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### GUIDE ### [3][Background] [4][Synopsis] [5][Credits] [6][Episode
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_Contents:_ [9]Overview - [10]Backplot - [11]Questions - [12]Analysis
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- [13]Notes - [14]JMS
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Overview
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Sinclair's old flame, Catherine Sakai, arrives during a weeklong
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festival when humans and aliens demonstrate their religious
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beliefs. An old enemy sends an assassin to kill G'Kar. [15]Thomas
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Kopache as Tu'Pari. [16]Julia Nickson as Catherine Sakai.
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Originally titled "Carnival!"
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Sub-genre: Intrigue
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[17]P5 Rating: [18]7.88
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Production number: 108
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Original air date: February 23, 1994
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Written by J. Michael Straczynski
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Directed by Jim Johnston
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_Emmy Award_ for Makeup Design
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Watch For
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* Look closely at the statue of Li, the Centauri goddess of passion.
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Something about it will be the subject of a humorous revelation
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about the Centauri in a later episode.
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_________________________________________________________________
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Backplot
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* "Never fails," says Garibaldi when Catherine comes aboard.
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Apparently he's known her and Sinclair for a very long time. They
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seem to run into one another every three years, though this is the
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first time in a while that they've both been available.
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* Sinclair and Carolyn have drifted apart - he wasn't willing to
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quit and go into business with her as a trader. (cf: [19]"The
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Gathering")
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* After he delivers G'Kar's death pronouncement, councillor Du'Rog
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says, "This should come as no surprise to you G'Kar. You've ruined
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my family's name and humiliated me before the council. Retribution
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was inevitable."
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* Later G'Kar explains to Na'Toth why he can't ask for help:
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"...this would lead to some unfortunate revelations about my years
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on the council, revelations that could affect my position.
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Personally, I don't _care_ if the information comes out. My only
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concern is that it might compromise our standing in the
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negotiations."
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* The best assassins among the Narn are the "Thenta Makur." They are
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well-organized and respectable in their own way. They leave a
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"death blossom" to give their mark time to get their affairs in
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order, and offer a solid guarantee: they will personally kill any
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assassin who betrays a commission.
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* G'Kar has survived _two_ prior assassination attempts, but did not
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appear to have experience with the Thenta Makur.
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* Vir explains the vivacious Centauri festival:
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It's a celebration of life. It comes from a time in our world's
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history when two dominant species were fighting for supremacy: our
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people, and a species we called "Xon". At year's end, we count how
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many of our people survived, and celebrate our good fortune!
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Unanswered Questions
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* Why is G'Kar, after serving 5 years on the Narn council, now
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serving as the Narn diplomat to Babylon 5? Is this a move up, or
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down?
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* What "revelations" about his years on the council does G'Kar want
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hidden?
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* Did Sinclair play a greater role in the Minbari ceremony than was
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apparent? ([20]see Analysis)
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* When Catherine first enters Sinclair's quarters, he's listening to
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[21]part of Tennyson's "Ulysses." "Which are you," she asks,
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quoting from elsewhere in the poem, "[22] an idle king, doling
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unequal laws unto a savage race, that hoard, and sleep, and feed,
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and know not you, or [23]a gray spirit, yearning in desire, to
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follow knowledge like a sinking star?" He leaves the question
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unanswered.
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Analysis
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* The cross-species religious festival was Earth Central's idea, and
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is consistent with Babylon 5's _raison d'etre._ The Minbari and
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Centauri participated willingly, but nothing was seen of Narn
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religion (cf: [24]"By Any Means Necessary"). No-one made note of
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this omission - perhaps it's taken for granted that Narn religion
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is not for outsiders.
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* The Narn employ couriers on a weekly basis. They also have FTL
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communications. Hence, they must not consider FTL secure.
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* Na'Toth is cool-headed, with a sarcastic sense of humor - for
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G'Kar a great improvement over the literal and over-enthusiastic
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Ko'Dath.
