Babylon 5 4-22: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars

Episode:

88

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Stephen Furst

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Air Date:

27-Oct-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's the Babylon 5 season 4 finale: The Deconstruction of Falling Stars! There's a proper pretentious title for you, it's great.

Babylon 5 was intended from the start to be a five year long novel for television, so it was a bit awkward when their network, PTEN, was set to be shut down after year four. Showrunner jms figured that the best they could do was to accelerate the major arcs so that we reached the original s4 finale, Intersections in Real Time, four episodes early. That way the series had time to reach some kind of closure before the episodes ran out, and they were able to film a replacement s4 finale called Sleeping in Light to wrap it all up properly. Babylon 5 was done. And then the producers made a deal with TNT to get their fifth season after all.

This was great news, but the trouble they had now was that Sleeping in Light was an emotional and unambiguous conclusion to the entire saga, and not the ideal way to launch the story into a new chapter. Fortunately the series was blessed with a huge four month break between the airing of ep 18 (Intersections in Real Time) and ep 19 (Between the Darkness and the Light), giving the production crew the time they needed to film a replacement ep 22... which is the episode I'm writing about now.

tl;dr: Season four was originally intended to end with Intersections in Real Time, which got moved up four episodes and replaced with Sleeping in Light, then after filming they changed it again to Deconstruction of Falling Stars.

SPOILER WARNING: This review is for people who've been watching the series at least up to this episode, as it's going to spoil everything that happens in it, along with the events that led up to it. I won't spoil a thing about season 5 though... well, except for the things that the episode itself spoils.

Also if you've got the DVD commentary, you should maybe hang onto that until you've seen the whole series. It's a bit spoilery too.

Babylon 5 4-21: Rising Star

Episode:

87

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Tony Dow

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Air Date:

20-Oct-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's the penultimate episode of Babylon 5's fourth season: Rising Star. Hang on, I recognise this picture: that's the same CGI stock shot of a shuttle arriving they used for the start of No Surrender, No Retreat! I guess the VFX team needed a week off to recover after that last story.

Writer jms must have liked this title as he wrote a comic series a couple of years later called Rising Stars, about the lives of people born with superpowers due to a mysterious comet. I remember the comic being pretty good, though I don't remember much more than that I'm afraid. I'll have things to say about Rising Star though, with any luck.

SPOILER WARNING: I'll be writing about every scene that takes place in episode 87 of a heavily serialised TV show, so this isn't the best place to jump in if you're just curious about it. But anyone watching through the series for the first time will be safe here as I'll not be spoiling anything that happens after this story.

Babylon 5 4-20: Endgame

Episode:

86

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John Copeland

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Air Date:

13-Oct-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm watching Babylon 5's Endgame! Not to be confused with Star Trek: Voyager's Endgame, Avengers: Endgame, or Highlander: Endgame...

Other series with an episode titled 'Endgame' or 'End Game' include:

• Stargate SG-1
• Alias
• La Femme Nikita 
• CSI
  
• NCIS
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• The Fugitive
  
• Painkiller Jane
• The Pretender
  
• Xena: Warrior Princess
• Holby City
• The Tomorrow People
  
• Transporter: The Series
• Melrose Place
  
• The Equalizer
• The Unit
  
• Homicide: Life on the Street
• The Legend of Korra
• Dallas
• Young Justice
• All Saints
  
• One Foot in the Grave
• Nash Bridges
• All Saints (again)
• The Last Ship
  
• Person of Interest
  

And so on. But not The X-Files surprisingly. Hang on, I'm wrong, there is an X-Files episode called End Game in season 2.

Babylon 5's Endgame was the first episode to be directed by producer John Copeland. Visual effects supervisor Tony Dow directed the next episode, Rising Star, then showrunner jms directed Sleeping in Light, so I guess the senior staff felt they should steer the ship directly for the last few stories. Then the series got a surprise renewal on a new network and these weren't the last few episodes anymore, so John Copeland went and directed the penultimate episode of season 5 as well.

SPOILER WARNING: If you're a first-time viewer who's seen the whole series up to this point, then you're in luck! There's nothing here that'll ruin later episodes. There's plenty here that'll ruin earlier episodes though, and I'm definitely going to spoil this one.

