Posted on 02/11/2006 7:12:23 PM PST by minus_273
Anyone else find this to be another episode with parallels to today. There were some lines in it that sounded very familiar. Particularly the bit about not negotiating with terrorists.
"Just give them what they want!" , "What if the terrorists are right?"
sound like things we hear a lot these days. When i heard "Just give them what they want!" it really reminded me of the way people react to hostage takings in Iraq today. In fact I think Jill Carroll said the same thing in a video the same day this was aired. That is something that immediately struck me.
Anyone else think the widow was a Cindy Sheehan type of tragic character. One who has had a loss but then goes off the deep end taking out her anger on the military and the government.
Sci Fi fan are you?
how did you guess?
Most people can't make that connection even with the tagline.
I'm from AZ and they think I'm Hispanic. LOL
if you don't want to wait, you can get the show for 1.99 on itunes. On the plus side, no ads.
this is the download link
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewVideo?id=119951238&p=102808898&s=143441
DVRs are a great thing.
well, most people think star wars is only 6 movies. Timothy Zahn means nothing to them. In my opinion the books after Jedi are some of the best stories
Thanks. I might be telling my age here, but I was 8 or 9 when the orginial "Star Trek" aired....
Yes they are!
Did you read the NJO? They would make a great sequel.
I was born in 59. So we're around the same age. Have OS on DVD.
Try mentioning Andre Norton...
Didn't Zahn co-write some "Star Wars" books with Kevin Anderson? Kevin wrote a few for the "V" series...
wow, i was born in the 80s :D
I'm trying to "suggest" to my sons that the "Babylon 5" DVD collection would make a good Father's Day gift...
BTW born late in 58, (Dec 29th), so I'm practially a 59 model.(hehehe)
I spent the entire summer the year I graduated from HS in 77 at the drive in watching ANH over and over and over. That's when they would play the main movie twice.
And then in 1980 when I saw the ESB I was in actual denial for the next three years that Darth Vader really was Luke's father.
I really enjoyed Ep. III and kinda wished GL would had done a better job with I and II.
We own B5 on DVD including the movie set. We also have Crusade. Don't own the Ranger DVD yet though.
I love B5.
I missed the Crusade series. Bad time in my life (1st wife left, after 22 years of marriage, go figure).
"I really enjoyed Ep. III and kinda wished GL would had done a better job with I and II."
I agree with you there. As for the original trilogy, lets just say that when i first saw them, it was on ABC and they were showing all 3 in some sort of marathon. By the time is old enough to really understand them, anticipation over episode I was all the rage.
You would be about the age of my sons, they were born in 81 and 85.
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