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* When Lennier greets Delenn as "Satai," she rebukes him: "No-one
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here knows of my connection. No-one must find out [...] it would
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lead to certain questions I don't want to answer just now."
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Apparently, it is well-known among the Minbari who are the members
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of the grey council. They are also greatly revered, judging by
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Lennier's reluctance to raise his eyes in her presence.
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* Vir's [25]speech is quite remarkable. What endured after the
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Centauri conflict with the Xon was a celebration of survival,
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rather than a mourning for those lost. This is notable both for
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what they chose to focus on (the joyous rather than the sad), and
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for its suggestion that the Centauri may have been nearly
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destroyed by the Xon (everyone was lucky to have survived each
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year).
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* A theme of real Babylonian history: a stronger race oppresses a
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weaker one, and generations of the weaker one grow up fighting for
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their lives. Eventually the once-weaker race becomes so hardened
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and energized in their own self-protection that they rise up and
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conquer their oppressors (cf: [26]History.Babylonia).
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* This theme may be the very story of the Xon and the Centauri, for
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the Centauri eventually destroyed them and didn't lose momentum
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until they were an empire spanning an entire quadrant of the
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galaxy (cf: [27]"The Gathering" ). This may also _become_ the
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story of the Centauri the Narn: the Centauri invaded their
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homeworld and held sway for a hundred years, but now the Narn are
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free and bent on destruction, while the Centauri are on the
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decline.
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* Among the many Centauri household gods on the banquet table are
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Ben-Zan, god of food, Mo-Goth, god of the underworld and protector
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of front doors, and Li, goddess of passion. The golden statue of
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Li portrays her with both arms and one leg raised. Visible on her
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body are breasts, a very large _male_ hair-crest, and three
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tentacles emerging from her hips on both sides. (cf. [28]"The
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Quality of Mercy")
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* A [29]transcript of Delenn's recital during the Minbari ceremony
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is available.
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* This recital is very important, especially if Sinclair is the
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incarnation of a figure in Minbari prophecy, for which there are
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indications:
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+ _Minbari assassin:_ "There is a hole in your mind." ([30]"The
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Gathering")
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+ The coincidence of the Minbari surrender with their initial
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discovery of Sinclair. ([31]"The Gathering")
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+ _Delenn:_ "I knew you would come - we were right about you."
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([32]"Soul Hunter")
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+ Delenn's [33]possible covert marriage to him in this episode.
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+ (see also: [34]"And the Sky Full of Stars",
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[35]"Deathwalker", [36]"Signs and Portents")
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* The giving of fruit to each of the main characters coincided with
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particular parts of Delenn's recital. This could be literary
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foreshadowing, but it's unlikely that Delenn herself intended the
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juxtaposition.
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"From birth _{Londo}_, through death and renewal _{Vir}_, you must
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put aside old things _{Garibaldi}_, old fears _{Sinclair}_, old
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lives _{Ivanova}_. This is your death _{G'Kar}_, the death of
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flesh..."
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* For the record, Londo and Vir eat their fruits, Garibaldi
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declines, Ivanova puts hers down, G'Kar exchanges his with hers,
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Ivanova (unawares) then eats hers, and G'Kar gives his new fruit a
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distrustful sniff. Sinclair, under Delenn's compelling gaze, eats
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his as well.
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* When Catherine hears about "red fruit" being part of the Minbari
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ceremony, she asks if there was a serious exchange of looks. When
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Sinclair confirms this, she chuckles, "Oh it's a rebirth ceremony
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all right. It also doubles as a marriage ceremony. Depending on
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how seriously anyone took it, somebody got married the other day."
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Sinclair did not mention who was seriously looking at whom - he
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may in some sense now be married to Delenn.
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* "You must put aside... old lives" reaffirms the Minbari belief in
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reincarnation revealed in [37]"Soul Hunter", and suggests that the
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Minbari may have _conscious access_ to their own past lives. Else
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what would they have to put aside? (cf: [38]"The War Prayer")
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Notes
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* _G'Kar's song_ (presumably translated from Narn):
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I'm thinking of thinking of calling her right
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after my afternoon nap.
