More B5

[kayshapero]

Here's the one I uploaded to the echo today. I've got three more in the can which'll be uploaded on separate days (I'm trying to give folks on the echo time to discuss these things, and posting too many at once defeats the purpose.) This one contains Major spoilers for the first four seasons, so don't read it unless you've seen the whole thing. (Wait'll you see the notes for ep 6 which contain a spoiler for the very last episode of the series... then again the ep 4 notes have some for Crusade and the Technomage trilogy...) I'm currently up to ep 6 on the Kay Shapero Babylonathon - and Nicolai tells me he just picked up season 3. (And assuming I get that far before 4 and 5 come out worry not - I've got the lot on tape from the original running of same.)

Episode 3 - Born to the Purple

And here we have two early instances of a theme that we'll find throughout the entire series; love and the things that go wrong with it. Adira Tyree really does love Londo, and he her, yet this doesn't keep her from being used against him, and even when she takes a hand in it herself it's the actions of others that just barely avert disaster. By the end each knows the other is sincere, but still they must part. And having seen the rest of the story we know they'll never see eah other again, that her attempt to return precipitates tragedy, and once again she is used against Londo, this time by Morden.

Then there's Susan Ivanova, who we already know lost her mother at an early age, and who must now say goodbye to her dying father who expresses his pride in her, but admits to never properly giving her love. The pattern for Ivanova's punctured lovelife set from the very beginning, long before the old lover who turns out to be a terrorist, the lover who dies in a particulary gruesome manner shortly after the relationship begins to take off, the would-be lover seeking something to die for…

An early look at Garibaldi's computer skills; something else we'll see more of. (And long after his death in one of my favorite scenes in The Deconstruction of Falling Stars. )

Londo's Purple access code: "Wine, Women, Song". Londo is far more innocent than he dreams at this stage. Certainly more than he will ever be again. Three episodes into the series, and already we have now twice seen him in situations that could easily cost him his career. And Londo himself would agree later that he would have been better off if one of them had. I also find myself remembering Garibaldi's password much later "Peekaboo"?