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This episode kind of feels like the original Season 2 premiere. Last weeks episode was an emergency story that had to deliver a great deal of exposition about a sudden new lead character. It was such a large task that … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Revelations”
Season 1’s title was “Signs and Portents” and it was a season all about establishing the universe while hinting at what was to come. By and large it did a great job at that, establishing several long running conflicts, and … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…- “Points of Departure”
Well here we are. I started this project while on my Christmas vacation and twenty two weeks later we have come upon the first big milestone, the season 1 finale “Chrysalis”. All of season 1 has been one great exercise … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… -“Chrysalis”
The Quality of Mercy is an excellent choice for a penultimate episode of the season. It has some light hearted bits while also expanding on the universe in interesting ways. We get new information on Centauri biology and Minbari morality. … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… – “The Quality of Mercy”
Now we are in the home stretch of Season 1. There were some wobbly episodes in the middle, and some so so performances from the main cast (Jerry Doyle) and some of the guest actors, but this is the start … Continue reading The Last Best Hope… -“Babylon Squared”
After a short recap, we drop right back into the action, and it turns out the large mysterious ship from the cliffhanger in the first episode is an Earth Alliance warship, the EAS Hyperion. Captain Ellis Pierce, played by Ron … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“A Voice in the Wilderness(Part 2)
Two parters used to be a big part of broadcast television. Before serialized storytelling caught on as the default in most dramas, a two parter gave extra incentive to come back in a week, to see how a bunch of … Continue reading The Last Best Hope…-“A Voice in the Wilderness(Part 1)
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”
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”