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I'm thinking of thinking of sending her flowers,
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right after Bonnie gets back.
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So many fishies left in the sea,
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so many fishies - but no-one for me...
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I'm thinking of thinking of hooking a love,
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soon after supper is done.
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* Ko'Dath, G'Kar's previous aide (with whom he was none too happy)
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died in an unexplained airlock accident a week before.
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* _Londo's joke:_
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Garibaldi: And what happened to the Xon?
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Londo: Dead, all of them, and good riddance. Do you know what the
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last Xon said, just before he died? "AAAAARGH!"
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Garibaldi (to Sinclair): Can I kill him now?
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* _Londo's toast_ (and reprise):
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"Valtoooo!"
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* Ivanova was the only non-Centauri who seemed to be enjoying
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herself at their festival.
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* Na'Toth's "sponsor" for her position as G'Kar's aide was Li'Dak,
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fifth circle. Li'Dak's sponsor was Du'Rog himself.
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* G'Kar's "reputed fascination with Earth women" (cf: [39]"Born to
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the Purple") is well-known among the Narn ruling class.
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* Delenn's new assistant is Lennier of the Third Fane of Chu'Domo,
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which has served with honor for 500 years. He has just gone from
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being a "simple novitiate" to serving one of the Grey Council -
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apparently quite a big jump.
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* There is consistency in the shape of Minbari head-bones. The top
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edge of the female head-bone is a smooth curve back to a raised
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point in back, while the top edge of the male head-bone rises to
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several points on its way back.
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* There were nine participants in the Minbari rebirth ceremony. All
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of the instruments visible were triangular, as was the table
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around which they stood.
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* In the lingo of the Free Traders, Earth (or thereabouts) is "The
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Hub".
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* Sinclair has a brother, about whom he has not yet spoken.
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* Sinclair has been caught on [40]Tennyson since his academy years -
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"we find meaning where we can," he says.
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* G'Kar and Na'Toth both imply she enjoyed beating him up.
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* When this episode was broadcast in Malaysia in July 1995, the
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Centauri celebration was cut, probably because of its depiction of
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drunken behavior.
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* A sign in the arrivals area:
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Welcome to Babylon 5
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Customer Section
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Atmosphere Caution
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Six different atmospheres are currently available on B5. Others
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may be created by prior arrangement. Uncommon atmospheric makeups
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may be synthesized for encounter suits. For specific atmochemical
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breakdowns see monitor below.
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jms speaks
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* Regarding making people laugh until their sides hurt...this is
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something I always go for. It's easy to go for the "well, that's
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amusing" stuff, but to make someone laugh out loud, or even until
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it hurts, is tough. In most (but not all) cases, I try to get one
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solid laugh per episode, one moving scene per episode, and one
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"head-conk" per episode. The first obligation of a writer is to
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make you *feel* something, and if I can do that in an episode,
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then I've done my job.
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It helps in that I'm not generally a big laugher; when I go to
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plays or movies with other people, and they're comedies,
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afterwards I'll always get "Why didn't you like it?" "I did." "You
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didn't laugh." "I was just thinking about how funny it was."
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Usually I can see a punchline coming, and part of my brain is
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racing ahead to what it might be. (And half the time at least I'm
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right.) So I've adopted the philosophy that if I find something
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extremely funny, other people will laugh at it; if I'm so tickled
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that I absolutely laugh out loud, I know it'll probably kill
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several people. As a result, if I'm going for a funny scene, I
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don't leave it alone until I laugh at it.
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When I thought about Londo passing out face first on the banquet
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table uttering "...but in purple, I'm *stunning*," I just about
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fell off my chair laughing. Sometimes I'm a little broad in my
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comedy, other times I go for something a little more literate or
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(one hopes) witty (most of these go to Ivanova, whereas the broad
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stuff tends to go to Londo in most cases). But I try to keep it
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varied.
