This week, Ranger Mayann has no report, but I am taking the liberty of summing up this 6th episode of season 2, from what I hope would be the Minbari point of view:
“I’ve read your proposal, Mr. Isogi. Frankly, you’re either insane or a very brave man. “
Here, after this reaction from a representative of a provisional colonial government, Taro Isogi reminds her, as the Minbari often remind us, that history matters. And so does long term innovative thinking. His idea of Future Corp was a way of solving the violence on the Mars colony peacefully.
Einstein said that only by thinking at a different level from which our problems began, can we solve those problems. This episode represents that idea in a more concrete form.
The core of the actual problem is that there exists a black ops agency buried deeply within the Earth government, working against the interests of peace. Captain Sheridan confides his intention to find that agency, the metaphorical Spider in the Web, and to destroy it. This is why this episode represents so much of what I love about Babylon 5: the willingness to confront unpleasant realities, and then create tools to deal with them.
Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa.
I come in peace, I am your friend.
Last week’s Long Dark, and next week’s Race Through Dark Places…
There are earlier episodes, as part of a letter on the history of the Babylon Project.
-Shira Destinie
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Nih sakh sh’lekk, sleem wa. and my Babylon 5 review posts, if you like Science Fiction, and a proposed Vision on Wondering Wednesdays: for a kinder world…
Shira Destinie A. Jones, BsC, MAT, MPhil
our year 2021 CE = 12021 HE
(GED lesson plans: Day 1)
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includes two ‘imagination-rich’ walking tours, with songs, of Washington, DC. New interviews and research are woven into stories of old struggles shared by both the Jewish and African-American communities in the capital city.
Shared histories are explored from a new perspective of cultural parallels and parallel institution-building which brought the two communities together culturally and historically.
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Thank you, Ned: I hope that this helps folks realize that when they call a person “crazy” because of an idea that that person has just unveiled, that ‘nut’ might just have a good point, and the idea might just be a viable solution!
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You appear to be a little behind on updating these reports from your menu page.
Valen go with you,
Ranger Mayann
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That Talia’s implanted personality is “control” highlights the cruelty of her predicament in this episode.
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It is!
And it took me at least three re-watches to realize that “control” was, in fact, the implant-Talia!
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Originally, Laurel Takeshima had the implanted personality. This is implicit in the re-edited version of “The Gathering.” Yet Tamlyn Tomita did not join the cast for the series.
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I hadn’t realize that.
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In Takeshima’s case, in the pilot movie, her right hand did not know what her left hand had done, so to speak. She was of two minds.
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I never noticed that, but then I’ve only seen one version of the Pilot. I didn’t know that there was another.
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There was the 1993 broadcast version. JMS reedited in the late 1990s, though. That was the TNT version.
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He edited the Pilot after the series? I may have to find that version.
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Actually, that is the version on DVD. Finding the original version is hard. Amazon Prime had it when that service offered B5. The opening is available on YouTube.
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Forgot to link back to last week…
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