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b5_revisitedRewatch for Season 2, Episodes 21 – Comes the Inquisitor
Here is the recap:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And read about it here:
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
This is the Jack episode! I find the episode sort of disconcerting. I don’t watch torture scenes very well…
Sebastian comes at the bequest of the Vorlons to make sure Delenn (and perhaps John as well) is the right person for the job she has to do. Evidently Sebastian has been doing this for the Vorlons for quite a while. Is this the real reason he comes?
And in other plotlines – G’kar is trying to lead the Narn and they decide he has to prove himself to them before they will follow him. They ask that he, within 48 hours, get word from one of their families. If he can do this, then they will follow him and do as he advises them to do.
He goes to Sheridan and asks if there is any way that he can help. Sheridan sets this as his first task for the Rangers, who have put themselves at his disposal.
Sebastian finds Delenn up to her job, as is Sheridan. He tells them, "At last, my job is finished. Yours is just beginning. When the darkness comes, know this: you are the right people, in the right place at the right time.”
The Rangers do get a message from the Narn and the Narn on the station pledge themselves to G’kar.
If you pay attention, when John is asking Ivanova to check out Sebastian, he says West end of London but they dubbed East into it.
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1. Did Sebastian staring at the women in the Zocalo give you the creeps? It did me.
2. Why would the Vorlons take someone like him?
3. Did he come to test Delenn or did he come to solidify both Delenn’s and John’s commitments?
4. Did you know that Wayne Alexander is also Lorien? (I didn’t).
Here is the recap:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And read about it here:
The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
This is the Jack episode! I find the episode sort of disconcerting. I don’t watch torture scenes very well…
Sebastian comes at the bequest of the Vorlons to make sure Delenn (and perhaps John as well) is the right person for the job she has to do. Evidently Sebastian has been doing this for the Vorlons for quite a while. Is this the real reason he comes?
And in other plotlines – G’kar is trying to lead the Narn and they decide he has to prove himself to them before they will follow him. They ask that he, within 48 hours, get word from one of their families. If he can do this, then they will follow him and do as he advises them to do.
He goes to Sheridan and asks if there is any way that he can help. Sheridan sets this as his first task for the Rangers, who have put themselves at his disposal.
Sebastian finds Delenn up to her job, as is Sheridan. He tells them, "At last, my job is finished. Yours is just beginning. When the darkness comes, know this: you are the right people, in the right place at the right time.”
The Rangers do get a message from the Narn and the Narn on the station pledge themselves to G’kar.
If you pay attention, when John is asking Ivanova to check out Sebastian, he says West end of London but they dubbed East into it.
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1. Did Sebastian staring at the women in the Zocalo give you the creeps? It did me.
2. Why would the Vorlons take someone like him?
3. Did he come to test Delenn or did he come to solidify both Delenn’s and John’s commitments?
4. Did you know that Wayne Alexander is also Lorien? (I didn’t).
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Date: 2020-10-20 12:19 am (UTC)1. It should have given anyone the creeps.
2. Because the Vorlons have their own ethics. Not ours.
3. Yes.
4. I'd forgotten.
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Date: 2020-10-20 07:20 am (UTC)From the IMDB bio for Wayne Alexander (who grew up in California): "The British accent Alexander used for the character Sebastian in the Babylon 5 episode 'Comes the Inquisitor' was so convincing, British viewers wholeheartedly believed he was an actual Englishman. When he learned of this, he was reportedly quite flattered."
Wayne Alexander also plays a Drakh, a Drazi, and a Narn.
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Date: 2020-10-22 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-01-06 06:58 pm (UTC)Sebastian was...a lot. But what can you expect from someone with his history AND conditioned by the Vorlons? And I think it was to do both: to make John and Delenn admit their feelings and to make Delenn say out loud that the cause is all that matters, and that if she fails, there will be others and others because it's the cause that matters, not her name or her title.
(And the dubbing isn't when Sheridan talks with Ivanova, it's when Sheridan is seeing Mr. Sebastian off.)