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Strangely enough, the comics that *do* manage to break me up are
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all the more assaultive ones...Jerry Lewis, Robin Williams, Buddy
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Hackett (who can reduce me to tears), and a few others.
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* By the way...on the Kosh poisoning thread, which was originally to
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be discussed in "Parliament"...we ended up about 3 minutes long on
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"Parliament," and three minutes short on D.C. Fontana's "War
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Prayer." So we lifted that scene and inserted it into her episode,
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doing a small bit of ADR to facilitate the move. It's now quite
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seamless.
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* Bill Mumy came in to audition, same as eveybody else. It was known
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then that it was a recurring role (contrary to his recollection of
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things), and when he walked in the door, I knew he was right.
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* BTW, this week will Bill Mumy's first week on B5, and he's done a
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very nifty job as Lennier. He brings a wonderful sense of absolute
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innocence...the proverbial innocent abroad...to Lennier's
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character. The Minbari prosthetics look great on him, enhancing
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the sense he brings to the character. He's also great with the
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cast, and keeping things up during shooting. At one point, as
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they're leaving camera, Delenn says to Lennier, who has just
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arrived at the station, "Now tell me of home; I have been away far
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too long." His ad-libbed off-camera response: "Beatlemania is
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back." (Another ad-lib for another shot: "Minimalls...they're
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everywhere," and "Well, we just got Pizza Hut and cable.")
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* Regarding Catherine Sakai...believe me, this ain't a consort kind
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of relationship. It will be monogamous, but difficult in many
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ways. This has been an on-again/off-again relationship between
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them for years, made up of three parts passion and two parts
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teeth. It will be a very fiery relationship. And this is a woman
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with her own business, her own ship, who comes and goes as she
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wishes. You have to understand that I love writing strong female
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characters, and Catherine will be probably one of the strongest.
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* Catherine Sakai is played by Julie Nickson Soul, an asian-american
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actor who's done quite a bit of work in high-profile films. Her
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character is never Cathy, only Catherine (occasionally Cath to
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Sinclair, but *only* occasionally). She's a planetary surveyer,
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working for one of the Earth corporations, looking for uninhabited
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worlds and asteroids for exploitation.
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* We've shot our first scenes between Sinclair and his new love
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interest, Catherine Sakai (as played by Julia Nickson). This is a
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very, very strong character, and she brings a wonderful vibrancy
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to Sakai. They have a unique relationship that looks and sounds
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like a real relationship, with all its ups and downs and dumb
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moments. One way that I've reinforced this is that...well, in the
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first episode in which they meet again (they were involved
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before), just about every scene between them is lifted almost
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directly from personal experience.
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And given some of the awkward, even painful conversations that
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take place, it was very, *very* hard to watch this being
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rehearsed. (Michael and Julia worked over a weekend with the
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director to get the nuances just right.) When it came time to
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shoot the scenes, much as I wanted to be on-set, I just couldn't
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do it. My heart just kept falling right down to my shoes. I can't
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wait for the first person to say "I don't buy this as a real
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relationship" just so's I can whap him upside the head. But I have
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a hunch that won't happen. It comes across as very real, and as a
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very vulnerable moment for both characters.
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"Write what you know," they said. Right. How about I just take a
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power drill and stick it in my ear...it'd be faster, less painful,
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and after a while I might even come to like it....
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* A parliament is a gathering of officials, of representatives,
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which matches the story in terms of representatives of different
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places, and beliefs. The dreams are the belief systems.
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* The "stay put" line was ad-libbed by Andreas, because the crawfish
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kept crawling off the table.
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* Yes, definitely keep in mind the intent of the ceremony...but be
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sure to remember *all* aspects of it. ([41]see Analysis)
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Also, take a good look at Li, goddess of passion, in Londo's
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ceremony. There's something about it that will be very funny
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later. ([42]see Analysis)
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* The quote Delenn recited in "Parliament" was the quote from Valen
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when he formed the first Grey Council.
