Oh, we're doing these seperatly? And I already wrote up my thoughts on both... Ah well, guess I'll save my rant about the Sheridan story for next week.
Anyway, this half was a perfectly servicable little science fiction story. My only quibble is that it really reinforces the sense I get from all the attempts at spin-offs that the B5 universe really doesn't have any stories left in it - this story felt like it would have been more at home as part of the Twilight Zone or some other anthology series, even compared to some of B5's own stand-alone stories. The connection to the rest of the B5 universe seemed tenous at best - no mentions of the Vorlons, telepaths, Brother Theo, or any of the many other established setting elements that seemed like they should have come up in this situation.
(And it did seem like Lockley ended up in the story more because she's practically the only character who's religious beliefs haven't been established rather than because there was any real reason to use her - not so much a good fit for the story as much as everyone else would have been a bad fit...)
And if it is to be taken as part of the B5 setting, then it rather requires that setting be placed in a Christian – or at least monotheistic/Abrahamic – cosmology. Yes, there’s other explanations for the demon, but none of them are even mentioned in the story, and the story doesn’t work unless we believe he’s a real demon.
But, no, I did enjoy it. A fun spin on demonic posession, and while the low budget was obvious, it didn't seem to limit the show that much - this was a story that would always have been little more than a couple of people in an empty room.
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Date: 2011-09-05 01:27 pm (UTC)Anyway, this half was a perfectly servicable little science fiction story. My only quibble is that it really reinforces the sense I get from all the attempts at spin-offs that the B5 universe really doesn't have any stories left in it - this story felt like it would have been more at home as part of the Twilight Zone or some other anthology series, even compared to some of B5's own stand-alone stories. The connection to the rest of the B5 universe seemed tenous at best - no mentions of the Vorlons, telepaths, Brother Theo, or any of the many other established setting elements that seemed like they should have come up in this situation.
(And it did seem like Lockley ended up in the story more because she's practically the only character who's religious beliefs haven't been established rather than because there was any real reason to use her - not so much a good fit for the story as much as everyone else would have been a bad fit...)
And if it is to be taken as part of the B5 setting, then it rather requires that setting be placed in a Christian – or at least monotheistic/Abrahamic – cosmology. Yes, there’s other explanations for the demon, but none of them are even mentioned in the story, and the story doesn’t work unless we believe he’s a real demon.
But, no, I did enjoy it. A fun spin on demonic posession, and while the low budget was obvious, it didn't seem to limit the show that much - this was a story that would always have been little more than a couple of people in an empty room.