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lizbeeGuys, please, please, please reassure me that season 5 of Babylon 5 will stop sucking soon? There was some improvement after "A View From the Gallery" (and wow, I had been telling myself that people were maybe overstating the fail, and it couldn't be as bad as all that -- but no. I'm just glad I was warned; imagine tuning in on a weekly basis, knowing that your show is ending soon -- and getting that. Like being slapped in the face with a dead squid.) but then there's Byron. Lurking around being ... Byronic.
I think maybe I didn't take to Marcus because he reminded me of Byron? Remember, I saw season 5 years ago, without watching the rest of the show, and I remember having very strong feelings of dislike towards Byron. Which haven't lessened with time, not helped by the fact he looks weirdly like bad fan art of the Eighth Doctor. And then there was the Sex Scene With Added Vorlons. I like to think that Claudia Christian took one look at Bryon and vanished, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake. (Well, JMS said he did tell her about the proposed Ivanova/Byron arc.)
So yes, please tell me it gets better after the telepath clusterfuck is over?
(AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING -- WHY CAN'T BYRON PRONOUNCE "TELEPATH"? HE FUCKING IS ONE!)
Sorry. Maybe I got a bit worked up there.
At least, once "A View From the Gallery" was over and behind me, I could stop being vaguely embarrassed by the Sheridan/Delenn scenes. That was a relief; if it had gone on in that vein for much longer, I might have had to start shipping Ivanova/Neroon or something.
AND ANOTHER THING -- sorry, this has been bugging me since "Rising Star". Sheridan's going off with his dad, saying, "We have all the time in the world". Only they don't, because he has less than twenty years to live, and the next day he's going to leave Earth, marry a woman his parents know mostly through hostile propaganda, and eventually make a permanent move to another planet. I guess this makes him what Lois McMaster Bujold calls "a hero who never has to call his mother". It bugs me. Almost as much as it bugs me that we barely see his mother, and she never gets a name (in the script) or a line of dialogue. There seems to be a lot of Sheridan/Delenn fic where she's the stereotypical mother-in-law. Which is silly, because Sheridan might have a passive-aggressive mother, but Delenn has Lennier.
Anyway, the thing where Sheridan's parents are very likely to outlive him sort of bugs me. I may have to write fic.
At least I've stopped thinking about Byron, though.
I think maybe I didn't take to Marcus because he reminded me of Byron? Remember, I saw season 5 years ago, without watching the rest of the show, and I remember having very strong feelings of dislike towards Byron. Which haven't lessened with time, not helped by the fact he looks weirdly like bad fan art of the Eighth Doctor. And then there was the Sex Scene With Added Vorlons. I like to think that Claudia Christian took one look at Bryon and vanished, leaving a cloud of dust in her wake. (Well, JMS said he did tell her about the proposed Ivanova/Byron arc.)
So yes, please tell me it gets better after the telepath clusterfuck is over?
(AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING -- WHY CAN'T BYRON PRONOUNCE "TELEPATH"? HE FUCKING IS ONE!)
Sorry. Maybe I got a bit worked up there.
At least, once "A View From the Gallery" was over and behind me, I could stop being vaguely embarrassed by the Sheridan/Delenn scenes. That was a relief; if it had gone on in that vein for much longer, I might have had to start shipping Ivanova/Neroon or something.
AND ANOTHER THING -- sorry, this has been bugging me since "Rising Star". Sheridan's going off with his dad, saying, "We have all the time in the world". Only they don't, because he has less than twenty years to live, and the next day he's going to leave Earth, marry a woman his parents know mostly through hostile propaganda, and eventually make a permanent move to another planet. I guess this makes him what Lois McMaster Bujold calls "a hero who never has to call his mother". It bugs me. Almost as much as it bugs me that we barely see his mother, and she never gets a name (in the script) or a line of dialogue. There seems to be a lot of Sheridan/Delenn fic where she's the stereotypical mother-in-law. Which is silly, because Sheridan might have a passive-aggressive mother, but Delenn has Lennier.
Anyway, the thing where Sheridan's parents are very likely to outlive him sort of bugs me. I may have to write fic.
At least I've stopped thinking about Byron, though.
