This episode clearly shows JMS's ignorance of the military and military life.  First of all, there is no such damn thing as a 30-year grunt.  The military ain't like being a policeman where you can stay a uniformed cop for your career and partner with someone.  Privates either get promoted or get out of the service,…

@avclub-79557cb93066f4470b8cee6e9110f757:disqus  Of course they're there…any analogy can be there if we choose them to be.  But my point was that there couldn't have been an analogy to anyone from the Bush administration, which didn't take office until years after the series left the air.
As to the specific analogy you…

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As much as I love finding political analogies in fiction, keep in mind the entire series takes place during the Clinton Presidency, and there was no one in office at the time you could make any reasonable analogies to.
What I see with Londo is nothing more than a case of the corruption of ambition and power, and he…

On the plus side, Patricia Tallman is showing self-pics of herself wearing panties on her Facebook page.

While I found the frustrations of Delenn amusing, I would never think of her as being stupid.  Clearly it's just a case of a TV series looking for humor.  It was disrespectful but not uncommon.

I agree, and actually Bester makes sense when he talks about the dangers of rogue telepaths, even if he's only making that claim facetiously.  I can understand at least why the Psi-Corps was created in the first place, regardless of what they became later.

I disagree, but perhaps it's because I see their romance in a very different way: two powerful people at the height of their political/military careers.  It's really the only way either one could have a serious relationship.  I'm certain even Sheridan's first wife Anna would have a difficult time being the spouse of…

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@avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus  I never saw enough episodes of Crusade to get to that point, myself, so I'll take your word for it…

Agree with @avclub-04d524031f29c89d78cae864bd6f0de7:disqus that Crusade is totally Space Cruiser Yamato Season 1…

That was Irene Cara, known mainly for being in the movie "Fame"

Kirk was much less of a warmonger than others have made him out to be: he obviously hates the Klingons, but otherwise there are numerous occasions where he had the opportunity to kill and did not.  I'd have a lot more to say along these lines but this is a B5 thread…

@avclub-9ef2b3a0cbd8bc049616e0855bff05fb:disqus While you're out please please bring back a HEAD of lettuce.

I dunno, I think that's just a little too convenient for me…I recognize the point you're trying to make, but perhaps I'd have preferred that hey dealt with it with a little more subtlety…

I agree for the most part but I like his stuff in general.

What, now?  I'm not a light switch, ya know

If you want to get technical it's Uchuu Senkan Yamato and has been called Space Cruiser Yamato officially, but I'm not going to split hairs…

Londo never redeems himself, I think its one of the show's strong points.  He becomes grudgingly aware of the evil he's done but never does anything to alter it, in fact he makes it worse for things in the future…

Actually it was nice seeing Russ Tamblyn again, as I remember him from "West Side Story", but yeah he was pretty awful here.  I still enjoy this episode, though, despite the flaws.  I compare the B5 crew seeing an Explorer ship to what it would have been like for me seeing an SR-71 back when they were active, a…