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B5 rewatch: Mind War
They are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Ms. Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957. They must walk there alone.
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"They walk near Sigma 957..."
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JULIA NICKSON in BABYLON 5
#b5edit#babylon 5#julianicksonedit#julia nickson#catherine sakai#mine*#not me obsessing over her#on one hand#miss her#on the other#glad she did not come back to get fridged
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Babylon 5 S01E06: Mind War
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Space chase!
Catherine must enjoy her job, because she’s a very wealthy woman from that quantium from the planet she previously surveyed. Or it’s a very convenient way to get her offscreen whenever the plot demands. edit: or, as it happened, a convenient way to get on ON screen when the plot demands! I am pleasantly surprised!
Michael Garibaldi don’t be a creep, also you’re not in love. My girl Talia is going to marry my girl Susan and you’re going to watch Daffy Duck and be chill.
WALTER KOENIG?! That’s Pavel Chekov! My guy! Mr Bester, fine. But he’s Chekov in my heart.
I’m ready for some serious dirt on this seriously dystopian Psi Corps. And ready to find out why this rogue telepath appears to also be using telekinesis!
Who watches the watchmen, indeed, Ivanova?
So Talia is a level 5 telepath, which burns out or kills 50% of telepaths who attempt the rank. (if I recall what she said to Sinclair correctly) The rogue telepath is level 10, as all instructors are. And these psi cops are level 12. How many telepaths do they burn through to get others trained adequately? And do they actually burn out, or are they being disposed of and the testing dangers are exaggerated to cover it up?
Hah, and Jason immediately comes to Talia after she’s passed her scan.
G’Kar is being weird to Catherine. Polite. Eloquent. He hasn’t put forward this much effort at being polite and agreeable to anyone for the entire show so far. His “no seriously, this is in good faith,” argument here reminds me very much of Garak from Deep Space 9.
Let me pass on to you the one thing I’ve learned about this place. No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair, and not me. My warning is sincere. Ignore it at your own peril.
Power boosting in the psi corps and it’s an arms race. And there’s experiments, and Jason was experimented on. That never goes well, historically speaking. I wonder if some inspiration for River in Firefly was taken from this episode.
So, telekinesis is actually a thing in this universe, but they’re insanely rare, and half of them are insane. And Jason got telekinesis as well as highly boosted telepathy from the experiments - the former of which was actually, secretly, the goal.
Walter Koenig is so delightfully terrifying in this!
I can’t imagine G’Kar is going to be so seemingly straightforward as to take send this heavily armed cruiser to attack Catherine.
Yeah, telekinetics controlled by the CIA sounds absolutely horrifying, and that’s basically what Jason is describing here. Also, a space station is a horrible place to have a telekinetic mind quake.
I’m not kidding at all when I say these special effects delight me. Apparently I’ve been craving a sci fi show of a certain age. But they’ve mostly been space explosions and lightning - not that I’m complaining! They’re lovely space explosions and lightning. But I freaking love this force field.
Some jump point info I’ve been craving - for this jump, Catherine leaves from and also arrives at a jump point structure. Do they have to send the physical infrastructure at sublight speeds to each new location?
Poor Jason. This is very River Tam without a Simon Tam.
“Good old Psi Corps. You guys never cease to amaze me. All the moral fiber of Jack the Ripper. What do you do in your spare time? Juggle babies over a fire pit? Oops, there goes another calculated risk.”
“You’re not helping the situation.”
“Lady, you are the situation.”
You tell them, Ivanova! Ms Kelsey looks delighted at the prospect of handling-or-murdering Jason, while Walter Koenig looks ominous as hell. They’re a good horror duo. I’m horrified.
Jason, no. You’re still Jason. It’s OK. You can be becoming but also be yourself. This is a trauma reaction called depersonalization, it’s normal bby. He needs a weighted blanket and an EMDR therapist. Instead he’s got Psi Cops who are absolutely killing the unnerving vibe. Immaculate villain presentation. Not so good for the case of PTSD Jason is rapidly developing.
