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There are religious beliefs among humans that pose similar dilemmas: Scientologists opposing all medicine, Jehovah's Witnesses opposing blood transfusions, etc. I think occasionally there've been some stories in the news where someone dies for these beliefs too. Which made me wonder--I've...

Without any intention whatsoever to renew this debate, it's interesting how one of Kosh's lines from this very episode sort of ties into the issue of art interpretation: "a stroke of the brush doesn't guarantee art from the bristles." A very Vorlon quote--I take it to mean that art requires a...

I took it as (we're) "not ready for immortality" because we would very likely seek it even if it meant killing for it. Not sure if Earth leadership, or the Narn or any other powers that may have been courting Jha'dur, knew that fact about the serum, yet--but once they did find that out, would...

I don't think we ever see the small, portable organic devices the Shadows also had (which those smuggled artifacts remind somewhat of) in the show itself, but in some of the books we do see them. Such as the Shadow Within and

Sheridan and Ivanova among the major humans (with Garibaldi also having some great moments) Kosh, Londo and G'Kar among the major non-humans Neroon, Lennier, and Na'Toth among the minors Morden, Refa and Bester among the "villains"/antagonists Rewatching S1 and S2 again, I'm also gaining...

It's definitely a good thing, IMHO, that JMS didn't make the alien races clearly analogous to any particular human culture or civilization, avoided obvious or direct historical analogs, and in general avoided making episodes synching with current political or social events and whatnot (for the...

I have the original Swedish trilogy. Haven't checked out the remake (will that also cover the story in three movies, or a lesser number?), to see how it compares. A very good revenge/justice story, and triumph of someone whose circumstances put her in a class of people totally disrgarded...

Also saw him recently in Guyana Tragedy (a movie about Jim Jones and the mass suicide of the People's Temple congregants in Guyana)--he was a troubled junkie but very meek boy who ended up converting, cleaning up, and going to med school with Jones' support, and ended up being the guy who...

I'm not sure just how many directly witnessed the "divine intervention". Of those that only hear about it second-hand, there probably was a lot of skepticism, along with some believers. That there were some who were there, who saw or claimed they saw nothing (Londo might not have been the only...

I missed that hint (that they had worshipped the Shadows) in all my viewings and readings. Was there something I missed (I often do find some new thing in repeat viewings)? Unless it had to do with In the time of B5 anyway, they were a polytheistic race with various household gods that seemed...

We see Delenn tell Sheridan, in the "time flash", not to go to Z'ha'dum--knowing what would happen, I can sort of see why from a personal standpoint (he'd be limited to 20 more years of life, and at the time of that scene the end of that was coming close)--but what would have happened had he not...

In the Psi Corps trilogy we see Bester inserting "programming" into certain people he runs into, taking little time at all. Not sure if Garibaldi's was all that more sophisticated (the programming mainly enhanced his natural skeptic and paranoid tendencies, to where they would exceed his...

Although I didn't catch this when I first watched this episode on DVD, I note that the opening credit sequence for S2 included Delenn with her new look--so if you're one to pay attention to these, the "suspense" would be spoiled. Not to mention that her picture is also on the cover of the DVD...

...and when I heard the Soviet Premier's voice on the phone, could swear it sounded almost exactly like Londo's (i.e. Peter Jurasik's) voice, in a very similar accent. I can't seem to find a credit for that though, as it was purely a voice role. Anyone know if it was him? (Very excellent and...

She was hot, lol. That may have been it, wouldn't surprise me. Obviously that "Matters of Honor" scene indicates a direct familiarity with the Shadows, and they probably were in that room (just unseen), as they seem to be always with Morden even when we don't see their wavy out-of-phase...

You mean the assumption that the scope of events of B5 (and the races involved) was galaxy-wide? That seems to be at least strongly implied by various things said in the show, the "division" of the galaxy worked out by Morden and Londo, the fact that all the First Ones had to be expelled from...

Actually, I'd never seen that site before, but yeah.... And funny how I forgot that Londo had mentioned being "75 light years" from his wives, when he was on the station. That rules out Zeta Tucanae then (even if we're talking "Centauri years" for "light years"--a planet orbiting that star in...

I was just reading the Wikipedia article on Minbar, and saw that it stated this planet was supposed to be in the Chi Draconis system, a star system only 25 light years away from Sol. I actually found this when I was reading the article on Chi Draconis, and clicked on the Chi Draconis in fiction...