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   From: tmw1962666.invalid@hotmail.com   
      
   Jaime M. de Castellvi wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 22:22:25 GMT, jayembee   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 15:59:19 GMT, 3cjmd@comcast.net (Jaime M. de   
   >>Castellvi) wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>You know, watching the whole last season over again, it isn't   
   >>>quite as bad as it'd seemed back then.   
   >>   
   >>Funny. That was my reaction, too.   
   >   
   > Got to _Sleeping in Light_, the part where the station finally   
   > goes, and damm if I wasn't getting a bit dewy in the eyes again.   
   > Not like I haven't seen it before a few times already, but still.   
   >   
   > The truth is _Babylon 5_ was a wonderful thing.  It had many bad   
   > and some absolutely dreadful moments, but it had plenty of   
   > breathtakingly beautiful and many awe-inspiring ones.  For five   
   > years, it allowed many of us to dream and wonder very fondly.   
   >   
   > While it run its course, some people seemed to lack any sense of   
   > perspective in their devotion to it.  Now that is over, the same   
   > lack is as evident in many of the naysayers.   
   >   
   >>>Yeah, the whole Byron arc things sucks pickled eggs   
   >>   
   >>It wouldn't be so bad if Byron himself wasn't such a drip.   
   >   
   > Yup.  The character was absolutely dreadful (though in fairness,   
   > jms seem far better able to excel when he had time to let things   
   > stew for a while inside his noggin than when he tried to improvise   
   > at the last minute, as he had to do here; naturally, the season   
   > gets better as time goes on like aged wine).  That, and the scene   
   > where they are singing together about the better place invariably   
   > made me puke with as much gusto as a Narn.   
   >   
   >>>and I'm not terribly fond of "A View from the Gallery" either   
   >>>(pity, though, because the concept had so much more potential),   
   >>   
   >>What? That's one of my three favorite episodes from the season,   
   >>and always has been. Mac and Bo rule!   
   >   
   > Well, OK, they're kind of lovable.  It's just, the dialogue was   
   > kinda lame for my taste.  The episode is trying to do something   
   > phenomenal, but it just doesn't quite get there.  You are rooting   
   > for it, and then you are disappointed when it falls flat.   
   >   
   >>(My other two S5 favorites are "The Day of the Dead" and "The   
   >>Corps Is Mother, the Corps Is Father".)   
   >   
   > I like the young psi-cop broad in that one.  Actress did a bang-on   
   > job.   
   >   
   >>>As an afterthought, in that ep where Garibaldi and his wife take   
   >>>their leave from Sheridan and Delenn (was it "Objects in   
   >>>Motion"?), after that awkward moment when John and Michael first   
   >>>shake hands and then finally hug, did I see Sheridan trying to   
   >>>hide the woodie he was nursing, afterwards?  I think I'm finally   
   >>>beginning to understand why Franklin relished the show so much...   
   >>   
   >>You're sick.   
   >>   
   >>Keep it up.   
   >   
   > Not if I keep thinking of Franklin!  I mean, not that he ain't   
   > cool or cute, I'm sure, but other guys not my piece of cake.   
   > Unless they be Zathras.   
      
   How could you know?  Nobody understands poor Zathras.   
      
   But Kosh, now there's a d00d I can dig.   
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