I think the comment by Delenn about how fighting and destruction are easy, but building is the hard part, is the theme of this season. When the Shadow war ended so early in the season, that was the hard work remaining. Building back Mimbar, Earth, Mars, even Centauri and Narn home worlds. Still a lot to do (and story to tell) I’ve seen this in the comment before, so no spoiler here. JMS knew that they were not getting a fifth season and had to pick up the pace of the storyline and cut a couple in order to complete the story arc by the end of this season. That is why all these episodes are so ‘full’. No filler episodes or side stories. Good news is they finally DID get a fifth season. Like seasons 3rd and 4th, all written by JMS
I think Delenn means other races don't mix with one another when she talks about communities the way she does. Each species keeps to itself looking at the others as outsiders. Humans want everyone to join together and get into each other's playgrounds. The Markab died off because of that isolationism. The Narn and Centauri have been at each other's throats because of that. The Minbari would never have accepted Babylon 4 if a human had been offering it.
I've always felt this ep needed a line from Lennier about redirecting power from the jump engines to the weapons. It needed something to explain why the whitestar had so much firepower in that moment but couldn't destroy the ship with one shot before. Taking the engines offline would explain it. It would also be consistent with what has been done before in the show to boost weapons power. It would also be fine since the ship is right next to a jump gate so don't really need its jump engines and the 20min required to bring them back online wouldn't matter.
Re: Other races (species) don't form communities? Not in the same way, as she said if one of the other "races" had build a space station they wouldn't have thought to open it up as a meeting place for all the others to come & use. It's the "Humans are special" trope, but not to the level of it being cliche.
It is a bit of the Humans-are-special trope. Alien races tend to get painted in broad brush strokes (like Always Chaotic Evil, or Two Opposing Factions). I imagine it is quite hard to construct a race and its culture which is quite variable from individual to individual without just translating Human cultures as templates (Race X is a bit like 18th century Japan, Race Y are Romans + Bourbon restoration).
Its not really a trope, in the b5 universe however... if you look at all the other races, humans are the most diverse, all the religions, all the races, all the cultures all stuck on a single planet until only 100 years or so before the show starts. Markab, Minbari, Brakiri, Pak'ma'ra, Drazi, Centauri all seem to be mono culture, mono species (to a degree), and yeah that is the trope... so to them, humans is these weird arse species thats all over the place going in all these opposite directions and seem to make it work. Its a trope, sure, but for all we know humans might well be this weird mix thing compared to other life out there... hell on our own planet we stand out a bit oddly from the rest of the animal kingdom. Nothing wrong with celebrating something 'rightly or wrongly' that is a noble aspect we see in ourselves, even thought we often fall way short of it.
I think the comment by Delenn about how fighting and destruction are easy, but building is the hard part, is the theme of this season. When the Shadow war ended so early in the season, that was the hard work remaining. Building back Mimbar, Earth, Mars, even Centauri and Narn home worlds. Still a lot to do (and story to tell)
I’ve seen this in the comment before, so no spoiler here. JMS knew that they were not getting a fifth season and had to pick up the pace of the storyline and cut a couple in order to complete the story arc by the end of this season. That is why all these episodes are so ‘full’. No filler episodes or side stories. Good news is they finally DID get a fifth season. Like seasons 3rd and 4th, all written by JMS
Yeah, Delenn shows what she can do, once again. "End this!"
and Franklin has his hands full, indeed.
Be seeing you!
I think Delenn means other races don't mix with one another when she talks about communities the way she does. Each species keeps to itself looking at the others as outsiders. Humans want everyone to join together and get into each other's playgrounds. The Markab died off because of that isolationism. The Narn and Centauri have been at each other's throats because of that. The Minbari would never have accepted Babylon 4 if a human had been offering it.
Good expression for the thumbnail!
Audio is much improved from past episodes. Did you change settings/equipment?
I've always felt this ep needed a line from Lennier about redirecting power from the jump engines to the weapons. It needed something to explain why the whitestar had so much firepower in that moment but couldn't destroy the ship with one shot before. Taking the engines offline would explain it. It would also be consistent with what has been done before in the show to boost weapons power. It would also be fine since the ship is right next to a jump gate so don't really need its jump engines and the 20min required to bring them back online wouldn't matter.
Re: Other races (species) don't form communities? Not in the same way, as she said if one of the other "races" had build a space station they wouldn't have thought to open it up as a meeting place for all the others to come & use. It's the "Humans are special" trope, but not to the level of it being cliche.
It is a bit of the Humans-are-special trope. Alien races tend to get painted in broad brush strokes (like Always Chaotic Evil, or Two Opposing Factions). I imagine it is quite hard to construct a race and its culture which is quite variable from individual to individual without just translating Human cultures as templates (Race X is a bit like 18th century Japan, Race Y are Romans + Bourbon restoration).
Its not really a trope, in the b5 universe however... if you look at all the other races, humans are the most diverse, all the religions, all the races, all the cultures all stuck on a single planet until only 100 years or so before the show starts.
Markab, Minbari, Brakiri, Pak'ma'ra, Drazi, Centauri all seem to be mono culture, mono species (to a degree), and yeah that is the trope... so to them, humans is these weird arse species thats all over the place going in all these opposite directions and seem to make it work.
Its a trope, sure, but for all we know humans might well be this weird mix thing compared to other life out there... hell on our own planet we stand out a bit oddly from the rest of the animal kingdom. Nothing wrong with celebrating something 'rightly or wrongly' that is a noble aspect we see in ourselves, even thought we often fall way short of it.
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Franklin left Marcus playing with his stick.
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