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Babylon 5 | Season 2: Episode 3 "Geometry of Shadows" | Reaction & Review!
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Babylon 5 | Season 2: Episode 3 "Geometry of Shadows" | Reaction & Review!
Welcome back to yet another reaction to Babylon 5! Today we will be watching Season 2 Episode 3 titled "Geometry of Shadows" - Hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
5:16 - Reaction
I gotta say it again…Michael Ansara was just INCREDIBLE in this episode. The gravitas that man can generate with a performance is out of this world.
The sad thing is (unknown at the time)- he was in the initial stages of Alzheimer's - apparently had a very difficult time with his lines
This show was seminal. Deep Space 9 was the first show to learn from this honestly the 1st 2 series were largely awful then suddenly a camping trip made it Into must watch TV. Love Sisko, the guy that just punched Q.
"Your victims"
Oh dark hints for the future...such a chilling performance as well. I love that scene.
Yeah such an incredible scene, I have a feeling that statement is going to come very, very true!
And still, Londo doesn't turn back. He's committed to that path.
Claudia Christian actually broke her leg off set and they had to write that into the episode.
I've always wondered if the shadows were sticking their noses into things with the Drazi 'election'. The initial description is that it's not supposed to be a lethal conflict, so what made it different this time? The "natural selection" line does seem to suggest a shift in perspectives about the contest, given the backstory for how it originated (not a spoiler). A long time ago, there were two separate types of Drazi that inhabited different regions of their world, one with a green tint and one with a purple tint to their scales. While they coexisted, it wasn't without conflict, until the purple Drazi eradicated the green Drazi. This was of choosing their leaders was subsequently implemented as a kind of outlet and commemoration of what had happened, in a kind of 'never again' sort of way. So it makes sense that it's not normally lethal, and what's happening now is very exceptional and unexpected. So Shadows doing some destablization of one of the more prominent League worlds? Just my musings, though.
Big episode! HUGE actually. So much great set up and, dare I say…foreSHADOWing 😊
Indeed, Indeed! Love how many jokes can be made regarding the shadows!
@@JonesReactions Without a shadow of a doubt.
...and billions of people calling your name.
My followers?
Your victims!
One of the greatest and darkest quotes from the entire series!
It's called foreshadowing
haha literally foreshadowing WITH the shadows,
Vir talks about the currents of the Universe with 'Eddies and tides that pull us one way or the other.' This is very close to what series consultant Harlan Ellison wrote in the Star Trek episode, 'City on the Edge of Forever' (Spock: There could be some logic to the belief that time is fluid, like a river, with currents, eddies, backwash.) And Ellison had previously expressed the same thought in an episode of the series The Outer Limits, 'Soldier' (Time is fluid. The waters of forever close - and passage may not be completed. The present and the future are for a moment united. And the Enemy, half-today, half-tomorrow, is locked between…). That episode starred… Michael Ansara ("Elric" in this Babylon Five episode)!
There are a series of B5 novels about Technomages.. I also love the idea of them
but don't read them until done with the series
@@hornorsilk2901 true
I've tried to encourage as many people as possible to read the three trilogies after the series is done because it fills in so much stuff behind the scenes and really makes a wonderful story so much richer with the details that you haven't seen. I was fortunate quite a while ago to have found the books at a reasonable price and then a friend found me the unofficial ebooks which has allowed me to read them a few times without damaging the original hard copies.
@@quentinmichel7581 I'd love to read the trilogies. I did read the telepath one, but I could never get hold of the other two. Do you know somewhere you can get them?
Babylon 5 is absolutely top-notch sci-fi writing from start to finish. Indisputably one of the best scifi series ever made.
The reason is ... because it is actually A SERIES instead of "a string of individual episodes with no storyline connection".
"You do not scare easily Vir Coto."
"I work for Lando Malari."
