This episode is actually quite a lot better than I'd remembered! It tends to get picked as "worst B5 episode EVER" quite often, and people mock the ActionHero!Sinclair thing, but there's a lot of decent content, and they actually deconstruct the heroic cliche - Garibaldi's speech at the end is genuinely quite good, and is really talking back to those criticisms. Really, though, Sinclair either has a deathwish or massive amounts of faith in himself! That was a pretty dodgy risk to take.

General background - I was very intrigued by the IPX thing. Ilya Ducky Hendricks is working for IPX, but Franklin's never heard of them and can't find out about them... and Henricks says they are a "front" for a bioweapons firm. This clearly isn't Anna Sheridan's IPX or Max Eilerson's IPX - it has the same basic strategy and ethics, but... continuity error?

C&C - Sinclair tells the journalist that C&C is "a secured area", which people were talking about when Talia turned up there; clearly it *is* supposed to be controlled, but people can still get there! The journalist herself, she apparently got in without difficulty. And I know G'Kar appears there at least once.

I liked the way the exposition was handled in this episode - it was mostly quite smooth. I particularly noticed something I'd liked in earlier episodes, where the senior staff are all together and sort of brain-storming, each of them feeding in their side of the story to give us all the information we need while still feeling relatively natural.

The biggest thing that annoyed me was actually the monster's "ever-increasing power and decreasing latency" thing. How was that supposed to work? Thermodynamics still applies, even if you *are* using organic technology! *g*

...and nice foreshadowing of the "pro-earth extremism" thing. Not to mention Unexpectedly Optimistic Ivanova! Hah.