Babylon Podcast #183: Movements of Fire and Shadow (Season 5)
Posted by Summer on January 6, 2010 · 5 Comments
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The Brakiri using technomage tech? If Tim didn’t hate that story enough already, he will now.
Yes, we missed you! So glad y’all are back!
Nice to have the Babylon Podcast back for another episode although some of the voices seemed a bit muffled (or maybe it was just my car radio- listening to it via my iPhone plugged into my car radio). I was quite surprised at the negative reaction towards this episode. “Movements of Fire and Shadow” and “The Fall of Centauri Prime” were two of my favorite episodes of the series perhaps surpassed only by “Z’Ha’Dum” and definitely were two of the best episodes of S5 although I really love the entire Centauri story arc of S5 (“Meditations on the Abyss” through “The Fall of Centauri Prime”).
I didn’t really see the problems with the episodes that Tim did in terms of having a lot of storylines going and some pacing/editing problems. A lot of the episode for me is setting up the dominoes (or “pebbles” if you will) that are going to be knocked over and, indeed, blown to bits in the very next episode. There was, at least for me, nothing inconsequential about anything that happened in the episode and there was some kind of eventual payoff for everything that happened (the new class of ships that John and Delenn discussed were likely what led to the creation of the new ships in “Call to Arms”, right?).
I particularly loved the ending of the episode when Londo (and I think even the Regent) realize what is going to happen with the defense grid de-activated and the fleet gone. Also, I thought that Londo’s “slow motion” run was actually pretty dramatic, particularly when paired with Christopher Franke’s intensifying score. However, of course, I realize that everybody has their own tastes.
One other point that I wanted to mention was that I was confused about what you were talking about in regards to G’Kar helping Londo get out of the cell by……..farting???? Thankfully, they never showed anything but I was under the impression that G’Kar had regurgitated the previous night’s supper (“I’m concentrating on last night’s supper” or something to that effect). So, did he just fart, really?????
Anyway, looking forward to next week’s discussion of “The Fall of Centauri Prime”. I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on THAT episode!!! Take care!!!
Duge: Re; G’Kar, that’s what I thought too. It certainly looked to me like he was trying to vomit on command.
I to always regarded it as barf humor rather then fart humor.