"And Now for a Word" discussion

[ruuger]

This is the discussion post for the episode 2X15, "And Now for a Word". Spoilers for the whole of the series, including the spin-offs and tie-ins, are allowed here so newbies beware.

Summary:
ISN Special Report about a regular day on Babylon 5.

Extra reading:
The article for "And Now for a Word" at Lurker's Guide.

Comments

[4thofeleven.livejournal.com]

Of course, if the Clark regime had any expansionistic goals, surely they've have gotten involved either when the Centauri started moving against the League worlds or later when the League turned on each other - a Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, perhaps, to go with the Munich Agreement analogies that pop up rather unsubtly later this season.

I do think it's amusing to look at what the show tells us humans are like - "They build communities out of diverse populations!" and compare it with how humans as a whole actually behave in the show - Isolationist dictatorship followed by a government apparently apathetic at best towards the Interstellar Alliance, followed by bombing themselves back to a pre-spaceflight status, and then eventually evolving into the new Vorlons...