Yeah, wow! I mean, it's got a very 90's vibe, and in that time period I was watching... X-Files. Which of course was part of that whole movement towards arcs (and doesn't at all predate B5), but it became clearer and clearer they didn't know what the heck they were doing. So I guess subconsciously, even having had people telling me there was a clear arc, I wasn't expecting... this.

b) the new mysteries come by being solved by the old ones, so it's not just a case of new shit being piled on top of old shit until you're so frustrated you don't care any longer.

haha, yeah, this was so me and X-Files! (Which I bailed out of... sixth season? Something like that?)

I do like that explanation of time and of Garibaldi, thank you!

And that was a great fic -- heh, I came out of that episode thinking, "It would be really cool to read a fic about what Sinclair was thinking inside that chrysalis," and lo.