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  B5: In The Beginning...

   • p*******x@n***.****i.com
     06/01/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     So who saw it? Comments? (Yes, yes, Gorno, we know you hated it)

     I have somewhat mixed feelings....it was a prequel, yes, but it

     was a prequel that I think you needed to have already seen what comes

     after to truly understand.

     I liked the fact that the early Earthforce cruisers had no gravity

     and that nobody made a big deal of it (and why should they? That's

     how it's always been for them!)

     --

     73 de Dave Weingart KA2ESK, ex KB2CWF "Can you find the Valium?

     mailto:p*******x@****.com Can you bring it soon?

     mailto:p*******x@e******.*********n.edu Lost Johnny's out there

     http://www.liii.com/~phydeaux Baying at the Moon"

     -- Hawkwind

       • j********o@***.com
         07/01/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         Stuff I left out: I like those advertisements TNT is running with
         J'Kar - "I

         stand against tyranny and for peace, justice, and freedom!" This in
         the middle

         of the first episode, where he's defending the invasion of a
         Centauri planet

         and the abuse of the natives (including Londo's nephew) and
         espousing the

         eradication of their race! "All I want is peace! A little piece of
         Agreb 5,

         and a little piece of Centauri Prime, and a big piece of Londo
         Molari!" And of

         course, he only fights for freedom when he's not entertaining
         floozies in his

         bachelor pad. (I miss Natoth: I liked the symmetry of the three
         ambassadors

         and their sidekicks.) I am struck by the attitude of Kosh towards
         the Narn and

         Centauri in that episode: "I... say... let 'em die! They're only
         meat-boys!"

         presages stuff much later - although there was an implication that
         the Vorlons

         visited J'Kar in that vision of his... And what is this crap about
         "humans

         being the key?" They were on the bad guys' side in the War! Another
         missed

         opportunity by Strazinsky. So what's he gonna do after this season?
         Go back

         to selling vacuum cleaners?

         Gorno

         "You will know fear...

         you will know pain...

         and you will know death...

         have a nice day!"

         It occurs to me that the simplest explanation for Ally McBeal's
         eccentricities

         would be a softball-sized brain tumor.