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  B5: Thirdspace

   • j********o@***.com
     20/07/1998 00:00:000 UTC

     Eh. Neither original nor enough material for two hours. I wonder if
     Zack's

     comment about "pretending this never happened..." was an in-joke about
     the

     asynchronicity of the story? (Personally, I don't like asynchronicity:

     stories should take place in the present, the cutting edge where the
     infinite

     future becomes the dead past.) Typical B5 flaws: cutting away to
     commercial

     just when something interesting was going to happen, cluttered,
     undistinguished

     space battles, useless gnat-like fighters wasting their efforts in a
     battle

     between real ships, and far too-sparing use of cool, exotic (but
     expensive)

     non-humanoid aliens. There should have been some philosophical or

     quasi-religous element involved. It's hard to believe that the "package"
     would

     be effective where a liberal application of Vorlon firepower wasn't. And

     Sheridan's 8/10ths-truth left out the most important fact!

     Gorno

     You bet your Shak'ra'va, slag-boy!

       • Stargazer
         20/07/1998 00:00:000 UTC

         JohnGorno wrote in message

         <1***************.********0@l*******.****.***l.com>...

         >Eh. Neither original nor enough material for two hours. I wonder if

         Zack's

         >comment about "pretending this never happened..." was an in-joke
         about the

         >asynchronicity of the story? (Personally, I don't like
         asynchronicity:

         >stories should take place in the present, the cutting edge where
         the

         infinite

         >future becomes the dead past.)

         Very true...the story was so asynchronus it was hard to place the
         story in

         context. It gave me the feeling of watching a rerun of an episode I
         had

         missed the first time around!

         >Typical B5 flaws: cutting away to commercial

         >just when something interesting was going to happen, cluttered,

         undistinguished

         >space battles, useless gnat-like fighters wasting their efforts in
         a battle

         >between real ships, and far too-sparing use of cool, exotic (but
         expensive)

         >non-humanoid aliens. There should have been some philosophical or

         >quasi-religous element involved. It's hard to believe that the
         "package"

         would

         >be effective where a liberal application of Vorlon firepower
         wasn't. And

         >Sheridan's 8/10ths-truth left out the most important fact!

         The special effects they used were similar for both the artifact and
         the

         city which was very confusing (Hey it's a swiss army artifact! It's
         a

         super-jump gate...now it's a city...now it's a pizzeria!). I found
         it very

         unlikely that the Third Spacers couldn't have detected and defused
         (or

         disabled) the bomb Sheridan left. If the Third Spacers are really
         that

         advanced, even the best Earther nuke would be a firecracker to them
         ("Oo! A

         thermonuclear device -- how quaint!").

         --Doc