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In the Technomage Trilogy, the Well of Forever was given as the place of origin for Technomage "tech". We later find out in the books that So it surprised me that this "Well of Forever" was someplace else entirely, unless I missed something in the books.

I think it means "foreigner" in Farsi actually--and there are cognates in some other southern Asian languages too, like "farang" (foreigner) in Thai. And actually, the English words "foreigner" or "foreign" sound an awful lot like "ferengi" or "farang" too, so I wonder if it too is a cognate...

Was (future Regent) Virini's joke to Vir sort of a foreshadowing? Q. What is more dangerous than a locked room full of angry Narns? A. One angry Narn with a key! (Besides the next scene showing the locked room full of Narn refugees, no doubt angered by the grievous things done to their...

Yeah, but I meant the fact that he was not under heavier security, let alone moved to Earth, to guard against rescue by anyone (such as the Mars resistance). But Galahad had a point that PsiCorps had a (secret) stronghold at Syria Planum (not sure if that's where his holding facility was) on...

Drugged-up Sheridan, on seeing Garibaldi in the rescue party: "Michael... boy was I gonna kick your butt for something... but I don't remember." Classic line! I kind of thought that the place they were holding Sheridan, the biggest fish they ever caught, would have been much more heavily...

I'm sure you're asking that rhetorically, but two words: he'll drink. Stylistically this is one of the best scenes in B5--albeit also one of the most devastating to a beloved character, up there with the death of Kosh, the torturing of G'Kar, or the "Keepering" of Londo. I sometimes wonder...

I wonder if the two Vorlons that were shown in "angelic" form with Valen and Zathras on B4 were Kosh and Ulkesh (from 1000 years ago, who'd come aboard before the Minbari who found the station). I'd have to watch again to see if they had orangish and purple encounter suits respectively. The...

I wonder, if this ep had a title having to do with the Delenn/Marcus/Neroon plot (say, "Den'Shar") rather than Grey 17, if it would still have been regarded by much of fandom as one of the worst B5 episodes.

I thought the title could apply to both Cartagia and Sheridan/younger races, in different ways. It was the first time Sheridan took a decisive stand against the Vorlons, which was a necessary step on the path of claiming the galaxy for the younger races and expelling the First Ones--which had...

I don't either, in the grand scheme of things, although I do think it's significant that this is obviously the main reason that motivated Londo to do it--it is the first reason given by the holo-Londo message*. If it weren't for that, or perhaps the power-rivalry developing between them that...

Just finished a book called the Quiet War by Paul McAuley, and am on its sequel, Gardens of the Sun. Both were written within the last four years. This is the first I've read of this British author, and I'm sure I'll read a lot more because he weaves a good story. These two books take place...

This is the specific ep of the three-parter where the Nightwatch is tricked and trapped (in a clever "use the letter of the law" kind of way, like we've seen other times). While the next ep is where the actual declared separation of B5 from Earth occurred, there was absolutely no stopping that...

Yes. I like the idea that it can be any of them--for different reasons (but with a general similarity). One way I looked at the quote "don't kill the man that is already dead", though, was that it implied there was no real need to kill such a person (i.e. he's "already dead", killing him would...

I love how Sheridan chastises the agent at the end for putting his security forces on a "wild goose chase", while having Ivanova submit the agent a report with recommendations for other "goose chases" he can go on. Very well played. And was anyone surprised, on first watch, that Kosh even got...

We're seeing, sort of, the process of them (by way of the PsiCorps) attempting to do just that, throughout the series. But remember that telepathy was first noticed among humans maybe 100 or so years ago (whenever the PsiCorps trilogy story started--I think it was close to the time humans first...

And oddly enough, conversely, this is one of the few eps (I caught 2 or 3) I did see when the series aired. (I didn't get "into" the show until buying season 1 on DVD about three or four years ago.) I remember the creepiness of Walter Koenig's character, and also being creeped out by the whole...

I'm not sure how "accidental" or an adjustment to casting circumstances this show was though. I think there still would have been the need to introduce the face of the darker side of PsiCorps (i.e. Bester), and that could have easily had to do with having psi-cops hunting down someone who could...

Sheridan's face, darkened by shadow in the interrogation room as he tells Morden he'll keep him there as long as it takes ("days, weeks, months, years") to get answers. One of the most intense scenes in the series. Talia's pointed slap to Sheridan's face after he manipulated her into reading...

If "Grey 17" was called "Denn'Shar" ("to the death", which was Marcus' challenge to Neroon in defense of Delenn--to me the real A-story), I think it would be remembered more as an arc episode. While there's nothing too direct relating to the arc, we do get a good sense of the "flavor" of...