Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-28 (Tuesday)

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

On 1/30/2025 7:36 AM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

On 1/29/2025 8:31 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

 

Vir hit the ground running. I keep seeing Bill Mummy in the opening
credits, but so far I haven't seen him on screen.

He's introduced in episode 5 "The Parliament of Dreams". Sinclair's
second girlfriend, also with initials C.S., is also introduced.

I skipped that one. It's funny because I googled best of lists and so
far Mumy doesn't appear in any of the best of episodes. There are some
episodes not on the best of list that I remember and I'm starting to
regret skipping. One is the episode with the guy who gets turned into
an alien monster with a gun for a arm. I wrote that one off as probably
a bad episode that I only remember because it was in all the promos for
show way back when. But I meant to watch the episode with Sarah Douglas
as the evil alien and it just slipped past me. I'm not going to go back
and watch them out of order now, but once I finish the series, I may go
back and do a clean up for any I missed and still want to see.

B5 is not a show to skip episodes in.  There is always some clue or
"throw away" line that becomes relevant, if not revelatory, later.

Alas, they all aren't the high quality of storytelling like "Severed
Dreams". But I agree, even the weakest of the standalone episodes sneak
in bits of story arc.