Rewatch for Season 3, Episode 13 - A Late Delivery from Avalon

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Rewatch for Season 3, Episode 13 – A Late Delivery from Avalon

Sorry that this one is late but I had my head somewhere odd last week and I never managed to get it out. So you get two for one today as the next will follow.

The recaps are here:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And an analysis at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5

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We meet Arthur as he departs a transport. He is carrying a large sword and is stopped when he comes aboard. Of course, romantic Marcus wants to believe is really Arthur, a late delivery from Avalon, but alas, he is a gunner from the Earth/Minbari war who suffers so badly from PTSD that he has taken on the persona of a king who came to save his world.


Michael York was lovely as Arthur and I almost wished he were, after all, they gave us Jack the Ripper. Why not Arthur?

Of course, Delenn had to be the one to take his sword and offer him the absolution he needed for his horrible guilt.

This episode was full of delightful little tidbits: Arthur sent to the Narn resistance, Marcus telling us about the Ranger emblem and its name, etc.


1. What was your favorite Arthurian Legend moment?
2. Your take on the Garibaldi/post office scene?
3. Did you, like me, hope he really was Arthur?

Rewatch for Season 3, Episode 14 - Ship of Tears

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Rewatch for Season 3, Episode 14 – Ship of Tears

Recaps are here:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And the Lurkeri’s Guide to Babylon 5 analysis and commentary from JMS.

A Bester episode… you probably know how much I love Bester and Psi Corps. But it is what it is. And G’Kar insists on being read into what Sheridan and the others are doing. Delenn must then explain why they let Narn be captured and occupied by the Centauri in order to lay low until they were ready to fight the Shadows.

There is a lot of mumbo jumbo about telepaths interfering with the organic blending of person/ship for the shadows and we still don’t really know why they have a ship full of blips heading to the Shadows… why would they want the one thing that seems to f-up their ships? Not sure putting teeps in the ships makes much sense to me.

Bester has a sweetie who is also pregnant. He wants her saved.


And there you have it.

Oh we find out that G’Quan and the remaining Narn teeps ran the Shadows from the Narn homeworld.

OH, ISN is back with the new world order and the sanitized BS news report.


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1. Why didn’t whoever was holding Besters girlfriend know she was pregnant before sending her to the Shadows as spare parts?
2. Does using telepaths in Shadow ships make sense to you? It does not to me.
3. Was Bester’s wig the worst one yet?
4. Who is sending Teeps to the Shadows? Clark?