Moving right along...

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Thanks to ataniell93 for posting the sorting hat link.

And now, to try the sorting hat...


RAVENCLAW!


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And it would appear the hat knows what it's talking about. :)

About time I posted another of these... In fact here are notes on two Babylon 5 episodes - seemed only fair to put parts I and II together:

Episode 18 - A Voice in the Wilderness part I

Enter Draal.

The Third Principle of Sentient Life: The capacity for self-sacrifice. A central theme for this and the next episode.

Talia keeps tripping over Garibaldi in the lift. “I think I’ll take the stairs.” A humorous indication of the coverage security gives the station.

And we have something apparently awakened on an apparently dead world. Not as bad as the other case we’ll discover later, fortunately.

And more on the reciprical hatred between Narns and Centauri. Which is going to doom both sides to horrors.

Exit Londo, and Sinclair comments “He never listens.”
Delenn replies “He will, sooner or later.”
Sinclair: “How can you be sure?”
Delenn: “Because the alternative is too terrible to consider. Without a hope that things will get better; that our inheritors will know a world that is fuller and richer than our own, life is pointless and evolution is vastly overrated.”

Ironic - yes, Londo does eventually realize his error but under a terrible alternative - and consider the end of Delenn’s statement and the Shadows motives.

And horrors closer to home - the revolt on Mars. The helplessness at this distance of even finding out what’s going on. Garibaldi used to live on Mars, and is now terribly worried about the woman he’s been afraid to contact for years. Now he’s desperate to reach her, and she’s out of reach entirely.

Sinclair was born on Mars, but has no friends or relatives there now.

The Babylon 5 Mantra - Susan Ivanova at her best. (finishing up with that “sorry about that God bit.”)

A bit of Londo’s past - the dancer he married and “It’s not *that* bad.” Neither is Londo, though that’s not going to stop what he’s going to trigger. He’s already in the eye of the Shadows and his decisions are to be far more crucial than he has any idea.

The Epsilon 5 visual projection system. We’ll see this in the future.

And a visual homage to Forbidden Planet! Introduction of the Great Machine. Which has a different effect on the future than what most of us were expecting.

Londo’s quarters, decorated mostly in Early Brevari Bottle. Almost austere, compared to what they’ll be like later.

Psi Corps is not all bad - several members sympathize with Garibaldi and do their best to find Lise for him.

Episode 19 - A Voice in the Wilderness part II

The big unidentified ship that closes out the previous episode turns out to be One of Ours - specifically the Earth Alliance Heavy Cruiser Hyperion. Not that this is as helpful as it sounds given that Sinclair must now fend off military heavyhandedness.

Garibaldi loses his cool in the bar (didn’t we see Ivanova doing this recently?) and clobbers the ignorant idiot mouthing off about Mars.

Ivanova’s explanation of the situation: “Boom. Boom boom, Boom boom boom… have a nice day.”

Another ship which wants the Great Machine, more problems, and “Worst case of testosterone poisoning I ever saw.”

Londo’s maniac approach to piloting “If I were a landing thruster, which one of these levers would I be?” We see him thoroughly happy, something we’ll see little of again.

An application of the Third Principle, a warning to stay off until the time is right. (Which is going to be sooner than we think.) Setup for a substantial part of the future, and so ends the episode.