I am a week behind, and still haven't watched Z'ha'dum. Hopefully tomorrow.
This is one of my favorite battle scenes. The backgrounds are so beautiful, so much in contrast to the carnage in the foreground. It is like a dance; a lovely, deadly dance.
The first time I saw this, I was terrifically annoyed by the Franklin storyline because it kept interrupting the battle. I went to the bother of watching the two storylines separately; first Franklin all the way through, then the main story, then as filmed. It's very interesting that way; I recommend it.
Little things that struck me this time: as I mentioned above, Franklin's foretelling of John's fate and echoing Delenn's warning in WWE: treasure the moments, the moments are all we have; and Delenn's not showing John how the holochamber works until the battle starts. 'All in good time' she says, showing her natural secrecy and methods of gradual revelation that will come back to bite her next episode. And 'history awaits'...one of the best come-on lines ever.
There's just tons of foreshadowing of death. Susan's 'who wants to live forever?' and Marcus' reply seemed terribly poignant.
I knew it was Anna when I watched the whole series on DVD, but I had seen bits and pieces when it aired, so I can't be sure what I knew or half-remembered from before. It gave the series the feel of a dream or a re-telling of a myth for me, adding to the impact. The Z-minus was just great.
Oh, and the dream was really dumb. It just doesn't make much sense. Maybe Kosh had to use what he found in Sheridan's mind as imagery and just couldn't find what he wanted. Sort of like Zathras' search for tools 'This will not work. This is not right. Never use that one.'
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This is one of my favorite battle scenes. The backgrounds are so beautiful, so much in contrast to the carnage in the foreground. It is like a dance; a lovely, deadly dance.
The first time I saw this, I was terrifically annoyed by the Franklin storyline because it kept interrupting the battle. I went to the bother of watching the two storylines separately; first Franklin all the way through, then the main story, then as filmed. It's very interesting that way; I recommend it.
Little things that struck me this time: as I mentioned above, Franklin's foretelling of John's fate and echoing Delenn's warning in WWE: treasure the moments, the moments are all we have; and Delenn's not showing John how the holochamber works until the battle starts. 'All in good time' she says, showing her natural secrecy and methods of gradual revelation that will come back to bite her next episode. And 'history awaits'...one of the best come-on lines ever.
There's just tons of foreshadowing of death. Susan's 'who wants to live forever?' and Marcus' reply seemed terribly poignant.
I knew it was Anna when I watched the whole series on DVD, but I had seen bits and pieces when it aired, so I can't be sure what I knew or half-remembered from before. It gave the series the feel of a dream or a re-telling of a myth for me, adding to the impact. The Z-minus was just great.
Oh, and the dream was really dumb. It just doesn't make much sense. Maybe Kosh had to use what he found in Sheridan's mind as imagery and just couldn't find what he wanted. Sort of like Zathras' search for tools 'This will not work. This is not right. Never use that one.'