Babylon 5 4-05: The Long Night

Episode:

71

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John Lafia

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Air Date:

27-Jan-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm writing words about Babylon 5 episode The Long Night, and if you're struggling to remember exactly which one that is, I think I have an idea why. Seems that showrunner Joe Straczynski had a fondness for combining the word 'long' with a word related to night in his titles. We've already had The Long Dark and The Long, Twilight Struggle and there's a Very Long Night yet to come in season 5. There's also The Long Road in the spin-off series Crusade, but that's only halfway there.

They got another new director for this one: John Lafia, who directed the movies Child's Play 2 and Man's Best Friend, and the live-action video game Corpse Killer. I can see why they thought 'this is the guy we need to direct our serious science fiction drama series'. He'd go on to direct just two more episodes of season four and then after that he was gone. The thing is though, they're both bloody good episodes, and maybe this will be too!

Oh by the way, this was the first Babylon 5 episode to air in 1997. The series had been up against two Star Trek shows for a while by this point, and by 1997 Deep Space Nine was halfway through its fifth season and Voyager was halfway through season three. Meanwhile The X-Files was starting season four and Red Dwarf had returned after a long absence for its disappointing series seven. Plus two massive cult sci-fi shows were about to start: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stargate: SG-1 (Buffy had a robot in its first season, it totally counts as sci-fi). There were a few other sci-fi series starting this year as well, such as Deepwater Black, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict and the legendary Lexx. Oh, also two time travelling cop shows: Crime Traveller and Timecop... which both only lasted one season.

Warning: there will be SPOILERS beyond this point for this episode and earlier stories, but if you're watching the series for the first time you don't have to worry about me spoiling anything that happens later.

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The episode begins with a panning shot of the ships still arriving at Babylon 5 to join Sheridan's fleet, so I couldn't resist trying to stitch it together. Honestly, it worked out better than I was expecting.

Though I think this image of C&C turned out a lot better:

The last few episodes have all featured someone providing a voice over via a journal entry and this time it's Sheridan's turn.

Apparently the next few days will either be the beginning of a new age or the death of everything they've worked for... and that's all he's got to say for now, because Ivanova's entered C&C and she's got some real clunky exposition to deliver. Writer jms had not been kind to Claudia Christian this day of filming as she somehow had to say:

"We just got a report from a ship passing through sector 900 at the edge of Vorlon space... I suppose it was inevitable with the Vorlons attacking Shadow bases all over the place and wiping out whole colonies where Shadows have influence, they were bound to strike back."

Anyway, it turns out that the Shadows have their own planet killer! Some kind of cloud that surrounds an entire world and leaves it dead and barren. The season started by telling us the Shadows were about to make a move, then the last episode made the case that the Vorlons were the real threat, and now it seems like they're both equally the real threat. The B5 crew are up against two evenly matched elder races armed with weapons they can't even understand.

Or as Sheridan puts it, they're "Giants in the playground."

We already know that they survive this, the narration during the opening credits is in the past tense, but the characters are so completely outgunned right now that victory seems a bit unrealistic. Back in Valen's Shadow War, he only had to keep fighting the Shadow vessels until they gave up and buried their remaining ships, but the Vorlons and Shadows aren't trying to guide the younger races anymore, they're just straight up exterminating them.

Hey it's Narn again! We haven't been here since And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place.

This is a pretty decent shot I reckon. I mean it's not particularly interesting to look at, but it doesn't look too obviously like a CGI render and they've composited groups of actors in all over the place. I feel like there should be more dust in the air though, seeing as they said it'd take years to settle after the orbital bombardment.

You can tell this is Narn because the lighting's red.

Londo has gathered some high ranking Centauri to bring them into his plot against Cartagia, as I guess it's too much for just him and Vir to pull off alone. It's not long before one of them's blaming him for the whole situation, pointing out that Lord Malachi could've stopped Cartagia if Londo and Refa hadn't had him killed. Londo tells them the truth: that he had no idea Refa was going to go after Malachi and he's already had him killed for it.

This is one of those 'spinning around the table while the characters are talking' scenes, but they've pulled it off in a way that's not distracting. It helps that the camera's moving really slowly.

ACT ONE

I love the lightning this season.