More special effects! I am delighted. Psi Corps dirt and 90s CGI. I’m in heaven.
Talia, earnestly: “He wants to see you [...] I know it’s asking you to take a terrible chance, but it’s the only one we’ve got.”
Sinclair, confidently: “All right. Where and when.”
😭The trust for his crew! and maybe also a smidge of that death wish from the war. Also, telepath sex sounds both terrifying and extremely hot. But mostly terrifying. Like, that’s a little extra. Eye contact is a little much for me sometimes, but go ahead and make your soul a mirror, Talia. You do you babe. I bet Susan will be into it.
What in the fuck is Catherine gotten into. Seems like G’Kar was not kidding about weird, dangerous shit floating around this area. Good thing he’s gonna turn up before she crashes.
Jason’s bit about Psi Corps’ control fixation reminds me of Terry Pratchet’s bit about evil being when you treat people as things to be controlled instead of persons. Believe him, Sinclair! He’s been 1000% more polite than Walter Koenig and Ms Murder.
Secret ops! Secret ops! They’re definitely going to be able to keep it secret from the two, level 12 telepaths hanging around looking for secrecy in general.
“Please. No, don’t make me do this. You cannot harm me. You cannot harm one who dreamed a dream like mine.”
OH SHIT he really can vaporize people. (and get harmed a little by that utterly delightful ray gun. How is it that it looked ten times more fake than the phasers in Star Trek TOS from the 60s? Amazing. And again - not a complaint.)
He supernova’ed! This is amazing. This is the best episode.
Sinclair and Garibaldi are a little too good at blackmailing people and covering up evidence.
*whispers* telekinetic Talia. Telekinetic Talia! Telekinetic Talia?
I like this strange relationship G’Kar seems to be cultivating with Catherine. He’s not like this with anyone else.
Eldritch beings hanging out in the universe, cool!
“They are a mystery and I am both terrified and reassured that there are still wonders in the universe and we have not yet explained everything. [...] They must walk there alone.”
This episode delighted me in every way.
Next!
#Catherine Sakai#Talia Winters#babylon 5#g’kar#it took me this long to upload because canva was giving me a fucking fit#woodsfae gif#ft: 90s graphics#flashing#tw flashing#woodsfae b5
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Best Babylon 5 Character
Best B5 Character Contest
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To Dream in the City of Sorrows by Kathryn M Drennan, a review
#babylon 5#science fiction#scifi#book review#books#booklover#books and reading#Jeffery Sinclair#marcus cole#Catherine Sakai
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im keeping my idea of branmer showering sinclair with gifts in bla because i just really enjoy the idea of sakai constantly making wee jokes and comments about
#sakai: oh look more gifts from your sugar minbari#sinclair: catherine please stop ;___;#sinclair: he is just being friendly catherine#sakai: yes im sure the powerful man sending you extavagent gifts has no ulterior motives#sinclair: ;___; please catherine#sakai: perhaps in return you could introduce him to your talking pants#she's right branmer does have ulterior motives but those motives are that he's trying to figure out sinclair's connection to the surrender#branmer: other people have tried to get it out of him using mind tricks and force but i am better than that#/sends sinclair a volume of minbari poetry and sugared fruits by way of courier boy neroon/
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whoops I did my tags wrong so I’d better do this now...
#⤷ FILE / from the writer's desk.#⤷ FILE / interactions.#⤷ FILE / interaction call.#⤷ FILE / memes & sentence starters.#⤷ FILE / promo.#⤷ FILE / self promo.#⤷ FILE / wishlist.#⤷ FILE / saved.#⤷ CHAR. / visage.#⤷ CHAR. / character study.#⤷ CHAR. / characterization.#⤷ CHAR. / aesthetics.#⤷ REL. / michael garibaldi.#⤷ REL. / delenn of mir.#⤷ REL. / susan ivanova.#⤷ REL. / talia winters.#⤷ REL. / lyta alexander.#⤷ REL. / g'kar.#⤷ REL. / catherine sakai.#⤷ REL. / londo mollari.#tag drop
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another b5 thought i will never get out of my head is what Would Have Been if michael o'hare had been able to continue on as sinclair, mostly how catherine sakai was clearly being set up to have anna sheridan's fate. and when i tell you that would have gutted me. i might never have recovered. as it plays out we suffer for sheridan's sake, taking the cue from him seeing how much he mourned his late wife, but if we had known her? after seeing how jeff and catherine had woven in and out of each other's lives but could never let go and finally got it right??? and then we mourn for her with him when he is already holding so much sorrow?? and then?????
