Rewatch for Season2, Episode 17 - Knives
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b5_revisitedRewatch for Season 2, Episode 17 – Knives
Links to recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
This episode has only 2 plotlines, which is pretty unusual for the show. We have John and his ‘visitor’ and we have Londo’s old friend Urza.
John finds out about the B5 Triangle and can’t resist checking it out himself. He gets zapped and evidently a being of some kind pops into his body. He decides to go to where B4 disappeared to take it back.
Vir and Londo sing opera! Londo’s old dueling buddy, Urza, shows up and we find out eventually that he has come for Londo to kill him so his family will be protected as he has been accused of treason by Refa and his cohort.
Plus John plays baseball!
The stories did not seem so important except for a few details:
This is how we show John Sheridan the B4 information from Babylon Squared. Garibaldi kept a copy of all the files when Earthdome had them all sent there.
Refa is consolidating his power under the new emperor and getting rid of all the ones who know he had the Prime Minister killed.
1. Did this whole episode seem a bit of a throwaway?
2. Did Londo seem rather cavalier about the whole thing until he had to kill his friend?
3. Did you note how upset Vir was at the prospect of Londo being hurt or killed?
4. How about that baseball stuff? I thought it was quite neat… wish we’d gotten more things like that in the show.
Links to recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
This episode has only 2 plotlines, which is pretty unusual for the show. We have John and his ‘visitor’ and we have Londo’s old friend Urza.
John finds out about the B5 Triangle and can’t resist checking it out himself. He gets zapped and evidently a being of some kind pops into his body. He decides to go to where B4 disappeared to take it back.
Vir and Londo sing opera! Londo’s old dueling buddy, Urza, shows up and we find out eventually that he has come for Londo to kill him so his family will be protected as he has been accused of treason by Refa and his cohort.
Plus John plays baseball!
The stories did not seem so important except for a few details:
This is how we show John Sheridan the B4 information from Babylon Squared. Garibaldi kept a copy of all the files when Earthdome had them all sent there.
Refa is consolidating his power under the new emperor and getting rid of all the ones who know he had the Prime Minister killed.
1. Did this whole episode seem a bit of a throwaway?
2. Did Londo seem rather cavalier about the whole thing until he had to kill his friend?
3. Did you note how upset Vir was at the prospect of Londo being hurt or killed?
4. How about that baseball stuff? I thought it was quite neat… wish we’d gotten more things like that in the show.
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Date: 2021-01-04 07:01 pm (UTC)Yeah. This was a dragging episode... I mean, I liked Sheridan's hitchhiker and how relatively quickly he figured it out. Baseball thing, not my cup of tea. But I'm not American, I don't believe in the baseball god.