So if you start from "plot" = "what does this character want, and what's keeping hir from getting it," here's the breakdown for the cast motivations this ep.
Sinclair: wants to keep his jurisdiction safe, and facilitate peace. Garibaldi: wants to stop the raids. Londo: wants revenge. G'Kar: wants revenge, with a side order of respect. Ivanova: wants her boss to get what he wants. Talia: wants Ivanova to like her.
Lulz.
In other news, while most of the sets here are pretty good considering the era and the budget - the Zocolo especially really feels like it's on a space station, kind of industrial and cramped but also vaguely futuristic in a fairly timeless way - I think the Council room does a serious disservice to the series. Babylon 5 is supposed to be, like, the UN of outer space; this is a place where a group of ambassadors vote on sanctions that impact multiple species across hundreds of worlds. But visually, it's less impressive than a town meeting on Gilmore Girls. With those few extras, that quiet and that small of a space, there's no real sense that anything that happens there is even that important to the station, much less the galaxy beyond.
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Date: 2010-06-19 07:01 am (UTC)Sinclair: wants to keep his jurisdiction safe, and facilitate peace.
Garibaldi: wants to stop the raids.
Londo: wants revenge.
G'Kar: wants revenge, with a side order of respect.
Ivanova: wants her boss to get what he wants.
Talia: wants Ivanova to like her.
Lulz.
In other news, while most of the sets here are pretty good considering the era and the budget - the Zocolo especially really feels like it's on a space station, kind of industrial and cramped but also vaguely futuristic in a fairly timeless way - I think the Council room does a serious disservice to the series. Babylon 5 is supposed to be, like, the UN of outer space; this is a place where a group of ambassadors vote on sanctions that impact multiple species across hundreds of worlds. But visually, it's less impressive than a town meeting on Gilmore Girls. With those few extras, that quiet and that small of a space, there's no real sense that anything that happens there is even that important to the station, much less the galaxy beyond.