Recent content by raw_bean

OK, but if you need something from someone - let's say directions in an unfamiliar town - and you've never met them before and have no idea how well disposed they are to helping strangers, do you: a) run up and threaten them while insisting that they owe you help, or b) first of all try asking...

Well, I have long hair in a pony tail, and I hate Byron and his weird, singing cult. I tend to agree with Chilli, about everything except the hair. :-\ As for whether Byron wanted to die or was just willing, I think the (completely avoidable) manner of his death answers that one. He was always...

Well, his dialogue in that scene was certainly a lot better than rambling about willow branches. :-\ Although in my own experience of people that want to hit someone, it wouldn't have any effect.

Yes indeed! There are some comics, novels, and hard to find short stories that are both good quality, and are either written, outlined, or at least overseen by series creator JMS and are therefore largely 'in canon' and fit in the universe of the TV show/movies very well. Rather than list them...

So, what? It's not a wrong thing to do unless you get caught?

...except that Morden comes back pretty much the same, albeit crispy. I think the point of the 'no-one coming back the same' thing is covered the *first* time you go. Once Morden's been irrevocably corrupted/coerced by the Shadows, I'm pretty sure he can come and go without any major lifestyle...

^^ What they said.

Meaning that the Vorlons were never going to destroy Centauri Prime, given that the seer can see the future. The difference that killing Morden & the Shadows made is that it brought down the Drakh on Centauri Prime in retribution. By surrendering himself to his greatest fear (allowing G'Kar to...

No-one's suggesting that Catherine is not Sakai, just discussing the fact that Valen leaves his "I've found her..." message and addresses it to 'Catherine' as though the 'her' he found isn't Catheriner Sakai, which has now been established as a typo, because it was her.

Using centrifugal force to simulate gravity is nothing that wouldn't have occurred to people long before making it into space. It's something that you realise when you reach the level of technology to build roundabouts and carousels, not interstellar spaceships! Whereas the artificial gravity...

Yeah, it's definitely half-and-half for me. The first half is almost all bad - at least by B5 standards - and the second half is almost all excellent - by any standards!

Galen also seems to indicate strongly that he wants Sheridan to kill Vintari, but by the end of the story Sheridan seems convinced that he was lying about that, and I'm inclined to agree. And in Crusade he indicates pretty strongly that the Well of Forever would be a useful place to go on the...

I thought the Minbari ship looked Minbari! :D Their ships were always a bit bird-like, a bit fish-like, organic and curved and with dolphin-like fins. Nothing struck me as particularly 'Romulan' about the new Valen-class; in fact I'd say the old Valen-class ship from Legend of the Rangers made...

Well, I didn't see the show when broadcast, but from my late-comer, DVD-watching perspective I would have to differ and say that the climax of Z'ha'adum was the greatest, tensest, and most breath-taking moment of all B5, and possibly all TV I've ever seen, and was indeed designed that way.

Indeed. In fact I'd say that Vintari's enthusiasm and respect for Starfuries even suggests that the Starfuries of 2271 are significantly better ships than the ones from the Earth-Minbari war, which couldn't hold a candle to much of anything, except seemingly whatever the Dilgar had been using!