Whoo, finally caught up again. Well, I mostly like this episode, for Lennier and the motorcycle if nothing else.
Harriman Grey is adorable, and I want to pat him on the head. I have this mental image of him as a shy, scrawny young kid with his little model ships and his stutter and I feel so sorry for him. He gets to be a military liason, sure, but I suppose he's too much of a nice guy and too far out of Bester's circle to, say, fly the Black Omega starfuries?
Speaking of Bester, it's interesting that he chose Grey of all people for this assignment. You would think that he'd want someone loyal to him, or at least more loyal to the Corps.
The thing with the bike always cracks me up, but I sort of wonder how Garibaldi managed to fit all those parts in his quarters, and where it ended up after this episode. It does demonstrate that Lennier's a pretty quick study, too. Had he already learned Japanese, or was he picking it up right then? I'm afraid I wasn't paying enough attention to notice.
At one point Garibaldi says "if I knew where God was, I'd thank Her," did I hear that right? I never noticed that before, but it tickled me.
While I like the concept of Sinclair being taken to task for all the rule-bending he does running the station, it only works if there's some possibility that he might be in the wrong, or at the least, not entirely perfect and above the law just because he's the hero and the investigator is crazy.
Finally, Mars. It's easy to forget everything else in the deluge of CLARK IS EVIL EVIL in later seasons, but it's obvious here that Clark himself isn't the root of the problem. There are a lot of people who think like he does, and all the extremist groups that later become allies of the Alliance are just a bunch of terrorists right now. Santiago may not be putting everyone under martial law, but I don't think he's an ally of Babylon 5, either.
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Date: 2009-05-14 03:24 am (UTC)Harriman Grey is adorable, and I want to pat him on the head. I have this mental image of him as a shy, scrawny young kid with his little model ships and his stutter and I feel so sorry for him. He gets to be a military liason, sure, but I suppose he's too much of a nice guy and too far out of Bester's circle to, say, fly the Black Omega starfuries?
Speaking of Bester, it's interesting that he chose Grey of all people for this assignment. You would think that he'd want someone loyal to him, or at least more loyal to the Corps.
The thing with the bike always cracks me up, but I sort of wonder how Garibaldi managed to fit all those parts in his quarters, and where it ended up after this episode. It does demonstrate that Lennier's a pretty quick study, too. Had he already learned Japanese, or was he picking it up right then? I'm afraid I wasn't paying enough attention to notice.
At one point Garibaldi says "if I knew where God was, I'd thank Her," did I hear that right? I never noticed that before, but it tickled me.
While I like the concept of Sinclair being taken to task for all the rule-bending he does running the station, it only works if there's some possibility that he might be in the wrong, or at the least, not entirely perfect and above the law just because he's the hero and the investigator is crazy.
Finally, Mars. It's easy to forget everything else in the deluge of CLARK IS EVIL EVIL in later seasons, but it's obvious here that Clark himself isn't the root of the problem. There are a lot of people who think like he does, and all the extremist groups that later become allies of the Alliance are just a bunch of terrorists right now. Santiago may not be putting everyone under martial law, but I don't think he's an ally of Babylon 5, either.