Sounds good to me. Overworking yourself too much isn't good and your mental health needs to be a priority. Plus, it'll make it easier for me to keep up with the group (despite my intentions, life has been making me fall behind on watching the B5 videos).

Also, Doctor Who sounds exciting, since I stopped keeping up after Series 8.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (the new Netflix one)

I think that the thing to bear in mind is that the Bechdel-Wallace test is only really useful in aggregate. It doesn't say a single work is sexist if it fails, but looking at the fail rates within a larger category of works can be insightful about how well that category does gender representation, especially when compared with rates for the reverse test (if representation were even within that category, these numbers should be roughly the same).

So, you're right that a failed test doesn't mean a failed episode, but the number of failed episodes does seem pretty disappointing, at least to me. (I figured B5 would do better than it has).

Lrf.

[Whole series spoilers] V npghnyyl cersre Fvapynve gb Furevqna dhvgr n ovg. V guvax gur frevrf trgf orggre jura Furevqna vf ba vg guna jura Fvapynve vf (v.r, Frnfba 1 vf jrnxre guna yngre frnfbaf), ohg V guvax Fvapynve jnf terng sbe nyy gur ernfbaf bguref unir abgrq naq Furevqna ohtf zr n snve nzbhag. Fvapynve jnf na vagryyvtrag, gubhtugshy zna jub unq n snve nzbhag bs vffhrf ohg jbexrq uneq gb xrrc gurz va purpx, jnf irel pnershy nobhg jung ur fnvq naq qvq naq nyjnlf gevrq gb erfbeg gb ernfba orsber enfuarff. Ur jbhyq yvfgra pnershyyl gb bgure crbcyr'f cbvag bs ivrjf, vapyhqvat barf gung jrer qverpgyl pevgvpny bs uvz naq pbafvqre gurz pybfryl. Gung'f gur fbeg bs ebyr zbqry gung vf irel haqreercerfragrq va zrqvn naq lrg gur fbeg bs ebyr zbqry V srry vf tbbq sbe fbpvrgl.

Furevqna whfg jnfa'g nal bs gubfr guvatf. Ur jnf n enfu npgvba ureb naq zber guna gung, ur qvqa'g ernyyl gbyrengr nal fbeg bs bccbfvgvba gb uvzfrys. Nf gur frevrf tbrf ba, ur rfgnoyvfurf n znffvir phyg bs crefbanyvgl nebhaq uvzfrys gung vfa'g ernyyl bcra gb pevgvpvfz naq riraghnyyl cynprf uvzfrys va n cbfvgvba bs nhgubevgl bire rirelbar va gur tnynkl. Guvf pbhyq npghnyyl or n cerggl vagrerfgvat punenpgre naq nep - nabgure synjrq punenpgre gb nqq gb gur zvk - vs gur fubj qvqa'g vgfrys gerng uvz nf gur terngrfg crefba va gur tnynkl. V ybirq Tnevonyqv'f nep jurer ur'q unq rabhtu naq ur pnyyf bhg Furevqna ba nyy bs guvf naq yrnirf - ohg gura vg ghearq bhg gung gung jnf nyy Orfgre pbagebyyvat uvz (cebonoyl zl yrnfg snibevgr qrirybczrag va gur jubyr frevrf). Uvf jvsr, urefrys bar bs gur zbfg cbjreshy crbcyr va uvfgbel yvgrenyyl pbzrf bhg bs frpyhfvba gb unenff n ohapu bs uvfgbevnaf sbe qnevat gb pevgvpvfr gur terng yrnqre naq jr'er frg hc gb gnxr ure fvqr.

Naljnl, V guvax V'ir enagrq rabhtu. Fhssvpr gb fnl gung V fgebatyl nterr gung Fvapynve vf terng, naq V ernyyl nz abg n sna bs uvf ercynprzrag (gubhtu gb or snve, Furevqna qbrf unir uvf zbzragf).

(S4)"Znex vf nyfb ba gb fbzrguvat: jul jbhyq gur Funqbjf arrq nyyvrf vs gurl'er fb pyrneyl cbjreshy? Jryy, orpnhfr gurer'f bar BGURE cbjre bhg gurer gung'f n guerng vs gurl npg zber bcrayl"

Nyfb orpnhfr gur jubyr cbvag (rfcrpvnyyl guvf rneyl; orsber gur Ibeybaf vagresrer naq vg orpbzrf n crefbany svtug orgjrra gur gjb) vf gb trg gur lbhatre enprf gb svtug rnpu bgure, naq vqrnyyl gb xrrc svtugvat rira nsgre gur Funqbjf unir ergerngrq ntnva, abg whfg gb jvcr gurz bhg.

Well said on all of this. My feelings are pretty similar. I might add that they just kind of took the name "Muay Thai", a real Thai sport and just used it as "exotic alien boxing". This is one of the best episodes of S1 interspersed with a weird insensitive mess.

Babylon 5 is really good at finding good actors to play creepy, sleazy and/or unsettling characters. So far, we have had Del Verner(the Gathering), the Soul Hunter, both Psi Cops (Mind War), Roberts and Malcolm Biggs (War Prayer), Knight One and Two (And the Sky Full of Stars), Deathwalker, Orin Zento (By any Means Neccesary) and Mordin (Signs and Portents). More arguably, you might also count Kosh, Trakis(Born to the Purple), Dr. Vance Hendricks (Infection) and Tu'Pari (Parliament of Dreams). That;s 11-15 in 14 episodes.

As for the episode itself, all I can say is
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Due to the ambiguity of tone in text, I'm not sure if your first sentence is supposed to be sarcastic/aggressive or not. If it is, and I've done something to give offense, I apologize.

Absolutely none of my post disproves the existence of souls as posited by Soul Hunter. All I was saying was that the episode didn't really provide strong evidence any which way. It's absolutely a possibility, but it's clear that, given Dr. Franklin's worldview, the experiences of Soul Hunter did not convince him that it was likely the parents here were right. I was just saying that I don't think that was a completely ridiculous attitude or that he was actively ignoring relevant information from Soul Hunter.