Babylon 5 | Season 3: Episode 2 "Convictions" | Reaction & Review!
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Babylon 5 | Season 3: Episode 2 "Convictions" | Reaction & Review!
Welcome back to yet another reaction to Babylon 5! Today we will be watching Season 3 Episode 2 titled "Convictions" - Hope you enjoy!
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
6:23 - Reaction 
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I think for the entire fan base the elevator scene is the best scene between G'Kar and Londo. It's just amazing. This whole episode is just created for that scene alone and it's gold.
They really are the best. Them, mira furlans eyetwinkle and Bruce's sheer indignation are all amazing
Ah G'Kar having fun is so infectious. Him and Londo in the same scene is always fun.
Before portraying Brother Theo, Louis Turenne was the original Drall, Delenn's friend that merged with the great machine on the planet below.
"Londo + G'Kar in the elevator" is some of the best of Babylon 5 ... because G'Kar is simply hilarious in this.
The actor for G'Kar is the late, great Andreas Katsulas. He was also Romulan Commander Tomalak on Star Trek: TNG and The One Armed Man in the Fugitive. The amount of emotion and facial expression he was able to convey through all that mask always amazed me. I've met Marshall Teague (who plays T'lon) a few times, he's come to drink my beer on occasion. He said it was incredible to watch Andreas work. He's said the moment the red eyes went in, he stopped being Andreas and became G'Kar.
Possibly my all time favorite Londo G'Kar interaction. "I would much rather see you dead." G'Kar was ready to die happy.
Fun facts: the annoying guy in the arrival lounge talking to Lennier before the explosion is John C Flinn III, the show's Director of Photography.
Also "Netter's Syndrome" is a nod to Douglas Netter, the show's Producer
Andreas Katsulas went on record saying that some of the best acting he had ever seen was done by Bill Mumy (Lennier) lying comatose on the table in this episode.
He couldn't believe someone could possibly play dead so well. Lennier's chest didnt even move while breathing.
It wasnt until much later that he learned that Mumy's father had passed away a day or two before filming this episode. As a result Mumy couldnt handle acting like he was near-death and was unable to film those scenes. To accommodate him, they made a mould of his head and attached it to a mannequin for almost every scene of Lennier in medlab.
Mumy wasn't even on set the days Andreas was witnessing his dead man 'acting'
I am pretty sure the entire G'Kar/Londo situation was a deliberate inversion of a long-standing trope; that of two mortal enemies forced into a situation where they had to co-operate in order to survive. Here we are presented with that situation, and one of the two mortal enemies point blank refuses to lift a finger to save his opponent, he wants the other guy dead more than he wants to live.
Yes, it is a subversion of the Enemy Mine trope.
The "not many fishes" song G'Kar is singing in the elevator is a reworded version of the "so many fishes" song he sings in Season 1 Episode 5: The Parliament of Dreams, when his old rival sends an assassin to kill him. Those little continuity details are amazing.
It's a strange thing, but every sentient race has its own version of Gilbert and Sullivan! I suspect it's one of those great universal mysteries which will either never be explained, or which would drive you mad if you ever learned the truth.
Sheridan's go to strategy
'Nuke em all from orbit its the only way to be sure'
Babylon 5 was a show where ad-libbing was not allowed, period. The creator JMS wrote all of seasons 2, 3 and 5 himself to keep everything connected working together right.
My understanding is that the elevator scene was written pretty seriously, but the actors went ahead and did the laughing take, even thought the words are literally what's in the script, just with a different take on it.
It worked.
Andrea Katsulas and Peter Jurasik were brilliant together, apart, and everywhere they showed up on this show.
Convictions = strongly held beliefs.
Londo and G'Kar in the elevator.
One of the best scenes in the whole series. Played pitch perfect. Priceless!
Be seeing you!
"try not to touch anything" Not the only time we will hear that on this show.
Ah , the classic elevator scene . Sooo well done.
The first time I saw a Shadow ship shrivel up and die, I was in awe
Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short-story called "The 9 Billion Names Of God"
An order of Monks had assembled and tasked themselves with cataloging all of the names of God.
I wonder if thats where JMS got the concept from?
Londo and G'Kar are like an old married couple.
The shadows were interested in za'ha'dum, not minbar (which is where the rangers were trained at the time)
"I kinda hope we get stuck
Nobody gets out alive"
Btw there are some good gag reel bits from the lift. The smoke caused them problems on the set. Too much or too little. Make a note to check the gag reels after the season. Also inside joke with Netter's syndrome, Netter was the WB producer of the show. Some said contract meetings made people sick at times. The budget was a fraction of a Star Trek show without prior materials to build on. Paramont at this time had dozens of permanent ST sets, models and clips going back to the motion picture. WB had little to borrow from, depending a lot on CGI and even novelty shops. They mention in comentaries JMS would browse shops for odd glassware, art and signs.
I do like watching young people who weren't even a thought in their parents' imaginations discover BABYLON 5. (We'll hit the 30th anniversary of the first episode proper-- excluding the pilot, "The Gathering"-- in about two weeks.) You can't even fathom how much the show changed the way we think about television because so many shows followed in its footsteps and viewers now are used to both season- and series-long arcs. There was nothing even remotely like it at the time. And the irony is, the show probably only got away with it because (a) it wasn't on a major network; and (b) the audience was so small but so loyal, just barely enough to keep the show on the air but not enough to get the execs meddling too much in it..
But, lad, do yourself a favour: resist the temptation to talk over dialogue. Especially with this show, dialogue you talk over may come back later-- and maybe not for a long while.
I rewatch this episode just for the elevator scene. Gold G'Kar.
Maybe 'to love thine enemy' can mean to see the best in them.
Londo certainly has a lovable side as well as a despicable side.
Minbari don't lie... unless it's to protect someone 's honor... or get rid of some really annoying person.
Did you notice who was sleeping on Lennier's shoulder? I think you did.
Or convictions as in standing by your moral code? I actually don't remember this one.
Londo and G'Kar. What more do you need?
10:20 SCIENTISTS / ENGINEERS ... need to QUESTION what they see and what "current belief" is.
RELIGION does NOT ALLOW QUESTIONING "the truth" ...
... so that claim/association of "science & religion" doesnt really work! [Americans, especially american christians DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.]
Get a dictionary and look the word up. That way, you don't sound illiterate.
Wat's a dicktonary?