know what was in Gideon's mysterious box! | |
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7th February 2006, 02:36 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: France
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| Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 Quote:
Despite I'm fan of B5, I didn't like Crusade because it didn't follow main B5 patterns of political, religious and mystic plots. It was only adventure with nothing more. | |
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9th February 2006, 11:36 PM
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| Brian G. Turner | Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 Wow. Just watched episode 9 in Season 2: The Coming of the Shadows. Probably the best so far. We got to see a number of key major story arcs in play: ****SPOILERS!**** - introduction of the Rangers - Centauri-Narn war begins Some great acting, too, from G'Kar and Londo - Andreas Katsulas and Peter Jurassik - excellent work. |
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23rd July 2009, 08:12 PM
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| Re: Babylon 5: Season 2 Just watched the second series again. Incredible. This season is mainly focused on the coming Shadow War, but you can see some plot threads being sown for the Shridens fight against Earthforce/president Clark and the Telepath War. G'Kar's transition from a percieved bad guy to a man of wisdom has started. Londo, as ever, is superb as a man torn between his love for his homeworld and his conscience. On to my favourite season now. Series three. |
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