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  B5 - 2/18/97

   • j********o@***.com
     21/02/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     My repetitive complaints about B5 have become tiresome even to me, but I
     can't

     resist saying once again: another lame episode of B5! As they put it on

     Dynaman!: "They say that bullies are cowards, so let's scare him - BOO!"

     The Rangers are _really_ scary. Here we have a band of fanatical

     warrior-monks, sworn to serve and die for Sheridan, with the apparently

     legitimized belief that they can do anything they want to advance the
     cause.

     How long before they start assasinating his political rivals? "We die
     for the

     one! Allah Akbar!"

     SPOILERS:

     Alternate ending: The wounded Ranger defeats the bully, they
     congratulate

     themselves, and invite Zach to collect the bad guy: "Ok, so where is
     he?" We

     then see the relatively unharmed thug slipping away in the shadows - he
     makes

     his way to a safe hideout and his other (uncaptured) goons, where
     (proudly

     showing off his stolen 'pipe') he announces "There are two morals to
     this

     story, blokes... one: sometimes you gotta take a fall; and two: never
     leave

     a Ranger alive."

     Alternate ending 2: The senior Rangers have their little chat at the
     end, and

     this time the warrior says to the chief instructor: "Strange how slow
     and

     tired that 'bully' seemed by the end of the fight... almost as if he
     been...

     drugged? Perhaps by someone with a concealed palm-injector like...
     _that_?"

     "We're both old men, my friend - we know that how you fight doesn't
     matter,

     only that you win. Let the young one think he won by his own 'virtue.'
     He'll

     be more useful that way!"

     Gorno