tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post582829594068790186..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Babylon 5 #18: LegaciesSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-68153276307066077422014-07-27T12:50:56.099-03:002014-07-27T12:50:56.099-03:00There's a hell of a quality difference between...There's a hell of a quality difference between those two tapes...<br /><br />(I acutally own every UK VHS release of seasons 2-5, and about half of season 1. I keep meaning to did my old video player out of the loft and look at some of them, to see if the improved quality of the non-SFX scenes on the DVDs come at the cost of consistency with SFX stuff.)LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-39098532889145812182014-07-25T16:21:30.564-03:002014-07-25T16:21:30.564-03:00Back when VHS was a thing, B5 was released two epi...Back when VHS was a thing, B5 was released two episodes a tape, eleven tapes a season. However, since season 1 had to include the pilot, there were two tapes with an unheard-of three episodes. One was the next three episodes - Voice in the Wilderness 1 & 2, and Babylon Squared - and the other was the previous two and this. Grail, Eyes, Legacies. Such a terrible tape...Cradoknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-77396052753814421132014-07-25T11:56:46.547-03:002014-07-25T11:56:46.547-03:00Interestingly, all this is in stark contrast to th...Interestingly, all this is in stark contrast to the way the people behind the show felt about the episode. DC Fontana was brought in to hear another episode pitch from JMS, but with her courage bolstered from her experience with The War Prayer, she asked if she could write her own idea, and told this story from beginning to end. JMS was very impressed and gave her the go-ahead, and ended up never using the idea he was going to give her. And Fontana considers it one of her personal favorite stories of her long and distinguished career.<br /><br />JMS famously hates "cute kids and robots" (see the fate of the kid from Believers) but somehow Alisa becomes the one to escape that fate. Presumably he had too much respect for Fontana to change her story so drastically (ultimately his only changes were a couple bits of foreshadowing like the chrysalis line). Though they really should have gotten a better actress to let us want to see her succeed and be happy.Ryan Lohnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-34808851854862914312014-07-25T09:00:47.667-03:002014-07-25T09:00:47.667-03:00Ivanova's Cardassians are the PsiCops, so the ...Ivanova's Cardassians are the PsiCops, so the possibility is there, but her attitudes aren't changing with every PsiCorps encounter.Siskoidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-37771606552748151922014-07-25T06:27:41.225-03:002014-07-25T06:27:41.225-03:00Another duff episode, thank god for the next one.
...Another duff episode, thank god for the next one.<br /><br />The Minbari caste stuff is important, and I always like seeing Neroon, but for the most part it's a poor effort.<br /><br />Anon- I distinctly remember being glad when they eased back on Angry Major Kira in DS9. Ivanova certainly could've used a little bit more subtlety in the first series, and I think that's maybe the fault of Christian's performance as well as the writing.Madeleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-1161794908976131092014-07-25T06:19:02.334-03:002014-07-25T06:19:02.334-03:00I think you're touching upon something that ha...I think you're touching upon something that has bothered me: I'm not Ivanova's biggest fan, because her main character trait seems to be irritability, not strength. This may be an artifact of the early 90s, when TV writers were still trying to figure out how to write "strong women", and didn't have a wealth of good examples to work with. Ivanova might have been written very differently had Joss Whedon showed up 10 years earlier.<br /><br />That said, on the other side of the wormhole, Major Kira "leveled off" nicely during the first season, where she stopped being primarily angry and distrustful. But it helps that they threw her heavily into politics in ways that they couldn't with Ivanova, so Kira was getting episodes like "Progress" and "Duet" that forced her to evolve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com