Man, oh man. Sobol led me to the wayward life of a boy detective.

Man, oh man. Sobol led me to the wayward life of a boy detective.

It's also interesting that the dialogue sucks balls even with the abstraction layer of Bo and Mack, both because a competently thinly-fictionalized version of Harlan Ellison  should be able to carry less than half of an episode of television, and also that throughout the series JMS is perfectly happy to have nearly…

It's also interesting that the dialogue sucks balls even with the abstraction layer of Bo and Mack, both because a competently thinly-fictionalized version of Harlan Ellison  should be able to carry less than half of an episode of television, and also that throughout the series JMS is perfectly happy to have nearly…

Oh yeah, that's the episode where Bo, and/or Mack explains how the joke is that everything tastes like chicken.   Ever the deft touch with comedy, JMS..

Oh yeah, that's the episode where Bo, and/or Mack explains how the joke is that everything tastes like chicken.   Ever the deft touch with comedy, JMS..

Clark was perhaps the stupidest, one-note fascist ever, with zero believable motivation — see his conversation with Morden that Ivanova oh-so-conveniently witnessed after the fact.  He may as well have delivered a "mu hu ha ha haha" laugh while twirling a mustache.

The scene I always think of for pilot-Lyta is her flat response to Sinclair's interminable history of the Babylon stations (which she must have surely known, since she's going to live on one; but that's pilot exposition for you)  "Swell."  

The scene I always think of for pilot-Lyta is her flat response to Sinclair's interminable history of the Babylon stations (which she must have surely known, since she's going to live on one; but that's pilot exposition for you)  "Swell."  

It's strange that the famously enigmatic Vorlons would want to bring anyone back to their homeworld  (at least, overtly); and how is G'Kar in so closely with them here?

It's strange that the famously enigmatic Vorlons would want to bring anyone back to their homeworld  (at least, overtly); and how is G'Kar in so closely with them here?

In the original series, the colonials  did not create the Cylons.  There was a convoluted backstory involving the lizard-alien Cylons, who made the robots that supplanted them.  And somehow Count Iblis was involved, too.

Oh, at last!
The robustness of third-party Facebook apps married to the business model of DIVX. What could go wrong?

The 80s, decade of shame.
Romancing the Stone, when lost or delayed: " We are hell and gone from Cartagena."