First things first, a confession. This may not exactly be a second look for me and this film. Not because I have not seen it before. I have seen it during its endless reruns on Comedy Central in the late … Continue reading Second Look: Canadian Bacon
This episode feels like a pretty good standard episode of a scifi show. We have an alien culture that is being difficult to work with, and we have a telepath that has to decide on what to do with her … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Legacies”
Product placement is one of those crappy parts of television and film. It was something that greatly offended me as a young show watcher. When I got older I learned to live with it if it meant a show I … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Eyes”
Rewatching episode 15 “Grail” was something of a milestone in my rewatch of Season 1. It is the first episode that I really dont have much of an opinion on one way or the other. It is basically fine. It … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Grail”
After soaring for two weeks in a row, Babylon 5 gets brought back down to Earth so to speak by “TKO”. This is probably one of the most hated episodes of Babylon 5, and easily one of the worst in … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“TKO”
Every season of Babylon 5 has a title. It is an interesting conceit from the showrunner J. Michael Strazynski. The point of it is to reinforce that Babylon 5 was always meant as one coherent story, with each season being … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Signs and Portents”
The streak is over! After episodes 9, 10 and 11 were duds with little redeeming value, episode 12 comes riding over the hill to the rescue. Possessing a great A plot, and a B plot that takes one of the … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“By Any Means Necessary”
Finally we get to the last of my “always skip” trilogy, Survivors. On paper this episode would not be too bad. Getting an episode to focus on the backstory of one of our main cast is essential in Season 1, … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Survivors”
When I saw the chance to write a Second Look article, I jumped on it. I loved the concept, I loved the structure of it. I even happened to be doing a rewatch of a show I had not seen … Continue reading Second Look – Space: Above and Beyond
Whoo boy, this is episode two in the three episode arc of “usually skip” episodes we are in right now. Re-watching it, I am surprised. Dr. Franklin is a character I like, and this is a big episode for him. … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Believers”
Deathwalker feels strongly like an episode of the 90’s. Former war criminals being exposed and arrested for crimes in long past wars just feels like something that was more in the forefront of the culture back then. Maybe in thirty … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Deathwalker”
This is another episode that I tend to not watch very often. Most of season 1 falls into that category, whereas seasons 2, 3, and 4 have maybe one or two that I avoid. This one is pretty direct and … Continue reading The Last Best Hope- “And the Sky Full of Stars”
This is another episode that I don’t tend to revisit during a casual re-watch. There is some decent stuff here, a little expansion of Delenn and Londo’s characters and more warning signs from Earth. We get a bit more of … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The War Prayer”
This episode is a mixed bag for me personally, and much of that has nothing to do with the episode itself. It has a lot going for it! We get a deeper look into how telepaths work, we get a … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Mind War”
As much as I tend to skip Born to the Purple or Infection when I re-watch season 1, I always make time to stop off at S1E5 Parliament of Dreams. An arc heavy episode for Sinclair, some fun world building … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“The Parliament of Dreams”
I may have been talking trash about Born to the Purple, but Infection is a further step down. I have rewatched this series many, many times front to back, but Infection is a very skippable episode and not one that … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“Infection”
Like most shows, especially in the era of 22 episode seasons, not every episode can be a winner. Babylon 5 is no exception and Born to the Purple S1E3 is the first that I would consider kind of a dud. … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Born to the Purple”
Back to Babylon 5 with an episode that straddles that line between science fiction and fantasy. Babylon 5 has a decent mix, with some hard scifi concepts thrown in (like a rotating station), but they also love to mix in … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Soul Hunter”
In the arena of 90’s science fiction television there were plenty of giants. Three different Star Trek shows spanned the decade, followed by another that moved the franchise into the 00’s. There were also very popular shows outside of that … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Midnight on the Firing Line”
