Rewatch of 1 x 6 - Mind War

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Season 1, Episode 6 – Mind War

Okay, I’ve been absent with some health things and will have more but I wanted to take some time to catch up this week. I’ll be posting the next two episodes as well either today or this weekend.

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Here is a link to a recap already posted: https://b5-revisited.dreamwidth.org/86831.html

Bester


Jason Ironheart


I am no fan of telepaths and I hated Bester as much in this as my 6 year old self loved him in Star Trek: TOS as Chekov. Not much fonder of Talia either. God, that woman could whine.

I liked this episode because we saw another side of G’kar. He actually saved Sakai and not for any real gain on his part. And he gets the best quotes with these two:

Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair... and not me.

And

Catherine Sakai: Ambassador! While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?
G'Kar: [points to a flower with a bug crawling on it] What is this?
Catherine Sakai: An ant.
G'Kar: Ant.
Catherine Sakai: So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transports it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Yeah, I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "what was that? How would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.
Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes, they are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957, and they must walk there alone.

These two quotes, to me are quite essence of what B5 is all about. It’s almost always G’kar who tells us these things.

And Jason Ironheart is what the show might have been if the dabblers had left it alone. He was the seed of an idea of what mankind could become and possible does become in a millions years. It’s a pity, though, that we never saw Talia use her gift.

What do y’all think?

Rewatch for 1 x 7 - The War Prayer

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Season 1, Episode 7 – The War Prayer

This is one of D.C Fontana’s episodes and it could easily take place in the US today. We have hate groups and crazy militias ready to take things in their own hands and the biggest problem is that our friends and neighbors are often the monsters. Susan finds o9ut what that is like with an old boyfriend.


Here is a recap of this episode: https://b5-revisited.dreamwidth.org/87266.html

Delenn’s friend Mayan:


Vir’s love birds and the most wonderful of Londo’s quotes:

Something my father said. He was old, very old at the time. I went into his room, and he was sitting alone in the dark crying. So, I asked him what was wrong, and he said, "My shoes are too tight. But, it doesn't matter, because I have forgotten how to dance." I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight. And, I have forgotten how to dance.

For some reason, I didn’t even remember this one at all when I went to rewatch it, though I think it’s another sign of things to come, both on B5 and in reality.

The name came from a Mark Twain story that was not published until after his death: The War Prayer. There is an excerpt in the recap.