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01d55 ([personal profile] 01d55) wrote in [community profile] last_best_hope2010-07-17 05:23 pm
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This is G'Kar's Discussion Post - 0x5 "The Parliament Of Dreams."

It's Saturday afternoon, BLUEFALL.

This week's offering:


1x05: The Parliament of Dreams



G'Kar is hunted by a hired political assassin. Sinclair and Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) reconcile their past differences and renew their romance.


Vital Stats
Production number: 108

Written by J. Michael Straczynski

Directed by Jim Johnston

Original air date: February 23, 1994


Arc Notes / Story Points of Interest

- G'Kar is a totes rad baller.

- Londo is a drunken buffoon.

- It doesn't take an ace detective to figure who might have got married in that Minbari ceremony.


Trivia

- So rad, you guys.

- So drunk, you guys.

- This episode won an Emmy for Best Makeup Design.

- A Catholic priest is one of the first five to be introduced in the big earth religion lineup, but during the pan shot a nun is clearly visible.

If they are seriously setting up a love triangle between the Minbari Ambassador / Grey Councilor and Sinclair's suddenly wealthy old flame, I will cry.

A reminder: not everyone playing along has seen the series before, so please be considerate about major spoilers. Vagueness, warnings and/or spoiler tags are appreciated.
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[personal profile] aulayan 2010-07-18 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
I do wish they did more with Narn religion, because apparently there are older religions than G'Quon. (Though I could see G'kar, being such a G'Quon devotee, only really showing that off.)
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[personal profile] julian 2010-07-19 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yah. G'Lan, among others.

Not sure how canon this is, but it looks like it'd have more Stuff than the episodes.

By Any Means Necessary, IIRC, has some Narn religious foo.

But. Me too.
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mildly spoilery for upcoming 1st season eps, I guess.

[personal profile] julian 2010-07-20 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
*tears herself away from your link by main stregnth and violence* Ahem.

Anyway, re: G'Qoun -- Nope! JMS sticks most of the Narn religious stuff (pre-spoilery G'Kar stuff, anyway) in By Any Means Necessary. Which is ever-so logical -- put the Narn religious stuff not in the actual RELIGION-FOCUSED episode, but rather the union one. What-ever.

(He also insists that the Narn don't have a monolithic religion, except they kind of do, it's just a bunch of different prophets. if it were /actually/ not monolithic, there'd be, well, differences in culture, you know?)
Edited 2010-07-20 00:35 (UTC)