Posted on 02/15/2006 5:43:54 AM PST by shadowman99
I agree with you, but then I kind of liked Ivanova, anyway. Claudia Christian is way beautiful!
He was a powerful presence on B5 and one of the many reasons that the show was worth watching.
And Dick Cheney was no where around."
LOL! I'm sure David Gregory has already checked Cheneys alibi..
He made the show. A powerful actor an a terrific voice. RIP.
He was a very fine actor, prayers for his friends and family.
"It's a russian thing - before we do anything stupid we like to take a moment to catalogue the extent of our stupidity"
"don't make me do it - you're far too young to experience that much pain"
"Ivonava is God - sorry about that, God"
Katsulas' portrayal of G'Kar was absolutely fantastic. May he rest peacefully with the Lord.
RIP greatest of the Narn...
I know he was an actor, but he made the Narn real.
I remember the episode when she was tired and fell asleep at the breakfast table. Sinclair and Garibaldi made her food disappear before she awoke. She glances around at her empty plate and pushes off in a rush. Then as simclair and garibaldi divvy up the booty her voice comes from offstage "GARIBALDI! YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!"
LOL. Yet you dodge the question.
do you remember what she did when the guy in the zocalo called her "cute"? garibaldi declined to arrrest her saying "I wanna live!"
Or Marcus, who loved her more than life, and proved it. Marcus was my wife's favorite character, she cried.
And still you don't answer thr question, You like Ivanova because she's one hot chick, don't you?
i grieved for Marcus meself. I really lied him. But I never thought of Ivanova as "hot", just admirable and a hoot in a crises. Leyta Alexander was much better looking. but when the show began to delve into people's sex lives, it cheapened itself and lost it's edge.
I looked at Ivanova as competent, fierce, indomitable and able to stand up to a crises without going all ga-ga. All admirable traits. her character was feminine without being sleazy - an officer who just happened to be female - and a good one at that.
I think that might well be part of why I thought she was hot. Also, it's a pretty good description of Mrs Mag, hold the officer part. Mrs Mag also physically resembles her except for height and eye color.
I liked Marcus and his dying saddened me, but being Marcus, he could do no other than to die saving Ivanova.
I think that is why B5 was so great, the characters always stayed true to themselves.
I corresponded with JMS on the old Compuserve SciFi forum way back when B5 was getting set to go. He shared a lot with all of us as he put together the plans, got the go ahead, cast it, etc. From day one he emphasized that he had a 5 year story arc pre-written (in broad terms) and that he was going to try to make every episode advance the main story elements toward that goal.
When the first show aired I posted a note to him complaining about the "obvious" cliches that he had set up with the reptilian bad-guy Narn and the comic relief Centauri. I emphasized how obvious the nature of the Centauri was by pointing to the casting of Stephen Furst as the Centauri Vir Cotto. I mean, c'mon, Flounder from Animal House? It was obvious.
JMS wrote back and straightened me out immediately. We were all supposed to fall into that particular trap, make those assumptions, because most of the rest of the series was based on reversing those stereotypes. And then he pointed out a key element of why the Centauri looked the way they did. The "comic opera" outfits were meant to provide the same "silly look" as most westerners had the first time anyone saw a Samurai warrior in full regalia. The first reports from Japan after it was opened always made fun of the way they dressed, but that was before they saw them cut off a head with one swipe of their sword, usually just because they wanted to test the sword.
He was trying to make us relearn that lesson. Don't make assumptions about good guys and bad guys based on things like "silly looking costumes." That set the tone for the rest of the series for me and I was hooked.
agreed. at some point in time, I'll have to get the DVD's.
BTW: I thought that Crusade sucked. They took a splendid idea, and ruined it.
oh yeah. Kinda like the pre WW-I buffoons the german miilitary was made out to be.
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