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b5_revisitedRewatch for Season 5, Episode 7 – Secrets of the Soul
Recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And a little analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
The icky, yucky love scene in which Lyta and Byron find out where teeps really come from:
So yeah, it’s that episode.
A young teep who is telekinetic comes to B5 and the bullies are treating Byron and his gang of teeps rather badly but then, so is Zack.
Stephen, in his new job, asks the Hyach ambassador for the medical records of her people and she reluctantly agrees. We know right away they have something to hide because her attaché wants to kill Franklin. It turns out that they killed another race on their planet rather than coexist with them. And now they are dying because they have some flaw in their genetic makeup that will cause their extinction. Booo hooo!
Lyta gets closer to Byron, whose arrogance is only matched by Bester. And then she gets closer still and we have the awful, icky sex scene with all Byron’s people standing around watching. It is totally creepy. What they find out is creepier still – the Vorlons made telepaths for their own use, as weapons against the Shadows. Byron is angered by this and says he will demand a homeworld.
Not really sure why he thought they’d just jump to do as he wanted.
We do get an idea of how powerful Lyta is… and maybe how powerful Byron is.
So here are the questions:
1. Who do you think killed the thug? It is suggested at the Lurker’s Guide that perhaps Lyta did as she mentioned that non-violence was not her way as it was Byron’s.
2. Was jealousy part of Zack’s reason for behaving so nastily to Byron?
3. Why were there babies in the tanks on the Vorlon Homeworld? There had been teeps of all those races for many years.
4. Did you share Franklin’s horror at the Hyach? Was he wrong to say he didn’t want to help them?
A personal note: The other day on one of the B5 groups on Facebook, a commentor said he was not happy that the new Babylon5 was going to be on the Cw. He said that meant it would be ‘woke’ and he didn’t want that. My question is - has this man ever actually watched Babylon 5? There was never a more ‘woke’ show anywhere. JMS looked at nearly all facets of modern society and picked apart the problems of racism, sexism, class struggle, religious zealotry and much more. What on Earth are people thinking these days?
Recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And a little analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
The icky, yucky love scene in which Lyta and Byron find out where teeps really come from:
So yeah, it’s that episode.
A young teep who is telekinetic comes to B5 and the bullies are treating Byron and his gang of teeps rather badly but then, so is Zack.
Stephen, in his new job, asks the Hyach ambassador for the medical records of her people and she reluctantly agrees. We know right away they have something to hide because her attaché wants to kill Franklin. It turns out that they killed another race on their planet rather than coexist with them. And now they are dying because they have some flaw in their genetic makeup that will cause their extinction. Booo hooo!
Lyta gets closer to Byron, whose arrogance is only matched by Bester. And then she gets closer still and we have the awful, icky sex scene with all Byron’s people standing around watching. It is totally creepy. What they find out is creepier still – the Vorlons made telepaths for their own use, as weapons against the Shadows. Byron is angered by this and says he will demand a homeworld.
Not really sure why he thought they’d just jump to do as he wanted.
We do get an idea of how powerful Lyta is… and maybe how powerful Byron is.
So here are the questions:
1. Who do you think killed the thug? It is suggested at the Lurker’s Guide that perhaps Lyta did as she mentioned that non-violence was not her way as it was Byron’s.
2. Was jealousy part of Zack’s reason for behaving so nastily to Byron?
3. Why were there babies in the tanks on the Vorlon Homeworld? There had been teeps of all those races for many years.
4. Did you share Franklin’s horror at the Hyach? Was he wrong to say he didn’t want to help them?
A personal note: The other day on one of the B5 groups on Facebook, a commentor said he was not happy that the new Babylon5 was going to be on the Cw. He said that meant it would be ‘woke’ and he didn’t want that. My question is - has this man ever actually watched Babylon 5? There was never a more ‘woke’ show anywhere. JMS looked at nearly all facets of modern society and picked apart the problems of racism, sexism, class struggle, religious zealotry and much more. What on Earth are people thinking these days?
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Date: 2021-11-23 03:35 am (UTC)