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4th February 2006, 09:53 PM
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| Admin and Tea-boy  Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: UK: SCOTLAND:
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| 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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5th February 2006, 12:57 AM
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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, 10:19 AM
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| 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, 08:15 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, 03:36 PM
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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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10th February 2006, 12:36 AM
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| 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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