Back on B5, Ivanova finds that Sheridan's gone back to thinking about things in dark rooms. She's pretty hyped about the fleet outside, as all her life she's dreamed about going into battle commanding a fleet like this. That's an... interesting dream to have.

That reminds him, he was going to tell her something: she's not going to be part of the fleet. He want her and Lorien to go out and find the First Ones. Sure they already tried this once this season and it was a complete failure, but with Lorien's help they may actually know where to look this time.

Ivanova tells him a story about when she was a young kid who still played with dolls (while also simultaneously dreaming of commanding a fleet in battle). Her mother sent her next door to a neighbour's house and told her to wait for her, and after hours of waiting she learned that her mother had 'gone away'. She'd killed herself rather than keep taking sleepers to suppress her telepathy. Wow, that was a bit of a dark story. But it makes it clear why Ivanova's very much against waiting somewhere else while the others go into a fight they may never come back from.

Sheridan promises her that she'll be there in the fight. I mean she's going off to recruit the big guns, they kind of have to wait for her to come back with them! They could've skipped this whole conversation if he'd made that clear.

Hey it's another building on Narn. It's nice to see that they didn't all get rocks dropped onto them.

This is apparently where the Centauri have been busy forcing the Narns to build a replica of the Royal Palace throne room on Centauri Prime. We saw them decorating the place in And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place, and now we know there was a point to that scene.

It was so they could have this scene, seven episodes later, without having to build a new set!

Though did they just reuse the throne room set? The chair looks the same but I'm not sure about the rest of the room.

4-01: The Hour of the Wolf

It actually does look pretty different! I've got to give B5 credit, they had the perfect excuse to leave it exactly the same and they didn't take it.

Cartagia's got an actual jester as entertainment this time, not just G'Kar in a daft hat, and the guy's definitely more enthusiastic about doing his job. He keeps poking people and making a squeaky sound. With that and all the bells hanging off him I'm surprised every dog in the neighbourhood hasn't run over to play.

Cartagia's got some good news for Londo: he's going to be spared from the annihilation of Centauri Prime so that he can act as his high priest. Turns out that Cartagia isn't planning to be on the planet when it's obliterated either, by the way.

This isn't really important information, it doesn't affect Londo's plan at all, but it does help define Cartagia's character a little better. He's willing to sacrifice a world because he's crazy enough to think it'll get him ultimate power, but he's not crazy enough to be standing on it when it blows.

Then he catches the jester imitating him and the room goes silent. People start shaking. They don't know whether he's going to join in or have him executed. He decides to join in and have a dance! And Londo excuses himself to make some 'arrangements'.

Damn the Narns did a good job with G'Kar's cell. Even the rock walls look absolutely identical to the ones in his cell on Centauri Prime. You can tell it's on Narn though as it's lit red.

This is the first time Londo's seen G'Kar since the last episode so he doesn't know about his missing eye. G'Kar says it doesn't matter, he can see things now that were invisible to him before. Oh can he see the Shadows then? Or is he just talking about Londo's empty heart.

Londo ignores him and explains the plan. His chains have been weakened, so when they parade him before Cartagia he'll be able to break free and cause chaos to distract his personal guards. He can't go after Cartagia himself though, that would lead to retaliation against the Narns. He has to leave that problem to Londo.

Seems like Londo's actually going out of his way here to make sure that G'Kar's planet is freed. He could've told him to kill Cartagia and let his people remain enslaved afterwards without technically breaking his word, but he's doing the decent thing. I guess his heart's not so empty after all.

Plus if G'Kar could really see that well he'd know that Londo has two hearts.

Londo hears a scream and comes around the corner just in time to see guards dragging the jester's dead body away. Then Cartagia turns up, sees his hat on the floor and kicks it up into his hand. I wonder if they needed a few takes for that one.

Cartagia tells Londo the moral of the story: humour can be very subjective. Plus he lets him keep the hat!

ACT TWO

At least this set's different.

Vir has managed to obtain the item Londo needs to carry out their plan and they do a bit of comedy about it, with Londo complaining that they always overwrap things, and Vir babbling that he's not completely incapable of doing dangerous or subversive tasks. No comedy music though, for which I'm very grateful.

I might sound like I hate comedy, I really don't, I just don't find things funny when the music's telling me I should be amused. It spoils the jokes for me.

