Doc Yewll and her late wife are indeed splesbians (or, if you prefer, lesbialiens). We've met male Indogenes before, most notably Amanda's old assistant, Ben, who tried destroying the town in the pilot and second episode on the orders of Mayor Nicky.

I'm going to have to go back and see if it was different before, but I thought it was kind of neat that the "Defiance" title card was at night this time, since the episode began at night. I appreciate it when they dicker with the title sequences. Also, in this episode and the season premiere, they really nailed the…

I agree. Especially since Stahma's confession that Alak is just a mafia-mascot doesn't really assuage Rafe's concern that Christie or the baby might get Sonny Corleone'd to get at him. It wouldn't be the first time Alak's peripheral connection to organized crime got someone he cared about killed.

Re: Unforeseen circumstances:

I think everyone was just exhausted by the time the EGO implant had been removed, so they didn't have the energy to get truly incensed about it. Nolan suggested either she's had one put in accidentally by coming into contact with someone else who had a defective EGO, and a bit of it got into her and rebuilt itself…

When Pottinger and Yewel revealed the reason for planting the EGO into Amanda* was to download her memories, I figured he wanted to make a clone of her, a la Mayor Nicky or Astronaut Mike Dexter last season. Given what happened to him at the boarding school, it seems possible that he's also an Indogene duplicate. The…

Datak's entire character is "somewhat bumbling." His one-line summery is that he's a very stupid man who's been allowed to think he's a very smart man. He seems to be moving into being a full-on pseudo-intellectual, but still, make no mistake, he's a stupid, stupid man. His schemes are transparent, his methods…

I'm slightly intrigued, or perplexed, why he's mostly seeing things he did passively. That his crime is not speaking up, which I think is potentially too generous.

JMS did seem to put all the effort into parsing "Z'ha'dum" as a Minbari phrase. "Z'ha" as in "Zha," as in a "broken" tense of "future," and "dum" like "Mora'duhm," for terror.

“If more of our so-called leaders would walk the same streets as the people who voted them in…” Seriously?

Alien telepaths are a peculiar blind-spot in the show. They show up when convenient to the plot, but are absent a whole lot more often. There was the season 1 episode with the human girl who was offered asylum by the Narn and Minbari, which seems like the simplest possible way Byron's group could've solved their…

I saw Babylon 5 well out-of-order, and the next-to-last part of season 4 was the last thing I saw, so it took me a while to fully assimilate how odd G'Kar and Londo being pals was in "Rising Star." They spend half a year not talking to each other, with G'Kar literally telling Londo he's dead to him, then when they…

Mack & Bo = Ellison & JMS

There's also the fact that Minbar is probably the most stable, well-defended planet in the known galaxy. Even their civil war was small potatoes compared to what happened to any other race during the Shadow War. The Minbari also don't have a history of antagonism with the other races (with the one notable exception),…

I think Nolan is way more likable than the Mal of "Serenity" or Serenity. Especially in the movie, Mal was constantly dancing over the line dividing "anti-hero" and "villain-protagonist." Sure, Nolan likes shooting war-criminals in the head without trial when they get all gloaty, but that's something fun-Mal didn't…

Ooh, a potential love-pentagon! How delightful.

Got that right. He even walked away from the house he was coming home to so they could have a big dramatic shot of his shadow growing to encompass it.

I wonder if there isn't some physiological reason at the root of it. Three baths a day seems more grueling than sybaritic to my human sensibilities, but maybe Castithan skin tends to dry out or something. Maybe they used to be amphibious?

It looks like it's a pretty conservative take on ancient aliens (showed up, hid their spaceship under a mile of rock, never spoke to anyone else again until the future) by SyFy standards. It's not like it's Stargate or something.

Some of the tie-in material somewhere (probably the game) mentions which aliens are capable of breeding with which others, with a half-sentence of bio-babble bullshit to explain it. I spotted it on the wiki.