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"Rising Star" (s4e21)

Crusade: The Ghost of the Cerberus (part 3)

The Shadow Hybrid strikes.

Its first beam rips across the Excalibur. A second follows, tearing through the ship from another angle. The hull shudders. Explosions race across the superstructure.

There is no formation anymore. No battle plan.

Only survival.

Hell has broken loose.

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Credits:

Excalibur, Shadow hybrid shipand red planet by Amras Arfeiniel 👏🏼

Shadow hybrid by Andrey Kurin 👏🏼

Thunderbolt by (don't know)

Scene and render by me, Digital Era Studios

Based on the television series Babylon 5, created by J. Michael Straczynski

More on:

https://linktr.ee/DigitalEraStudios

I’m a little slow and didn’t catch the connection between Gethsemane and Kosh’s death the first time. I think the fear of being unable to stay is what kept Kosh hesitant. Goes to show that no episode stands on its own

Edit: Title is a quote not a question. I just forgot quotation marks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHdDmzBZpEk

"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another. Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is. Mr. Garibaldi gave me that chance and I must repay him."

"Babylon 5: In the Beginning"

For B5 to support such a chaotic populace as the Lurkers the system had to be much more resilient than we are originally led to believe.

We see many instances of waste, smoking in an enclosed area, and trash produced by itinerants.

Thus.

My proposal.

Like EarthGov telling the station personnel they have to move to smaller quarters, the reality is that Sinclair/Sheridan let Ivanova believe she was getting away with murder for having a simple square of ground dedicated to coffee for her own morale purposes.

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Okay really though, silly example aside. The system had to be way more robust given the stresses it takes than we’re given to believe in S1.

The station had an entire sector go missing. Brown sector looks like a tent-city. There’s no way a micromanaged ecosystem survives what we’ve seen as long as it does.

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Conclusion: coffee for all! Viva lé revolution!

Someone once asked JMS if Disneyplanet was really a thing in-universe, to which he responded; “give them time, and it will happen”.

Some people just age like fine wine 😍😍

I've heard several comments on this sub about this episode, even dare to consider it the worst episode of Babylon 5, which I find quite absurd having seen it.

I mean, it has a pretty good main storyline, with Delenn taking charge of the Rangers and the conflict that creates with Neroon, as well as a great moment with Delenn and Marcus (who with each passing moment becomes more and more my favorite character). It's true that Garibaldi's subplot is a bit meh (I would have preferred a giant CGI Zarg to that), and I'll venture to say that Robert Englund's character, which some highlight as the best part of the episode, gets a bit repetitive after a while, but it's not that bad; it's accidentally campy (in a good way), and entertaining. In fact, I find Walkabout a little more boring in direct comparison.

Anyway, with episodes like Grail or A Late Delivery from Avalon, I'm surprised that an episode that actually does advance the series' plot is being treated like that.