Turns out that Vir's new toy is a needle filled with deadly neurotoxin. Well not filled exactly, there's actually only a tiny dose in there. Enough to do the job while being undetectable, with a bit of organic sealant to cover up the wound afterwards. All they have to do is stab this between his hearts while no one's looking and their mad emperor problems are solved. Though first they have to push that spring-loaded poisonous needle back in somehow I suppose.

They do a bit more comedy, theorising about how many words Cartagia's going to be able to scream out before the poison kicks in (like "Agh, Londo killed me!") but Vir drags it on too long and it gets awkward.

Cut to G'Kar being paraded in front of the Narns in chains on his way to Cartagia's throne room. It's the person who has to keep beating the drum I feel sorry for though. Just has to keep beating that drum at the right time, constantly, during the whole trip.

But just as G'Kar enters the room, Cartagia whispers to Londo that he's had G'Kar's chains replaced. Seems that the old ones looked a little weak. Well... fuck. This assassination would be a whole lot easier if Cartagia wasn't so intelligent and observant.

Cartagia lists G'Kar's crimes and then asks him how he pleads. G'Kar responds by trying to break the chains. They're apparently made of solid kirrilium though, whatever that is. Hang on, I just realised... G'Kar hasn't got his gloves on! He always has his gloves on.

They apparently used footage of him grabbing the chain with one hand and flipped it to then show him grabbing the other chain with his other hand. That's one way to avoid having to set up a second shot. It's not the exact same footage though, so it does look different.

But either the guards ordered to replace the chains were the ones that Londo bribed, or G'Kar's secretly as strong as Superman, as the new chains break! He starts kicking all kind of ass and Londo sees his chance to lead Cartagia away to somewhere safer and considerably more secluded.

Once they're alone, Cartagia starts ranting about having everyone there killed to cover up what a disaster it's been... and then Londo makes the mistake of telling him be quiet! What the hell Londo? The guy was already freaking out enough as it was. Cartagia immediately swings around and hits him, knocking the needle out of his hand!

Emperor Cartagia has enjoyed absolute power for less than two years but he's utterly outraged at the idea of Londo telling him what to do, even once. He feels utterly betrayed and now he's squishing his hair with his chin. Sadly it seems that Londo doesn't have G'Kar's super-strength when he's in a crisis.

Things aren't exactly going as well as they did when Londo scheme to have Refa killed. He could predict exactly what Refa would do, but Cartagia is actually insane. Plus he made the critical mistake of letting viewers in on the plan before putting it into action.

Cartagia, on the other hand, makes the critical mistake of not noticing Vir, and the sneaky Centauri is waiting to slip a needle between his hearts. So I wouldn't say he's completely incapable of doing anything dangerous and subversive. Writer jms later revealed that he planned it to be Londo who killed the emperor, but realised that it had to be Vir. Because Vir would suffer afterwards, which means more drama to mine!

Turns out that Cartagia was only able to yell "No!" before the poison went to work, so that's one mystery solved! Though he does hang on long enough to mumble "I was to be a god, you understand? A god..."

RIP Emperor Cartagia. I'm going to miss him... or maybe not! He was one of the best villains the series has had, thanks in part to a consistently fantastic performance by Wortham Krimmer. The guy held his own against Peter Jurasik and that's impressive. But I think any more of him would've been too much of a good thing.

We know that Londo and Vir will both someday become emperor themselves after this, so I can only hope they've been taking notes during this last few episodes. Under the heading 'Things to never do."

ACT THREE

It's act three and we're still on Narn.

Some time has passed and Londo's returned to tell everyone that Cartagia is dead. Everyone's looking suitably distraught but I have to imagine some/most of them are secretly overjoyed. You can't just laugh out loud at an emperor's death though... you never know what allies they had.

Londo points out both Emperor Turhan and Emperor Cartagia died while acting in relation to Narn, so it's starting to seem pretty obvious that the gods don't want them here and maybe they should take the hint. Hey, he kept his promise to G'Kar! One of the others agrees, saying they've already taken their revenge and they're done here. So that's the end of the Centauri occupation of Narn then.

Someone else mentions that Cartagia has no heirs and there's no clear line of ascension, so they're nominating Londo as Prime Minister. Everyone else supports the decision, so the job's now his! I get the impression this was not part of his plan, the last thing he wanted was another promotion, but it does mean that he gets to be the one in charge of getting the Shadow vessels off Centauri Prime. In fact he's pretty much in charge of everything until they can choose a new emperor.