#b5#that actress being in that episode of tng with geordi in that lower decks in command ep really endeared me to her instantly#so i don't know if other people are as invested in that relationship here despite the soap opera dialogue they saddled her with#but I WAS. I AM.#by the way trying to find a revealing screencap of anna sheridan's awful fate is like. her and some guys having a tea party#their choice to have melissa gilbert play anna was an inspired solution you gotta give it to them#hey honey we need a chemistry speedrun will you come play my twice doomed wife
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the power in a name.
my @jrwi-art-exchange web weave for @propheticscrwup! enjoy ^-^
ashe winters, jrwi wikia // what do you see?, rachel roberts // cozy winter 2022, grace safford // winter, wikipedia // snow, moon, and flowers, sakai hoitsu // beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems, ladwig et al. // alice's adventures in wonderland, lewis caroll // a black bird with snow covered red hills, georgia o'keeffe // blow, blow, thou winter wind, william shakespeare // hades, supergiant games // the beautiful season, max ernst // the darker sooner, catherine wing // into death bravely, jimmy santiago baca // snow and mist, john atkinson grimshaw // the lonely death, adelaide crapsey // [season's greeting card], friedrich voldemberge-gidewart // december 31st, richard hoffman // the shortest day, carson ellis // the last snowfall, vienna teng // the runaway, robert frost // untitled, cecilie okada // winter psalm, richard hoffman
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B5 rewatch: The Parliament of Dreams
We're over each other.
Who says? Who says I got over you and you got over me?
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Babylon 5 Rewatch - Mind War
This is a post I originally wrote several years ago for Mark Oshiro’s Mark Watches blog. I don’t really plan to edit them before posting, so there may be some references that don’t make sense. If you see words that look like gibberish, they are actually rot13, which was our way of discussing spoilers. There are plugins you can install to decode the text (Cryptext is the one I use), or you can copy/paste to rot13.com, or just ignore it.
Hooray! Catherine Sakai is back! This means she’s going to be a recurring character, not just a single-episode romance character! I love how in this episode you can see the conflict between their two jobs, but it’s not a huge deal; it’s just something they’re learning to navigate. [season 1] Nyfb, unun, V sbetbg nobhg guvf yvar jurer Fvapynve gnyxf nobhg univat gb znxr ohqtrg phgf va pbafgehpgvba. Guvf vf rknpgyl jul V ybir O5. Gur pbagvahvgl srryf fb betnavp.
As you can see farther down, I think the way that G’Kar interacts with Catherine is so interesting. From everything we’ve seen about his character so far, we absolutely buy into Catherine’s interpretation of his actions. And the episode itself basically leads us to think he’s up to something nefarious. But no! He really was just trying to help. It gives us another level of insight into his character that makes us think maybe there’s something more to him than just the loud, brash, antagonistic person we’ve seen before.
As far as the main plot of the episode, it’s Star Trek comes to Babylon 5! (Or if you’re me, the other way around. The first time I watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I gasped when Chekov first appeared and said, “It’s Bester!”) There’s not much more I can say at this point. We get some hints of shady doings happening back on Earth, but whether anything more will come of it is yet to be seen.
