Quote from: Whiskeybrewer on Feb 22, 2018, 12:16:47 PMBabylon 5 Season 3 Episode 22
What a fantastic episode. Gives me chills and The final voice over is performed perfectly by Andreas Katsultas
I haven't been mentioning it, but I'm still working my way through the show. Just started season 3. When it's good, it's excellent, but I don't think I'm quite invested enough in the characters to really enjoy some of the more filler-y episodes. Liking it well enough but probably not something I'll feel any major desire to see again once I'm done.
Finished off the last season of
The Wire over the weekend. It doesn't sound like much, dropping from the planned 13 episodes to the 10 that ultimately got made, but you
really feel the reduced run time in the final season. Compared to the very deliberate pacing of previous years, some aspects of the story feel massively rushed this time, especially in the first half. Fortunately though, it seems to rectify this somewhat towards the end and I really like the finale with its "the more things change the more they stay the same" message. Remains my least favourite season though. The central plot just feels kinda ridiculous compared to the grounded realism of the others, and, great as it is to have douchebag McNulty back, it feels to me like his switch from sobriety back to raging drunk is both jarringly sudden and a little excessive - his escapades go above and beyond anything we've seen before. Still, even with those flaws, I can't harp on it too much, because it's still stellar TV that piles on the drama and black comedy like few other shows can.
Also I'm so glad
Spoiler
Bubbles got a happy ending
I couldn't remember what happened to him from the first time I watched, so it was really great to see him on the up by the end of the series.
I also got around to watching the first episode of
Training Day. Ironically, this suffered from the same major problem as season 5 of
The Wire - it was so damn rushed. It felt like something that was originally twice as long that had been haphazardly cut down to a 45-minute slot, at the expense of any real character development, tension-building or even coherence. It's a shame because Bill Paxton was great in the main role, and I always get a kick out of Joaquim de Almeida cropping up as a Hispanic drug kingpin, but I got the impression that had this been a less hyperactive feature-length episode or even a two-parter, it would've been exponentially better. Hopefully things will calm down a bit in subsequent episodes.
