Discussion Post - 0x6 "Mind War."

[01d55]

It's Friday afternoon and by god we are going to have a discussion post ON TIME.

This week's offering:

1x06: Mind War



A genetically altered telepathic fugitive hides aboard Babylon 5 and seeks help escaping from his pursuers before he mutates into a destructive superbeing. Catherine (Guest star Julia Nickson) experiences an incredible encounter with an alien spacecraft. Walter Koenig ("Star Trek") guest stars

Vital Stats
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski

Directed by Bruce Seth Green

Original air date:


Arc Notes / Story Points of Interest

- Two big plot threads are telegraphed here: Scary Psicorp and Scary Ancient God Aliens.

- Apparently Sinclair gets to live a million years. Lucky jerk!


Trivia

- G'Kar is still a totes rad baller.

I'm not sure why they set up Ivanova's history with Psicorp just so she can say totally justified things about them. Where's the hyperbole?

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.

Comments

Re: in which I sort of liveblog. (spoilers for future seasons at the end)

[julian]

I basically consider this a pilot-Bester episode, yes. But at least we get /something/.

The thing with G'Kar and Londo is that I first started watching B5 with mid-third season, where the relationship and the dynamic had upended itself and already become something different. (And then I watched all three seasons at once, one weekend.) So uh. What was my point?

Oh, right: that yeah, the beginning of the series, they were one place, and were already progressing to cycling to different places.

(And Delenn, I tend to think, is supposed to be presented initially as purrfect and all the manipulation/secrecy is supposed to be a surprise. It doesn't work that well, though.)