I rewatched the first three seasons when FFA did a rewatch in the first half of this year, but got distracted by Darth Real Life before I could finish, so I welcome the opportunity to finish the whole thing!

Anyway: agreed that Midnight on the Firing Line is a truly remarkable achievement in setting up characters and situations for the next five years. (Oh, Londo, if only seeing the future ever did you the slightest bit of good ...)

Good observation about Talia's wardrobe! She is a bit of a tragic noir heroine (not that she knows herself that she's the femme fatale here) so I imagine that was deliberate.

Make-up: It still slays me how well Andreas Katsulas is able to act through all that latex. G'Kar's face and body language never feel any less vivid and full of expressions as those of the human characters, au contraire. And this is true from his very first scene onwards.

JMS has said that, unlike some of the actors (although one assumes not the ones that stuck around for the long haul) Andreas Katsulas found the make-up freeing rather than restrictive for his acting. It is indeed an amazing performance right from his first scene.