Yeah a lot of early scenes were really awkward and made it hard to forget they were on a set and were waiting for prompts instead of having an organic conversation.
Talia Winters was getting kinda slashy at the end in the bar scene. "I just wanted to know if it was me" sounds like an awkward breakup line.
I did notice that Delenn's Minbari-head looked waaay cheaper than in the pilot. And I loled heartily at the space-CGI, considering the first season of ReBoot was airing about that time.
This Sinclair guy is still incredibly boring and annoying and needs to die yesterday. I was kinda hoping in my ignorance that he was just a pilot character who'd get replaced like with Ivanova, but no. (Is the pilot in continuity? Confusingly TheWB.com put up the wrong summary for this episode so I thought it'd be a retelling at first.)
And this is kinda par for the sci-fi course, but it seemed really incongruous to have on the one hand, blatant foreshadowing of a speciesist human supremacist political plotline, and on the other, blatant generalizations about how Narns all sell out to the highest bidder and Minbari are all "honorable" and would never use sneak-attacks (...except for that sneaky assassin that tried to start a war by framing the commander for murder?), and the narrative just presents those as basic facts that the whole plot hinged on.
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Date: 2010-06-19 02:39 pm (UTC)Talia Winters was getting kinda slashy at the end in the bar scene. "I just wanted to know if it was me" sounds like an awkward breakup line.
I did notice that Delenn's Minbari-head looked waaay cheaper than in the pilot. And I loled heartily at the space-CGI, considering the first season of ReBoot was airing about that time.
This Sinclair guy is still incredibly boring and annoying and needs to die yesterday. I was kinda hoping in my ignorance that he was just a pilot character who'd get replaced like with Ivanova, but no. (Is the pilot in continuity? Confusingly TheWB.com put up the wrong summary for this episode so I thought it'd be a retelling at first.)
And this is kinda par for the sci-fi course, but it seemed really incongruous to have on the one hand, blatant foreshadowing of a speciesist human supremacist political plotline, and on the other, blatant generalizations about how Narns all sell out to the highest bidder and Minbari are all "honorable" and would never use sneak-attacks (...except for that sneaky assassin that tried to start a war by framing the commander for murder?), and the narrative just presents those as basic facts that the whole plot hinged on.
G'Kar is so awesome, I don't even know.