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* RE: the glasses...it's not something I've been able to figure out
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how to mention, but the Narn pride themselves on their physical
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perfection. Hence there is no market for physical aides; it's
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something to be ashamed of. So they have to crib stuff from other
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species, like glasses that have a prescription close enough to be
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useful. I have *no* idea how to work that into a script, and am
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not sure it is even a good idea to do so.
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* The atheist was not only first in line, he was the best dressed
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and smartest looking and nattiest one in the line.
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jm(what a coincidence)s
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* From a personal point of view, I'm very fond of "The Parliament of
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Dreams," which is a very funny show, and at times a very emotional
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show. "Parliament" is all over the place...it's got all of our
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major characters, our ambassadors, their seconds, we see lots of
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group scenes, we're all over the station, dipping in and out of
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three different but interconnected stories...it's really a matter
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of keeping a lot of balls in the air at one time, and I think we
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pulled it off nicely.
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* There's one truly remarkable shot we did for the current episode,
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shot Friday evening. Generally, in any shot with a crowd, you need
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about 20-45 people. That's usually enough to fill out the shot in
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any set you can go to. More than that gets costly, and isn't
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really noticeable unless you frame your shot just *so*.
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Yesterday's shot has 160 extras. It's a very impressive, and very
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moving shot. It appears in the tag of "the Parliament of Dreams."
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It's the kind of shot you just don't see anywhere else. We had
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some people from PTEN and a film crew for a behind-the-scenes
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piece on hand, and they all commented on how only this show would
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do this shot...and how significant it is. (I can't tell you what
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it was, because that gives it away, and I want it to be kind of a
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surprise; suffice to say you'll definitely know it when you see
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it.)
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* The SkyDancer appears in the next episode. "See you next
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Wednesday" is...well...it's when she's going to be back on the
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station. She has to complete her run by Tuesday, and will be back
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on Wednesday. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar....
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* [G'Kar's] song is an original, by our series composer, Christopher
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Franke.
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* The "fishy" song was composed by Christopher Franke specifically
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for that scene. I told him I wanted sort of a Narnish Gilbert and
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Sullivan, and that's what we got.
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* I would think that Londo and G'Kar might actually find something
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in common in appreciation of Gilbert and Sullivan. In fact,
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G'Kar's "little fishie" song in "Parliament of Dreams" was
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intended to be a bit G&S in nature.
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* One of my favorite exchanges, which never seems to show up, is
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from PoD v.1, when G'Kar says to Tu'Pari, who has come looking for
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Ambassador G'Kar, "This is Ambassador G'Kar's quarters. This is
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Ambassador G'Kar's table. This is Ambassador G'Kar's dinner. What
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part of this progression escapes you?"
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* Episode #5 is the two year anniversary of B5 going on-line; not
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two years since the pilot movie. It took about a year and a half
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to grow to this point, and for the final of the Big 5 ambassadors,
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Kosh, to arrive, completing the group. It's now roughly six months
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after that, into the new year.
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* "So, I've been wondering who made up Londo's line in Parliament,
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`but in purple, I'm stunning!'"
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Ummmmm.....the scriptwriter?
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* The Xon did evolve into fair amount of intelligence. There are a
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very few land masses on Centauri Prime, separated by huge oceans.
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The two species evolved pretty much separately, on different
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continents that were absolutely unreachable until one or both
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sides developed sufficient technology for extended sea
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travel...and that's when all hell broke loose.
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* There's a definite improvement arc in the show; the deeper we got
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into production, the better the stories generally became, and the
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better the production values. (With a few exceptions.) The biggest
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change in the show came once we began writing scripts *after* we'd
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begun shooting episodes, so that we/I could again see the actors
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and find their fingerprints. "Parliament" is the first one I wrote
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after we started filming; "Soul," "Infection" and "Midnight" were
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all written prior to filming starting.
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* You're seeing, btw, why this episode, much as it's a favorite,
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couldn't be shown any sooner; there has to be some familiarity
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with the characters for this to be most effective.
