b5_revisited

Recap and discussion of The Lost Tales: Voices in the Dark

The lead in is this:
G’kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us, and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we have gone, our voices will linger in these walls.

The story takes place in two parts on the same days:

Over Here:
A priest comes aboard B5, sent for by Lochley to exorcise a ‘demon’ from a crewman. The demon, if that is what he is, tells her and Father Cassidy that they have two choices – either do what God wants and free him from the body he’s in or leave him in the body. Lochley realizes that the ‘demon’ came from earth since the crewman was on earth a few weeks before. She tells him that they’ve found a third option – to send him back to earth to be exorcised, thus confining him to earth where he belongs.

Over There:
John Sheridan is getting ready to go to B5 for the 10 year anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance. H eis interviewed by an ISN reporter, then Galen comes to him in his sleep and tells him that the fate of earth in 30 years is destruction by Lord Vintari, Cartagia’s son and third in line for the throne of the Centuari republic. He says one solution is to kill the boy and has it all set u to happen on the way to B5. John sees another way and invites the young man to come stay with his family on Minbar to keep him safe.

This was supposed to be a new series for B5 but in the end was just the one shot. JMS did not want to produce any low quality tv movies, he said.

The tribute to Andreas Katsulas and Richard Biggs was that G’kar had gone exploring Beyond the rim and that Franklin had joined him in his explorations.

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my own opinion:
The first one was rather odd and strangely religious – which was actually quite typical of the original Babylon 5 as well. JMS always enjoyed exploring religious ideas though he, himself was an avowed nonbeliever. I actually found it a little heavy handed – how do we know what “Asmodeus” was and why did they not express an interest in exploring that idea more back on earth?

Of course Lochley was the one who showed the priest something about belief and faith… so maybe that was the point.

Not really sure what the reporter bit was about. Are you?

One would hope that maybe John and Delenn would make good step parents for the would-be emperor. The boy seemed to be less obnoxious than most Centauri.

I might have liked more of these – they were much better than The Legend of the Rangers.

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Questions:
1. Like? Dislike? Why?
2. Did the Quantum drive thing make you go ‘huh’? Why again was it included?
3. Which of the two bits did you like the best?
4. Did you see the leaping man? He looks more like an appearing out of nowhere man to me… just bad editing.