Contact Information
I welcome suggestions and feedback and will consider interesting guest posts. If you would like to email please click on the picture to view contact details.
Articles by each writer:
By the same blogger:
Category Archives: Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Sleeping in Light
Sleeping in Light. The words appear on the screen in the opening but there are no opening credits. 20 years have gone by since the last episode and Michael Garibaldi says that this is the day they all dreaded. John … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Objects at Rest
“This place kinda grows on ya!” Well, leave it to the great JMS to surprise me. Last week we saw some friends leave the station and I thought it would be a bleak affair without them but G’Kar and Garibaldi … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Objects in Motion
In 1985, there was a movie called St. Elmo’s Fire. My cousin loved the soundtrack and back then, we were together a lot, so I heard it often. One song had a line in it that disturbed me; a simple … Continue reading
Babylon 5: The Wheel of Fire
It’s hard not to see what’s happening here. The series is wrapping up and threads are getting tied together. We’ve been leading here for a while but with the Centauri conflict resolved, we really start to feel the loose ends … Continue reading
Babylon 5: The Fall of Centauri Prime
You know this is a big episode when it gets an opening monologue with “previously on Babylon 5….” The Fall of Centauri Prime is in many ways an ending. It’s pretty clear that we are cleaning up and ending the … Continue reading
Posted in Babylon 5, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged The Fall of Centauri Prime
11 Comments
Babylon 5: Movements of Fire and Shadow
It’s almost impossible to believe that so much happens here and it’s still just a regular length episode. How can that be? Delenn is sent on a mission to ask for a new ship. Londo and G’Kar are knocked out … Continue reading
Posted in Babylon 5, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged Movements of Fire and Shadow
5 Comments
Babylon 5: And All My Dreams, Torn Asunder
Last week we heard that the war with Centauri Prime was likely to begin by morning. Things are bad and they will only escalate from here. From a story perspective, this is a great episode. But taking B5 as a … Continue reading
Posted in Babylon 5, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged And All My Dreams Torn Asunder
2 Comments
Babylon 5: Darkness Ascending
You can feel the shift in storytelling with Darkness Ascending. The spoo has hit the fan and everything is coming together as we move into the final eight episodes of the series. We are given an opening of Garibaldi having … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Meditations on the Abyss
Meditations on the Abyss is a weirdly structured episode. We get three plots, none of which are particularly deep, but they all have a place: G’Kar and his teachings, the Centauri and the attacks on the Alliance ships, and Lennier … Continue reading
Babylon 5: The Corps is Mother, the Corps is Father
I feel like it was just a week ago that I was saying how happy I was to finally be in the main story of Season Five without any more distractions. Oh, wait… it was just a week ago I … Continue reading
Posted in Babylon 5, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged The Corps is Mother the Corps is Father
3 Comments
Babylon 5: The Ragged Edge
I was delighted to be back in the series without the distraction of the telepaths that had vexed so much of this season. I far prefer the political intrigue and drama of the situation on Centauri Prime. Maybe Michael Garibaldi … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Phoenix Rising
The bloodhounds have arrived to wrap up the Byron story. Phoenix Rising is the second half of the story that began last week and it seems like there was precedent for splitting it between two episodes: there was just too … Continue reading
Babylon 5: A Tragedy of Telepaths
A Tragedy of Telepaths opens like a season 4 episode, with one of those Captain’s logs. Maybe it’s a needed buffer because this episode feels like only half a story. I’m glad the story contains so much of Centauri Prime … Continue reading
Babylon 5: In the Kingdom of the Blind
“In the valley of the blind, the one eyed man is king,” so the saying goes. But which is the Kingdom of the Blind? Byron’s people who are too blind to see that violence will not help their cause? The … Continue reading
Posted in Babylon 5, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged In the Kingdom of the Blind
1 Comment
Babylon 5: Day of the Dead
When Roger and I started our Babylon 5 Friday’s, we never planned where episodes of Season 5 were going to fall but we managed to land our holiday, New Year’s Day, on a Brakiri holiday, The Day of the Dead. … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Secrets of the Soul
Secrets of the Soul is one of those filler episodes for me, but it’s not as if it doesn’t make a few important points. The A/B plots this week focus on Franklin trying to catalogue each species for his new … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Strange Relations
Strange Relations is the 6th episode of the final season of Babylon 5 and it does one thing very effectively: it starts giving us signs that the end is coming. As Londo says, “the end of the line.” This is … Continue reading
Babylon 5: Learning Curve
I do miss the momentum of seasons 3 and 4, but if there is one thing I do enjoy, it’s watching someone kick the stuffing out of a bully. Learning Curve attempts the standard two plot format but really just … Continue reading
Babylon 5: A View from the Gallery
“Seems like every week something goes wrong around here… Wonder what this one’s about!” Straczynski has been writing a continual run of episodes since somewhere in the middle of season 2. It’s an impressive feat. With the Shadow War, then … Continue reading
Babylon 5: The Paragon of Animals
I wasn’t fond of the Fifth Season stories surrounding Byron because I find him a cold character. He strikes me as creepy, hiding out in hallways waiting for the right moment to “walk by”, gathering data where he can, even … Continue reading
DrAcrossthePond
Roger Pocock