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* Re: G'Kar being theatrical...that's who he is. I like theatrical
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characters. I know many in real life that're much bigger than
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life, very broad...and great fun. Not every character has to be
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sonorous and serious and restrained. The whole point of *having*
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alien characters is that they shuld act differently than the
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majority of us.
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* The Xon? Dead. All of them. And good riddance.
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* The Xon weren't any more evil or good than the race that survived;
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two equally sentient species emerged on the Centauri homeworld
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over the course of evolution. They were more or less separated by
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distance and land masses and oceans, so there was little contact
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until either side developed the technology required to find the
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other. It was the next best thing to a first contact situation,
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except it's on their own world; they were very much alien to one
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another. Somewhere along the line, it was decided that this world
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wasn't big enough for both of them, so they began a campaign of
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slaughter against each other. Londo's people won.
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* Kosh was otherwise engaged....
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* Actually, many of the alien races do *not* have monolithic
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religious beliefs. You'll note that G'Kar didn't take part in the
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festival from the Narn POV. You'll see Narn beliefs in "By Any
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Means Necessary," and there it's mentioned that there are many
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different bliefs among Narns, G'Quon and G'Lan being the two
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larger systems.
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* Sure, I could've gotten them into bed by the second act...but that
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wasn't the point. What I wanted to show, what interests me, is the
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give and take leading up to that moment, the feints and parries
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and "how do we get past this?" That to me is some of the most
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interesting stuff in a relationship.
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* As to the interpretation of the final tag scene...my thought was
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that it's a way of saying, "Our dominant belief is that ALL
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beliefs are respected."
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* There was a follower of Islam; right next to the orthodox jew at
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the front of the line. "Mr. Rashid, a Moslem." I made sure we put
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them side by side.
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* I didn't say that Earth was the ONLY one with diverse religions. I
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don't understand why it is that when ONE thing is shown, it means
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that's the ONLY thing. It's not. Narns, as we'll see in "By Any
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Means Necessary," have several competing beliefs. The idea of the
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festival wasn't to compare and contrast, only to show what *we*
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(whoever *we* is) believes.
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* Well, we're doomed...I just realized today that our first *really*
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strong episode, "The Parliament of Dreams," airs the same night
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(in most markets, the 23rd) as the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan
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face off in the olympics.
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Imagine a silence vast as space...that sound is neilsen ratings
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meters stuck unmovingly on CBS....
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* Needless to say, though, we got *creamed* by the Tonya/Nancy Show.
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Which got a 64 share, the 3rd biggest ratings for a sporting event
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in history. But then, *everybody* got beat up by that one, so
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again it's okay.
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* The line, "See you next wednesday," was basically an offhand line,
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slightly but not significantly based in the idea that in most
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markets, B5 airs on Wednesdays. It was never meant to be a John
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Landis reference, and if I'd known it was (I'd never heard it
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before), would've changed it.
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* I keep constantly fighting the urge to have G'Kar return from a
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trip to the Narn homeworld with a limp, a cane, and a (temporary)
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eyepatch, muttering, "Boy, the Thenta Makur have *no* sense of
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humor."
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(Now we'll see how many get *that* one.)
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* BTW, re: Sinclair remembering all those names...we used many of
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the real names of the people standing in line, many of whom *did*
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belong to the religion they had come to represent. We went down
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this line of 250 people, and went over their names *twice* with
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O'Hare. That's all. After that, he got each name right every time;
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amazingly quick memorization.
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* This is something that Andreas and I discussed, and it's not so
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much that G'Kar *has* to cook, but that he *likes* to cook. From
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the singing, it's clear he's having a good time....
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* Ko'Dath met with an unfortunate accident with an airlock.
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* Just learned that Babylon 5 won an Emmy for its Makeup Design, for
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"The Parliament of Dreams." This is our second Emmy so far, our
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first for the series. I'm determined that next year we get some
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notices for our acting and other above-the-line areas.
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In any event, congratulations to our makeup and prosthetics design
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people.
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_________________________________________________________________
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Originally compiled by Matthew Ryan _matt@uhs.uchicago.edu_
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