Ruminations on (Re-)Watching Babylon 5

[tygerr]

I've been engaged for the past couple months in one of my periodic orgies of all 5 years of Babylon 5. Every time I do this, I am struck by the physical appearance of President Clark. The first time I watched the series was some time around 2005, and at that time I was struck by his resemblance to Dick Cheney (albeit an alternate-universe Cheney

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[harimad]

Old balding fat white guys - what's the surprise there?

[stoutfellow]

I've been engaged for the past couple months in one of my periodic orgies of all 5 years of Babylon 5.

You too, eh? I've got four eps to go, this go-round.

Clark actually reminds me more of a guy who ran for governor of Virginia a while back... OK, got it; his name was James C. Miller III, and he ran for the Senate, not the statehouse. Can't find a picture of him, though.

[amysisson]

I've only watched the series the one time. Right now we're watching SG-1 for the first time (season 3, I think). I definitely want to revisit good old B5 at some point.

[tygerr]

OOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh! You still haven't watched B5 a *second* time? That is yet another magical experience. (Or at least it was for me--quite a number of the early eps I thought were particularly weak are there specifically to provide background info and/or foreshadowing for key events years later. And I didn't catch it until my second run through.)

Foreshadowing--one of the signs of yer qwalitee lit-ritcher!

[desert_vixen]

Yeah, some of that stuff started to resonate a little too much.

Of course, now you have me a) thinking I should start rewatching B5 and b) envisioning Julie Musante (the political officer) as their Ann Coulter. Ew.

[tygerr]

I cannot imagine Ann Coulter "spreading 'em for the cause". (Or, at least, I really REALLY don't want to.)

[pmrabble]

Brain bleach!