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b5_revisitedRecap and discussion for 5 x 22 – Sleeping in Light
And I cried all the way through it. I always have but in 2005, my daughter went out for a Sunday drive with a friend and never returned so it’s always doubly sad to me. It’s like saying goodbye all over again.
And again.
JMS gave the series a lovely and poignant ending.
We open with John dreaming of Lorien. Delenn wakes after he does and she tells him that dreaming about it 3 nights in a row may not mean what he thinks but he tells her it does… that he knows it is time.
He tells her to go back to sleep and he gets up. She joins him a short time later and he says he has never seen the sun rise in Minbar. They watch. He tells her to send the messages.
We see Ivanova in her office listening as her assistant reads her schedule for the day. Suddenly the door pops open and a man says he tried to stop him, the person who came in. It’s a Ranger with a message but sh3e knows as soon as she sees him what it is, a message from Sheridan.
Vir is in bed with his wives, giggling and such, when an aid knocks on the door and says a courier has arrived from Minbar. It’s a Ranger with a letter from Sheridan. He tells the aid to cancel his meetings and arrange for him to go to Minbar.
Garibaldi is reading the financial section when his daughter and franklin come in from a tennis game. They chat and Garibaldi tells his daughter that he’ll be out to play her soon. She runs out to the court and is back in a moment with someone to see her father. It’s a Ranger with the message. He and Stephen are heading to Minbar.
Franklin is examining Sheridan and tells him, after a bit of hemming and hawing, the he may have 4 or 5 days left. He asks John how Delenn is taking it and John says she will be fine. Delenn comes in and Franklin leaves. John asks her if she got everything and tells her he was a celebration, not sadness.
We join the scene with everyone laughing, eating, drinking and talking about their days on Babylon 5. Vir tells a story about hearing the Pak’ma’ra singing and Londo getting teary and saying that that sound must be what god sounds like. He says he misses Londo still.
Joh makes a toast: To absent friends, in memory bright.”
Garibaldi: “G’kar.”
Vir: “Londo.”
Delenn: “Lennier.”
Franklin” “Mar-“
Ivanova: “Marcus.”
After dinner, Ivanova asks Delenn how she is handling it. Delenn tells her she is ready. Susan asks about David and Delenn says he is on a Ranger training mission and his father would rather he remember him as he was. Delenn mentions that she is now president of the ISA and that John has been spending his time with the Rangers. She asks Ivanova if she will be Ranger One in John’s stead. Ivanova says she’d like to think about it.
John asks Delenn if she talked to Susan.
John isn’t sleepy and tells Delenn that tomorrow would be Sunday back on Earth and he tells her about the Sunday drives that he and his family went on every Sunday afternoon. He says he’d like to do that as well, to feel space beneath him one more time.
“I’m going to go for a drive…” he will rise and leave before the others get up, to save the sad goodbyes. He says it will be something everyone will remember, like the Minbari going to the sea.
He puts on his uniform and tells Delenn goodbye. She is dressed in her ‘Sunday best” as well. It’s a perfect day for a drive.
At Babylon 5, a jumpgate opens and John’s White Star comes through. He comes on board the station and finds out that the station is being decommissioned so there is only a shut-down crew there. He walks around and sees Zack, who says every part of the place has people’s fingerprints – layers and layers of people’s lives.
Zack asks Sheridan where he’s heading and he tells him the Coriana system.
He is there and is fading fast as he sees a light and Lorien is with him, asking the questions he asked so long ago, the questions the whole story has revolved around: "Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going? "
He then asks Sheridan, “Did you really think we had forgotten you?”
Lorien reassures him and he sees a bright light: “"Well look at that, the sun's coming up."
We then are on Babylon 5 after the decommissioning. Ivanova narrates then, telling us that Sheridan’s ship was found, but he was not in it. They all go… Garibaldi last. A workman, JMS himself, turns the mli8ghts off for the final time.
They leave in a shuttle, passing through a line of alien ships on either side, paying final respects to the station (and to Sheridan, too, I suspect).
The station blows up in slow motion.
As we see Garibaldi back at home, Franklin with a Pak’ma’ra patient, Zack on Centauri Prime with Vir, Delenn on Minbar in uniform, Ivanova continues:
"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future...or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't...who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings......even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up. "
That’s all. There aren’t any questions left to ask.
Thanks for taking this ride with us and join us soon as we rewatch the movies and Crusade.
And I cried all the way through it. I always have but in 2005, my daughter went out for a Sunday drive with a friend and never returned so it’s always doubly sad to me. It’s like saying goodbye all over again.
And again.
JMS gave the series a lovely and poignant ending.
