lizbee | Babylon 5: "Infection" (Reply)

I think I skipped this on my first round through the series, because I had the idea it wasn't very good. HOW WRONG I WAS! Admittedly it sows the seeds of JMS's worrying reporter-hate, and the plot sort of wandered in from some other franchises, but you have to love an episode where Sinclair talks down a Cyberman by giving it a big, Star Trek style speech. Admittedly, Michael O'Hare is no Patrick Stewart, or Avery Brooks, or Kate Mulgrew, or William Shatner, or that guy from Enterprise whose name I forget because I gave up after five episodes, but still. He tries. And the scenery doesn't yet have Bruce Boxleitner's toothmarks all over it, so it's sort of ... fresh and new and hilarious.

Two consecutive episodes without Delenn makes me itchy. I realise that watching Babylon 5 just for her is a bit like watching Doctor Who just for one twenty-first century sales assistant (spare a thought for the rabid Lochley fans. Fan? There has to be one. Somewhere), but I think we all knew I was going to end up Doing It Wrong.