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lizbeeI sort of took a break after I finished re-watching season 3. Something about the status quo at the end is worth savouring. I think it's the bit where everyone is either deeply screwed or dead. Except, obviously, the person who manages to be both.
Y'know, I can reluctantly accept that Sheridan had to come back. It was the mid-nineties; even now, killing off your White Male Lead and passing his narrative roles onto two women would be risky. When B5 was being made, JMS was having to explain that, no, Ivanova's not a bitch/ball-breaker/man hater, and Sheridan's masculinity is not totally destroyed by her failure to take him seriously 100% of the time. So, yes, I've made my peace with zombie!Sheridan.
BUT WHY, FOR THE LOVE OF TINKERBELL JESUS FAIRY DOCTOR DOES HIS RESURRECTION HAVE TO INVOLVE LORIEN! SWEET DEUS EX MACHINA, IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE!
I mean, maybe I resent Lorien for not being Kosh, but it's like ... why? We already have a whole lot of First Ones to be extraneous to the plot! WE DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER ONE! In my mind, the ancient and mysterious alien living in Z'ha'dum is the Tenth Doctor, and he spends a couple of episodes wandering around the station with his hands in his pockets, occasionally pausing to deliver mockneyfied soliloquies about the amazingness of humanity, until Ivanova punches him in the face.
(A lot of my ideas end with Ivanova punching Ten in the face. I don't know. It's just a good mental image. And then he'd probably try and get her to come with him.)
On the upside, to counterbalance the Lorien Effect, we do have Delenn being slightly crazier than usual, and some awesome Centauri shenanigans. I was right, btw: mixing the Centauri plots with I, Claudius is a bad idea. And I'm constantly disturbed by how attractive Cartagia is -- I think it's the way his appearance is quite masculine, but his manner is somewhat effeminate, so you get this crazy androgyny happening. Emphasis on the crazy.
Weirdest bit of that subplot? The bit where Morden claims Londo as a friend. There speaks a man who has spent too much time with CGI insectoid aliens. He's grown tragically confused about the proper boundaries within a schmuck/shoulder devil relationship. (I was going to go on a no-doubt hilarious tangent here, but I got distracted picturing Vir as Londo's shoulder angel. Go on, picture it. HEAVEN.)
I can't believe I'm up to season 4 already. What will I do when I finish B5 again? Well, watch Crusade and the rest of the movies, obviously. BUT THEN WHAT? *weeps*
Y'know, I can reluctantly accept that Sheridan had to come back. It was the mid-nineties; even now, killing off your White Male Lead and passing his narrative roles onto two women would be risky. When B5 was being made, JMS was having to explain that, no, Ivanova's not a bitch/ball-breaker/man hater, and Sheridan's masculinity is not totally destroyed by her failure to take him seriously 100% of the time. So, yes, I've made my peace with zombie!Sheridan.
BUT WHY, FOR THE LOVE OF TINKERBELL JESUS FAIRY DOCTOR DOES HIS RESURRECTION HAVE TO INVOLVE LORIEN! SWEET DEUS EX MACHINA, IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNBEARABLE!
I mean, maybe I resent Lorien for not being Kosh, but it's like ... why? We already have a whole lot of First Ones to be extraneous to the plot! WE DIDN'T NEED ANOTHER ONE! In my mind, the ancient and mysterious alien living in Z'ha'dum is the Tenth Doctor, and he spends a couple of episodes wandering around the station with his hands in his pockets, occasionally pausing to deliver mockneyfied soliloquies about the amazingness of humanity, until Ivanova punches him in the face.
(A lot of my ideas end with Ivanova punching Ten in the face. I don't know. It's just a good mental image. And then he'd probably try and get her to come with him.)
On the upside, to counterbalance the Lorien Effect, we do have Delenn being slightly crazier than usual, and some awesome Centauri shenanigans. I was right, btw: mixing the Centauri plots with I, Claudius is a bad idea. And I'm constantly disturbed by how attractive Cartagia is -- I think it's the way his appearance is quite masculine, but his manner is somewhat effeminate, so you get this crazy androgyny happening. Emphasis on the crazy.
Weirdest bit of that subplot? The bit where Morden claims Londo as a friend. There speaks a man who has spent too much time with CGI insectoid aliens. He's grown tragically confused about the proper boundaries within a schmuck/shoulder devil relationship. (I was going to go on a no-doubt hilarious tangent here, but I got distracted picturing Vir as Londo's shoulder angel. Go on, picture it. HEAVEN.)
I can't believe I'm up to season 4 already. What will I do when I finish B5 again? Well, watch Crusade and the rest of the movies, obviously. BUT THEN WHAT? *weeps*
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Date: 2009-10-19 12:44 pm (UTC)Start again.