The Minbari plot threads come back in a big way, Lennier is kung fu fighting, and what sort of monster would space a teddy bear? Let us know what you thought of Peter David’s second B5 episode. Spoilers go thataway.
The Minbari plot threads come back in a big way, Lennier is kung fu fighting, and what sort of monster would space a teddy bear? Let us know what you thought of Peter David’s second B5 episode. Spoilers go thataway.
One of my favourite B5 bloopers comes from this episode: https://youtu.be/mfwb4KnW1S4?t=342
Yeah, the Minbari don’t lie. The Shai Alyt’s body was totally beamed up into heaven by the gods.
Kosh’s lesson in beauty struck me as gimmicky when I first saw it, since the episode was aired immediately after the 1994 album “Chant” by the monks of Santo Domingo de Silios went double-platinum. The robed figures chanted the first track on the album (“Puer Natus Est Nobis”). I don’t know, maybe it was coincidence, but when that album hit big, Gregorian chants were fraggin everywhere for a very brief period of time, and this episode was smack in the middle of that period of time. I’m less annoyed by it now than I used to be.
Is that what that was? Always wanted it… Thanks.
sure was fun to sing, though!
Soul Mates took flak and I think was hard done by, taking polygamous marriage as a silly or farcical stick to beat into shape the story. ‘There all the Honour’ be more internalised culture: the ho-ho in-joke of geek toys, the trope of the captain framed, the trope of someone (two) having to leave their position because of political calamities. On first fly-by, really, it’s the lesser of David’s two entries. But then, he’s Peter David, one master of quick and witting dialogue, he works by chameleon power, inserting himself into being just-another-voice in the property. This is where I really learned to appreciate this episode. David is playing the JMS signatures: makng use of arc material; playing the arcs out a few steps; playing many of them; exploring in more detail established character and culture aspects. The five or so plots running through this, some bitty, form a great tapestry that feels like any episode of B5, particularly ones in the future. The cast and crew turn in an excellent job. I felt similarly about the lawyer: some disparity between script, casting, act and edit.
Na’toth WOULD be a great defense attorney. JCB has unmistakable poise, and I recognized her immediately even without the makeup.