Babylon 5 2.9-2.16

[meganbmoore]

Ivanova and Franklin discussing their father issues is awesome. Ok, either of them talking to anyone is awesome, but this was more so than usual.

Shallowly, Andrea Thompson series knows how to work the black gloves. I’m just saying. (And, IMO, she has much better hair this season, even if it’s pretty much a longer version of her first season hairstyle.)

Vir and Lennier (sp?) remain ridiculously adorable. I especially love the episode where Sheridan killed the Minbari, and Lennier was investigating. His totally (I think) asexual crush on and hero worship of Delenn is one of my favorite things. And I may have rewatched Vir telling Norton (Morton?) how much he wanted him dead a few times. I…I kinda want them to just hang out and be adorable together? I’d say I want Na’Toth there, too, but she might eat them alive. Given the current status of their races, that might be literal regarding Vir.

And the war! I…I kind of really love it? G’Kar does some truly amazing screaming angst. And I loved when he was preparing to go off and killed the Centauri emperor, and was all “Oh, and Na’Toth has nothing to do with this. By the way, I leave her our version of the Bible so I can make a snitty comment about bettering herself so I don’t have to admit that I kind of like her being bossy and catty to me.” I…I could possibly just watching a show about G’Kar plotting and Na’Toth managing and their snarking at each other. Though back to the war, I fear things can only go very badly for both Londo and G’Kar! And am slightly worried about what’ll happen the next time they’re in the same room. *spares a moment to squish Londo for threatening to leave his post if his government takes Vir from him*

I continue to love Sheridan’s attempts to make Ivanova more diplomatic, especially when half of them are his trying to get out of doing something. Unsurprisingly, I’ve become quite fond of him, too.

I can’t help but feel, though, that there’s a lot less focus on Ivanova and Garibaldi this season than in season one. Then again, they and Sinclair seemed to be the main focus of season 1, as much as anyone was, so I guess it’s fair. They just happen to be my favorites! (Though it did take me a bit to warm up to Garibaldi.)

The only downside was the 36 hours thing. But that may just be because I usually hate those episodes. (And I may still be extremely bitter about the one in SG-1.) You know, the ones where the whole thing is from the perspective of someone interviewing and/or watching the characters and supposedly offering an outsider’s view. And…uhm…the woman’s interview of Delenn rather pissed me off, though I guess because I don’t see what Delenn has to feel guilty about (or at least, any more than anyone else does, here), as her people died, too, and her becoming part human (or whatever she did to herself) was a sacrifice she made that made her an outcast with both races. I think part of that, though, is that scenes like that seem to be written from the assumption that the default siding of the viewers will be that of the human, and so it gets heavy handed to create sympathy for the other. But it cracked me up when the reporter called Ivanova “perky,” and then we had the guy on the bridge being all “Nonono…no one yells or loses their tempers!” while she’s in the background, looking irritated.