tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post8421315596075803662..comments2024-03-27T08:49:38.786-03:00Comments on Siskoid's Blog of Geekery: Babylon 5 #103: The Corps is Mother, the Corps is FatherSiskoidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08266365376486695812noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-23690603202424112652014-11-03T18:00:26.556-04:002014-11-03T18:00:26.556-04:00There's probably TV tropes name for this, but ...There's probably TV tropes name for this, but rememeber back when Bester was first introduced and we got every impression that telepaths communicate via telepathy all the time and view talking as slow and inconvenient? It's one of those ideas that doesn't really work on TV, so here we have everyone at PsiCorp headquarters talking out loud to each other all the time. Even on B5, when Bester is trying to talk to his interns somewhat covertly, he's still speaking out loud.<br /><br />The casino wasn't the old season 2 set, and I don't think we've seen the War Room all season. What's it being used for? It's their biggest set, so it seems strange not to use it. Along with the smaller cast and the fact that the entire ISA seems to be run by Sheridan and his best mates, it leads to the odd feeling of smallness that season 5 has.<br /><br />We get TWO British accents in this episode. Guess JMS was missing Marcus/Brian.<br /><br />I don't believe that Zack/Lochley would hand over the mundane to the PsiCorp. They must have known what they'd do to him.LiamKavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01996095233681105682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-69730653352127671412014-10-18T13:51:56.210-03:002014-10-18T13:51:56.210-03:00Borgnine would have found a better way.Borgnine would have found a better way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37940560.post-14554424865028551222014-10-18T11:25:38.745-03:002014-10-18T11:25:38.745-03:00This was unsurprisingly Walter Koenig's favori...This was unsurprisingly Walter Koenig's favorite episode, with JMS personally presenting the script to him and saying it was a gift for the fine work he'd done throughout the show's run. Doubtlessly aided by his experience on Murder She Wrote, his aim was to deconstruct the entire procedural structure. We get to see Bester in his own environment for once, allowing him to appear relaxed and crack the occasional joke, and unlike his usual appearances he gets to have the last word in his arguments with Zack. And then the kicker comes when we get the usual heartwarming growth moment for the rookie cop...which in this case is her killing her first mundane, intended to cause a whiplash effect as we realize how the plot structure itself has gotten us to root for the bad guy.<br /><br />His experience writing this one got JMS convinced that you could indeed create a whole show about an organization like Psi Corps, and in the script volumes he says a few times that he'd like to actually make it, though for whatever reason it hasn't happened yet. I'll still cross my fingers, because in his hands it'd probably be something worth checking out.Ryan Lohnernoreply@blogger.com