We open with John dreaming of Lorien. Delenn wakes after he does and she tells him that dreaming about it 3 nights in a row may not mean what he thinks but he tells her it does… that he knows it is time.
He tells her to go back to sleep and he gets up. She joins him a short time later and he says he has never seen the sun rise in Minbar. They watch. He tells her to send the messages.
We see Ivanova in her office listening as her assistant reads her schedule for the day. Suddenly the door pops open and a man says he tried to stop him, the person who came in. It’s a Ranger with a message but sh3e knows as soon as she sees him what it is, a message from Sheridan.
Vir is in bed with his wives, giggling and such, when an aid knocks on the door and says a courier has arrived from Minbar. It’s a Ranger with a letter from Sheridan. He tells the aid to cancel his meetings and arrange for him to go to Minbar.
Garibaldi is reading the financial section when his daughter and franklin come in from a tennis game. They chat and Garibaldi tells his daughter that he’ll be out to play her soon. She runs out to the court and is back in a moment with someone to see her father. It’s a Ranger with the message. He and Stephen are heading to Minbar.
Franklin is examining Sheridan and tells him, after a bit of hemming and hawing, the he may have 4 or 5 days left. He asks John how Delenn is taking it and John says she will be fine. Delenn comes in and Franklin leaves. John asks her if she got everything and tells her he was a celebration, not sadness.
We join the scene with everyone laughing, eating, drinking and talking about their days on Babylon 5. Vir tells a story about hearing the Pak’ma’ra singing and Londo getting teary and saying that that sound must be what god sounds like. He says he misses Londo still.
Joh makes a toast: To absent friends, in memory bright.”
Garibaldi: “G’kar.”
Vir: “Londo.”
Delenn: “Lennier.”
Franklin” “Mar-“
Ivanova: “Marcus.”
After dinner, Ivanova asks Delenn how she is handling it. Delenn tells her she is ready. Susan asks about David and Delenn says he is on a Ranger training mission and his father would rather he remember him as he was. Delenn mentions that she is now president of the ISA and that John has been spending his time with the Rangers. She asks Ivanova if she will be Ranger One in John’s stead. Ivanova says she’d like to think about it.
John asks Delenn if she talked to Susan.
John isn’t sleepy and tells Delenn that tomorrow would be Sunday back on Earth and he tells her about the Sunday drives that he and his family went on every Sunday afternoon. He says he’d like to do that as well, to feel space beneath him one more time.
“I’m going to go for a drive…” he will rise and leave before the others get up, to save the sad goodbyes. He says it will be something everyone will remember, like the Minbari going to the sea.
He puts on his uniform and tells Delenn goodbye. She is dressed in her ‘Sunday best” as well. It’s a perfect day for a drive.
At Babylon 5, a jumpgate opens and John’s White Star comes through. He comes on board the station and finds out that the station is being decommissioned so there is only a shut-down crew there. He walks around and sees Zack, who says every part of the place has people’s fingerprints – layers and layers of people’s lives.
Zack asks Sheridan where he’s heading and he tells him the Coriana system.
He is there and is fading fast as he sees a light and Lorien is with him, asking the questions he asked so long ago, the questions the whole story has revolved around: "Who are you? What do you want? Why are you here? Where are you going? "
He then asks Sheridan, “Did you really think we had forgotten you?”
Lorien reassures him and he sees a bright light: “"Well look at that, the sun's coming up."
We then are on Babylon 5 after the decommissioning. Ivanova narrates then, telling us that Sheridan’s ship was found, but he was not in it. They all go… Garibaldi last. A workman, JMS himself, turns the mli8ghts off for the final time.
They leave in a shuttle, passing through a line of alien ships on either side, paying final respects to the station (and to Sheridan, too, I suspect).
The station blows up in slow motion.
As we see Garibaldi back at home, Franklin with a Pak’ma’ra patient, Zack on Centauri Prime with Vir, Delenn on Minbar in uniform, Ivanova continues:
"Babylon 5 was the last of the Babylon stations. There would never be another. It changed the future, and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future...or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't...who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly though, I think it gave us hope that there can always be new beginnings......even for people like us. As for Delenn, every morning for as long as she lived, Delenn got up before dawn and watched the sun come up. "
That’s all. There aren’t any questions left to ask.
Thanks for taking this ride with us and join us soon as we rewatch the movies and Crusade.
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Date: 2018-03-13 05:53 am (UTC)Thank you for posting all of these.
It is rare that we get such a wonderful wrap-up ending for a show. Was B5 one of the first? It was a love-letter to the entire series, real, heartbreaking, beautiful.
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Date: 2018-03-13 12:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-13 06:37 pm (UTC)I haven't watched Crusade. Maybe this is the right time.