You know, now that you mention it, I definitely expected them to stop the assassination, too, the first time around, those were the rules of tv in the 1990s, especially for season finales. On that level, it shocked me on that level. But it didn't viscerally evoke anything without my life time until that point. Kennedy's death was history, the Reagan assassination attempt (which I did remember) was too weird (the one thing I recalled about it was that the wannabe assassin had done it to impress Jodie Foster), and the 1970s and 1980s assassionations of politicians and industrialists by terrorists we had within Germany courtesy of the RAF (not the British one, the Rote Armee Fraktion, aka the Baader Meinhof Group in English) which were vividly present to young me a) never reached the level of a head of state, and b) had a specific political goal very alien to what is associated here.
But for people of JMS' generation, as I said, the Kennedy assassination, and then later the ones of MLK and RFK and Malcolm X) were IT.
Morden is still this ???? to me, now with added mass death. (!)
There's a reason why I dubbed him Londo's Mephistopheles in preceeding reviews. Remember Mephisto's "She's not the first? retort in the scene where Faust has just found out Gretchen is imprisoned and about to be executed?
I've heard enough about Londo that I really hope that he keeps thinking about those ten thousand.
Can't comment on this without spoiling Londo's five years arc, which is one of the best I've ever seen.
When the word "Chrysalis" first came up in Delenn's head I did not think it was going to mean A LITERAL CHRYSALIS. I thought it might be a code name or something!
He. As did we all. I don't think anyone expected this back in the day. The name does work on a metaphorical level for more than Delenn's plot, though, since transformations happen to other regulars, too.
Sinclair: you know now we find out most at the start of s2 via a giant infodump necessitated by the change of leading man, but there's still a key bit missing, which will be unveiled in the s3 two parter which for my money is also Michael O'Hare's greatest performance on the show. I'll tell you then what the novel said happened to Catherine, which btw is a way better fate than what I fear would have happened to her if Michael O'Hare had not been ill and Sinclair had remained the lead. More about this when we reach an s2 episode named "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'dum".
Man that was a shippy scene.
No kidding. Garibaldi's love for Sinclair breaks my heart a little whenever I rewatch the show.
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You know, now that you mention it, I definitely expected them to stop the assassination, too, the first time around, those were the rules of tv in the 1990s, especially for season finales. On that level, it shocked me on that level. But it didn't viscerally evoke anything without my life time until that point. Kennedy's death was history, the Reagan assassination attempt (which I did remember) was too weird (the one thing I recalled about it was that the wannabe assassin had done it to impress Jodie Foster), and the 1970s and 1980s assassionations of politicians and industrialists by terrorists we had within Germany courtesy of the RAF (not the British one, the Rote Armee Fraktion, aka the Baader Meinhof Group in English) which were vividly present to young me a) never reached the level of a head of state, and b) had a specific political goal very alien to what is associated here.
But for people of JMS' generation, as I said, the Kennedy assassination, and then later the ones of MLK and RFK and Malcolm X) were IT.
Morden is still this ???? to me, now with added mass death. (!)
There's a reason why I dubbed him Londo's Mephistopheles in preceeding reviews. Remember Mephisto's "She's not the first? retort in the scene where Faust has just found out Gretchen is imprisoned and about to be executed?
I've heard enough about Londo that I really hope that he keeps thinking about those ten thousand.
Can't comment on this without spoiling Londo's five years arc, which is one of the best I've ever seen.
When the word "Chrysalis" first came up in Delenn's head I did not think it was going to mean A LITERAL CHRYSALIS. I thought it might be a code name or something!
He. As did we all. I don't think anyone expected this back in the day. The name does work on a metaphorical level for more than Delenn's plot, though, since transformations happen to other regulars, too.
Sinclair: you know now we find out most at the start of s2 via a giant infodump necessitated by the change of leading man, but there's still a key bit missing, which will be unveiled in the s3 two parter which for my money is also Michael O'Hare's greatest performance on the show. I'll tell you then what the novel said happened to Catherine, which btw is a way better fate than what I fear would have happened to her if Michael O'Hare had not been ill and Sinclair had remained the lead. More about this when we reach an s2 episode named "In the Shadow of Z'Ha'dum".
Man that was a shippy scene.
No kidding. Garibaldi's love for Sinclair breaks my heart a little whenever I rewatch the show.