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   From: 3cjmd@comcast.net   
      
   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.   
      
   Cheers,   
      
   Jaime   
      
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