Wednesday January 26, 1994
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When the Narn attack a Centauri colony, Londo and G'Kar nearly come to blows. Meanwhile, raiders are attacking transport ships near the station.
Read Full Recap » (warning: possible spoilers!)I just cannot imagine the serie to start any other way. I have seen the whole serie for many many times trough the year, rewatching it almost every spring is like a tradition and now I am finally giving my time to write the reviews and I just do not know what to say - it is the best serie I have seen and this is the beginning of it - so a very special episode.
I think it is not the same experience to watch it first time and then now, when I know all what is going to happen. Everything makes much more sense - those little allusions, those little ideas they have poped in and what will make such a great importance in the later.
So, mainly this episode was to settle in, to show us the universe, introduce the chars and the world this takes place. And I love it. From the first moments. Londo and G'Kar - blood for blood.. always on each other thoughts.. Great episode.
I recently saw the pilot and then started watching the series in order. Great series, but from the pilot to the series minor changes in come of the characters appearance. hide show
This series was very good and was for the most part quite entertaining, there was a busy space intersection where on any given day anything could happen and often did. The characters here in the first episode seem a little stiff, too much in character to show their real personality, but it worked. I loved Londo, he was and is my favorite alien character in this series, and second to Seven of Nine for all time, Odo finishes a close third.
The interactions are good, and the story like the people grows from week to week. There was not enough backstory, but then there was only one hour per episode.
The five year story of Babylon 5 picks up where the Pilot left off... hide show
I recently decided to re-watch the entire five series of the wonderful Babylon5, and plan add reviews of the whole 110 episodes here on this site.
Since the pilot 'In the Beginning' had been shown some time previously, there was a need to re-introduce the main characters and premise of Babylon5 and I think that 'Midnight on the firing line' achieves that objective admirably.
We are introduced to the complex relationship between G'Kar and Londo that will come to play a major role in the series and - amazingly - hear the prophecy that the two of them will die at each others hands twenty years later. That's what makes this show so amazing - the way that little pieces of seemingly trivial information are picked up several series later, or develop into a major plot development. I expect to see many of these as I re-watch the series :)
In and amongst the Londo / G'Kar main plot line we are skillfully introduced to some of the other main characters who we will come to know in much more depth later. There's the stoic and serious Commander Sinclair, ice-cool Russian beauty Susan Ivanova - and the telepath Talia Winters who fails in her attempts to thaw her.
It's amazing just how many plot lines get started here that will play out over the years - telepath paranoia, Ivanova's family woes, the Londo / Vir relationship, Garibaldi's attention to detail - its all here...
Excellent start to an incredible series.
we meet the crew of babylon 5 hide show
staffed by a human crew headed by commandar jeffrey sinclair the huge babylon 5 space station is host to an uneasy alliance of four alien races, the narn, the centauri, the minbari, and the vorlons. commander sinclair must maintain peace between the alien ambassadors when the imperialist narn invade a centauri agricultural colony on the planet raghesh 3. meanwhile sinclair has to deal with a series of attacks by space pirates. when ambassador londo mollori find out what g'kar has done he gos to find him and tries to shoot him but the chief michael garibadi head of security stops him.
A good start to the series hide show
I decided to re-watch Babylon 5 on DVD and noticed that there weren’t many reviews on the site so thought I would write some. All these reviews are written from the point of view of knowing what is going to happen later on and I think that makes the show even better.
This episode introduces us to a couple of new characters who did not appear in the pilot, most notably Ivanova who is now second in command, Vir who is Londo’s aide and Talia Winters who is the new telepath. Of these characters Ivanova is the only one who we really learn anything about in this episode with the little bit about her mother at the end of the episode.
The episode focuses much more on the Narn and Centauri conflict, with the Narn’s attacking a Centauri outpost. I always found the Narn-Centauri conflict to be one of the more interesting plot strands and this episode builds it up quite nicely. It’s also interesting to see Londo as the sympathetic character and G’Kar being the aggressor as these roles will be greatly reversed later on as we learn more about them.
The acting is good for the most part however some a couple of the charters are a bit wooden. Peter Jurasik gives a good performance as does Andreas Katsulas, Jerry Doyle also comes across as very natural. It took time for some of the other actors to find their characters but they did eventually.
Another bit I do like about this episode is Londo mentioning that he and G’Kar will eventually kill each other as we see how this plays out later on.
Overall quite a good episode that was still a good introduction even if you haven’t seen the pilot and gives you some ideas of the directions the show will take in the future.
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