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Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 8 - Day of the Dead
Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 8 – Day of the Dead
Links to the recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And the Analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
One of my favorite bits and I’ve tried it – it does work.
This is probably one of my top ten B5 episodes. Neil Gaiman wrote it and JMS added the message from Kosh.
Lochley ‘sells’ the Brikiri part of the station for their major religious holiday – Day of the Dead. During this night (because they are nocturnal), the dead visit. There are resemblances to the Mexican Day of the Dead, a celebration of one’s dead family members, who are able on this day to visit their loved ones again. Did you notice they also had candy skulls? They weren’t as cute as Sugar skulls but the idea was there.
John is thrilled that the comedy team, Rebo and Zooty, are coming to visit. Everyone (almost) loves them. I would maybe compare them to the Three Stooges. They even make Delenn laugh.
Lennier comes to visit Delenn and be there for the Day of the Dead. He says he is seeking wisdom. Is he?
G’kar brings his stuff and asks to sleep in the C&C, as he does not want anything to do with the Day of the Dead.
When the DotD begins, part of the station disappears, as if It isn’t even there.
Stuff starts:
Morden comes to visit Lennier. He has non wisdom he says but he does know the future – Lennier will betray the Rangers. Lennier seems pissed that eh didn’t get a better dead person.
Garibaldi is awakened by someone in his shower – Dodger. She says she has no wisdom but that you can sing any Emily Dickinson poem to Yellow Rose of Texas and he’s gotten old.
Londo gets Adira and he has one lovely night with her before he has to go home and be the Emperor.
Zoe comes to see Lochley and we see what Lochley must have been like when she was young. Zoe is selfish and silly, but she tells Lochley that she did OD on purpose. She also gives her a message from Kosh for John: "When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning."
By morning, it’s all over and everything returns to normal, more or less.
Rebo tells Sheridan they’re giving up comedy for politics.
Questions:
1. Was it real? Why or why not?
2. What do you make of Dodger’s visit to Garibaldi?
3. Which comedians would you compare Rebo and Zooty to?
4. So were Lochley and Zoe pals or something more? There has always been a lot of speculation. (20 years later, Lochley’s password is Zoe’s Dead.)
5. Who might have appeared to G’kar?
Links to the recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And the Analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
One of my favorite bits and I’ve tried it – it does work.
This is probably one of my top ten B5 episodes. Neil Gaiman wrote it and JMS added the message from Kosh.
Lochley ‘sells’ the Brikiri part of the station for their major religious holiday – Day of the Dead. During this night (because they are nocturnal), the dead visit. There are resemblances to the Mexican Day of the Dead, a celebration of one’s dead family members, who are able on this day to visit their loved ones again. Did you notice they also had candy skulls? They weren’t as cute as Sugar skulls but the idea was there.
John is thrilled that the comedy team, Rebo and Zooty, are coming to visit. Everyone (almost) loves them. I would maybe compare them to the Three Stooges. They even make Delenn laugh.
Lennier comes to visit Delenn and be there for the Day of the Dead. He says he is seeking wisdom. Is he?
G’kar brings his stuff and asks to sleep in the C&C, as he does not want anything to do with the Day of the Dead.
When the DotD begins, part of the station disappears, as if It isn’t even there.
Stuff starts:
Morden comes to visit Lennier. He has non wisdom he says but he does know the future – Lennier will betray the Rangers. Lennier seems pissed that eh didn’t get a better dead person.
Garibaldi is awakened by someone in his shower – Dodger. She says she has no wisdom but that you can sing any Emily Dickinson poem to Yellow Rose of Texas and he’s gotten old.
Londo gets Adira and he has one lovely night with her before he has to go home and be the Emperor.
Zoe comes to see Lochley and we see what Lochley must have been like when she was young. Zoe is selfish and silly, but she tells Lochley that she did OD on purpose. She also gives her a message from Kosh for John: "When the long night comes, return to the end of the beginning."
By morning, it’s all over and everything returns to normal, more or less.
Rebo tells Sheridan they’re giving up comedy for politics.
Questions:
1. Was it real? Why or why not?
2. What do you make of Dodger’s visit to Garibaldi?
3. Which comedians would you compare Rebo and Zooty to?
4. So were Lochley and Zoe pals or something more? There has always been a lot of speculation. (20 years later, Lochley’s password is Zoe’s Dead.)
5. Who might have appeared to G’kar?