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   "Troy Heagy"  wrote in message   
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   > 3cjmd@comcast.net (Jaime M. de Castellvi)   
   > > You know, watching the whole last season over again, it isn't quite as   
   > > bad as it'd seemed back then.  Yeah, the whole Byron arc things sucks   
   > > pickled eggs and I'm not terribly fond of "A View from the Gallery"   
   > > either (pity, though, because the concept had so much more potential),   
   > > but overall S5 seems to be a lot better than we care to remember.   
   >   
   >   
   > I made that observation back in '99 when I rewatched my tapes.  Season   
   > 5 seemed slow and plodding during the weekly airings (and loooong   
   > summer break), but when viewed as a whole back-to-back-to-back, season   
   > 5 holds together better than season 1's crap and about equal to season   
   > 2.   
   >   
      
   Watching it on DVD, it struck me that once the Byron plot was done the rest   
   of Season 5 was just one long multi-hour "goodbye" episode.  Every character   
   got an hour to say goodbye to the station and the others.   
      
   (And Byron struck me as an absolute idiot.  You start by committing an act   
   of terrorism against _multiple_ governments and then expect them to hand you   
   a habitable planet????  He had a much better chance if he had approached the   
   ISA diplomatically first.  He would have still had the option of mental rape   
   available if that failed.  But no, gotta first remind and prove to everyone   
   WHY they don't trust you, thereby destroying any chance of negotiating.)   
      
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