Babylon 5 Season One No Spoilers Allowed

[Nommy]

If its the scene I think it is then I doubt very much it would get caught until ...er...season 2? Anyway, I still get a major kick out of the Teep conversation that G'Kar has with Lyta. Concious...or unconcious...LOL....Pleasure threashold..LOL (Dont like the short hair on her either)

[ProfCrash]

(grins) Yeah, vintage G'Kar. The look on Lyta's face was priceless.

The initial Delenn/Sinclair interaction was interesting. Why would Delenn give that information to Sinclair? She has no reason to do so and it could get her in trouble but she does it any way.

Yah know, discussing this without spoiles could be an interesting challenge.....

[sindatur]

Oh, one other thing, tonights episode (Midnight on the Firing Line, the 1st ep. of the series) is set a year after the pilot, so expect some changes but most of them will be explained eventually

[ProfCrash]

I really have to check out the original pilot to the re-edited. I think there are several major lines in there that did not appear in the original pilot. (sigh)

It was fun to watch it again. It is amazing to see where it all started and I do think that it was one of Michael O'Hare's better acting jobs. The scene where he tells Caroline about the line was really well done.

I do love the fact that Garibaldi teaches Delenn a dirty limirick. Only Garibaldi (grins)

[Wizz]

Garibaldi never changes, does he. He's teaching...nuts. Can't mention the kids name, can I. Nor his parents.
Well in the third Centauri book, someone's mom chastizes Garibaldi for teaching their offspring inappropriate responses.
Sheesh...this "no spoiler" routine is going to be a challenge.

[Erythrina]

Well I think that, since I've gotten through the pilot, I'll watch tonight's ep to continue the process of making me smart. I liked Delenn's reaction to the concept of poetry. That Garibald's quite the joker ;-)

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[ProfCrash]

Yeah the no spoiler thing is hard (sighs)

[Erythrina]

OK, made it through "Midnight on the Firing Line" and am still wondering about that as a episode title, but O well.

Fun to see Flounder again, acting not unlike he did in "Animal House." And wasn't Talia Winters in "NYPD Blue?" She certainly is classy as Talia Winters. It looks as if she's not going to get very far with Ivanova despite her intervention in Londo's assassination attempt.

I also enjoy the character of Susan Ivanova, darned near as repressed as Jeffrey Sinclair... what IS it about the service anyway? I'm also enjoying Garibaldi more and more, particularly the scene showing "Duck Dodgers" to Delenn. She's charmed and baffled at the same time, so fun to see.

With elections in the background, I get a sense that, for the station personnel that bothered to think about voting, they seemed to prefer the challenger to the incumbent.

The conflict between G'Kar and Londo, paralelling the conflict of their homeworlds, seems too straightforward to read much into, and my guess that'll continue through the series, from a simmer to a boil and back again.

So how'm I doing? Notice that I am not asking any questions?

[Erythrina]

Okay I have thought of a few other things. Garibaldi can be a pretty funny guy (it pops up in odd moments) but clearly he's had some pretty bad stuff to deal with -- his line to Londo when he stops him from asassinating G'Kar certainly indicates something like that "I know how it burns" or something like.

It's interesting to not the different way each of the main characters reacts to tragedy in their lives. Sinclair seems to be repressed while Garibaldi rebounds.

Londo initially struck me as sort of a maroon - an outwardly hail fellow well met guy but kind of a screwup. In this ep. he comes across as simply irrational, allowing his feelings for the Norn invasion and his nephew's uncertain fate to completely overthrow good judgement. Strange to see in an abassador from his people, the Centaureans, I wonder if they 'kicked him upstairs' to get him out of his homeworld?

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[Rantarn]

Ery, I won't say how you're doing other than that I like the way you think. It's just a shame you didn't start watching 6 years ago with the rest of us.

BTW, it's "Narn" and "Centauri", but close enough for a beginner.