let me distract myself with shiny things
Life has me in full-fledged panic mode, generally. So I respond by flapping my hands joyfully in the general direction of things that have nothing to do with the chief cause for panic.
For instance, there are already 111 people watching galpalficathon!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I'm so thrilled by the initial burst of interest, and I very much hope this will ( Read more... )
For instance, there are already 111 people watching galpalficathon!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! I'm so thrilled by the initial burst of interest, and I very much hope this will ( Read more... )
I'm having so much fun with the show--it's great to get to watch something like this for the first time, I think--and also lots of fun watching everyone pop out of the woodwork and be nostalgic about their erstwhile love for DS9! And if you do end up rewatching it all, you should post about it! :)
As for B5 season 5, it's...not up to the standards of seasons 2-4, though it's probably better than season 1. There are a few really excellent episodes (the series finale, which was actually originally filmed to go at the end of season 4, as well as a two-parter near the end--"The Fall of Centauri Prime" and the one that comes before it), and Londo and G'Kar's individual and joint storylines in season 5 remain really good. But overall it's an inevitable letdown after seasons 2-4. Worth watching, probably, but when I get around to rewatching B5, as I'd like to do at some point, I probably won't bother with most of season 5.
And thank you for the DS9 link! I'll bookmark that for when I'm finished with the series.
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And that's heartening to hear about B5. Londo and G'Kar are hands down the best things on that show, in my opinion. I think that Londo edges out G'Kar as my favourite, but only just and probably only because of the awesome accent (which isn't a mark against Andreas Katsulas because G'Kar's voice is one of the most wonderful choices about him: you know I love Farscape beyond the telling of it, but it would have been very easy to D'argo-ify G'Kar's voice and it...wouldn't have been right).
I hope you enjoy the review when you finally finish the series!
It says a lot of really, really interesting stuff, actually. And the reviewer is a huge Kira fan and devotes a "chapter" of her review just to her! One of the (non-spoilery) things I loved most is this -
It is so rare nowadays to come across a series (one that isn't a soap or a relationship drama, at any rate) that discusses the lives of adults as if they didn't inevitably tend towards entropy--all marriages broken, all health destroyed, all children ruined.
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Almost every one of the show's characters walks away from it diminished in one form or another, but unlike other series Deep Space Nine doesn't make a big to-do about this, and doesn't become consumed with angst and melodrama. While it is possible to ascribe this reserve to a failure to properly explore the ramifications of the ordeals the characters go through, yet another symptom of the famed Star Trek plasticity, I prefer to think of it as a sign of maturity. Almost none of Deep Space Nine's characters can be described as unambiguously tragic or triumphant. Most of them experience both, and the sum total of their experiences is, like most lives, an indeterminate mixture of the two.
I think that really...struck me. And I thought yes, that's why I don't think DS9 is like those "other Treks". It makes something of its genre, and while I wouldn't want it for all my fiction (see my love of Farscape and BSG), it's...oddly refreshing to see mundanity as something that is cherished rather than derided?
Anyway, I look forward to reading your thoughts as you continue through the series!
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