Babylon 5 4-19: Between the Darkness and the Light

Episode:

85

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

David J. Eagle

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Air Date:

06-Oct-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm up to Babylon 5 episode 4-19, Between the Darkness and the Light. The way the title comes up over a shot of a lightbulb swinging in a gloomy cave may not be entirely coincidental.

Between the Darkness and the Light is one of the few titles shared by both Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine... well, kind of. The DS9 episode was the one that aired first, coming out earlier the same year, and it's just called The Darkness and the Light. It was directed by frequent B5 director Mike Vejar, his first episode for the series (but far from his last).

The Babylon 5 episode, on the other hand, was directed by similarly frequent B5 director David Eagle, who was responsible for episodes like Severed Dreams, And the Rock Cried Out No Hiding Place, and The Hour of the Wolf. His episodes have a habit of ending up at the top of episode rankings, so I have a feeling this is going to be pretty watchable.

SPOILER WARNING: If you've a first-time viewer and you've reached this point in the series then you've got nothing to worry about here, I won't mention a thing about later episodes. Otherwise I'd recommend watching all 85 episodes first and then coming back, because there'll be spoilers for lots of them here.

Babylon 5 4-18: Intersections in Real Time

Episode:

84

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John Lafia

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Air Date:

16-Jun-1997

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That's a nice looking title image up there I reckon, with a good render of the station. Shame it's a complete fiction. The actual screencap was bit too spoilery to be displayed on the front page of my site where anyone could see it, so I decided that bending the truth a little by Photoshopping my own one would be thematically appropriate for this story.

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm watching Babylon 5's Intersections in Real Time, perhaps the only episode of television to get its name from its own commercial breaks. Well not the act breaks specifically, but the way the episode is sliced up by them to form blocks of story that we intersect with. The 'real time' part of the title is perhaps more self evident:

This is episode 84 of Babylon 5, which doesn't seem like a milestone at first glance, but the 60s Lost in Space series only managed 83 episodes during its three season run. Which means that if you'd made a list of the longest running US space opera TV series of all time at this point in 1997 it would've looked something like this:

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation (176 episodes)
2. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (122 episodes)
3. Babylon 5 (84 episodes)
4. Lost in Space (83 episodes)
5. Star Trek (79 episodes)
6. Star Trek: Voyager (67 episodes)
7. Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (37 episodes)
8. Battlestar Galactica (24 episodes)
9. Space: Above and Beyond (23 episodes)
10. Galactica 1980 (10 episodes)

Third place!

Non-Star Trek US space sci-fi had much more success afterwards, with series like Andromeda (110 episodes) and Battlestar Galactica 2004 (76). But seeing as only Stargate SG-1 (214), Deep Space Nine (176), and Voyager (172) have beaten Babylon 5's final score since, the series is still top 5 to this day!

SPOILER WARNING: I won't spoil anything that happens after this story, but everything else is fair game.

Babylon 5 4-17: The Face of the Enemy

Episode:

83

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Mike Vejar

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Air Date:

09-Jun-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm up to Babylon 5 episode 83: The Face of the Enemy.

You can tell the series is picking up momentum again as they've put the title up during a space battle. More often than not an episode title will appear over a nice calm CGI shot of the station just chilling out and rotating, but there's too much going on in the story for that right now.

The episode was directed by Mike Vejar, again. He skipped the first half of the season entirely, but he's been directing every other episode lately, ep 13, 15 and now 17... not that I'm complaining. This was his last for the year though, and he only directed two stories in season five.

I feel like I should give you a SPOILER WARNING just so it's clear I'm going to go through Face of the Enemy scene by scene and maybe spoil a bunch of earlier stories as well. This article will be first-time viewer friendly though, so there'll be no spoilers for later episodes.

Babylon 5 4-16: The Exercise of Vital Powers

Episode:

82

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John Lafia

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Air Date:

02-Jun-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's The Exercise of Vital Powers, or maybe just Exercise of Vital Powers? IMDb agrees with the title on screen but it seems like everything else, including the DVD box, put the 'The' at the start. I like it better with the 'The' so that's what I'm going with.

It's a nice title I reckon, and it gets explained during the episode so I don't have to write anything about the meaning here. That means I've got more room to mention that this is director John Lafia's second episode, after the excellent The Long Night. He only directed one more episode of the series and it's coming up very soon.

We're in the last third of the season now, by the way. Seven episodes left to go. If all goes to plan I should be writing a season four review by the end of next month.

