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b5_revisitedRewatch for Season 2, Episode 8 – A Race Through Dark Places
Our recaps this week are done by the wonderfulvjs2259 and you can read them here:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
Also get the notes from JMS at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
This is the episode with the “dinner date.”
But lots more happens. And a lot of it is totally useless to the actual story arc. This episode is about telepaths – their origin, the “Underground Railroad” and how much power they truly have. This episode would have you believe that Talia was going to be VERY important to the rest of the show. Hah!
We get evil Bester again and as much as I love Walter Koenig, I hate Bester with a deep and abiding passion. And if you know me, you also know I reallllllly don’t like telepaths in general.
I digress.
Nearly everything that we find out in this episode is eventually debunked. Telepaths do not come from where we think, Talia is not what we think, Jason Ironheart and his gifts were not that important after all… all of it, tossed out the window.
This point came up in the discussion at the Lurker’s Guide – why were there so many military vessels passing through at B5? Earth wasn’t at war yet. Perhaps it had to do with all the attacks on shipping that the Shadows were carrying out.
But there are some interesting questions:
1. What does Psi Corps do with all the rogues they bring home to help? Do they help them or kill them?
2. Who told Bester than Sheridan would be more sympathetic to Psi Corps?
3. Didn’t Delenn kick ass in that black dress?
4. Does anyone actually lay around their quarters in such gorgeous blue pajamas as Ivanova’s?
5. What was your favorite part of the episode?
6. Do you think Bester figured o9ut he’d been had?
Our recaps this week are done by the wonderful
vjs2259 and you can read them here: Dreamwidth
Livejournal
Also get the notes from JMS at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
This is the episode with the “dinner date.”
But lots more happens. And a lot of it is totally useless to the actual story arc. This episode is about telepaths – their origin, the “Underground Railroad” and how much power they truly have. This episode would have you believe that Talia was going to be VERY important to the rest of the show. Hah!
We get evil Bester again and as much as I love Walter Koenig, I hate Bester with a deep and abiding passion. And if you know me, you also know I reallllllly don’t like telepaths in general.
I digress.
Nearly everything that we find out in this episode is eventually debunked. Telepaths do not come from where we think, Talia is not what we think, Jason Ironheart and his gifts were not that important after all… all of it, tossed out the window.
This point came up in the discussion at the Lurker’s Guide – why were there so many military vessels passing through at B5? Earth wasn’t at war yet. Perhaps it had to do with all the attacks on shipping that the Shadows were carrying out.
But there are some interesting questions:
1. What does Psi Corps do with all the rogues they bring home to help? Do they help them or kill them?
2. Who told Bester than Sheridan would be more sympathetic to Psi Corps?
3. Didn’t Delenn kick ass in that black dress?
4. Does anyone actually lay around their quarters in such gorgeous blue pajamas as Ivanova’s?
5. What was your favorite part of the episode?
6. Do you think Bester figured o9ut he’d been had?
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Date: 2020-08-02 11:28 am (UTC)Sheridan's face when seeing Delenn for the first time in that black dress was pure Oh shit, I'm doomed. And a smitten Sheridan is hilarious.
And of course Ivanova needed to lounge around in that blue silk pajamas, how else could that evening turn into...whatever it's turning.
(Also, every freakin' time a shuttle enters B5 it... I mean, did they HAVE to make it look so suggestive?)