Babylon 5

[jack]

* I've left out any criticisms. I make enough of those, they're the same as always. I've just been commenting on good things. The episodes make a lot more sense when you see them in order -- even things which seem very arbitrary in an isolated episode are making some larger point when you see them in arc, and sometimes you see something that *should* have been, but the episodes were out of order or something.

* So, Talia Winters is good, until she has one moment of pure happiness?

* When the plague wiped out the Maktab and then started to infect a Pak'ma'ra, I remembered they were the carrion eaters (right?) and felt sure that was going to be how they got it, and why everyone else was safe, but it turned out not to be.

* Things that bother me. Like the plague, it just felt too much. I can't say it was wrong, it apparently made sense, but I think I would have accepted it more easily if it had wiped out 3/4 or something :(

Comments

[simont]

sometimes you see something that *should* have been, but the episodes were out of order or something

I've never quite understood why the DVDs put Soul Mates and A Race Through Dark Places that way round. In the latter, Talia is given reasons to turn against Psi Corps, initially doesn't want to hear them, and is won over. And in the former, Stoner shows up and he and Talia talk about her not being overly fond of the Corps – but she was surely still loyal to them up to ARTDP!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

http://midwinter.com/lurk/guide/029.html says that was the original order, but they were swapped for TV (did you know that? I wasn't sure if you meant "why they kept the TV order for the DVD" or "why they ever used that order at all?")

But it sort of works for me anyway -- obviously she's had doubts, Ironheart might have been enough to convince her, but she couldn't do anything, but maybe in the first ep she was willing to run away from it all, and that made her realise how she felt, and by the second she was willing to stand directly up to a psicop. I agree it works differently, and possibly better, if the events in RTDP come right before SM, then she's scared and unsure, and has every incentive to jump for an unpalatable chance, which wasn't as convincing otherwise.