Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 11- Phoenix Rising

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Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 11 – Phoenix Rising

*Note: I am a week late because hubby was in the hospital and then Christmas.

Recaps:
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And as always, The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5

The telepath stuff finally comes to a head. We find out Byron’s dark past and we are finally rid of the telepaths. Yay! We find out how totally evil Bester is – several times, as a matter of fact. He had Byron kill a transport ship full of ‘mundanes’. And he placed a block in Garibaldi’s head so he couldn’t harm him. Nice guy, that Bester.

Byron goes out in a blaze of glory – literally.

Garibaldi begins his downward spiral.

The telepaths are freed, while someone bombs Psi Corps headquarters on Earth and scrawls Remember Byron. Garibaldi was right when he said Byron was a martyr wannabe.

Lyta is made the leader of the teeps.

The sound is a little wonky, but here is Bester at his nicest.

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Questions:
1. Was calling Bester the best choice Lochley could have made?
2. Did Bester really think the telepaths would willingly come back to Psi Corps? Would he have killed them all?
3. Where will the telepaths go?
4. How did ‘Remember Byron’ get top Earth so quickly?
5. Is anyone besides me glad to be rid of the telepaths?

Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 12 - The Ragged Edge

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Rewatch for Season 5, Episode 12 – The Ragged Edge

Recaps:
Dreamwidth
Livejournal
And The Lurker’s Guide to Babylon 5

Now we move on to the fall of Garibaldi – again.

And the rise of a religious icon!

The attacks on the shipping lines are still going on and the council is boycotting meetings on B5. A witness gets away this time and they send Garibaldi to get the evidence. He’s become a drunken idiot again and mentions it to no one so he screws it all up and almost gets himself killed on the Drazi homeworld. He does manage to get a button as evidence. The button is from the Centauri royal guard.

G’kar notices that he and Londo are being followed around by Narn. Ta’lon tells him about his book being stolen and copied and becoming a bestseller on Narn. He has become “a religious icon” and Narn have traveled to B5 to see him and hear his words of wisdom. G’kar is, to say the least, a reluctant messiah. Ta’lon explains that all Narn know is hate a violence and G’kar is one who offers them more, a world of love and peace. G’kar reluctantly agrees, but is still not happy with the silliness of his followers.

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Franklin takes a job as head of Xenobiology on Earth, taking the place of Dr. Kyle, who was in ‘The Gathering’ when he retires at the end of the year. He says it make his study of alien physiology even easier. He tells John at the end of the episode.

Garibaldi drinks Afterburner Whiskey – there is an Afterburner Biersschnapps and several cocktails called Afterburner.

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Questions:
1. Is it possible that Ta’lon was the one who borrowed G’kar’s books at the behest of the Kha’Ri?
2. Was what Bester did to him the thing that drove Garibaldi over the edge and back into the bottle?
3. Do you think someone might have noticed how erratic Garibaldi is acting besides Zack?
4. Shouldn’t Franklin have told Captain Lochley that he was leaving first?
5. Why does the Alliance put up with the Drazi?