--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More mono-dimensional stuff from B5: > > aliens so alien that they refuse to be seen without an environmental suit, and when they > ARE forced to reveal themselves, they mentally control the perceptions of every creature in > the vicinity so that no two species can agree on what they saw, all done in such a way that > none of them realize it was one of their fellow ambassadors they were looking at. > > That same alien ambassador, named Kosh (later replaced by another ambassador also > named Kosh--"we are all named 'Kosh'") whose automatic translation device struggles with > translating 10 seconds of its alien speech that sounds like a heavenly choir and finally says > "yes..." > > The background of the series, touched on in the first episode and slowly revealed over the > first 3 years of the series, includes a mystery that isn't resolved until the time travel > episode: > > why would an alien race, thousands of years in advance of us, whose most popular leader > was killed by our people accidentally, chase us on a war of extermination to the very edge > of Earth's atmosphere, and, as wave after wave of Earth ships was sent against the alien > foe merely to gain a few more seconds (if that) of launch time for refugee ships fleeing the > ultimate destruction of Earth, did said alien race suddenly SURRENDER to us and become > our stanchest ally? The full depth of the mystery takes 3 years to reveal, and the answer > isn't given until the full mystery is revealed. > > Alien races so advanced that their ships are living creatures build to have a symbiotic > relationship with the race. A chess match between two such races that spans many > millions of years of history, using entire species as pawns and yet the players turn out to > be even more limited than the species they manipulate. > > Yeah. a one-dimenstiona, pretentious story, to be sure. > > Like I said, anyone who can't appreciate B-5 has the attention span of a flea.
And I suggested, it's a series for techno geeks and guys who haven't left the house in years and only vaguely imagine what it's like to have a relationship with another human being. Firefly is for humans. This is fun. It's like the arguments at a Trekkie convention. :-) You are free to like Babylon 5. I am free to consider it beneath even you. So there you are...
