The whole Authority plot line has been such a fizzle. The ancient leaders of the global, vampire community are nothing but a handful of worthless corporate, douchebags who hold their meetings in some dreary sub-basement? Is that the best you can do, guys?

In the first episode, Skyler gives Walt his birthday HJ while surfing eBay. I think it would be hard to get more emasculating than that. Not to mention that when Walt gets cancer diagnosis, she refuses to let him make the treatment decision. He doesn't get to decide about his own life.

In the first episode, Skyler gives Walt his birthday HJ while surfing eBay. I think it would be hard to get more emasculating than that. Not to mention that when Walt gets cancer diagnosis, she refuses to let him make the treatment decision. He doesn't get to decide about his own life.

There's a bit in the Lurkers Guide for "A View From The Gallery" where JMS notes that he can bang out a B5 script himself in two or three days but it takes him as much as a week to "fix" a script written for the show by someone else. I think that says it all, really.

There's a bit in the Lurkers Guide for "A View From The Gallery" where JMS notes that he can bang out a B5 script himself in two or three days but it takes him as much as a week to "fix" a script written for the show by someone else. I think that says it all, really.

I've been bagging on this show a lot, and it's all well-deserved, but I'm really enjoying the re-watching. I haven't seen most of these shows since they first aired and I'm finding the earnest, funky, season one vibe very fun to get into. It's really very ST:TOS-like.

I've been bagging on this show a lot, and it's all well-deserved, but I'm really enjoying the re-watching. I haven't seen most of these shows since they first aired and I'm finding the earnest, funky, season one vibe very fun to get into. It's really very ST:TOS-like.

Eureka, I assume. Unfortunately, only about a dozen people still watch that show, including me.

Eureka, I assume. Unfortunately, only about a dozen people still watch that show, including me.

What makes "A View From The Gallery" even worse is that it's a bit of a roman a clef with Bo and Mack stading in for JMS and Harlan Ellison.

What makes "A View From The Gallery" even worse is that it's a bit of a roman a clef with Bo and Mack stading in for JMS and Harlan Ellison.

She was good. JMS seems to have resisted the urge to write a lot of dialogue  for her and just let her use her face to tell the story.

She was good. JMS seems to have resisted the urge to write a lot of dialogue  for her and just let her use her face to tell the story.

Yah, I figured that out early on. He's not nearly enough of a douchebag to be the real JMS.

Yah, I figured that out early on. He's not nearly enough of a douchebag to be the real JMS.

I was on Usenet during the initial run of B5. JMS used to hold court in the B5 groups (later B5.moderated natch') and he…well, he didn't always take criticism well.

I was on Usenet during the initial run of B5. JMS used to hold court in the B5 groups (later B5.moderated natch') and he…well, he didn't always take criticism well.

It's probably worth watching more as a historical reference than as an actually entertaining show. B5 was and is, in many ways, a prototype for the modern, mythology-driven, genre show.

It's probably worth watching more as a historical reference than as an actually entertaining show. B5 was and is, in many ways, a prototype for the modern, mythology-driven, genre show.

Trek wouldn't do what? Make two characters have an unnatural conversation so that the writer can drop a huge, premature exposition turd on the viewers? Oh, I'm pretty sure Trek would do that, my friend.