Hi! I've been following your episode commentaries from the link from universe_today, and I've really enjoyed them
Wow, I had no idea I'd gotten linked over there. I'm glad you enjoyed my random blatherings!
I know exactly what you mean about missing Ivanova - way back when I first started the series, a friend (very gently) broke the news to me that she wasn't going to be in S5... and I remember telling her "that's fine then - I'll just stop with S4." I'm glad I didn't... but I was even more glad to see her come back. ;)
It also, oddly, makes me angry at Sheridan, because he seems to show a marked lack of sensitivity where Lennier is concerned.
Oh yes. I had a pretty good run of being consistently angry at Sheridan any time he and Lennier were in the same room, because he seemed so completely oblivious to how much Delenn meant to Lennier and vice versa. That's another contradiction here in S5 - all of a sudden, Delenn has to go behind his back to send Lennier into danger because Sheridan won't do it, knowing how she cares about him... when, less than a year before, he'd tried to dissuade Delenn from going into a bad spot by saying "It'll be dangerous... can't you just send Lennier?" So many things Sheridan has done and said in the context of that relationship rubbed me the wrong way. In this case, I can understand him being mad at Lennier, but... I guess I always come out on Lennier's side almost no matter what happens. He's certainly not always right by a long stretch, and I've been angry with him several times in S5, but I do feel like the poor boy gets the short end of almost every stick.
The beginning of the new chapter for the station really is a wonderful image - I love the thought of all those stories in between what we saw there and the station being decommissioned 20 years later. So many possibilities.
The dinner party was one of my favorite parts, too, especially the toast to missing friends. By the time it got around to Ivanova stepping in to say Marcus' name, I was already getting choked up, and that just put me over the edge. I was so relieved to see that she still remembered him, and was finally ready to admit it to everyone - I love the two of them.
That ending narration really was perfect, particularly being from Ivanova's point of view and in her voice. I can't remember exact numbers or episodes to back this up, but I'm fairly sure that she, Delenn, and G'Kar have done most of the narration for the series (and a good choice on that, since I think those three are also the best actors in terms of voice control and oration), and of all of those Susan is the human perspective, the voice, as you said, of the audience and the impressions we're meant to have of things. She's the one who carries it all on for us, and the one who has the most to go toward in terms of hope and new beginnings.
...I hadn't thought of it that way. You're right - this episode is officially perfect when viewed from that perspective. Now that's a universe I'd like to live in. ;)
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Date: 2006-09-24 06:34 am (UTC)Wow, I had no idea I'd gotten linked over there. I'm glad you enjoyed my random blatherings!
I know exactly what you mean about missing Ivanova - way back when I first started the series, a friend (very gently) broke the news to me that she wasn't going to be in S5... and I remember telling her "that's fine then - I'll just stop with S4." I'm glad I didn't... but I was even more glad to see her come back. ;)
It also, oddly, makes me angry at Sheridan, because he seems to show a marked lack of sensitivity where Lennier is concerned.
Oh yes. I had a pretty good run of being consistently angry at Sheridan any time he and Lennier were in the same room, because he seemed so completely oblivious to how much Delenn meant to Lennier and vice versa. That's another contradiction here in S5 - all of a sudden, Delenn has to go behind his back to send Lennier into danger because Sheridan won't do it, knowing how she cares about him... when, less than a year before, he'd tried to dissuade Delenn from going into a bad spot by saying "It'll be dangerous... can't you just send Lennier?" So many things Sheridan has done and said in the context of that relationship rubbed me the wrong way. In this case, I can understand him being mad at Lennier, but... I guess I always come out on Lennier's side almost no matter what happens. He's certainly not always right by a long stretch, and I've been angry with him several times in S5, but I do feel like the poor boy gets the short end of almost every stick.
The beginning of the new chapter for the station really is a wonderful image - I love the thought of all those stories in between what we saw there and the station being decommissioned 20 years later. So many possibilities.
The dinner party was one of my favorite parts, too, especially the toast to missing friends. By the time it got around to Ivanova stepping in to say Marcus' name, I was already getting choked up, and that just put me over the edge. I was so relieved to see that she still remembered him, and was finally ready to admit it to everyone - I love the two of them.
That ending narration really was perfect, particularly being from Ivanova's point of view and in her voice. I can't remember exact numbers or episodes to back this up, but I'm fairly sure that she, Delenn, and G'Kar have done most of the narration for the series (and a good choice on that, since I think those three are also the best actors in terms of voice control and oration), and of all of those Susan is the human perspective, the voice, as you said, of the audience and the impressions we're meant to have of things. She's the one who carries it all on for us, and the one who has the most to go toward in terms of hope and new beginnings.
...I hadn't thought of it that way. You're right - this episode is officially perfect when viewed from that perspective. Now that's a universe I'd like to live in. ;)