SPOILER WARNING: I'm going to go and type out everything that happens during this whole episode and that's inevitably going to spoil the series so far as well. But if you're watching through Babylon 5 for the first time you'll be fine, as I won't mention anything that happens next.

Babylon 5 4-15: No Surrender, No Retreat

Episode:

81

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Mike Vejar

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Air Date:

26-May-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm writing about another episode of Babylon 5. It's season 4, episode 15: No Surrender, No Retreat.

Each of Babylon 5's five seasons is named after a big game-changing episode from that year. The first was named after Signs and Portents, which introduced one of the series's main antagonists, season two's title came from The Coming of Shadows which kicked off the that year's arc, and season three took it's name from Point of No Return, where the crew made a choice that radically altered their situation. Season four is called No Surrender, No Retreat, so I've finally reached this year's title episode and the shit is almost certainly going to hit the fan.

Here's some more trivia for you: the word 'no' doesn't show up in episode titles as often as you might think. In fact Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation are the only two Trek series to have a 'no' title, and they each only have the one (Where No Man Has Gone Before and Where No One Has Gone Before respectively). Stargates SG-1 and Atlantis have just one each as well (Point of No Return and No Man's Land), as does Battlestar Galactica (No Exit). Doctor's Who's been around for 57 years so you'd think it'd do well here, but even if you count the individual episodes that make up the classic serials, it's still only used 'no' once (in Sleep No More). Babylon 5, on the other hand, has four episodes with 'no' in the title, and this one uses it twice! I guess this is the kind of thing that happens when you get one writer scripting most of the stories.

Before you read any further, I should warn you that there will be SPOILERS below, for this episode and earlier ones. This will all be first time viewer friendly though, so if you've been watching through the series (or just reading through my recaps) you've got nothing to worry about.

Babylon 5 4-14: Moments of Transition

Episode:

80

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Tony Dow

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Air Date:

19-May-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I've written words about another episode of Babylon 5 for you. This is season 4, episode 14, Moments of Transition, which has to be the least evocative title since Interludes and Examinations last season. You can just tell that nothing interesting or game changing is going to happen here.

The title comes from a monologue by G'Kar in the episode Z'ha'dum, in which he explained that life is made from moments of transition and moments of revelation. So I suppose we can at least be sure there won't be any revelations in the episode.

Though I do have a revelation for you of my own: this is episode 80 of Babylon 5, which means that this is the point where the series had officially overtaken the original Star Trek's episode count. Even if you count Trek's unaired pilot episode, The Cage, Babylon 5 has its own pilot movie, The Gathering, to put it one story ahead again.

I should warn you that there's going to be so many SPOILERS after this point. I'm going to ruin the whole damn episode. But if you're watching through the series for the first time you've got nothing to worry about as I won't even hint at what happens next.

Babylon 5 4-13: Rumors, Bargains and Lies

Episode:

79

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Mike Vejar

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Air Date:

12-May-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about Rumors, Bargains and Lies, the 79th episode of Babylon 5.

It was written by showrunner J. Michael Straczynski, who was about two thirds of the way through his unbroken streak of scripts by this point, and it was directed by Mike Vejar, finally making a reappearance after skipping the first half of the season. He hadn't directed an episode since War Without End, Part 2 back in season 3, so it's nice to have him back.

I'll be recapping the whole episode and sharing my thoughts as I go, so there'll be huge SPOILERS for this episode and earlier ones. But you'll be fine if you've been watching through the series for the first time.

Babylon 5 4-12: Conflicts of Interest

Episode:

79

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

David J. Eagle

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Air Date:

05-May-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about the 79th episode of Babylon 5, titled Conflicts of Interest. For whatever reason they decided to render the station from the back instead of the front for this shot, so there's a close up of B5's ass behind the title. It's also episode 12 of season 4, which means I'm in the second half of the season now. I'm 7/10ths through the show!

Conflicts of Interest was directed by David J. Eagle, who was the only Babylon 5 director to ever have a bird-related surname. He directed episodes like Severed Dreams, And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place and Falling Toward Apotheosis, so he preferred to hang around at the top of people's episode rankings, but this could be the episode where it all started to go wrong for him. We're in season four, so probably not, though it's been a while so I can't actually remember if this one's any good or not.

Here's some more trivia for you: the episode came out on May the 5th, the day after Star Wars Day. I don't think Babylon 5 ever got its own day, but I suppose the 5th of the 5th isn't the worst date you could pick for it.

