rivendellrose | rambling

Continuing the Babylon 5 babble, because I watched three more episodes last night.

I really don't have a lot to say about the first two. In fact, of the first all that I can really say is that the moral of the story is to listen to the crazy bums who spew 'nonsense'... but only if they're decorated war heroes. And played by Dwight Schultz. I'm sorry, I couldn't stop looking at him and thinking "Barclay!" Fortunately, same difference. (Typecast much?) Why are the Babylon crew so willing to go into potentially dangerous situations without containment suits? That ship could've been carrying a hundred year-old plague! Judging by the ep summaries, though, I guess that's a problem for later in the season. And aww, how cute, they're trying to give Franklin a love interest. He gets points for being brighter than Bashir by virtue of not attaching himself to a distraught and emotionally unsettled female patient (who, at this point, has been a widow for about 24 hrs). Good on him. I still don't care, nor do I understand why I don't.

Next episode. Bureau 13 made me laugh, if only because of that other shadow organization that likes to mess with people on a station I'm fond of, Section 31. At least these guys seem to have more to do than stalk Dr Bashir in his jammies. Compared to most B5 guest stars, this guy was actually interestingly played, if (as usual) overacted. I think he's also character number ten or something to spend a lot of time asking "WHO AM I?!" Thematic much?

Lastly, "Soul Mates." I was really disappointed in this one, honestly. Peter David was one of my favorite writers when I was younger, and the thought of him writing for Londo had amused the hell out of me when I heard about it, so... I had high hopes. As it turned out, I could tell from the minute the wives walked in which one Londo would pick, and the other two were so patently absurd that I had a hard time really being interested in them. I did like Londo getting a deck of cards from Lennier, and was kind of amused by the explanation for poor Delenn's crisis, and by Ivanova's bemused acceptance of the whole thing, but overall I felt like too much time was spent on the thing with Talia and her ex-husband. And I somehow missed the infamous - "These are my wives - I call them Pestilence, Famine, and Death" line. I must've been getting tea. D: (As someone pointed out online, that leaves Londo as War. Pretty fitting, when you consider the whole thing with the Shadows...) A pretty "meh" episode all around. The next one apparently involves Sheridan having to pay rent for his quarters, which is odd since a) that doesn't sound like much of a plot, and b) I would've figured room and board would be included in his position as captain.

Happy Bastille Day to all who celebrate!

I'm planning a evening tonight - I've been too tired this week to go to contra, I think, and I'm hoping to catch up on my writing somewhat. I've lost a lot of time to the whole mess with the kitty and then to digging through the B5 DVDs. Not that I resent either, exactly, it's just disconcerting to know how very little writing I've actually got done in the last week. Now that the River/Zoe has been up for a while, I'm ready to get back to work on the next chapter of Shore Leave, finish at least one of the damned Garak/Bashir fics I've been working on, and hopefully get the X-Files/Highlander crossover finished, too. And I'm still fussing with a few of my original ideas, and toying with the thought of editing the prose stuff I wrote for English last quarter and sending them in to a few magazines or papers. How's that for a thought - me actually submitting things for a change!

And while I'm on the subject of space stations... I'm such a dork, but that really makes me kind of scared and irritated and excited all at the same time.