Babylon 5: A Voice in the Wilderness

[cdrood]

I got a little creeped out by the hallucination talk. I couldn't help but think about what Michael O'Hare was going through at the time and we had no clue about.

[cdrood]

There's an arc in the B5 comics series from DC that explains how Garibaldi learned about the Psi-Corps facility on Mars. It also served as the backstory to his friendship with Sinclair and why he's so loyal to him.

[PerrySimm]

This was a great moment for the series. Season 1 starts slow but has been heating up since at least "By Any Means Necessary" - and now there's a pretty good reason to come back for more!

Plus it's really fun to see Londo play the hero. "Must See" indeed.

[SFDebris]

I got a little creeped out by the hallucination talk. I couldn't help but think about what Michael O'Hare was going through at the time and we had no clue about.

It was a completely true story. One night my wife turned into a mass of tentacles, and I leapt out of the bed screaming. Fortunately I didn't wake her, she's a very deep sleeper. She once slept through a train derailment in front of our house.

[m4a2000]

One night my wife turned into a mass of tentacles...

Was this before or after reviewing Kannazuki No Miko?

[Admiral X]

See what you weebs have done to him?

[J!!]

Hey now, some people pay good money for that sort of thing.

[YAGWG]

It's really funny, I saw this before I had ever seen Forbidden Planet and when I rewatched them afterwards... Forbidden Planet just ruined these two episodes for me. It's not the first time a big budget movie ruined part of a TV show for me. Both Tytania and Crest of the Stars/Banner of the Stars had a few episodes that were a bit to close to already existing IP's (Star Wars comes to mind) that I ended up being more or less meh on both series because of it.

And it's not like I have a problem with unofficial "derivative" works. I have spent two dollars short of $400 on hardcover editions of Jodorowsky's Inca/Metabarons graphic novel series. Hell I'm considering preordering The Metabaron Vol. 3 (...to preorder or not to preorder? that is the question) And what is the Jodoverse if not a Dune knock off. Hell, even as a kid I used to prefer Buratino to Pinocchio. (though that might just be the fact that one is by one of Russia's greatest writers while the other is by a journalist and children's book writer that isn't really remembered for anything else)

But "A Voice in the Wilderness"? JMS is a great writer but this isn't really his best work... not even close. Well, that or Forbidden Planet having become one of my all time favorite SF movies really ruined this episode for me. What should have been an homage appearing nothing more then a pale imitation to a hardcore fan of Forbidden Planet.

Note to self: Need to ask my wife about "Buratino" and "The Golden Key"...

[YAGWG]

On a side note, I found and watched this over the weekend - it's a recording of Michael O'Hare at a B5 fan event in London back around the time he'd left B5:


youtu.be/0pR5IuVptRw

I also saw a comment on a B5 con panel video (or it's this one I've linked) referencing a JMS interview where (according to the poster) JMS said that Jerry Doyle was always winding Michael O'Hare up to the point where his illness would flare up.

Now I can't say if that's true or false because the poster doesn't link to the interview in video or transcript form - if true, it does cast a shade over Doyle.

[SlackerinDeNile]

I heard about that, I've read quite a few transcripts from interviews with Jerry Doyle and he comes across as quite a naive and insensitive man. Despite his solid on-screen chemistry with O'Hare he really didn't get on well with him, he found O'Hare quite strange and irritating and didn't seem to realise that he was mentally ill and couldn't always help behaving the way he did.