Oh that was in this episode?!  "I would have killed you where you stood!"  OMG, yes, holy shit, those two actors sleigh me.

uh… what?  Maybe I'm out of touch with current pop culture too much but I don't understand any of that but my initial emotional reaction is to be relieved B5 didn't get a reboot.

There are some good comedic- perhaps "dark humor"- beats during action/drama parts.  It's just, yeah, if something is just a Comedy Scene it will usually not go well.
But I love the actors/characters too much to not enjoy even that.  I mean of course Garibaldi arguing with the post office is absurd but Doyle sinks his…

OMG please don't compare Atonement to Space Arthur.  Atonment's Big Reveal is crucial to explaining the full weight of Delenn's emotional motivation to defeating the Shadow and fulfilling the "prophecy" of uniting with humans.  Avalon has no such reveal and, indeed, adds nothing to the over-all story.

Agreed.
I feel Rowan really gave Ship of Tears too much of a pass.  Not only is it BESTER… but using human telepaths as weapon cyborgs?  And it's Bester's lover?  That is some dark shit, people.  It's a pretty significant milestone in the show.

I don't understand why such a silly bit of banter should engender such strong emotions?

Yes that is a pretty fair point re: the 5 yrs not really 5 yrs thing, @Douay-Rheims-Challoner

Well I'm a nerdy guy with no game but I have actually turned down affection/sex from creepy racist girls.  Because hate is a total boner-killer.

In season 1 there was a whole episode where Vir convinced Londo to let two young Centauri get out of arranged marriages so they could be together.  And yet here is Londo shocked that Vir wouldn't eager to accept his arranged marriage?

Well no it's not the JSM "didn't care about" Lennier, it's that he wanted to make a theatrical film about the Telepath and wanted some major shit to go down for a couple of the characters from the show so that it wouldn't just feel like the movie is an after-thought.  So it would show us the end of Lennier's and…

B Box? lol

Yeah that whole AI thing seems like just a way to use Harlan Ellison since they had him available, and they tried to get cute by playing off of Ellison's infamously prickly personality.

Maybe because the joke isn't about landscapers, it's about crappy reality TV shows.

Add to the list of reasons to hate the Vorlon- they just determine that Narn and Centauri are incapable of evolving and lasting as long as humans and Minbari.

Franklin agreeing to "fight" is my one minor quibble with this episode.  His whole thing is being the guy that has seen and constantly deals with the repercussion of violence and horror and FEELS it all so so much that he's basically a pacifist.  And yet he's eager to start a war.
Yes I know the whole point is that…

The "greatest generation" is praised for living through the Great Depression and WW2.  But doesn't that mean they also created those horrible events?

Saw this over the weekend and it was cool.
One part that may appeal to some here is the lovingly detailed narrative around the record store freaks and internet music nerds circling around 45s and MP3s, discovering this music's existence like 40 yrs after it was abandoned.

Small correction to Willy Pete's post: Shadow ships don't need a telepath to function, they need a sentient person, e.g., Anna Sheridan.  They were starting to use telepaths in order to combat the Vorlon plan to use telepaths to combat Shadow ships.

I don't think it's about how long it takes, it's just about weight.  In space, every little pound matters for fuel efficiency and all that.  So it's probably just that the cost would be prohibitive.

When I watched the series with my sister, she recoiled at Londo's uber-EVVVIILLLL dressing down of the Narn ambassador (or whatever his job is).  Her argument was that by this point we already get the picture- Londo is a monster and we didn't need it to get to the point of James Bond villainy.