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alexcatRewatch for 1 x 21 – The Quality of Mercy
Another jam packed episode and at the time, you had no idea what was important or what was a throwaway, did you?
Here are your blow by blow recaps written by the wonderfulvjs2259: Dreamwidth and Livejournal.
JMS tells about having the flu when he wrote this episode at the Lurker’s Guide.
June Lockhart plays Dr. Laura Rosen, a doctor disgraced for being a Stim junkie, who finds an alien medical device that truly heals. You can see her and her device in the photo.
I’m even old enough to remember her and Bill Mumy in Lost in Space. Um, and her in Lassie.
We also have our second look at death of personality, which is a kind of terrifying thing all together.
By far, the most memorable thing about this episode was Londo’s and Lennier’s big adventure. It’s probably the only instance that a male ‘appendage’ was used in a television show for cheating at poker. Lennier seemed to be enjoying the stripper as well. Anyway, here it is:
JMS did say that they have six of them and female Centauri have six, um, slots on either side of their spine for them to fit in. Think about that – I dare you!
Sooooo
What did you think?
Was death of personality a cruel and unusual punishment? Crueler than real death?
Also the machine was rather a part of this idea as well since it was a punishment device that sucked the life force out of a criminal and gave it to someone terminally ill. Was that humane?
Will you ever look the Centauri the same after seeing that thing?
Anything else you want to talk about?
Oh and the title comes from this quote from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1:
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath
Another jam packed episode and at the time, you had no idea what was important or what was a throwaway, did you?
Here are your blow by blow recaps written by the wonderful
vjs2259: Dreamwidth and Livejournal. JMS tells about having the flu when he wrote this episode at the Lurker’s Guide.
June Lockhart plays Dr. Laura Rosen, a doctor disgraced for being a Stim junkie, who finds an alien medical device that truly heals. You can see her and her device in the photo.
I’m even old enough to remember her and Bill Mumy in Lost in Space. Um, and her in Lassie.
We also have our second look at death of personality, which is a kind of terrifying thing all together.
By far, the most memorable thing about this episode was Londo’s and Lennier’s big adventure. It’s probably the only instance that a male ‘appendage’ was used in a television show for cheating at poker. Lennier seemed to be enjoying the stripper as well. Anyway, here it is:
JMS did say that they have six of them and female Centauri have six, um, slots on either side of their spine for them to fit in. Think about that – I dare you!
Sooooo
What did you think?
Was death of personality a cruel and unusual punishment? Crueler than real death?
Also the machine was rather a part of this idea as well since it was a punishment device that sucked the life force out of a criminal and gave it to someone terminally ill. Was that humane?
Will you ever look the Centauri the same after seeing that thing?
Anything else you want to talk about?
Oh and the title comes from this quote from The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene 1:
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath
