Discussion Post - 0x6 "Mind War."
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last_best_hopeIt's Friday afternoon and by god we are going to have a discussion post ON TIME.
This week's offering:
Vital Stats
Production number:
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.
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
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
Production number:
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.
Re: in which I sort of liveblog. (spoilers for future seasons at the end)
Date: 2010-07-24 09:31 am (UTC)And I liked this episode quite a bit. The B-Plot with Sakai I enjoyed. G'Kar really started to come into his own here with this line:
"Let me pass on to you the one thing I've learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair, and not me."
Since up until this point, he was treated more as antagonist. Mollari more as comedic buffoon. Delenn and Sinclair ...are more on the nose as they've been written, however.
Re: in which I sort of liveblog. (spoilers for future seasons at the end)
Date: 2010-07-25 11:37 pm (UTC)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.)