"Chrysalis" discussion

[ruuger]

And so we have reached the end of season 1.

This is the discussion post for the episodes 1X22, "Chrysalis". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Summary:

Garibaldi discovers a conspiracy to assasinate the president. Meanwhile Londo gets help from his new allies.

Extra reading:

The article for "Chrysalis" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

[traviswells.livejournal.com]

My feeling with the Johnson thing is that it adds a little extra punch to Clark's assassination, given that any viewers old enough to have seen that scene the first time are going to have a lot of emotional association with it.

EvilGuard's "I can't read the code" was pretty lame, though I guess you could justify it by saying he was already half-planning to kill Garibaldi and was just trying one last delaying tactic before he had to play his hand.

Now for a real EvilGuard evilidiot moment, you've got to watch "Points of Departure", where he stands behind the station's commander, second in command, and chief medical officer, uninvited, with his hand on his PPG waiting to see if Garibaldi remembers him (from his shooting him in the BACK). He only holsters the thing when Garibaldi says he can't.

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, guess I'm not of the right generation or nationality to get that reference the way it's intended.

I guess the conspiracy underestimated Garibaldi - assumed he was a screwup who only got the job because he's friends with Sinclair - and didn't bother assigning anyone particularly competent as their agent on B5... and he ended up way in over his head because nobody had a plan worked out for what to do if they got exposed on the B5 end of things, rather than at Io or on Earth Force One itself.