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alexcatRewatch for Season 3, Episode 18 – Walkabout
The recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
Read more at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
Lots of symbolish stuff and mysterious stuff… and an unfriendly new Kosh.
Several pretty interesting story lines in this one. The new Vorlon Ambassador arrives on Babylon 5 and he’s different. Lyta arrives, too, both mad and sad that Kosh is dead.
We find out that Narn has about ten ships left yet the commander wants to go after the Minbari. G’kar is still banking on the humans.
Franklin has gone walkabout in Downbelow and even though that has always annoyed me, this time it didn’t. I really liked this speech.
I was always taught that if you're not careful, you can lose yourself in the world. You get too busy with things, not busy enough with yourself! Spend your days and nights living someone else's agendas, fighting someone else's battles, and you're doing the work you're supposed to be doing, but every day there's less and less of you in it all! Till one day, you come to a fork in the road, and because you're distracted, you're not thinking. You lose yourself. You go right, and the rest of you, the really important part of you, goes left! And you don't even know you've done it till you realize, you finally realize, that you don't have any idea who you are when you're not doing all those things! …
By going walkabout. You just leave everything, and you start walking. I mean, the Foundation adopted the idea from the Aborigines back on Earth. The theory is, if you're separated from yourself, you start walking and you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down, and you have a long talk. Talk about everything that you've learned, everything that you've felt, and you talk until you've run out of words. Now, that's vital, because the real important things can't be said. And then, if you're lucky, you look up, and there's just you. Then you can go home.
Perhaps he learned from Cailyn James that sometimes the universe puts you right where you need to be.
Lyta goes out Shadow hunting on the White Star. She finds out that there may be a piece of Kosh in Sheridan.
Some things I pondered or Questions:
1. What did Lyta fail at that she was so apologetic for?
2. Why did they let the other 3 Shadows go?
3. Does G’kar have a piece of Kosh? He went into his head as well.
4. Why did Lyta’s eye bleed?
5. How did G’kar get a whole fleet to come with him?
Oh and there’s Breen! All planets have Breen and G’kar said this about the Earth version: It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs! I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth.
The recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
Read more at The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5
Lots of symbolish stuff and mysterious stuff… and an unfriendly new Kosh.
Several pretty interesting story lines in this one. The new Vorlon Ambassador arrives on Babylon 5 and he’s different. Lyta arrives, too, both mad and sad that Kosh is dead.
We find out that Narn has about ten ships left yet the commander wants to go after the Minbari. G’kar is still banking on the humans.
Franklin has gone walkabout in Downbelow and even though that has always annoyed me, this time it didn’t. I really liked this speech.
I was always taught that if you're not careful, you can lose yourself in the world. You get too busy with things, not busy enough with yourself! Spend your days and nights living someone else's agendas, fighting someone else's battles, and you're doing the work you're supposed to be doing, but every day there's less and less of you in it all! Till one day, you come to a fork in the road, and because you're distracted, you're not thinking. You lose yourself. You go right, and the rest of you, the really important part of you, goes left! And you don't even know you've done it till you realize, you finally realize, that you don't have any idea who you are when you're not doing all those things! …
By going walkabout. You just leave everything, and you start walking. I mean, the Foundation adopted the idea from the Aborigines back on Earth. The theory is, if you're separated from yourself, you start walking and you keep walking until you meet yourself. Then you sit down, and you have a long talk. Talk about everything that you've learned, everything that you've felt, and you talk until you've run out of words. Now, that's vital, because the real important things can't be said. And then, if you're lucky, you look up, and there's just you. Then you can go home.
Perhaps he learned from Cailyn James that sometimes the universe puts you right where you need to be.
Lyta goes out Shadow hunting on the White Star. She finds out that there may be a piece of Kosh in Sheridan.
Some things I pondered or Questions:
1. What did Lyta fail at that she was so apologetic for?
2. Why did they let the other 3 Shadows go?
3. Does G’kar have a piece of Kosh? He went into his head as well.
4. Why did Lyta’s eye bleed?
5. How did G’kar get a whole fleet to come with him?
Oh and there’s Breen! All planets have Breen and G’kar said this about the Earth version: It's an Earth food. They are called Swedish meatballs. It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of these Swedish meatballs! I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth.
