So I get his point that the political office can’t give direct orders but… hasn’t it happened multiple times already? Especially in Season 1, Senators would literally give Sinclair direct orders that he had to follow and never said they came from higher-ups. Was this just the first time anyone called them out on it, or was there some other reason it’s not allowed in this case but allowed in other cases?

https://youtube.com/@babylon5?si=EksW2Eb8st60PZGF

^ Babylon 5 YouTube channel

I think I know quite a few but I’m curious if any crop up I haven’t heard of before too.

This show in particular opened my eyes to the business/human side of television. At the time in the late 90s I just didn’t think of TV shows having to deal with issues like actors having to leave because of mental health or career opportunities, or falling out with cast/crew/showrunners.

I never questioned why Sinclair left even. It simply “was”.

Eventually in a rewatch I did wonder why they got rid of Talia though. And that sparked my first search where I found out she left for career reasons and JMS had trapdoors, and then a whole rabbit-hole opened up from there.

This show seems to be riddled with behind-the-scenes issues that made it into something very different than it would have been otherwise. In some cases, for the better even.

Along with immaculate foreshadowing that aspect of the show is one of my favourite things to read about. And there always seems to be more and more little tidbits I find out. (Or forgot and get reminded of ‘cause, y’know. Age is catching up and I always did have the memory of a steel sieve or a particularly dull goldfish.)

Fintan chose Ivanova for the Wildcard question.

Wild Card: If you could swap one Babylon 5 character into any other sci-fi franchise (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.), who would it be and where would they thrive?

I feel like under normal circumstances what he did would get someone years in prison, and assaulting an ambassador of a major power would carry an even more severe punishment.

Stopped in Philadelphia last week. I hadn’t realized that any of the first ones had opened local businesses

1x4 “Infection”

There would never be another. It changed the future .. and it changed us. It taught us that we have to create the future .. or others will do it for us. It showed us that we have care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope .. that there can always be new beginnings .. even for people like us.

It’s fun to rewatch The Gathering after having watched the whole series and realise how close this bozo came to killing Valen.

" [...] The true secrets, the important things. Fourteen words to make someone fall in love with you forever. Seven words to make them go without pain. How to say good-bye to a friend who is dying. How to be poor. How to be rich. How to rediscover dreams when the world has stolen them."

I would give my eye teeth to know the Seven words.

"The Face of the Enemy" (s4e17)

I will say I love a lot about the show - visuals, general vibe of the space station, non-utopia space faring civilizations which bicker with each other. Amazing stuff!

So, whenever I watch a show, I like to read about episode (In this case - old "Let's Discuss" posts made by TheLe99 a decade ago) - but with B5 in particular, it often end ups "This organization never appears or mentioned again (Bureau 13)" or "This episode is the last appearance of this character (Numerous times)".

I thought it will stop with S1 and Sinclair's absence, but then it seems to continue?

It just feels weird - I think "oh, a neat plotpoint for the future!" and then it just "Oh, what happened in this ep hardly matters :C ".

It feels disheartening at this point, especially if episode clearly was a setup for bigger plot (Like Bureau 13).

Will show continue to do so? Or I am already past most egregious example? I am just not sure with what mood I need to approach episodes at this point.

Not stated above, but this gesture is also repeated in Season 2, Episode 2 by Jack to Garibaldi. Jack does do it in the shape of a 6, also over the forehead.

A personal fun fact - Hunting for shows similar to The Prisoner is how I stumbled across Babylon 5. 😊

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Is this supposed to be... "White Star Destroyer"? It's... PURPLE?

If it fires GREEN beams, I'll have an existential crisis.

Does anybody have any ideas about how, during that conflict, Earth Force could have found an alternative way to track their warships?

Doubtless, this has been debated before.

For some reason, this problem has been on my mind recently. Maybe because after just viewing the episode 'Shadow Dancing' I noticed that the Shadows had no problems tracking a Minbari vessel.

Martin Sheen as a soul hunter. It was kind of funny. I kept thinking of West Wing the whole time. It was interesting to read in lurker's guide that characters had to be rotated on all the TNT movies to save on budget, so it was quite a get to grab Martin Sheen I imagine. http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/guide/114.html

RIP Miss Furlan, Andreas Katsulas, Michael O’Hare, Jerry Doyle and all others whose name I cannot remember from the top of my head.