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1 x13 - Signs and Portents
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alexcatRewatch for 1 x 13 – Signs and Portents
Here it the Recap for this episode. Follow the link to the Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5 for some good notes from JMS on this episode though he doesn’t tell us everything!
This is the episode that sets the stage though we don’t really know that our first time viewing it, do we? The whole episode fit into its title – every single story line.
Did Morden give you the creeps? He certainly did me and maybe that’s why we never see him in many other things after that. Poor Ed Wasser WAS Morden! Did you know he was trouble the first time you saw him?
I guess this was the reason for all the raider stuff in the first episodes of this season. As far as I can remember, we never see them again. The one man did mention that they spent most of their funds to buy the mothership thing so they could make their own jumpgates. Perhaps that, along with the fact that B5 killed or captured most of their pilots, put them out of business. I can’t help but think JMS could have put them to use again… maybe an ex-raider throwing in with B5 to get revenge?
And we see a shadow ship! And what a shadow ship!
What do YOU want?
I suppose G’kar saying that he needed a guarantee for the safety of his people was the thing that made Morden move on from him. Perhaps G’kar has already begun his journey to who he will become. Did you see Delenn’s forehead glow? What did Morden and his ‘escorts’ do to Kosh? Poor Londo – he walked right into it, didn’t he? I always think of Springsteen’s Glory Days when I think of the Centauri.
And the last tie-in that we might not expect was Sinclair asking Garibaldi to look into his history with regards to the Battle of the Line. I don’t think anyone really expected what happened there, did we?
I suppose with all the hints and such, JMS did his job and surprised us in the end.
Questions? Comments? Anything? Ask away or comment away. I may not get back in the next day or two but I’ll try to get back to you. Also, feel free to comment on other people’s comments as well!
Here it the Recap for this episode. Follow the link to the Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5 for some good notes from JMS on this episode though he doesn’t tell us everything!
This is the episode that sets the stage though we don’t really know that our first time viewing it, do we? The whole episode fit into its title – every single story line.
Did Morden give you the creeps? He certainly did me and maybe that’s why we never see him in many other things after that. Poor Ed Wasser WAS Morden! Did you know he was trouble the first time you saw him?
I guess this was the reason for all the raider stuff in the first episodes of this season. As far as I can remember, we never see them again. The one man did mention that they spent most of their funds to buy the mothership thing so they could make their own jumpgates. Perhaps that, along with the fact that B5 killed or captured most of their pilots, put them out of business. I can’t help but think JMS could have put them to use again… maybe an ex-raider throwing in with B5 to get revenge?
And we see a shadow ship! And what a shadow ship!
What do YOU want?
I suppose G’kar saying that he needed a guarantee for the safety of his people was the thing that made Morden move on from him. Perhaps G’kar has already begun his journey to who he will become. Did you see Delenn’s forehead glow? What did Morden and his ‘escorts’ do to Kosh? Poor Londo – he walked right into it, didn’t he? I always think of Springsteen’s Glory Days when I think of the Centauri.
And the last tie-in that we might not expect was Sinclair asking Garibaldi to look into his history with regards to the Battle of the Line. I don’t think anyone really expected what happened there, did we?
I suppose with all the hints and such, JMS did his job and surprised us in the end.
Questions? Comments? Anything? Ask away or comment away. I may not get back in the next day or two but I’ll try to get back to you. Also, feel free to comment on other people’s comments as well!