I bet they still call him "Ambassador Mollari" when he phones up the station though.

Hey it's Babylon 5!

It feels like we haven't been here in forever. Though Londo only really hijacked the episode for 13 minutes, and there's still 20 minutes left to go.

The episode cuts to the war room, with a few of the main characters sitting at the round table while Lennier hands out documents to everyone. They list the latest attacks by the Shadows and Vorlons, so they're basically just Ivanova's script for the next time she starts broadcasting from her little news studio in one of the corners.

Mira Furlan's closest to the camera, so it's really obvious when she accidentally knocks a piece of paper off the table and catches it. There's no reason why Delenn couldn't have been the one to make the error, she's not infallible, so it doesn't ruin the scene or anything. It's just a bit distracting.

This may actually be a good thing though, because while you're watching her you're completely missing THE CREW MEMBER STANDING IN THE SHOT. Check out the guy on the left in a non-regulation t-shirt and shorts. You wouldn't have seen him on television when it aired, that part of the screen would've been cut off, but it's one of the rare times where they didn't make the shot safe for a later widescreen release.

Speaking of things getting cut off, people keep doing it to Lennier every time he tries to talk! First Garibaldi and then Sheridan does it. Sheridan does at least give Lennier a chance to talk once he's said his thing, but then the guy's cut off by the chirp from Sheridan's link!

They've got a call from White Star 14, which might be the first White Star to get called anything besides "The White Star". It's also the first White Star to be commanded by Bryan Cranston (or Ranger Ericsson as he claims to be named). He's doing pretty well in the role actually, they should've kept him as a regular. Then they should've given him his own spin-off.

His ship is investigating the latest world hit by a Shadow planet killer and they've sent a probe down to get a close up look at what the thing's actually doing.

Oh it's just engulfing the world in darkness and raining knives! That's not so bad.

The missiles penetrate the planet's surface, dig down to the planet's core and then blow it apart with the force of thousands of nukes, so it's slower than the Vorlon planet killer but it gets the job done just the same. It was apparently devised by author Harlan Ellison and I can believe it. He was good at coming up with inventive ways to inflict suffering.

Lennier finally gets a chance to talk here, saying that they've calculated where the Vorlons will strike next: Coriana 6. Possibly named after the 6 billion people living on it. And he didn't think that news was worth interrupting people for?

Back on Narn, Vir has found one of the old Centauri Prime palace sets and has gotten very very drunk. It always worked for Londo so he figured it'd be worth a shot. Now I'm wondering if that glass is going to get thrown, because that's what Londo would do!

He is an absolute wreck right now, trying to drink enough so that he can't see his own face in the mirror anymore, enough so he can't see Cartagia's face when he closes his eyes. He never wanted to know the things he knows or do the things he's done. He sure wants to babble a lot in this episode though. It doesn't really work for me to be honest.

Londo admits that he treated Vir poorly because he may have been envious of him. Of how he'd gotten so far and still kept his innocence. He tells him that he may have had to do a necessary evil today to save his people, but he still has his heart, and his heart is good. Hearts, mate. Centauri have two hearts!

Anyway, he still envies Vir, because he's able to feel so bad about what he's done. His heart's not empty.

Londo looks out and sees that the Narn are setting off fireworks outside to celebrate getting their world back. Where they got these fireworks from is not explained.

Then he says that occupying Narn was always more trouble than it was worth, so he's really changed his tune. Though he admits to Vir that he only freed them to keep his promise to G'Kar, as his honour is all he has left. I guess he forgot about his wealth, and his power, and his good friend Vir. Plus he's got the best room at the Royal Palace now!

I think that's it, we're finally done with Narn now. Well the Centauri characters are anyway, as they're all leaving.

ACT FOUR

Sheridan gathers the League ambassadors in the war room to let them know that the imminent attack on Coriana 6 has forced them to make their move. He was hoping to take the Vorlons and Shadows on at a time and place of his choosing to maximise the chance that it would do any good at all, but 6 billion people is too many to sacrifice.