SPOILER WARNING: I'm going to go through this episode scene by scene spoiling the events with my recap and spoiling the story by nitpicking everything as I go. I'll even spoil episodes that came before it! But I won't spoil anything that comes after it, so this is safe for first time viewers.

Babylon 5 4-11: Lines of Communication

Episode:

77

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John C. Flinn III

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Air Date:

28-Apr-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, another episode of Babylon 5.

Lines of Communication was written by showrunner J. Michael Straczynski and directed by director of photography John C. Flinn III, a pair of people who clearly must have had more hours in their days than the rest of us get. This was the last episode Flinn directed this season but he did a couple more for season 5. He didn't direct any of the spin-off series Crusade afterwards though weirdly, or anything else for that matter.

I feel compelled to warn you that there will be SPOILERS for this episode below this point, because I'm going to go through the whole thing basically scene by scene. I'll not be spoiling anything past this episode though, so if you're watching through the series for the first time you'll be fine.

Babylon 5 4-10: Racing Mars

Episode:

76

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Jesús Salvador Treviño

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Air Date:

21-Apr-1997

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I'm pretty sure that's a spaceship in that screencap up there, but are those glowing panels supposed to be windows? Their polygon budget must have been really tight.

This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about another episode of Babylon 5! This episode's called Racing Mars, which is a play on the phrase 'racing cars'. Actually I don't know what it means, it's mysterious. Sounds good though.

It's the fourth of five episodes directed by Jesús Treviño, and he's been doing alright so far with episodes like Sic Transit Vir and Interludes and Examinations. He also directed the movie Thirdspace and came back after the series to direct an episode of the spin-off, Crusade.

I'm going to go beyond your recommended daily allowance of SPOILERS here, as I'll be spoiling this episode scene by scene, and any stories that lead up to it. But if this is your first time watching the series you don't have to worry about me ruining anything that happens afterwards. I won't even spoil Thirdspace, even though the events probably take place before this story.

Babylon 5 4-09: Atonement

Episode:

75

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Tony Dow

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Air Date:

24-Feb-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I'm writing about more Babylon 5! The episode Atonement to be specific, which was the 9th story in season 4.

This means I'm finally going to have to face one of the biggest mysteries in the entire Babylon 5 saga: where the hell does the movie Thirdspace fit in? Some people say watch it before Atonement, some people suggest watching it right after it. Some even suggest starting the episode, getting up to a certain point, then switching over to watch Thirdspace instead for a bit. And some people, perhaps more sensible people, suggest just watching it in the order it aired in.

I'm just going to put the episode on and see if I can spot any point where you could interrupt the action with an entire film without it being weird.

Oh by the way, BABYLON 5 FINALLY GOT REMASTERED! Holy crap, I can't believe it. Okay it's not a full Star Trek-style HD remaster where they rescanned the original film and replaced the effects, I think they've just gone back to the original 4:3 broadcast masters, but it looks a lot better. Unfortunately I don't have any of these remastered episodes so all my screencaps are going to be from the widescreen DVDs.

SPOILER WARNING: I'm going to assume you've seen all of Babylon 5 up to and including this episode, but I won't spoil anything that comes after. I won't even spoil Thirdspace, even though it apparently chronologically takes place here.

Babylon 5 4-08: The Illusion of Truth

Episode:

74

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Stephen Furst

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Air Date:

17-Feb-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures I am writing about Babylon 5 episode 74: The Illusion of Truth. Doesn't sound like a particularly interesting number, but the series has 110 regular episodes, so that means after this I'll be two-thirds of the way through!

The Illusion of Truth was the first episode to be directed by Vir actor Stephen Furst. Not just the first Babylon 5 episode, but the first episode of anything. Though he had already directed (and written, and starred in) a movie called Magic Kid II. Furst went on to direct a couple more episodes of B5, both of them breaking the show's usual format, and then he went and did a couple of episodes of the spin-off, Crusade, as well.

I sometimes point out similarities between Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine, but this is one case where things worked out differently. Four actors from DS9's main cast went on to direct episodes of their own show, same with Star Trek: The Next Generation and Voyager weirdly, but Stephen Furst was the only Babylon 5 actor to ever make the jump.