I would like to highlight two scenes, though. The first is Talia’s description of what it’s like when telepaths make love. It’s very evocative, and I have always found this scene to be particularly memorable. Naq vg’f fhecevfvatyl vzcbegnag zhpu yngre ba va gur fubj. Abg gb zragvba znxvat pregnva guvatf jr svaq bhg nobhg gur Cfv Pbecf rira zber ubeevslvat. And the second is Jason Ironheart’s explanation of what the Psi Corps experiments were aiming to do. “Think about it. You want to assassinate someone, so you get a telekinetic. He reaches into a person's throat and gently, quietly, with a thought, he pinches the carotid artery shut. The blood stops; the brain starves; the target dies; and then you just let go. Murder without a trace.” Absolutely chilling.
There’s a third scene not directly relating to this subplot, but relating to telepaths in general that I think it’s important to discuss. And that’s the scene where Talia is explaining to some random guy what it’s like to be a telepath and they share an elevator with Garibaldi, who is obviously thinking something sexual about Talia, which she picks up on. I feel like we get a scene like this one in a lot of books/shows/movies where mind-reading is a thing, and it’s often played for laughs, as it is here. But for me, there are a lot of questions raised by this brief moment. In a world where the existence of telepaths is widely known, how responsible is Garibaldi, who is not a telepath and presumably hasn’t received any form of mental training, for controlling his thoughts? What if he hadn’t known Talia was a telepath? Would that make it okay? On the other hand, he’s just overheard her talking about how hard it is to block out strong emotion. Does that give him more responsibility to control himself then before?
Because if he can be held responsible, then it seems to me that what he did to Talia is a form of sexual assault, or at least harassment. But are we okay with what amounts to a form of thought policing? Once you open the door to punishing someone for what may well have been a stray thought, there are any number of ways that could be abused. On the other hand, why should all the responsibility lie with Talia, or any other telepath to protect themselves? I don’t see any easy answers here.
[season 4, TV movie] Nyfb, jung vf vg va guvf frevrf nobhg gryrcnguf naq gur zra jub ner vagrerfgrq va gurz va ryringbef? Vg arire tbrf jryy!
Favorite scene: The two scenes that G’Kar and Catherine Sakai have together often get mixed up in my head when I’m thinking about this episode, so I can’t really pick one over the other. In each of them, G’Kar says something I really love. In the first, it’s “No one here is exactly what he appears. Not Mollari, not Delenn, not Sinclair. And not me.” This is borne out in the events of this episode, at least in G’Kar’s case, which makes you wonder: How right is he about everyone else? V nyfb ybir guvf dhbgr orpnhfr vg frrzf gb zr gung vg’f bar bs gur birenepuvat gurzrf bs gur fubj va trareny. Ab bar vf rknpgyl jub gurl nccrne ng svefg tynapr. Abg rira Orfgre! In the second scene, I love G’Kar’s explanation of what Catherine saw at Sigma 957, but I love what he says next even more: “They are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe—that we have not yet explained everything.” And when you put both scenes together, I find them collectively eye-opening about what this show is trying to do, not just with the character of G’Kar, but with the world of the show in general. Vg’f rfcrpvnyyl vagrerfgvat gb pbzr onpx gb gurfr fprarf nsgre lbh’ir svavfurq gur fubj naq guvax nobhg whfg ubj evtug T’Xne vf.
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i opened every single blog and said no to drafts (tho prob catch me on @nursc later) so i’m gonna watch b5, and just, preliminary muse thoughts:
catherine sakai, my girl, my queen, literally invented being cool in space.
for my trek alt. verses, i think i’m going to focus on two:
she is either an independent pilot doing planet surveys, working for various governments to help them figure out where they can establish a new colony, or for mining companies to help them locate rare elements. while she does a lot of work for the federation, other worlds do also hire her, but she is very picky, having refused to work for cardassia and other worlds which try and expand on already claimed territory several times.
or, she does a similar job, but as an actual starfleet captain, she is the captain of the uss artemis, of the hermes class. it is a simpler design than the constitution class, it does not carry heavy artery, but its fast and sleek, a science ship perfect to do full surveys of planets.
for both verses she has a full background in planetary engineering, geography and biology.
