Comments | lodessa: Y: The Last Man, Babylon 5, and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

lodessa

Y: The Last Man, Babylon 5, and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

Mar 06, 2008 08:02

This morning I was on my way to work with Kyle after getting Jamba Juice( a. OMG why did I think that was a good idea when it was sooo cold! b. Jamba Juice doesn't seem to have nutrition facts on their website anymore except for one flavor and I can't find anywhere else that has them on the new Breakfast things [I got the Berry Topper].) We were ( Read more... )

y: the last man, babylon 5, politics, judaism, religion

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unanon March 6 2008, 20:40:40 UTC

Y: the Last Man continues to be good throughout, BTW. I've yet to read the last 10 issues (since I stopped getting comics altogether), but it's one of the very few comics I deeply regret quitting.

lodessa March 6 2008, 23:28:09 UTC

A friend of mine has the trade paperback so I'll be reading them in that format... which I like because I get more story at a time. I find sometimes comics can be really frustratingly brief.

It's good to hear a second rec of them though.

spectralbovine March 7 2008, 00:23:59 UTC

Ooh, awesome. I love Y. Hope you enjoy the rest of the series; I need to catch up with it all now that it's over.

lodessa March 7 2008, 00:30:34 UTC

Well sophia_helix has promised me 2-9 (minus 8) out of it looks like 10 volumes? So I should be enjoying it all rather quickly (I will probably just pick up the remaining two and gift them to her).

spectralbovine March 7 2008, 00:42:19 UTC

Well, the final trade doesn't come out till July.

lodessa March 7 2008, 15:31:50 UTC

Ahhh. That's probably why there's no picture for the last one on amazon.

caitie March 7 2008, 05:46:50 UTC

This was interesting. I've always been compelled to watch Babylon 5, even though I'm not much of a Sci Fi fan. BSG got to be way too much Sci-Fi for me, circa Season 3, so I can't decide whether or not it's worth it. But I'm attracted to it because it's supposed to have such a tight and excellent arc. What do you think?

lodessa March 7 2008, 15:46:06 UTC

Well it is very sci-fi but it is also excellently plotted and coherent. As I was explaining to hobviously about a week ago, when she said pretty much the same thing to me... In a way it is more sci-fi than other sci-fi shows because the interplanatary/interspecies part of it is so terribly central to the themes and plot and point. Whereas with a lot of shows you could have the same plot essentially in a different setting. But I feel like that makes that aspect more relevant and less... whatever. Also they actually do HAVE A PLAN, unlike BSG and for that reason it doesn't fall apart like BSG of VM or any number of shows that have disappointed us. Honestly, for most people the main stumbling block would probably be the decade old TV graphics more than anything else.

Also if you tell me what you liked vs. disliked about BSG particularly I could probably give you a better guess.

caitie March 7 2008, 18:17:37 UTC

I really hated most of the stuff with the Cylons, starting around the end of S2. I especially hated everything about their ships. I hated the reveal about the final five. I hated all of the supernatural stuff that worked its way into the show -- with that, I felt like there should have been more plausible deniability, so that viewers could look at it either way, sort of like Kara was a believer and Lee wasn't. Kara coming back from the dead -- if she's not a Cylon, if Lee really saw what he saw -- would be inexcusable to me.

But, I mean. I grew up reading fantasy. I do like interesting universes and their political dramas.

lodessa March 7 2008, 18:25:31 UTC

I think you will like B5 then. Basically everything that seems supernatural could be science also... the line between the two is very blurry in an effective way. Basically the big thing is that it all makes sense. The world building is so much more solid that B5s as well as the plot and characterization and everything else.