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ghanimasun) wrote2007-12-12 10:03 pm
ghanimasun) wrote2007-12-12 10:03 pm
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in which i write about tv
Babylon 5....why are you so damned awesome?
I finished season 4 (with the weirdest, and maybe awesomest season finale ever). One more season to go. I sort of am anxious to watch it, but also don't want all the excitment to be over! I think this show is the best written sci fi show around. I say that because it all makes sense. There are no gaping plot holes or inconsistences. I mean, I am sure there are some. But as I'm watching it all at once, I am not putting a lot of time or analysis into it necessarily. I am just devouring it. Which increases the addiction and amazment factor, I think. One of my favorite characters continues to be G'kar. I wish they used him more! I liked Ivonova a lot more in this season. And I loved her in parts. As far as Sheridan goes, there was some stuff going on around him in this season, that I wish he would have dealt with or talked about a little more directly. He just seesm to ignore what people are saying or implying about him (being near god like, power hungry, etc) But maybe I was just supposed to get that he wasn't, so therefore that was them dealing with it. I dunno. But I still like him a lot, he just seems a bit more colder or disconnected this seaon. And Delenn. She is awesome beyond awesome. I definitely liked her a lot in the fourth season. And as for Garibaldi, well I never really loved him a whole lot to begin with, but I do appreciate the tragedy of what happens to him in this season. I dont know if he'll go downhill or go uphill next season as a result of it.
Before I watched this show, I had some vague ideas about what it was about. I had some ideas about stuff that might or might not happen. I knew something more was going to happen with Sinclair after he left B5, but I could not have predicted what actually happened! And because of that, I don't dislike him nearly as much as I did at the start. Dare I say, I actually kind of like him and want to go back and watch season one with all the information in mind (because little things will be awesome and make total sense now!) Also I expected the main war to last the whole series. But theres so much more. They deal with before, during, and after the war. They deal with multiple wars, so much policital stuff. The characters are more rich than I expected. The cgi either gets better or I got used to it, because I really don't notice if its bad anymore. The clothes and hair, you get used to. Like a lot of sci fi, you have to learn to accept the world first (hair included) before you can appreciate the rest of it. They deal with alot of specific things in the series (within the realm of the fictional world). Like the insane government the president builds up and the 1984-esque laws he begins to make (I found one episode almost hard to watch, it was so Orwellian/torture-filled). And also, the show tells you how things end. You know the basics of the ultimate destinies of many of the characters. It's all the stuff that leads up to their deaths that you have to learn. (Yes the characters die. Not in the course of the show necessarily, but in the course of time, as every character will die in the course of time. And of course theres the season four finale, in which everyone is dead.) But I find that sort of awesome. Because the show already knows how its basically going to end, at or near the beginning of the series. And it hints at things and it foreshadows a lot. And some of it is just a huge suprise. I don't want to drop too many spoilers here, because I know if I knew some of the big stuff before hand, the suprise of it wouldn't have been as awesome.
And in conclusion, I had a dream a few nights ago that Sheridan was at the bottom of the street my parents live on, and there was a swamp or something across the street from my grandparents house. And he was in charge (of course) of something or other. And all of a sudden two park benches appeared in the swamp. And he decides that we need to pull the benches down or get rid of them. So he goes in the swamp and starts trying to pull them up with his bare hands. And he tells me to run up the hill to my house to get my uncle to help him. And so I do (in like 3 seconds). And my uncle says he can't help him because of his foot (in real life, my uncle got part of his foot amputated) and so I run down to tell Sheridan that. But he doesnt seem to care. And other stuff happened in the dream not related at all. Like some lady pulled into my parents drive way in the snow, and I thought she was selling stuff, but she was really there to clean the house, and she let one of the cats outside when she came in. It doesnt make any sense. But there it is.
I finished season 4 (with the weirdest, and maybe awesomest season finale ever). One more season to go. I sort of am anxious to watch it, but also don't want all the excitment to be over! I think this show is the best written sci fi show around. I say that because it all makes sense. There are no gaping plot holes or inconsistences. I mean, I am sure there are some. But as I'm watching it all at once, I am not putting a lot of time or analysis into it necessarily. I am just devouring it. Which increases the addiction and amazment factor, I think. One of my favorite characters continues to be G'kar. I wish they used him more! I liked Ivonova a lot more in this season. And I loved her in parts. As far as Sheridan goes, there was some stuff going on around him in this season, that I wish he would have dealt with or talked about a little more directly. He just seesm to ignore what people are saying or implying about him (being near god like, power hungry, etc) But maybe I was just supposed to get that he wasn't, so therefore that was them dealing with it. I dunno. But I still like him a lot, he just seems a bit more colder or disconnected this seaon. And Delenn. She is awesome beyond awesome. I definitely liked her a lot in the fourth season. And as for Garibaldi, well I never really loved him a whole lot to begin with, but I do appreciate the tragedy of what happens to him in this season. I dont know if he'll go downhill or go uphill next season as a result of it.
Before I watched this show, I had some vague ideas about what it was about. I had some ideas about stuff that might or might not happen. I knew something more was going to happen with Sinclair after he left B5, but I could not have predicted what actually happened! And because of that, I don't dislike him nearly as much as I did at the start. Dare I say, I actually kind of like him and want to go back and watch season one with all the information in mind (because little things will be awesome and make total sense now!) Also I expected the main war to last the whole series. But theres so much more. They deal with before, during, and after the war. They deal with multiple wars, so much policital stuff. The characters are more rich than I expected. The cgi either gets better or I got used to it, because I really don't notice if its bad anymore. The clothes and hair, you get used to. Like a lot of sci fi, you have to learn to accept the world first (hair included) before you can appreciate the rest of it. They deal with alot of specific things in the series (within the realm of the fictional world). Like the insane government the president builds up and the 1984-esque laws he begins to make (I found one episode almost hard to watch, it was so Orwellian/torture-filled). And also, the show tells you how things end. You know the basics of the ultimate destinies of many of the characters. It's all the stuff that leads up to their deaths that you have to learn. (Yes the characters die. Not in the course of the show necessarily, but in the course of time, as every character will die in the course of time. And of course theres the season four finale, in which everyone is dead.) But I find that sort of awesome. Because the show already knows how its basically going to end, at or near the beginning of the series. And it hints at things and it foreshadows a lot. And some of it is just a huge suprise. I don't want to drop too many spoilers here, because I know if I knew some of the big stuff before hand, the suprise of it wouldn't have been as awesome.
And in conclusion, I had a dream a few nights ago that Sheridan was at the bottom of the street my parents live on, and there was a swamp or something across the street from my grandparents house. And he was in charge (of course) of something or other. And all of a sudden two park benches appeared in the swamp. And he decides that we need to pull the benches down or get rid of them. So he goes in the swamp and starts trying to pull them up with his bare hands. And he tells me to run up the hill to my house to get my uncle to help him. And so I do (in like 3 seconds). And my uncle says he can't help him because of his foot (in real life, my uncle got part of his foot amputated) and so I run down to tell Sheridan that. But he doesnt seem to care. And other stuff happened in the dream not related at all. Like some lady pulled into my parents drive way in the snow, and I thought she was selling stuff, but she was really there to clean the house, and she let one of the cats outside when she came in. It doesnt make any sense. But there it is.