Unintentional Love Song to Babylon 5

I am trying to finish dad's Deep Space Nine DVDs before making a play for his dSLR, but I faded a bit in early season seven. Apparently I saw more late-run DS9 than I thought, or absorbed several episode summaries. So I popped out an episode with a mad Vorta and Another Ferengi Trading Scheme, and popped Babylon 5 S2 in. The special effects are painful. The sets are just fine on a 19" screen, but some of the secondary and tertiary acting is pretty wooden. However, the plots are awesome. Also, Delenn gets lines like, "the universe puts us in the right place at the right time," and Mira Furlan delivers them. And I saw all this during its first run, which made a huge difference.

The original Babylon 5 TV movie / pilot aired in Feburary of 1992, and the last episode of the series aired right before Thanksgiving in 1998, nicely bridging my elementary, middle and high school years and all events thereunto. ( Okay, this got long. )

This was supposed to be an entry about other stuff - days left to Chicago, list of activities I've been postponing, me and The Millionaire Next Door (or, why I will never be fat enough) - but obviously I am having a massive old school kick this month. Watching old B5 episodes explains a lot about how I approach fiction and television.

By the way, by 11:30 PM tomorrow, I will have been on vacation for five and one-half hours. I cannot wait.