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3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Steven U... · 0 replies · +10 points
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I guess the topologies of hyperspace cannot be comprehended by our 21st century grasp of physics, but it does seem pretty weird that they could spend several minutes arguing about whether or not to drop out of hyperspace after receiving Lochley's signal, and then still enter normal space right next to her. Mysteries of the jump drive I guess.
3 years ago @ Mark Watches - Mark Watches 'Crusade'... · 1 reply · +7 points
I liked Woodward's delivery of "I have no surviving enemies at all."
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JMS may have written some clunky exposition in his time, but that final scene where Gideon tells Galen what a technomage is takes some kind of cake.
Why is this called Crusade? Who are they Crusading against? I mean, the Drakh, I guess, but that's not their primary mission. Their mission is to find something. (if they don't, in just five years, Mother Earth. . . will disappear. . .) That's more of a Quest.
So Babylon 5 avoided universal translator devices like Star Trek, or universal translator microbes like Farscape, or [future MR series] havirefny genafyngbe svfu yvxrf Uvgpuuvxre'f Thvqr, instead establishing that everyone (except in specific cases like the Vorlons) has learned English, and everyone important is really fluent, but now that we're going off to meet aliens instead of aliens coming to Babylon 5, we have a universal translator. . . person?
We seem to have switched gears a bit from Tolkein to Gygax. I mean not that Tolkein didn't have Wizards and a Burglar and whatnot, but this feels more like a tabletop adventuring party.