B5: Messages from Earth

[Rocketboy1313]

I like Marcus, he is a well read, charming, noble, and kind of a dick.

[Void]

His name is Marcus Cole, not Malcolm.

Also this has been bugging for a while but there is a very obtrusive and discordant edit in the B5 opening.

[MadAmosMalone]

Nancy Stafford did look an awful lot like Sammantha Carter didn't she?

[CareerKnight]

His name is Marcus Cole, not Malcolm.

Also this has been bugging for a while but there is a very obtrusive and discordant edit in the B5 opening.

I'm so use to his edit of the s5 theme that the real version sounds a little weird to me.

[RobbyB1982]

It was three in the morning and I'd spent the better part of an hour trying (and failing) to unclog a toilet.

And now Marcus will forever be "Toilet Malcolm."

Hrm.

[Arkle]

It was three in the morning and I'd spent the better part of an hour trying (and failing) to unclog a toilet.

Look at it this way. The first joke for the next B5 review is already written.

[Cardinal Doomsday]

Chuck,
You're either referring to Malcolm Biggs http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Malcolm_Biggs (Ivanova's ex, who joined Homeguard back in "The War Prayer") or you mean the bloke who murdered Brother Edward in "Passing Through Gethsemane" http://babylon5.wikia.com/wiki/Malcolm or you're getting Marcus Cole's given name wrong.

[G-Man]

One of the things I loved about B5 was that they were smart with ship combat. No technobabble like Trek often did, Sheridan would outwit his opponents. I can't take you out myself scary space-spider? I'll let Jupiter kill you for me!
And more Marcus is always good.

Yes, except for one thing that later started to bother me.

When they use the "Bonehead maneuver" in a previous episode, it occurred to me that it was a little techno-babbly, even if not obtrusively so, for one major reason. That is that this "bonehead maneuver" had never been brought up before. While we had dealt with jumppoints and jumpgates for two seasons by that point, the idea of opening a jump-point within a jumpgate and what it would do was never mentioned until they needed it as a trick to pull out of their hats.

I really wish they had Chekov's gunned the idea of the "bonehead maneuver" sometime in the first two seasons so that it would have already been established.

[Nevix]

All of the character arcs in Babylon 5 are great. They progress so well from the start of the series to the end, and even what seems like the wildest turnaround makes complete sense over the time and events of the series.

[CareerKnight]

Yes, except for one thing that later started to bother me.

When they use the "Bonehead maneuver" in a previous episode, it occurred to me that it was a little techno-babbly, even if not obtrusively so, for one major reason. That is that this "bonehead maneuver" had never been brought up before. While we had dealt with jumppoints and jumpgates for two seasons by that point, the idea of opening a jump-point within a jumpgate and what it would do was never mentioned until they needed it as a trick to pull out of their hats.

Its not really technobabble since they never attempt to explain how it works with a bunch of gibberish, just if you do Y, X will happen. As for never establishing it beforehand well from the description of it it sounds incredibly stupid and dangerous to do (hence the name) so there doesn't really seem to be anyway it could have come up naturally in conversation before especially since it requires the destruction of a jump gate (which is in itself something never even considered before or after this episode due to how valuable they are).