This contains spoilers, so don't read on if you care. It also contains
flames, but largely directed at JMS, not you.
In article <40C24C464D6FD21189090000C0F06ACF04ABFA@>, Wren A <A.Wren@> wrote:
<start flame war mode on>
Nah that wasn't a good episode, hasn't been a good episode in about 2
seasons.
<start flame war mode off>
Well, I'd disagree. It all depends what you want in a SF series. If you want
wars, death and destruction, go for late series 2, most of series 3, early
and late series 4, or a couple of series 5. Series 5 was always going to be
more character based, as most of the major conflicts had been resolved by
then. The last 5 episodes were good character-based episodes, dealing with
the fates of the main protagonists.
But the Sheridan character is such a wa^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H so difficult to
identify with. He's crass and boorish and seems to solve all his problems
with gung-ho defiance. He sticks out his stubbly jaw, and puts on that deep
voice, and suddenly the alien races of the Alliance decide to respect him.
It's bullshit. Since the main point of the character development of the
last half season seems to be sympathy for him and his friends, it falls a
bit flat.
The end to the Shadow War was such trite idiocy the whole series never
recovered. If I wanted to point a finger and say "it all went wrong here"
that finger points at "Into the Fire". About 25 minutes into the ep. It's
the point where Sheridan starts pontificating, if you could possibly forget.
It contains my nomination for `most embarrassing SF Hollywoodism of the
entire series': "now get the Hell out of our Galaxy". Like the "created by"
stencilled on the end of the station, it's a lapse of taste compounded by
appearing in the introductory bit of the entire 5th season.
Fortunately we should get more promising spin-offs: watching Lyta Alexander
take on the entire Psi-Corps (and, going by her form in past eps, win), or
watching what finally happens to Londo, G'Kar and Vir.
It's like trying to start watching
Eastenders at tonight's episode. We know that Tiff is dead, but we don't
know what sort of a person she was, or the events leading up to her death,
so it's difficult to connect with the episode. Even harder if you're hung
over at the time.
Who Tiff?
Borrow the second series off of someone and watch it, if you really want
to get into Bab 5. However, it is a little bit of an anticlimax as the
4th and 5th seasons get steadily worse...
Let's be honest. Would anyone have liked ST:TNG if the only episode they had
seen was 'All good things...'? Unlikely. Starting to watch a programme with
a complex and continuing plot at episode 110 is not a good idea.
Any chance of showing 'B5: In the beginning' Asan?
Who "all good things"?
Simon
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