My God that was a stunning series. I want more dammit.
But I also want answers.
As beautiful as the closing episode was (and I had tears running down my face a couple of times–no TV show has ever done that to me before), it’s not the episode I thought I was going to see.
I thought we were going to get to see the whole, coherent story of what happens on the day
spoilers!
really!
If you haven’t watched the series and you’re intending to, stop here!
…that G’kar kills Molari.
I don’t understand. Why did the Keeper make Molari give Sheridan and Delan a keeper for David? The President of the Alliance isn’t a hereditary position. Ok, granted, the Keeper making David threaten to jump out a window unless Sheridan does his/it’s bidding. But this is Sheridan. Wouldn’t work.
Did David get a Keeper? He’s said to be in the Rangers in the final episode–could they discover a Keeper? If he didn’t, how did he escape it?
What was Delan being questioned about in the “War Without End” flash forward.
How 'bout Lenier? Do we know how he redeemed himself? Did he?
Whatever happened with Giarabaldi and Bester and Lyta?
Do the novels answer any of these questions? How 'bout the B5-Crusade thingie?
All that said, wow. What a great show and a great ending. That may have been the best (thinks—22x5=110. 110*50 (min per ep, approx) 5500+110 (pilot episode)=5610/6=93…the other movies were gookd but not stunning) best 93 hous of TV ever produced.
Read the novels. They answer a number of questions, especially about Bester and Garibaldi. “The Fall of Centari Prime” answers your questions about G’Kar and Londo.
Fall of Centauri Prime is considered canon. It also describes what happens when a young teenage David encounters his keeper.
Chronologically, FoCP comes before the Bab 5 movie In the Beginning, where Londo is narrating the story to children. Then, when that’s over, Londo gets his keeper drunk, lets Sheridan and Delenn go, and then G’Kar shows up for the double choke out. (I hope I got that right)
There’s talk that the Bab 5 movies will be collected together into a DVD set like the episodes. That would rule.
The Centauri trilogy answers all the questions about G’kar and Londo and all that, and it’s definitely well-written. There’s also a technomage trilogy which adds a lot of detail to some of the events at the end of season 3.
The Psi-Corps trilogy does settle the question of Garibaldi and Bester, but doesn’t say much about Talia or Lyta–only that Garibaldi doesn’t know whether Talia is still alive as of 2278, and that Lyta was “scary as hell at the end”.
I don’t think Lennier’s fate has ever been explored.
I can’t find a site, but I remember someone, possible Bester, implying Talia had been dissected by the Psi-Corp for scientific study in one of the latter episodes of Babylon 5.
Am currently watching the third season of B5 on DVD. Hope this thread isn’t considered too old to bump.
Yes, Bester says in either “Dust To Dust” or “Ship of Tears” (both 3rd season eps) that Talia was “dissect–” (he breaks off the word), though his tone is one of malicious smirkiness, so he may have just been jerking their chains.
Hope Fenris doesn’t mind if I add a question to his thread.
In “War Without End” Delenn flashes forward to hers and John Sheridan’s bedroom in the future. John is sleeping, Delenn stands at the foot of the bed and stares into a snowglobe. The door opens, and a shadowy figure enters, and says “Hello” (female voice).
Delenn looks terrified and drops the snowglobe (slo mo) and it shatters.
End of flash-forward.
So what was that all about?
I casually watched the show during first run, but am giving them my full attention as I get the DVDs.
The return of Sheridan’s wife, Anna, who he thought was killed at Z’ha’dum, but was really turned into a CPU for a Shadow-ship. This occurs at the end of “Shadow Dancing,” the penultimate episode of Season 3. She dies for real in the last episode of Season 3, “Z’ha’dum,” along with a bunch of Shadows and their allies when Sheridan kamikazes the White Star into a Shadow city.
^^Okay, I get it. I recall those eps and know of that female character. I assumed the “snowglobe” scene was also 18 years into the future as well. My mistake,
