Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-02-11 (Tuesday)

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

Babylon 5 (blu-ray) - "The Fall of Centauri Prime" - Centauri Prime
falls.  Wayne Alexander returns to play yet another alien.  I wonder,
does he hold the record on this show?

There's more of the story in the Centauri trilogy novels which are
supposed to be quite excellent and I've never tracked them down.

"The Wheel of Fire" - Garibaldi's alcoholism finally catches up to him.
The Luker's Guide said this was a must watch episode.  But it was
actually skippable.

"Objects in Motion" - G'Kar leaves B5 and takes Lyta with him.  Good
riddance.  Not to G'Kar, the other one!

What became of Lyta, post-Byron, was more about having been abandoned by
an ungrateful Sheridan and I never thought the plot went anywhere. I
didn't care for the write out of either character.

"Objects at Rest" - Penultimate episode -  As the show continues to wind
down Sheridan leaves for Minbar and Lennier just watches as Sheridan
almost dies.  I remember when this episode first came out Bill Mumy said
he strongly disagreed with what his character was being written to do.

He's right. The character became pathetic and didn't deserve that fate.
Maybe he could have learned a lesson like that early on, but as the
write out?

Babylon 5: The Road Home (4K disc) 2023 direct to video Animated movie
set between the events of "Objects at Rest" and the season finale,
"Sleeping in the Light."  Upon arriving on Minbar to take up his new
duties as President of the Alliance, Sheridan becomes unstuck in time
and "Lost in Space."  The general plot has Sheridan popping into various
points in B5's history and alternate history.  Some of the timelines he
visits are better than others.  It's the alternate history timelines
where the writers have the most fun.  I guess it was OK.  It relies a
little too much on nostalgia and not nearly enough on telling a new
story.  All the surviving actors (Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian,
Peter Jurasik, Bill Mumy, Tracy Scoggins, and Patricia Tallman) return
to voice their roles. There's a commentary track on the disc.  I'll be
sure to watch it again soon so I can listen to the commentary.

Quite frankly, I was so disappointed in Babylon 5: The Legend of the
Rangers: To Live and Die in Starlight (which killed Andreas Katsulas)
that I still haven't tracked down other post-series movies like this or
The Lost Tales.