SPOILER WARNING: I'll be spoiling this episode scene by scene and if I think of any other episodes that need a good spoiling along the way, well I'll be spoiling them as well. Don't worry though if you're watching through the series for the first time, as I'll not spoil anything that happens next.

Babylon 5 4-07: Epiphanies

Episode:

73

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

John C. Flinn III

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Air Date:

10-Feb-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, it's another episode of Babylon 5! I gotta keep watching them if I want to make it to the end.

Epiphanies was directed by director of photography John C. Flinn III, who generally directed two episodes a season, and not typically the best two. Though he did give us The Long, Twilight Struggle (with the famous shot of Londo reflected in the window) and I remember Soul Mates being pretty good as well. TKO and Grey 17 is Missing, not so much.

I'd talk about the writer, but it's just J. Michael Straczynski again. He wrote all the episodes last season and he wrote all the episodes this season as well.

Here's SPOILER WARNING for you: I'm going to be spoiling every scene in this story and earlier episodes as well. I won't be spoiling later episodes though, so if you're watching the series for the first time you'll be fine here.

Babylon 5 4-06: Into the Fire

Episode:

72

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Writer:

J. Michael Straczynski

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Director:

Kevin James Dobson

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Air Date:

03-Feb-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm writing about Babylon 5 episode 4-06: Into the Fire, which continues on from the cliffhanger ending of the previous story: Out of the Frying Pan. Actually the last episode was called The Long Night, but my title's better.

Into the Fire was the second and final episode directed by Kevin James Dobson, who had previously directed Whatever Happened to Mr. Garibaldi? That was perhaps the weakest episode of season four so far, but that's like saying it was the worst choc-chip cookie in the pack. Okay, I'm going to have to take these off my desk or else all my metaphors are going to end up being cookie related.

Anyway, here's a fact you'll never read anywhere else, because who would ever care: the week after The Long Night and Into the Fire were broadcast, Deep Space Nine aired its own epic two-parter called In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light. Bit of a 'darkness leading to fire' theme going on in both series. Voyager tried to join in with Jekyll & Hyde Doctor story Darkling, but maybe it would've been better if it hadn't.

This recap/review will feature SPOILERS for this episode and the series up to this point, but I'll not spoil anything that comes after it, so it's first-time viewer safe.

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.

Stargate SG-1 1-01: Children of the Gods, Part 2

This is the second and final part of my Children of the Gods article. You can go to part one by clicking the text that says 'part one' here: Part one.

Beware of SPOILERS for both this episode and the movie.

Stargate SG-1 1-01: Children of the Gods, Part 1

Episode:

1

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Writer:

Jonathan Glassner & Brad Wright

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Air Date:

27-Jul-1997

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This week on Sci-Fi Adventures, I'm kicking myself for not realising that it'll be Stargate SG-1's 20th anniversary this year! If I'd held onto this post for another month it would've worked out perfectly, but I already promised I'd write about this next and I'm two weeks late, so I decided to click publish on it today and hope I do better with the next anniversary.

What else came out in 1997 anyway? It seems like it was a good year for fantasy movies to get their own wildly successful semi-faithful TV franchises, as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Stargate SG-1 both kicked off within a few months of each other. I have to admit that I'm more of a Buffy fan, but Buffy's about vampires and Stargate's about stargates so this is the one I'm writing about on my sci-fi site. Other science fiction series starting in '97 include Deepwater Black, Earth: Final Conflict and Timecop and I've got even better reasons for not writing about them. Meanwhile Star Trek: Deep Space Nine finished off its 5th season, Babylon 5 got done with year 4 and Voyager wrapped up season 3.

They may have chosen the least exciting shot possible to put the title over, but Children of the Gods is the beginning of an epic TV franchise to rival Star Trek, that lasted for 354 episodes and 2 DVD movies! It also rivals Star Wars with how much it got screwed with years after the fact, as co-creator Brad Wright decided to have it re-cut to replace visual effects, tighten up the storytelling, restore the original Joel Goldsmith score and use a slightly more exciting shot for the title. Oh plus his revised Final Cut also removes the nudity that Showtime apparently made them put in, because it didn't exactly suit the family friendly 90s TV sci-fi tone they were going for.

But I don't have the Final Cut, so I'm watching whatever version came in my season one DVD box set, and I'll be writing all kinds of SPOILERS as I go. I'll also be spoiling the Stargate movie, but I won't say a word about what happens in the rest of the series. Or any other series.