The plan is to use some of their ships to slow the Vorlon fleet down so that the rest have time to gather at Coriana 6 to draw the line. This must be weirdly familiar to Delenn as she was there when the humans drew a line against her unstoppable alien force. They're also going to be inviting the First Ones and the Shadows, because why not? If you're going to send the largest fleet in history into an epic climactic battle you might as well invite everyone else to join in too!

Seems like people in the room aren't keen on this, but Sheridan doesn't care. The Vorlons and Shadows seem determined to avoid a direct confrontation with each other and he's going to make it happen. Though to pull this off will require sacrifice and for some reason he wants everyone in this room to be a witness.

Sheridan calls up Ericsson again, their man on the trail of the Shadow fleet, and tells him that he's going to have to sacrifice his ship and crew to get information about their secret non-existent base at Coriana 6 into enemy hands. Though he doesn't tell him that directly.

He tells Ericsson about the file they're sending over and when Ericsson assures him that they'll keep it out of enemy hands, he tells him that he misunderstands. It seems like Sheridan's just working up to telling him that he needs them to die fighting to protect the information to make it look legit, but instead he switches to asking if he's a married man!

Are you going to ask the rest of the crew as well Sheridan? If you're planning to write letters I'm sure lots of them have got loved ones back home who'd like to know what happened to them.

This is the first time Sheridan's had to deliberately order people to their deaths and it's horrible, but his awkwardness here is just making it worse. Maybe that's deliberate as well in some way? The scene keeps cutting to the pained expressions of the ambassadors, so perhaps he's carefully considered the impact it'll have on them and the message it's sending. The way he stumbled over his proposal to Delenn last episode, I doubt it.

The funny thing is, the Minbari over on White Star 14 seem to have no reaction at all. You think they'd at least glance up from the consoles. I dunno, maybe they can't speak English. Oh of course they can't! That's why they always need translators. Oh man, Ericsson's going to have to explain this to them after the call's finished!

ACT FIVE

I could talk about how it's maybe weird to assume the Shadows would look through White Star 14's wreckage for secret intelligence, when they tend to just hit and run. Or about how the Shadows already know about the base where Sheridan's gathering their fleet (it's Babylon 5), but look G'Kar's back!

He's found the other Narns trashing the set and he's not impressed. The series only has a tiny budget, so they can't afford to just wreck the scenery when they're done with it! This all has to go into storage. Oh man, they even shattered the throne!

G'Kar yells "Why are you celebrating?" which seems like a question with a fairly obvious answer. Though the Narn that replies to him actually gets it wrong, saying that they drove the Centauri away through strength! He then tells G'Kar "You're not seeing this as we do," which is a hell of a thing to say to a man whose eye was taken by the Centauri.

The Narn (who's called G'Lorn and is played by recurring B5 alien actor Kim Strauss), tells G'Kar that they'll make him the first Narn Emperor, so that he can lead their forces in an assault on the Centauri! He will be the instrument of their vengeance!

Basically G'Lorn wants to turn the Narn into the Centauri so they can annihilate the Centauri. But G'Kar's not interested in replacing Cartagia as their dictator and soon he's having to yell at them that the Centauri are going to destroy themselves just fine without their help. Narn, on the other hand, is currently a pile of rubble occupied by starving people, and they need to make that their priority.

G'Lorn accuses G'Kar of being a coward who hid in his sanctuary while they suffered Centauri oppression, and asks him what he endured.

We could've gotten a montage here, there's been enough scenes of Cartagia wiping G'Kar's blood off his hands or ordering his eye plucked out, but instead G'Kar just laughs and walks away. He's season 4 G'Kar talking to pilot movie G'Kar or Signs and Portents G'Kar, still filled with anger and the need for revenge, and the chasm between the two of them in terms of wisdom and understanding of the bigger picture is ridiculous.

This is a great scene by the way. That's what I reckon anyway.

It's interesting that Londo and G'Kar both get the role of leader thrown at them against their will in the exact same room, but Londo is all about tradition and duty and feels he has no choice but to accept, while G'Kar adamantly refuses it. I suppose the guy has more important job to do right now: to get his coat back. I think we last saw it on that unnamed planet he visited to find information on Garibaldi's Starfury.

There's another stitched together panning shot of the station for you. I think it turned out better than the last one.

Back on B5, Sheridan's listening to White Star 14's final stand. Seems that someone on the ship has left the comm channel open so they're getting a live feed of the battle as it happens.

