We are sticking with the telepath storyline for this episode, with only a few minor deviations. We get to check in on Londo and his mission to his homeland, and we get to run into a character that we have … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“A Tragedy of Telepaths”
After last episode’s character work detour, we are back on the main plots for this one. In addition to more information about Londo and his ascension we get movement on the telepath plot, as well as the beginnings of a … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“In the Kingdom of the Blind”
In many ways Babylon 5 can feel like a series that was written in the last few years. The themes match up well to our current times and its serialized nature blends in well with the current TV landscape. Then … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…”Day of the Dead”
We are moving through more of the season’s main plots again, with a heaping dose of Byron and the telepaths, but we are also following up on Franklin and his new mission to study the medicine of other races more … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Secrets of the Soul”
Netflix’s six-episode limited series set in a small town in Newfoundland under threat from a mysterious force from the sea. Starring Josh Hartnett, Mackenzie Davis, and Charlie Heaton, as well as most of the working actors that are originally from … Continue reading Below Mini-Series Discussion Space
Babylon 5 had a decent stable of recurring characters, even if many of them meet grisly fates, and every season we can always look forward to the return of Bester. Here he is even more welcome, as the show decides … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…”Strange Relations”
We continue on our run of episodes that are more interested in filling in the world of Babylon 5 than in advancing storylines meaningfully. This one gives a more in depth look at the Rangers and their training, which is … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…”Learning Curve”
I mentioned back in the Londo heavy episode that an advantage to having 22 episodes and not enough plot to fill them means that the show can luxuriate in one off episodes that do some good character building work without … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…”A View from the Gallery”
As much complaining as I have done about Season 5, there was a kernel of a good idea in some of the plots for the season. The Interstellar Alliance seems like an obviously good idea to the various planetary governments, … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Paragon of Animals”
With the setting up episode out of the way we get into some character building content. Season 5 is unique among the Babylon 5 seasons in that it has room for one-off episodes that the other seasons really didn’t. The … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Very Long Night of Londo Mollari”
Lets get it out of the way at the start. I dont really care for Season 5 of Babylon 5. I am not alone in this. Most fans of the show feel that this is probably the weakest season, even … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“No Compromises”
For a low-budget show that would go on to 110 hour long episodes, it is practically a miracle that we never got a Babylon 5 clip show. Clip shows are a producers dream, even cheaper than a bottle episode, and … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Deconstruction of Falling Stars”
One of the strengths that Babylon 5 has when stacked up against both modern shows and its contemporaries was the combination of 90’s style huge episode orders(22 per season) paired with serialized story telling. This allows us the excitement of … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Rising Star”
We have finally arrived. All of the little bits of planning that we have seen from Sheridan, every strategic choice he has made all season has been leading to this. Sheridan is not done being sneaky though, as his plan … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Endgame”
After the somewhat experimental “Intersections in Real Time” Babylon 5 gets back to normal business. We are now only four episodes from the end of the season so everything moves very quickly to get all the pieces in place for … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Between the Darkness and the Light”
For all of its work in popularizing serialized storytelling on TV, Babylon 5 was at its heart a very traditional show. Guest stars come in and out, many plots are sewn up at the end of the hour, and we … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Intersections in Real Time”
I tend to think more highly of this episode compared to the previous one, as it is full of forward movement and big events, but at the end of the day it is another basic plot advancement episode. What sets … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Face of the Enemy”
Now that the war with Earth has kicked off in earnest it is time for a business-like episode that covers things back on the station and follows Mr.Garibaldi’s adventures on Mars. After an action heavy episode there is value in … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Exercise of Vital Powers”
As I say in every season when we get to this point, each season has a name. Signs and Portents, The Coming of Shadows, Point of No Return, and now No Surrender, No Retreat. Each of the seasons has one … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“No Surrender, No Retreat”
The Season 4 firehose of plot continues in “Moments of Transition”. We get forward movement with Garibaldi, a sad little plot for Lyta Alexander, and the conclusion of the already short Minbari Civil War storyline. All of which is the … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Moments of Transition”
Season 4 continues at a brisk pace. Sheridan is still working several angles at once, trying to solve the problem in front of him, and the one behind that one at the same time. Part of this is a testament … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Rumors, Bargains, and Lies”
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