Dias De Los Muertos (B5)

[RobbyB1982]

As far as the actual spirits visiting... that I have zero problem with since B5 is pretty open about souls existing. Spirit hunters in the first couple episodes, everything with Kosh, the entire Minbari religion, and the eventual ascending of humanity to energy beings, and some of the stuff telepaths saw, and so forth. In the B5 universe there is almost certainly some matter of spiritual residue, if not a full blown afterlife. Maybe as simple as "if prepared for it, your mental energies can be captured at death and then carried to another part of space where other stuff happens."

So that the specifics of WHY it works don't really matter since it wasn't the first or isolated happening of there being some sort of *something* after death. That it only happens every 200 years also speaks of cosmic event sort of thing.

[Thaeri]

I agree, why here isn't important, but rather the way the episode works internally. And I think it could have been a lot better if they had omitted Pen and Teller

Not to mention that I liked the way Gaiman never answered that "why" question, or that no one else did it either.

[Mickey_Rat15]

I have a vague recollection of the idea that the on B5 everyone gets a customized version of the paper printed out just for them every day, with stories selected based on their interests. I don't remember where I heard that though.

I do know that Delenn considers the whole idea of a news-media and a free press to be quite novel and alien. She says that on Minbar, if you need to know something, somebody will just tell it to you.

However strange she thought the idea of a free press was she was reading the Universe Today Minbari section to find out what was happening on Minbar that the other Minbari did not think she needed to know.

[Wargriffin]

I liked this episode... granted like alot of you I'm not a big Penn and Teller fan so yeah the bits that are suppose to be funny don't seem funny

Then again I the only thing Remember hating about season 5 was the byron plot