Dude, I am so over Babylon 5’s last season and how they treat(ed) Zack.
Garibaldi leaves, names his found family including Delenn, Sheridan, Stephen, G'Kar and "even Londo". Like...? Okay, did you forget the guy who kept your alcoholism a secret even though it could compromise his job, worked for and with you for years and was practically one of your best friends, whom you also treated like absolute ass for the whole time you were struggling? Fuck, man.
Zack essentially just being a character used to help other people's plot lines along (really, he shows up when G'Kar and Lyta leave even though that never went anywhere, complete emptiness in that one-sided 'relationship') pisses me off so much.
Londo deserved so much better, G'Kar deserved much, much better, but Zack?
Zack deserved better from the writers, not the story.
And yes, the fact that Jeff Conway had his struggles during the show could have lead to less screen-time, but it’s like they just forget that he exists in the writing sometimes. Exactly my point with the Garibaldi-scene.
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B5 S03e15 Interludes and Examinations
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I don't think we've heard from Ivanova's personal diary before....it's totally possible that I'm forgetting one, but still! Exciting! Hearing a personal entry isn't common on B5 iirc. I will never turn down a peek into Susan Ivanova's head.
And it's factual, bad news. The shadows have been attacking openly for ten days, randomly, all over the place. And there's an older guy looking suspicious on B5! The younger guy he's talking to I thought was Morden The Asshole at first, but that was just my moderate faceblindness tricking me, I think.
Ooooo I am excited for the return of Adira! I'm tired, very very tired, of sad genocide Londo. Let's get some character arc in here, and I liked Adira.
Wait no it is Mordan! Ah! That asshole!
There's a new alien species reaching out for aid that Sheridan isn't giving much inspiration or help to. Well, I typed too soon: he has contacts and negotiations in his toolkit of resources.
"I'm not questioning you, I'm saying you're flat wrong!"
is a great line.
Dr Franklin is definitely still on the sims, but Garibaldi should have been yelled at. The security chief has no place tyring to talk to the emergency room doctors trying to save a patient's life. Get out of there Michael Garibaldi. No room for cops in the operating room, scoot.
Morden: make your government start more wars or else
Londo: I have stared death in the face and said "meh"
Elsewhere...
Garibaldi: I think you should do less legal speed and sleep more.
Dr Franklin: I'm going to do more legal speed and sleep less, actually.
Delenn and Sheridan's interaction made me laugh. And perhaps it foretells of the return of Kosh to the main storyline?
This Garibaldi/Sheridan foreplay is getting intense. Garibaldi is staging a full-on intervention on the legal level. The hamfisted AA commerical is a little dull for me but could be way more annoying, as far as a storyline goes.
Morden the asshole is continuing to be an asshole, charming the caterer slash personal shopped Vir was meeting with on Londo's behalf.
lmao dr franklin. staring into the cold abyss of realizing you really really like coke.
So Sheridan slash humans see an angelic, glowing figure when they see Kosh. Which doesn't explain why the original doctor from the pilot movie was so affected by a glimpse. Me, I'd be more "huh, glowing kinda looks like an angel...the universe is weird. Stitch him up!"
"You said you wanted to teach me to fight legends? Well you're a legend too."
LEGENDARY. So legendary that's Sheridan's going to have to fight himself.
"You do not understand. But you will."
Yeah I wouldn't like to hear that after making a bargain with an inexplicable and incomprehensible higher being.
I'm too high to follow this space battle at all so it's great to hear Ivanova report that the Vorlons engaged the Shadows and were winning.
o.O they brought back Adira just long enough to have her killed before she arrived! Morden, you asshole.
Well, Lord whatshisface of Centaur who Londo half-poisoned. But Morden, ultimately, I'm sure.
Bye Adira, sorry you got fridged.
Sheridan's bargain with Kosh paid off, and now he will be alone and without Kosh's help when he goes to die on Z'ha'dum.
Which is almost as ominous as Sheridan's dream vision. Seeing Kosh, Shadows appearing and disappearing, and then his father-bit-actually-Kosh apologizing for not believing him and ...dying? Seems like if Kosh could see this coming, then he could also arrange for some like, shielding, or some other Vorlon tech for protection. But it is about time for the stakes to be raised and the mentor figure to be killed off in this hero's quest, I suppose!
The Vorlons think it's a bad idea to announce that Kosh slash a Vorlon? has died. So they're going to send a new Vorlon to replace him?? new character alert! I look forward to meeting Kosh-notKosh-Kosh.
Londo still buying Morden's shit! Londo's revenge arc is, I glumly foresee, going to include more war crimes, and continue to be sad.
Hmmm. I didn't expect Dr Franklin to resign! I'll be interested in finding out what he gets up to while he tries to do less speed.
But not in the next!
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