for babylon 5, it will either be based around season 1, she is dropping by between missions, or to visit her boyfriend, commander sinclair. afterwards <3 who knows, i’m still watching, but she is not getting friged like sheridan’s wife, no sir.
catherine is very independent, sure of herself, especially when it comes to her job though that independent streak extends to her personal life, and not always in healthy ways. she tends to keep a foot out of the door, afraid of being pinned down by anything or anyone, which goes directly against the wishes of her own heart and affections.
i’m also considering my one episode beloved lieutenant commander laurel (and i’ll have more ideas as i get to the talia plot which was apparently meant for her, but mostly, like, considering how much people live there, she and susan can share functions). and delenn which i refuse to say anything about cause like.. SHE JUST CAME OUT OF A CACOON AND IS NOW KIND OF HUMAN? WHO THE FUCK WAS I SUPPOSED TO GUESS THAT. I’M GONNA STAY SILENT ABOUT HER UNTIL I FINISH THE SHOW BEFORE I SAY SOMETHING COMPLETELY WRONG (i’m never going to live down: i bet julian has a great relationship with his parents)
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Happy B5 Day everyone!
Every year on Jan 26, I celebrate the anniversary of my favorite television show airing by posting up a wallpaper collection of past fanart of mine. Some of the above is very old, but some of it was created last year for @babylon6comic. Click below to see past b5 day collections!
2021,2020,2019,2018,2017,2015
Apparently I skipped a year in 2016 but that's okay lol Enjoy everyone! Faith Manages!
#babylon 5#b5 day#wallpapers#fanart#art#jenstoart#delenn#londo mollari#g'kar#ta'lon#john sheridan#vir cotto#susan ivanova#valen#catherine sakai#lennier#jeffrey sinclair#adira tyree
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#Babylon 5#B5#Bab 5#Yum Yum Pod#Yum Yum Podcast#Catherine Sakai#Julia Nickson#Michael O'Hare#Sinclair#Jeffrey Sinclair#Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair#Commander Sinclair#Cmdr. Sinclair
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Best Babylon 5 Character Contest
Title is pretty self-explanatory. Who is the best (or at least your favourite) Babylon 5 character?
I didn't want to leave anyone out because all the characters add something vital to the story, so there will be 32 options, half of which I'll post today and the other half tomorrow. The winners will go on to the next round, and so on till we get down to the final two characters and can crown the ultimate victor.
All match-ups will be chosen randomly. Posts will be tagged #b5poll.
This is just for fun, so don't take it too seriously! Regardless of who wins, each character is part of what makes the show so special.
Polls will be listed below as they get posted.
Round 1:
David Corwin vs. Ta'Lon
John Sheridan vs. Byron Gordon
Mr. Morden vs. Vir Cotto
Londo Mollari vs. Marcus Cole
Talia Winters vs. Brother Theo
Zathras vs. Milo Virini
Number One vs. Ulkesh
Delenn vs. G'Kar
Na'Toth vs. Lennier
Stephen Franklin vs. Neroon
Lyta Alexander vs. Zack Allan
Elizabeth Lochley vs. Susan Ivanova
Alfred Bester vs. Lord Refa
Michael Garibaldi vs. Cartagia
Catherine Sakai vs. Jeffrey Sinclair
Kosh vs. Warren Keffer
Round 2:
Susan Ivanova vs. Alfred Bester
Jeffrey Sinclair vs. Talia Winters
Number One vs. John Sheridan
Michael Garibaldi vs. Londo Mollari
Delenn vs. Stephen Franklin
Vir Cotto vs. Kosh
Lyta Alexander vs. Lennier
Ta'Lon vs. Zathras
Round 3
Zathras vs. John Sheridan
Vir Cotto vs. Jeffrey Sinclair
Londo Mollari vs. Susan Ivanova
Lyta Alexander vs. Delenn
Round 4
John Sheridan vs. Susan Ivanova
Delenn vs. Vir Cotto
Round 5 - Final
#Babylon 5#B5#b5poll#Ranger's polls#okay we're doing this!#I'm really curious what some of the outcomes will be
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