BIG episode- a ton of foreshadowing
Technomages have very high levels of technology (indistinguishable from magic) - they can sense the coming conflict - and are getting the hell out of Dodge. IMO comparable to scientists leaving Europe before WW2
Claudia Christian actually broke her leg off screen while filming this- hence the had to write that in
Sometimes JMS can deliver chilling moments in just a couple of words
I really enjoyed the interaction between Elric and Sheridan as well as Elric and Londo at the end.
This is a classic episode. I had forgotten that the Green and Purple Drazi and the Techno-mages were in the same episode.
Anything with Michael ansara is gonna be good
One thing I will say, this episode will prove to be important in ways you have yet to see
There is sooo much more to this incident with the Technomages....it is revealed in the Passing of the Technomage book Trilogy... what you witnessed was literally the proverbial "tip of the iceberg". That and the other two Trilogies (PsyCorps/Bester & Legions of Fire/Centauri) put flesh to the stories you see in the series. As wonderful as the show is.... the books are kind of essential in my mind but you really don't know that you needed them until you've read them. Obviously there are spoilers galore in the books so if you do want to find them and read them I would recommend not doing it until after the series is completed. The physical books are harder to find now and not cheap anymore but if you dig around you can find the 'unofficial' ebooks.
I can't recommend them enough, to complete the entire story.
The trilogies are excellent, but don't read them (or even look up the synopses) before seeing the entire TV show!
I'd legitimately be happy to see the psiCorp ones get adapted to a full series.
@@chrism7395 I mentioned the spoiler issue in the above comment. And yeah I agree... I'd love to see the PsyCorps one come to the screen.
@@chrism7395 Certainly the third Centauri Prime/Legions of Fire book is pretty darn integral.
Things feel a bit unfinished without it...
The geometry of shadows is right there if you look.
Wow, you are making some shrewd guesses. Here's some hints. About the Vorlons: Droshala. And the answer to the shared souls. Seek the One who was, for he is the closed circle.
G'Kar's makeup is so much better from the start of season 2 onwards.
G'Kar doesn't wear makeup.
JMS has said that he "puts all the cards on the table openly, but you still wont be able to figure out how they fit together" ... and the masses of prophecies / foreshadowings about Londo absolutely showcase this. You KNOW how he will end ... since the first episode ... but you have no clue how you get there.
Babylon 5 is a series of 'mind blown' events, it's so good and re-watching is easy ;)
Just found this reaction channel and I'm so excited. This is such a good show but also loving your reaction style. I can't wait for you to see everything the show has to offer
It's been a month with no updates. He was probably captured by the Psi Corps.
@@miller-joel Thank you man, looking forward to resuming the show after exams.... Like mentioned above I'm currently under captivity (Bester has kidnapped me) so it may be a while!
@@JonesReactions good luck with the exams. Hope you smash them
12:53 This part where she falls and cries out in pain. She wasn't acting. She actually broke her leg here.
Great reaction! I had the chance to catch your live a little late. Love you :)
Thank you Cedo! Glad you enjoyed :D
On B5 I like seeing a first timer's reactions but the second time through is even better as you catch the hints we all missed the first time. Some things takes years to pay off.
7:00 Yea, things do not end well at all for Lord Refa. When it comes his time to die, there will be no hiding place down there.
"14 words to make someone fall in love with you forver ..." if only.
On first viewing it seems like Vir is a bit of a lightweight after finishing Londo's drink.
The truth is Londo is a serious drinker, and that was a serious drink. It would probably knock most people out.
Michael Ansara would be 101 now. He really doesn't look like 72 in this.
No way he was 72 in this? He looks in his damn 50s max!
15:00 The Naked Gun
Yes, TNG was what I was thinking of as well, but I don't know if it is what he was thinking of
If you are interested in more of the techno-mages, the sequel series Crusade has more of them.
The title always confuses first time reactors. There are many meanings to it. One deals with technomages and their use of equations for their magic.
Green and purple remind me of a mix of flags and sports fans more than anything else. People use the example of political partisanship all the time, but political parties have policies that people agree with or disagree with. There's an actual meaning behind the colours and you choose to ally yourself with one party because you agree with those policies. It reminds me of a mix of football team rivalries and nationalism more than anything else - like your country, the colour is effectively randomly assigned to you.
