Babylon Podcast #96: A Late Delivery From Avalon (Season 3)
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OK, why is the description for this show almost indentical to the one for the last one?
Because it’s late and I cut and pasted too much. Is that better?
On my first viewing I also found this episode terrible cheesy, but as soon as I started thinking the story, and its Arthurian parallells, thru I came to realise that this is a great episode and a great piece of storytelling so full of symbolism that the somewhat limited medium of tv-show hardly can do justice.
It gets even better when Marcus and Franklin start to talk about how the Vorlons might have meddled in human history. Oh the implications…
I wonder why JMS copped out, and didn’t figure a way to make him Arthur in fact. With Shadows and Vorlons, time travel ,possesing parasites and alien cultures, surely JMS could have pulled a rabbit out of a hat.
I don’t doubt that JMS felt doing that might have streched the credibility of the story a little far, but it would have been fun.
The Marcus and Franklin scenes are a joy in and of themselves. We never got enough of those.
The lazy show notes are fine, Summer feel better.
Gary: Actually I think it’s better from a storytelling point of view that he wasn’t really Arthur.