but in purple, i am stunning
Jun. 4th, 2010 02:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivendellroseWe're up through "Parliament of Dreams" on the big dragging-![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ninjascript-through-B5 rewatch... minus the fact that I made him let me skip "Infection." I still don't like Sinclair. I still wish Catherine Sakai had more scenes without him, because I think I could really like her. Oh, and I still love when Delenn gets one of her chances to be scary. They seemed so much more frequent before Things That Happen Later. Poor Lennier looked likely to piss himself when she cornered him about calling her Satai. ♥
It's very strange going into this firmly aware of both how much I love the show... and how weird it looks to someone who's not used to it. I catch myself constantly apologizing. "The special effects are totally crap. Oh, god, the costumes... No, ignore this guest actor... Yes, I'm sorry, that person will eventually learn to act, she just hasn't quite got there yet... Don't worry about him, he won't be around much longer... No, he's not going to die, but... well, you'll see," etc. And of course, my favorite, "They can't help it, they had a really low budget." The poor guy is probably wondering what the hell I love so much about this show, not least because I keep apologizing for it. I just hope it starts to show soon. At the moment, I feel like (while glorious to my nostalgia) the first season is a bit weaker than I'd remembered.
Plus, I've got spoiler-y double-vision now on everything. Like that bit in "Parliament of Dreams," with the Minbari ceremony? At the time of course it's all jokey "ha-ha, significant staring, also a marriage ceremony, etc," but I have to say... even at the time I remember thinking "so... now Sinclair and Delenn are sort of married? Because they're definitely the ones with the most significant staring going on in that scene..." And yet of course later we discover that "fate" (ie, casting) is really after getting her married to Sheridan, while Sinclair has to go off and become Valen. So... where does that put this ceremony?
My frequent remarks about how 'three is sacred' to the Minbari may fit here, but... damn, we're reaching the point of "what about four, five, or maybe even six?" with Delenn. I love her, too, but it does rather seem that she's more-or-less-married to the whole universe, some days...
Afterward, he played a little bit of one of the older Final Fantasy games, to test out the video up-scaling on his new media receiver, and the narrator guy at the beginning was doing a really weird accent. I started to make fun of him, then trailed off. "I really can't make those comments after you just watched two episodes of Peter Jurasik's accent as Londo, can I?" I asked. He laughed, and told me no, I couldn't. He's probably right. ...But it was still a weird, random accent.
ninjascript-through-B5 rewatch... minus the fact that I made him let me skip "Infection." I still don't like Sinclair. I still wish Catherine Sakai had more scenes without him, because I think I could really like her. Oh, and I still love when Delenn gets one of her chances to be scary. They seemed so much more frequent before Things That Happen Later. Poor Lennier looked likely to piss himself when she cornered him about calling her Satai. ♥It's very strange going into this firmly aware of both how much I love the show... and how weird it looks to someone who's not used to it. I catch myself constantly apologizing. "The special effects are totally crap. Oh, god, the costumes... No, ignore this guest actor... Yes, I'm sorry, that person will eventually learn to act, she just hasn't quite got there yet... Don't worry about him, he won't be around much longer... No, he's not going to die, but... well, you'll see," etc. And of course, my favorite, "They can't help it, they had a really low budget." The poor guy is probably wondering what the hell I love so much about this show, not least because I keep apologizing for it. I just hope it starts to show soon. At the moment, I feel like (while glorious to my nostalgia) the first season is a bit weaker than I'd remembered.
Plus, I've got spoiler-y double-vision now on everything. Like that bit in "Parliament of Dreams," with the Minbari ceremony? At the time of course it's all jokey "ha-ha, significant staring, also a marriage ceremony, etc," but I have to say... even at the time I remember thinking "so... now Sinclair and Delenn are sort of married? Because they're definitely the ones with the most significant staring going on in that scene..." And yet of course later we discover that "fate" (ie, casting) is really after getting her married to Sheridan, while Sinclair has to go off and become Valen. So... where does that put this ceremony?
My frequent remarks about how 'three is sacred' to the Minbari may fit here, but... damn, we're reaching the point of "what about four, five, or maybe even six?" with Delenn. I love her, too, but it does rather seem that she's more-or-less-married to the whole universe, some days...
Afterward, he played a little bit of one of the older Final Fantasy games, to test out the video up-scaling on his new media receiver, and the narrator guy at the beginning was doing a really weird accent. I started to make fun of him, then trailed off. "I really can't make those comments after you just watched two episodes of Peter Jurasik's accent as Londo, can I?" I asked. He laughed, and told me no, I couldn't. He's probably right. ...But it was still a weird, random accent.