They remind me of an episode of The Tomorrow People. The Blue and the Green.
The parody of trivial differences leading to schism and warfare goes back - in the English language at least - to Jonathan Swift's explanation of 'Big-endians' and 'Little-endians' (who cracked their eggs at different ends) leading to the war between Lilliput and Blefuscu (a satire of Protestant England and Catholic France). Star Trek, of course, famously did much the same thing in 'Let This Be Your Last Battlefield'.
There was an episode of the original 1970' British sci fi show "the Tommorrow people", I think it was called the blue and the green(I think that episode is on youtube) that. This reminds me of.
Enjoy......
For the record, Sheridan, like any hero in this kind of story, wasn't a lucky man.
And the Drazi storyline was JMS's way of commenting on the basic stupidity of gang violence (I think. It's been a while). People exactly alike, hating each other due to the colors they use. personally, I think a sports team fandom is a more adequate analogy.
Yeah I guess its more easily seen through simple colours of teams at football stadiums, e.g. black and white for Newcastle & black and orange for wolves and just because they are of the opposite team/colour they immediately dislike each other without even knowing the person simply because its their "team" against the other.
It also works for people who kill each other over sports teams and it certainly can serve for nationalism where people are willing to kill in the name of a flag.
Jones -robot guy already banned from every other b5 reaction channel for spoilers-just a heads up
Thanks for the heads up, thankfully he's posting warnings beforehand but I'm very strict regardless when it comes to comments so it (hopefully) shouldn't be a problem.
@@JonesReactions lol,he don’t learn-maybe has Asperger’s 🤪
Hello mate, not seen anything from you lately. Just something you may be intrested in although given where you are it would be extremely spoilerific. That is 'Babylon 5 the road home' is nearly ready for a realise a quality animation featuring the surviving casts voice talents.
Purple!
Going to have to with green which is very, very unfortunate for you!
Hey mate - it's been a while since your last post - I hope you're doing okay?
Watch this series, barry I am sure You will see a great and iconic series
Green drazi follow green leader and purple drazi follow purple leader. Sounds like the democrats versus Republicans. If you are blue, you defend blue leader. If you are red, you follow red leader.
Spoiler about the technomages from the books.
Spoilers space.. if you don't want a book spoiled.
When Morden left Babylon 5 last his next stop was on the planet Elric lived on. Elric recognized him for what he was and who he worked for. So Elric notified the other mages that the Shadows were active again, which is why the mages are going into hiding.
Ahh he said spoiler-means you don’t read it-even better don’t give spoiler at all
Dude stop doing that-you not smarter because you not ignorant
@@dug3569 You might want to stop telling people how to behave. He did give proper warning. Only those that wanted to read the spoilers. Some people do enjoy those tidbits, and you are not entitled to forbidthem their pleasure. Play nice.
@@sergioaccioly5219 the channel owner gonna read anything posted-and stop telling me how to behave
If you want to read the 3 Techno-mage books, you can read them any time after S4E6. I like the first book the best though, as it has the most lore about their order. If you think you are going to want to read the other canon books, it might be best to start looking for them now. They are all out of print so even though you won't be able to read them for awhile, it might take a bit of time searching to find them at reasonable prices second hand online.
_The Shadow Within_ and _To Dream in the City of Sorrows_ can be read after S3. _The Shadow Within_ is a precursor to the Techno-mage trilogy.
Psi-Corp Trilogy and Legions of Fire Trilogy shouldn't be read until after the end of the series. If you plan to watch the spin-off series _Crusade,_ you shouldn't read the last book in Psi-Corp Trilogy until after that series.
20:50 Republican! "democrat!" Conservative! Liberal!
Ha!
Michael Ansara, Was the Blue Djinn in I dream of Jeannie, and was married to Barbara Eden (Jeannie).
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Born in Lebanon, Died in California, aged 91.
I never knew that about Michael Ansara, not having delved into his personal life. Thanks for that.