From: "G. D. Akin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The possible "I hate you . . ." post title comes from the realization that all of you on this list told me I would grow into B5 after watching the series mature. I just finished the last episode and . . . you were RIGHT!
Woot! Glad you like it!
Now I hate you because I don't have season 2 in my hands, ready to watch. The Post Exchange doesn't have it. My friend has ordered it but he'll probably watch it first(that a..hole). (We agreed on this: he'll buy B5 and I'll get the SG-1 DVD sets and we'll share. I have SG-1 season 3 pre-ordered.) After watching "Chrysalis", my appetite for B5 season 2 is quite acute.
If you think it's tough waiting, you shoulda felt what it was like waiting between
seasons (and episodes) back during its original run! Particularly when the chances
of B5 getting renewed each season were always iffy. It was agony!
I just told my wife I want Season 2 as my "Father's Day" gift.
I understand Sinclair is not in season 2. This saddens me. I know from 30
years military experience I would have enjoyed a few more commanders like
him. PLEASE DON'T tell me what his fate is. I know he is not gone from the
series as "Babylon Squared" reveals and there is still the unresolved 24
hours he spent after capture by the Minbari.
You'll see Sinclair again. Didn't "In The Beginning" cover what happened in those
missing 24 hours? If not there, it's revealed somewhere, eventually.
I think you'll like Sinclair's replacement. He's a very different character, though.
Less "paternal" and less diplomatic than Sinclair, I'd say.
I'm really impressed by the way the threads interweave dovetail in
"Chrysalis." Events are poised for things to burst out in season 2. This
is probably the most coherent, intriguing, and ripe with anticipation season
ending cliffhanger of any of the most popular SF series. Most series such
as Star Trek (even SG-1, my favorite ('til now maybe)) leave you hanging on
one huge event that must, and will, be resolved in the next episode. These
For me, even the best Star Trek cliffhangers left me disappointed. The season-
ending cliffhanger part was often quite excellent, but their conclusions always
seemed somewhat unsatisfying. I later discovered that when they wrote the
"Riker orders the Enterprise to open fire on the Borg ship carrying the Borgified
Picard" cliffhanger, the writers had *no clue* what would happen, or how they
were going to resolve the story! It was all left for them to figure out over the
summer. I suspect that was/is standard operating procedure for the Trek
franchise
have only one question to be answered and that is "How will they solve the problem." There is never any doubt a reasonable happy solution will be found and it will be one that meets my expectations. B5 left me with several smaller, yet no less significant events to ponder possible solutions. Having watched the Earth President's assassination, I very sure not every thread will end "happily ever after", my expectations be damned.
That's for sure. The ending of one particular episode in Season 2 absolutely
stunned me when I first saw it because of this.
My favorite episodes:
1. The Parliament of Dreams 2. Babylon Squared
Zathras rocks!
3. A Voice in the Wilderness (I & II)
4. Legacies
I'd drop 1 & 4, and add "Mind War", "Deathwalker", and "Signs and Portents" as my favs
Least Favorite:
1. Eyes (The colonel with the chip on his shoulder was way, way too over the top. Bad acting killed this one for me.)
Grail is probably my least favorite of season 1.
-bryon
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