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DVD Babylon 5 - The Complete Second Season
Delenn's future love interest, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) arrived on Babylon 5 in the first episode of season 2, "Points of Departure." The show marked the handing over of command of B5 to Sheridan from Commander Jeffery Sinclair, actor Michael O'Hare becoming a victim of studio politicians who wanted a bigger star in the leading role. This excellent installment also revealed more about why the Minbari surrendered to Earth at the Battle of the Line when they were on the verge of victory. "Revelations" explains that Sheridan's wife, Anna, died during an archaeological survey of the world Z'ha'dum, the name being just one of many references to Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings (the bridge at Khazad-Dum). "The Geometry of Shadows" introduced the Technomages, characters who featured more significantly in the ill-fated spinoff series Crusade (1999), while "The Coming of Shadows" proved to be Babylon 5's finest hour to date. The story of political intrigue foreshadowing the fate of two of the major characters beat Apollo 13, Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Visitor" to win the Hugo award for Best Dramatic Presentation at the 1996 World Science Fiction Convention and proved so powerful that J. Michael Straczynski included it in his Complete Book of Scriptwriting.
"And Now for a Word" took the unusual step of presenting a day-in-the-life of B5 seen through the eyes of a TV news crew, just as the Narn declared war on the Centauri. The inclusion of a PSI-Corps commercial paid homage to Paul Verhoeven's satirical ads in Robocop (1987), while his later Starship Troopers (1997) seemed at times like a spoof of B5's earnest space opera. In "In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum," Sheridan learns that Morden was on the ship on which Anna died; the episode sees the captain pushed to his limits by grief and determination to discover why Morden survived. Three exceptional shows conclude the season. The Narn-Centauri war escalates in "The Long, Twilight Struggle," Sheridan faces a most unusual ordeal in "Comes the Inquisitor," and in "The Fall of Night" all hope of peace is shattered as a nerve-racking assassination attempt reveals a startling secret about Ambassador Kosh. --Gary S. Dalkin
Review(s): DVD Babylon 5 - The Complete Second Season
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This is the second season of arguably the best Sci-Fi television series made. The character progression and maturation shows you all sides of human nature.
I recieved the set in excellent condition and me and my family enjoyed the set.
No 2
as a follow on to series one you could not ask for stars to fill the rolls better. All the stars seem to make their rolls believable
The Dawn of the Third Age..
I fell this was the season where there was a few kinks left over from the previous year. This was the season I was hooked on Babylon Five. Babylon Five's Second Season Titled "the Coming of Shadows' was a turning point for the show and pretty much pushed the show in the direction where it headed for the next three seasons. The show really takes a arc look which continues.
The commentaries alone are well worth it. Three commentaries are done by creator Joe Straczynski With the episodes "Points of Departure","In the Shadow of Z'hadum" and "The Fall of Night"
One of the best I feel comes from the actors Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle and Claudia Christian in the episode "The Geometry of Shadows" its nice to know the little tidbits that happened behind the scenes. Besides the writing that goes behind the show it was the actors who give allot more insight to filming day after day. And More importantly they seemed to have lots of fun doing this commentary.
Also in the extras is a documentary covering Babylon Five's wins over the prestigious Hugo Award which lead winning over the Star Trek shows and films such as Apollo 13.
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