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alexcatRewatch for Season 2, Episode 18 – Condessions and Lamentations
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And the Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
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This one is one of the saddest episodes of Babylon 5 and sort of timely as it is about disease spread. JMS has some interesting things to say in his comments because some of the commentors at the time were saying he was making a political statement about AIDS and this is a quote from him: The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.
As unlikely as this one might have seemed to us years ago, perhaps we have a better idea what a pandemic is now. I guess we are lucky that ours is not as fatal this one.
I actually did not rewatch this one and may not – the child with the dead father simply is more than I can take. And then when she finds her mother and, well, you know the rest.
Delenn and Lennier insist on ministering to the Markab. Sheridan does not want her to go but she says Don’t look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don’t see you again here, I will you see you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall. If that doesn’t knock your socks off, nothing will.
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I’m not even sure what to ask…
1. Did the hopelessness depress you as much as it did me?
2. Did you have a new appreciation for Delenn and Lennier?
3. Did you feel as bad for Franklin as I did?
Read vjs2259’s most excellent recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And the Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5.
*
This one is one of the saddest episodes of Babylon 5 and sort of timely as it is about disease spread. JMS has some interesting things to say in his comments because some of the commentors at the time were saying he was making a political statement about AIDS and this is a quote from him: The whole point of the episode is NOT political; it says that if you make a disease political on either side, you're gonna die.
As unlikely as this one might have seemed to us years ago, perhaps we have a better idea what a pandemic is now. I guess we are lucky that ours is not as fatal this one.
I actually did not rewatch this one and may not – the child with the dead father simply is more than I can take. And then when she finds her mother and, well, you know the rest.
Delenn and Lennier insist on ministering to the Markab. Sheridan does not want her to go but she says Don’t look away, Captain. All life is transitory, a dream. We all come together in the same place at the end of time. If I don’t see you again here, I will you see you in a little while, in the place where no shadows fall. If that doesn’t knock your socks off, nothing will.
*
I’m not even sure what to ask…
1. Did the hopelessness depress you as much as it did me?
2. Did you have a new appreciation for Delenn and Lennier?
3. Did you feel as bad for Franklin as I did?
