Babylon 5: TKO

[PerrySimm]

I'd be willing to bet TKO is this year's Christmas special, especially given the amount of B5 Chuck's been doing recently.

Nailed it!

Unlike this episode.

[RobbyB1982]

Well he's already done Infection and Grey 17 is Missing, so if he was going to do a "worst episode of the series" for B5 for Christmas, it was pretty much left to be TKO.

Arguably some of the telepath stuff at the start of season 5 is also up there in badness, but that was a multi-episode arc so its hard to judge.

[Rocketboy1313]

I had assumed the Christmas special was going to be "Star Trek Into Darkness".

Maybe next year.

Though it is not like there is a shortage of bad episodes of "X-Files" that couldn't be put out there. "First Person Shooter" anyone?

[Dînadan]

I had assumed the Christmas special was going to be "Star Trek Into Darkness".

Maybe next year.

Nah, next year Chuck is going to pull the rug out from under us and the Christmas special will be Empire Strikes Back.

[G-Man]

The other "usually agreed to be a bad episode" is "Grail" (which is truly, truly, outrageous - I'm still waiting to see if anyone gets that one). However, I sort of agree that "TKO" is a rather uninteresting episode, largely because it doesn't really touch on anything important arc-wise (we get character stuff for Susan, but that's about it).

[Rocketboy1313]

The other "usually agreed to be a bad episode" is "Grail" (which is truly, truly, outrageous - I'm still waiting to see if anyone gets that one). However, I sort of agree that "TKO" is a rather uninteresting episode, largely because it doesn't really touch on anything important arc-wise (we get character stuff for Susan, but that's about it).

I like David Warner. I tend to cut whatever he is in a lot of slack.

[ORCACommander]

agreed i would not call this b5's worst episode but it certainly is fairly uninteresting filler

[Archanubis]

The other "usually agreed to be a bad episode" is "Grail" (which is truly, truly, outrageous - I'm still waiting to see if anyone gets that one). However, I sort of agree that "TKO" is a rather uninteresting episode, largely because it doesn't really touch on anything important arc-wise (we get character stuff for Susan, but that's about it).

Yeah, yeah, JEM reference.

In any case, this review is going to be interesting, especially considering how Chuck keeps riffing on TKO in the other B5 reviews.

[Durandal_1707]

agreed i would not call this b5's worst episode but it certainly is fairly uninteresting filler

Yeah, there's no way this one's worse than "Infection," but if he's already done that one, then he's already done that one.

[G-Man]

Yeah, yeah, JEM reference.

Yes, but why?