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Subj: Re: Babylon 5-trust me, after Season 1 the series and characters will EVOLVE ADDENDUM Posted: Wed May 20, 2020 at 11:16:57 pm EDT (Viewed 310 times) | Reply Subj: Re: Babylon 5-trust me, after Season 1 the series and characters will EVOLVE Posted: Tue May 19, 2020 at 07:44:01 pm EDT (Viewed 365 times) | ||||||
Stories and plot threads develop starting in season 1 and 2, action starts starting at the end of season 2 and goes into 3 and especially in S4. The Shadows are indeed the great menace, but you will eventually see that the line between good and evil is a bit jagged and blurry. Also the Shadows have had a LONG time, (1000 years) to prep for their return and have agents in place. This isn't an enemy you can instantly rally the troops and be ready for. G'kar develops into a spiritual leader for his people, you will see. Londo: perhaps one of the best examples of the road to hell being paved with good intentions. Did you see the episode with the Technomages? What their leader tells Londo will have an affect on him. As to evil admirals and ensigns running around......you will indeed see some evil and misguided people running around. The Nightwatch......Earth President Clark and his forces....the Psi Corp.... Bill Mumy commented that he wasn't thrilled with the makeup at first as the first session took a long time to apply it, but with practice it got quicker. Also his character develops in an interesting path also. Kessler? I think you mean the fighter pilot Keffer, he has a part to play. Bester: yeah he has far more to do in this series then he ever did in Trek. Valen: throughout season 1, 2 and 3: anytime Valen is mentioned or anything about him, pay attention. Valen was even mentioned in the pilot The Gathering along with the first mentioning of Entil'Zha ADDENDUM: Babylon 5 was great for long reaching plots and story arcs, while perhaps not on the level of Tolkien or Frank Herbert Dune it is a great space story. Star Trek: how many times in TOS/TNG/DSP/Voyager/Enterprise did they get the deus ex machina/happy ending with little to no consequences? Answer: most of the time. TNG: Picard becomes Locutus, decimates about 80% of the fleet and nearly conquers earth before he is stopped and restored. He passed all physical and mental tests and Starfleet allows him to keep the Enterprise???? Picard should have been immediately assigned to an anti-Borg task force to both assist with making new defenses and also to be monitored just in case. Not many episodes afterwards dealt with him being Locutus, there were some but not many. It was just "oh here is your ship back!" It wasn't until First Contact that he was actually ordered by Starfleet to stay out of Borg conflict even though he did face them in the series after being Locutus. Heck the Shatner novels did a better job of showing his post-Locutus PTSD and dealing with it. The Psi Corp: they started with the best of intentions but thanks to greed, I think some Shadow corruption and the fact that telepaths know they have the right to survive, well they get a bit corrupt by the time of the series. Also while they do seek to protect their own their methods leave a bit to be desired. Join the Corp or take the sleeper drugs or go to the internment camps. Also they check DNA of their members to find suitable breeding matches to create a new generation at least as strong as the previous Genetic experiments on their own (Jason Ironheart) Psychic reprogramming of their own to make some of them sleeper agents. The Corp is Mother, the Corps is Father.......magneto would be so proud! | |||||||
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