Yeah, according to JMS, "Intersections in Real Time" was supposed to be the original season 4 finale, per his story-notes. But when the whole PTEN situation came to a head behind the scenes, he ended up having to basically shorten the Earth Civil War storyline by 4-5 episodes, wrapping that up in the fourth season,…

It's more of a real-life U.S. Navy-thing, where you frequently see officers holding Lt. Commander and Commander-ranks holding captaincy assignments on vessels.

Ever since I learned about this (I think from one of the script-books?) that particular scene has become even more amazing to me, and that the producers and the director simply decided to use that very take, thanks to the added verisimilitude and panic of the on-set fire. Really helps sell the moment.

Hah, yeah, that's one of the all-time best JMS snark-lines ever. Too bad we never got any more Gary Cole in that universe, although he's basically getting to rock the exact same wiseass 'tude each week on HBO's Veep.

"…Army had half a day."

Agreed one hundred percent, and to my reckoning, this was the final moment in which B5 forever separated itself from the Star Trek franchise, in terms of daring creative choices and story repercussions.

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No Kate McKinnon, no deal.

Actually, JMS himself recommends In the Beginning as his preferred new-viewer intro to B5 over The Gathering, feeling it to be superior in terms of setting up the entire universe and "hooking" the viewer into the greater arc of the series.

Actually, JMS is reportedly working on a big-screen, big-budget reboot of B5 for Warner Brothers…no joke:

Make the time now, cocksucker.

I think Michael O'Hare gets a lot of undeserved grief for his portrayal of Commander Sinclair, with "wooden" being one of the favorite adjectives non-actors use to describe it. Actually, it seems to me that O'Hare did a fine job of playing the emotionally closed-off and tortured character that JMS had written. It…

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Agreed — I did this not too long ago myself, and it's a bizarre, insane, Lynchian experience. And you'll probably end up weeping for humanity, too.

The Big Bang Theory is lazy, pandering garbage, a timed, cynical cash-in on geek culture written by several late-middle-aged, tennis-club-attending, yuppie Hollywood producers who just happened to accidentally overhear the word "animé" mentioned offhandedly in conversation somewhere once.

It's funny only if you're unfamiliar with far superior shows like Community or Spaced. Once you realize how much better those shows are (and how inexplicably TBBT managed to poach so much of Community's nightly primetime audience during its NBC run), you likely will indeed through yourself out of that eleven-story…

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@Jesse:

It sounds like you might've accidentally watched Doctor Who's cheap knockoff cousin — I've heard The Doctor Who is indeed rather brainless and dumb.

Oh, most definitely, although Berry himself doesn't show up until Season 2. But it's still well worth it.