Babylon 5

Oh.. That is episode that has a very good point.. how everything can be told by the side of the teller and how we are so acceptable what is said in news and so.. without really knowing if things are like that.



Even with that thought.. and knowing that it rises a very good point, it was not episode what was easy to watch. It was very frustrating and the way the truth god tangled and played.. as I said. Not easy to watch, but for sure, had a point.



And it had some lead in to the whole campaing to come I think.. They realized in B5 that they have to get their story out or people will only hear the version Clark administration offers.

The Illusion of Truth was a really great episode of Babylon 5. I really enjoyed watching this episode because it touches upon how media and the news specifically can be manipulated and used to control populations of people. This is one of the better episodes of this season since the Shadows and Vorlons left known space. I also enjoyed watching the news broadcast within the episode as if it was a normal news channel on tv. I thought this episode definitely takes things to another level. I look forward to watching the next episode and seeing how Babylon 5 will deal with the aftermath of this broadcast!!!!!!!!

God this reporter was a jackass. What is it about screenwriters ability to really nail those jackass reporter types in their scripts. I think the only time it didn't turn out badly for the interview subjects was in the new BSG, when D'Anna Biers character was introduced. Of course she turned out to be a Cylon, but still, the story turned out well for the crew. Otherwise you get chopped up misrepresentations like this. I wanted to reach through the screen and strangle him before he got more than two minutes into his broadcast. Makes me hate all news except The Onion, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. And that confession they ran at the beginning was straight out of McCarthy's Red Scare. Hell, they even used the same last names as some of the Hollywood 10 and others named in front of the HUAC (Yes, I'm a media dork). And what the hell was that in Garibaldi's interview? That was messed up. And apparently President Clark sent troops to burn down Sheridan's parents home and kidnap his father. Not cool, and not wise.

theres a couple of amusing scenes in this episode one where londo tells the captain that his quaters are cold.and when lennier head butts a camera. and zac shoots a camera.captain sherdian has always known that isn the interstellar news network, is the corrupt mouthpiece of the evil earth goverment, but when an isn reporter turns up at the station to make a fair broadcast about babylon 5, sheridan foolishly relents.the broadcast turns out to be a pathetic travesty,portraying babylon 5 as a place were humans are the subject of cruel and terrifying experiments and suffer terrible depravations.if this was not bad enough, sherdian"s father has gone missing too.

When the reporters came on the station and said the were on their side and were going to film them and set it out, I knew it was to good to be true. And sure enough the reporters are scum. They took every thing they said twisted it around for their like and them sent it out on TV. They said that Captain Sheridan was ill and that Deleen was controlling him. They said that they were bad and that Deleen was using him. But when it was over the Captain wouldn’t even talk to Deleen. Which made me mad, because they said she was using him.