Episode 1 x 10 - Believers

[alexcat]

Believers – 1 x10

Here is a recap at TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BabylonFiveS01E10Believers

There is also a discussion post here: https://b5-revisited.dreamwidth.org/88433.html

The alien mother M'Ola:



And young Shon:



I personally hate this episode. I have lost a child and simply cannot fathom any religion that would be this stupid. Period. I understand the politics and the sticky situation, but at the end of the day, I’d have done what Franklin did. Franklin had an oath to uphold as well. He is a bit on the arrogant side, but we come to know this is his character.

Kosh got the best line with “The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.”

It would appear that no one is willing to stick their neck out either way in this one except Stephen. Is he arrogant? Yes, he is always that. Is he wrong? Hell no. Is Sinclair right? As captain, I suppose so but I’m still with Franklin on this one.

There are real ethical problems here, I suppose, but I simply don’t see them. It’s all pretty black and white to me.

The raiders subplot never interested me much even though it led to more eventually. We did get to see Ivanova show off a bit.

Comments

[jesuswasbatman]

This is the episode that I had much more negative views on during my rewatch than when I first saw it, as when it was first broadcast it was such a shocking subversion of a Star Trek: The Next Generation "issue of the week" episode, but now... it's basically just a Star Trek: The Next Generation "issue of the week" episode.

[alexcat]

I didn't actually watch ST: NG so that wasn't true for me. As much as I disliked the episode, it was typical of JMS and his penchant for looking into the dark sides of faith and patriotism as well (in other episodes)