It doesn't quite work for me because it is just too pat: Futuro becomes the defacto villain, Neadro makes the noble sacrifice, and everything is fixed and back to "normal". 

The funny thing about those three as an "informal trilogy" is they are my three favorites to rewatch just for the heck of it.  Like, if I'm just going to watch an episode of Farscape just to kill time… it's going to be one of these three.

On top of all their other functions, they work as Polaroids.

@avclub-590022491dd50b6b9188ab26f979bd12:disqus I'm with you on Lost MOSTLY working— in that it hit its character/emotional notes very well, which I can't say about BSG.  That saves it from its plotty/metaphysical stuff not working as well.  Namely, the deliberate misdirection behind the sixth season's sideways-verse…

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It's actually a trick where you dolly in and zoom out (or vice versa) at the same time, so the focus stay on the same thing, but the background shifts. 

Two words: Zima sign.

@avclub-a883fabbbec60032a0c7359a7351c122:disqus  I don't recall exactly where in Season 3 they set up the "Final Five" concept… which is core to the mythology-shift in the show… but it was relatively early, since I think it was the mid-season finale where Lucy Lawless saw the faces in the temple and then was boxed. …

I've always put the argument forth that around the time they made "Downloaded", the creators of BSG had an epiphany of what they wanted the show to be… but what that was had very little connection to the show they had already set up. 

Al the Bartender in the QL Finale wins him for life.

I think that's because, more than any other arc-plot show, the set-ups were written to set up the landing that was already intended.  Most genre shows give you the set-up with the idea that they'll figure out just what the landing is going to be when they get there.  Babylon 5's biggest strength (but also its…

Plus there is the EarthGov ship's false bluster.  "Move or be destroyed" or words to that effect.  It's just like, "Dude, these are Minbari cruisers.  You are SO out of your weight class here."

I would argue that what's discomforting about it is the fact it's handed down, whole cloth, by Kosh messing with G'Kar.

Would I defile the good name of Howard Hessman like that?

About 25 years ago, there was a show called "Head of the Class".  Some of you remember it.  One episode had them start a film club, and they wanted to screen a movie that was one of those "everyone's talking about it, no one's seen it" arthouse darlings.  But they can't find it: everyone they talk to hasn't seen it,…

Batman and Robin is the worst movie that I've seen twenty times.

Casey's "call the highlights of the playground action" solution to his presentation in his son's class is one of my favorite little bits of the various, "I've gotta go do this thing/I've now come back from the thing" bits on this show.

I'm curious where Zardoz might have ended up without her, then.

That's where Romo Lampkin got his start.

@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus "When two Minbari grow close as we have grown close, there is the Ritual of Getting to Third Base."