Ericsson puts on a good show for the sake of the Shadows, calling for assistance, telling his crew they can't be taken alive, and then it's over. Meanwhile their fleet has started harassing Vorlon targets to slow them down. There's no turning back now. They should've call this episode Point of No Return really... oh hang on, that's been taken already.

The episode ends with another entry in Sheridan's personal log, this time talking about a note he found on his desk when he first took the job. It was a poem by Tennyson, so there's no mystery about who left it there. Sinclair always did love his Tennyson. I guess Ivanova must have just moved it to one side during the week that she was running the station.

And Sheridan and Delenn board a White Star and fly off to Coriana 6 with the rest of the fleet in a strangely terrible looking shot.

Netter Digital seem to have been perfectly capable of lighting a scene as well as the old Foundation Imaging shots, but sometimes they just didn't. To be fair the camera does swing around during the shot to show us the other side of the ships.

Also putting this many ships in the same scene at once was probably not an easy thing, due to the limits of RAM and processing power they were working with on their 1996-era PCs. I imagine they would've had to render groups of ships individually and then composite them together, and even then the rendering times would've been a bastard. So I can forgive them for the way that only the lead ships get an engine glow, and for how a few of the Starfuries flicker in and out of existence.


CONCLUSION

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The Long Night actually brings a ray of light just as things are at their darkest. A dark ray of light that's left everyone miserable and traumatised, but a ray of light nevertheless.

The characters have gone from a Shadow War to a Vorlon Apocalypse to a Shadow and Vorlon Apocalypse! Which is pretty much the same thing, except they're blowing up twice as many planets per day. And while this is happening, two of the most heroic decent honourable moral characters on the series do something horrific for the greater good. I mean Vir deliberately murders a man! Granted he was saving Londo at the time (and himself, though he didn't know that), but he wanted Cartagia dead. He was the one who got the poison to kill him! Meanwhile Sheridan sacrificed Bryan Cranston and his entire crew to lure the Shadows where he wants them to be. Both characters did what they did to save entire planets full of people, but they still have to find a way to live with it. Because they're good people.

But Londo and Vir have done it, they've freed Centauri Prime from a monster! They only have three or four days before the planet's annihilated but now there's a hope that they can save it. Plus Londo's been promoted to prime minister, giving him even more of the respect and power he can't take any pleasure in anymore. Hopefully Morden will respect him enough now to take all those Shadow ships off his world if he asks nicely.

And Narn's been freed as well! It's taken about 30 episodes, but G'Kar actually has his planet back! He wasn't lying in the opening titles when he said that this was the year they took back what was theirs. Though he declines to take the role of emperor and lead them into the war he wanted in season one, because he's learned all of the lessons. He's been through lesson after lesson for months and at this point he gets it. He can't quite make the other Narns get it, but he gets it. The Centauri government is a damn mess, they just assassinated their own emperor to stop him from sacrificing the planet, so they're not a model to be emulated or a target to strike back against.

G'Kar and Londo haven't learned to love their neighbour, or to forgive and forget, they've just reached a point of awareness where they realise that this mutual self-sustaining hatred of each other is ruining them both and can only be stopped if they choose to walk away from it. The real tragedy is they almost reached this point back in season two. If Londo had done nothing in The Coming of Shadows and just let things play out then Emperor Turhan would've still died, but Malachi would've become the emperor instead of Cartagia and would've probably followed Turhan's policy of not being a shit. Londo could've shared that drink with G'Kar without any guilt and maybe things would've settled down a bit. Then again that Technomage did point out that if Londo didn't play his role someone else would simply take his place, so who knows?

The episode ends on another cliffhanger, with that fleet they've been trying to get together since the start of the season finally heading out to what's apparently going to be the final battle. Though they're going to Coriana 6 instead of Z'ha'dum like they originally planned. It might have been nice for Coriana 6 to be established in the series beforehand in any way (there's 6 billion people there so it seems like a League homeworld, but they never say), though I'm still hyped to see what happens next. I've already seen the series, I know exactly what's going to happen, but I want to see it again. Every episode this season has been great so far, and this might have been the best of them yet.

Though I'm still sad we're never going to get a White Star 14 spin-off starring Bryan Cranston as Captain Ericsson.

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COMING SOON

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