B5 Rewatch: 3×09 "Point of No Return"
Martial Law spreads to B5, as Londo seeks an escape from his fate. A-Plot: This is the biggie. With martial law declared back on Earth, and a message passed on from General Hague to Sheridan that they...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×10 "Severed Dreams"
"The Babylon Project was a dream given form." — Jeffrey Sinclair, Season 1 intro"It failed." — Susan Ivanova, Season 3 intro This episode is touted by some as the best of the series, combining various...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch Reviews in Review
So we've now watched just about half of the regular broadcast episodes of "Babylon 5" in our household, and I've been doing reviews of each episode — 55 of them to date — it's time for some...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×11 “Ceremonies of Light and Dark”
(Rather than writing this post in G+ and having it flow to my blog, I’m going to try it the other way around — I’m finding, for long-format posts, G+ is annoyingly limited.) It’s time for a new status...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×12 “Sic Transit Vir”
Some get into trouble themselves. Others have trouble thrust upon them. So things are for everyone’s favorite (or second favorite, if you like Lennier better) diplomatic attache, Vir Kotto. A-Plot: In...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×13 “A Late Delivery from Avalon”
King Arthur has returned from Avalon, in the form of Michael York. Or has he? The Return of the King A-Plot: This is really most of the plot of this done-in-one episode. Arthur — in chainmail and...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×14 “Ship of Tears”
People are asking favors of the B5 command staff, both Psi-Cop Bester and potential ally G’Kar. Who will get their wish? Welcome Back, Bester A-Plot: Bester arrives at the station with information,...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×15 “Interludes and Examinations”
Such a calm, quiet, introspective episode title. Who would think it would become a huge WHAM-stick to the head? A-Plot: The Shadows are on the move, striking into hapless small star nations (many of...
View ArticleIt was the dawn of the Second Age of B5
So I give it a 37.2% chance of ever hitting the screens — it's very unclear from the article how it would, in reality, be funded if Warners gives it a pass. That said — hell, yeah, I'm excited. I am...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×16, 3×17 “War Without End” (Parts 1 and 2)
Babylon 4 is all timey-wimey. After the dramatic storm that was “Interludes and Examinations,” what should be a key moment in B5 history falls almost a little flat. This two-part episode, resolving the...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×18 “Walkabout”
So, yeah, after the game-changing “Interludes and Examinations,” and the epic “War Without End” double-episode, almost anything that could come along would be anticlimactic. Which, sadly, “Walkabout”...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×19 “Grey 17 Is Missing”
Oh, my. B5′s third season is considered one of the best, and certainly some of the best eps in the series are in this season. As such, “Grey 17 Is Missing” is such a clunker, it’s infamous just for...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×20 “And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place”
So, yes, I confess I am a sucker for the ominous count-down: Z MINUS 14 DAYS … The first of the Final Three for the season, this episode jettisons the smaller, lighter stories we’ve recently had and...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×21 “Shadow Dancing”
z MINUS 7 DAYS … It’s the penultimate episode of Season 3! Big external battle! Big internal battle! And the galaxy’s most awkward moment! Yeah, that’s a bloody awful lot of ships. A-Plot: Okay,so the...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 3×22 “Z’Ha’Dum”
Tick. Tock. It’s the final episode of the season! And, damn, a great way to wrap things up in a huge cliff-hanger to get people to eagerly await Season 4! (The irony being that (a) there was a very...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 4×01 “The Hour of the Wolf”
Home of “Kung Fu: The Adventure Continues,” “Time Trax,” and, of course, B5. The end of Season 3 of “Babylon 5″ brought a near-end of the PTEN “network” of stations. Warner Brothers (eventually) found...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 4×02 “Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi?”
The balls started rolling last ep pick up speed this time out. There feels like about 2-3 episodes of activity going on in this single outing, and even the most quiet of plotlines pushes forward at...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 4×03 “The Summoning”
Pebbles in the avalanche. As Kosh used to say, “The avalanche has started; it is too late for the pebbles to vote.” This episode wraps up two plotlines, advances another one in a stomach-lurching...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 4×04 “Falling Toward Apotheosis”
“Apotheosis” is “The fact or action of becoming or making into a god; deification.” There are three gods in this episode — or, rather, three individuals who either consider themselves gods or are...
View ArticleB5 Rewatch: 4×05 “The Long Night”
One plotline comes to an end (sort of), while another ramps up, and everything alternates between black comedy and moving tragedy. A-Plot: Londo is pressing the conspiracy against Cartagia forward as...
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