tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post775095604476780166..comments2024-03-17T20:50:21.456-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Babylon 5 #17: EyesSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-14411145936651964722014-07-31T12:53:11.795-03:002014-07-31T12:53:11.795-03:00According to Lennier's history file, the last ...According to Lennier's history file, the last gasoline motorcycle was built in 2035. And apparently, motorcycle design with go down a CRAZY path between now and then. (Ah, the perils of predicting the near future. Twenty years is a lot closer than forty years.)LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-91999796228730995432014-07-24T10:42:55.069-03:002014-07-24T10:42:55.069-03:00Nothing to add about this episode except that Greg...Nothing to add about this episode except that Gregory Paul Martin is the son of George Martin, the legendary Beatles producer.Madeleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-39595352846215802992014-07-24T10:25:33.223-03:002014-07-24T10:25:33.223-03:00Also, a big "yeesh" to Sinclair's li...Also, a big "yeesh" to Sinclair's line "Enough people have messed with my brain this year," especially considering this was the last episode of the season to be shot, just before he left to go for treatment.Ryan Lohnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-27240769949333428952014-07-24T10:22:37.170-03:002014-07-24T10:22:37.170-03:00Larry DiTillio has some quite choice words in his ...Larry DiTillio has some quite choice words in his introduction to this episode in the script volumes for Gregory Paul Martin, who played Ben Zayn. The whole cast and crew quickly grew frustrated with his overacting, with the director putting it as "He says every line like he's doing Macbeth." Although I think that now we have a better analogy: he's like Dr. Sanchez from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace played straight. Though DiTillio also acknowledges that Martin was going through a nasty divorce at the time, so you can't really blame him for being off his game.<br /><br />Faring much better is the brilliant casting of Jeffrey Coombs, who so often plays sleazy creeps (including several of his Star Trek characters) that it's quite a genuine surprise when he turns out to be the nice, reasonable guy of the pair. It's the kind of meta-twist we don't see a lot, so it still packs a punch when it does happen (another great example came this very year, with Brad Dourif's role in Agents of SHIELD).<br /><br />The motorcycle subplot came about because Kawasaki was a major contributor to the show, though no money actually changed hands for this specific piece of product placement. One place it really suffered was the generic and uninspiring stock footage that gets Lennier interested, which was intended to be the famous "Whaddaya got?" scene from The Wild One until they couldn't get the rights. Also, they weren't legally able to ride the motorcycle on set, so the director and some other crew specifically waited until JMS was busy in his office before bringing the actors in and getting that brief shot before it turns to CG. When he found out what they'd done, he was perfectly fine with it.Ryan Lohnernoreply@blogger.com