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    The Road Home review thread (contains spoilers)

    No Shadow War is certainly in interesting alternate for a reboot, but boy does it open a can o Big Worms. What happened to B4? Valen?? The Grey Council?? The Rangers? The Battle of the Line obviously didn’t happen. Did Sheridan get famous for killing the Dark Star or something else, he was...
  2. J

    Picard Season 3 - I really miss Gene Roddenberry

    I started to watch the first episode of this and stopped after Dr Crushers firefight. What blithering idiot came up with her weapon?! TOS phasers were powerful dangerous IMPROVED weapons compared to current technology. The pistol-grip version could kill armies, heat boulders redhot, vaporize...
  3. J

    New To Babylon 5

    I doubted he would repent his ways or go out with an act of heroic sacrifice, but with JMS you never know.
  4. J

    New To Babylon 5

    Odd Symmetries Season 3 Ep14&15, Bester and Londo both lose the loves of their lives to shadow agents, one in a deliberate act of malice the other in an act of indifference. Both ‘men’ shift alliances in response, Londo moves back into the darkness, Bester shifts toward the light. Later both...
  5. J

    Netflix's Live Action Cowboy Bebop

    "It was a mercy killing." - Meatloaf
  6. J

    Rewatch #3 Big theme ideas and questions

    Jumped vs Pushed Choices, consequences and responsibility are the underpinnings of B5, but - as the interrogator says - to claim you are not influenced by others is ridiculous. Many of the main characters chose to make the big decisions - they Jump, blindly sometimes but they make a decision...
  7. J

    NEW Babylon 5 Series

    Not to be a buzzkill, but until the pilot gets made a lot of people seem to be counting chickens not only before they've hatched but before the eggs have even been laid. Count me in on the Cautiously Optimistic But Distrustful of WB column.
  8. J

    Rewatch #3 Big theme ideas and questions

    Re: Be a good little Mimbari?? If the Vorlons hadn't eliminated Deathwalker, the Shadows almost certainly would have gotten their dream war started - For Free - courtesy of a Vorlon ally. I love this show, so many levels to watch it at and entertaining on all of them.
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    Rewatch #3 Big theme ideas and questions

    Enough power to destroy but not control, haven't heard of that problem before! LOL I wonder about Pres Clark now, was he rebelling against the Shadows by turning the EA insular or was it some deep plot to have a reserve force to kick over the remaining anthills once the dust settled? Earth...
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    Rewatch #3 Big theme ideas and questions

    Be a good little Mimbari?? The inquisitor tells Delenn to be be a good little mimbari and obey and conform, but that's not what mimbari do. The windswords disobey the council to attack Kosh and shield Deathwalker, Delenn disobeys the council for the chrysalis and sorta by reading the Eye on...
  11. J

    Rewatch #3 Big theme ideas and questions

    Vir and Lenier are portrayed as almost complete mirror opposites, G'Kar's attache gets dropped out due to casting issues (as i've recently learned) although T'Lon functions as a sort of stand-in. My question is What was the story arc for her intended to be? A willing convert to G'Kar's new...
  12. J

    Claudia Christian interview

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xzL-U_h44 Hathor Hosts TV episode 10 if the link doesn't work. Nothing earthshattering but a bit more on her departure than I've heard before.
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    EpDis: A Distant Star

    Didn't see the Cortez in any of the civil War fights, but don't recall if it was mentioned. Not likely that an explorer class ship would seek out combat, maybe come in for clean-up or rebuilding. The good Captain Jack in the show.
  14. J

    Shadows, Vorlons, and... math?

    Bigger certainly, tougher - maybe, but orders of magnitude tougher - i doubt. It's not obvious to me that visible is a Shadow's natural state. Maybe they're hiding while escorting Morden, maybe they're only visible when they need you to see them. On the White Star during the final...
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    Shadows, Vorlons, and... math?

    Interesting math with flawed premises. Why assume Sheridan or the Centauri guards killed any Shadows? In The Long Dark the shadow warrior ate ppg fire from a half dozen weapons and came back for more repeatedly. My assumption is that the Shadows in both incidents responded to the weapons fire...
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