B5rewatch: Believers
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jedi_of_urthI really do mean to get these out more quickly, but baseball... That's my going excuse anyway.
And well...the only way out is through, the only way out is through...
1x10: Believers
I’m going to say upfront: I do not like this episode. I have never liked this episode. I remember as a teenager I had always seen this one praised by B5 fandom but when I finally saw it I hated it from day one. These days there’s a lot bigger camp that sees this as quite possibly the worst episode of the series, so I no longer feel alone in that attitude. And, as already shown, I’m the person who will come to the defense of Infection if I can find a soapbox to stand on and ramble on the subject.
I actually don’t exactly hate it as much as I did as a teenager, I can see more of what it’s trying to be and find a few more reasons to be forgiving in places, but I still think it’s pretty bad; if it’s not the worst episode of the series, it’s pretty damned close. But I’m a completest, I will always watch it on every rewatch I do and the most I’ve gotten to over all these years was ‘not quite as bad as 15 year old me thought it was, though in some ways it’s worse than I realized then.’ And look, I know there are people who like, even love, this episode; but I’m not one of them by any stretch of the imagination.
All that said, who knows what thoughts I’ll have to make up a review; so let’s get to it.
I feel like even the promo guys knew the main plot of this episode was bad, as they spiced it up with clips from the irrelevant B-plot. It’s also a very Trek preview I think, which I guess is fitting since the whole plot is kind of Trek. It’s not a very interesting promo, but maybe that’s because I know how much jiggering is going on and how much I don’t like the episode it’s representing. This has been a rather unhelpful promo review I’m sure (of a rather unhelpful promo).
The teaser is only about three minutes long but it seems to go on forever. Lots of exposition being thrown around here and it’s really not very interesting.
“Raider territory” doesn’t seem like a real thing. It should have been more along the lines of ‘That sector has been seeing a lot of raider activity lately’ (though possibly more concise).
Beyond that, there’s something weird about the writing of Ivanova’s rant (and given this episode, I’m inclined to blame the writing first) and I can’t put my finger on what it is. I almost feel like she’s supposed to be ranting against some sort of prejudice she feels is holding her down (and the bit about knitting leans me towards sexism) except that we’ve never really seen that be a factor. Not that it makes any sense that this type of mission would require a command presence to start with (yeah command crew went out during MOTFL but it still doesn’t make sense here); and the fact that I can’t tell if anyone else is in C&C during it doesn’t help, because it being empty doesn’t make sense as a general rule, but the rant is pitched really wrong if there are other people around. CC is starting to get into the groove of the Ivanova rant, and she does what she can with this one, but there’s some weirdness to it (that I’m not really putting on her).
Even ignoring what we know down the road of Franklin’s religious beliefs (but don’t think I’m letting that one slide completely, because this doesn’t track with what we come to know of Stephan’s beliefs, it barely tracks with his attitude to this point), he can’t even seem to make up his mind in this episode what he thinks of it. One moment he shows no respect for their attitudes (the open talking about what is written in the stream of time), the next he says they should work with them and understand what’s going on (even if he means in order to work within those beliefs to convince them to come around, it could have worked with his later revealed beliefs), the next he’s railing against all religion. It’s all over the map and doesn’t all hang together, especially since it isn’t buoyed up by later canon.
I guess it’s consistent to this point in the series, but why only send out two furies on this mission?
I’m hazy on the terms of this bet the doctors make. It’s treated later on as if it was a bet that Franklin could save Shon’s life, but in the moment it sounds more like he’s betting that Hernandez can’t find a better solution that will. And as we never see her attempting to find another solution I think Franklin might have won.
I’m curious what Earth’s policy is on cases like this; if it were a human religion that opposed a certain medical procedure what would the reaction of doctor and political leaders be? Because if this is something Earth has a policy on, whichever side it would be on, why does no one bring it up? Yes, the neutrality of Babylon 5 might throw a monkey wrench in whatever Earth/Earth Alliances policy would be regarding human cases, but knowing the expectations they would have in human situation would inform their behaviors here.
Though, for that matter, if B5 is actually neutral and not following Earth’s existing rules/laws/legal code then how do they try criminals and have those ruling upheld back on Earth? Back in The Gathering, Varner was supposedly subject to Earth arrest and trial by coming back to Earth Alliance station B5. And why would they have to break away from Earth if Earth rules and laws etc. weren’t the existing legal code on B5? Yeah, I think this whole “maintain the station’s neutrality” issue makes no sense, and again we should know what would happen if the family had gone to Earth looking for a cure and go from there
So the timeline of this episode isn’t working in its favor either. Shon is getting weaker in the amount of time it took Ivanova to even get to the sector she was going for without even finding the Asimov yet? While it tracks with Franklin’s statement that Shon wouldn’t survive the first jump if they had tried to take him anywhere else, that Shon’s degrading so fast now makes me think we should have gotten a better idea of how it’s progressed to this point. On the flip side, the question could be just how long a trip is Ivanova out on? Because for the amount of stuff that happens in the A-plot to happen with the lack of urgency it has then it should have been like a week’s trip.
I’m honestly not convinced that if these people had an ambassador around said ambassador wouldn’t be like “Yeah, our people have this surgery all the time, what we’ve got here are a couple of fringe cases who are holding on to long outdated traditions.” These two strike me as the kind who go around thinking (or at least claiming) they speak for their race as a whole but are actually a tiny minority.
(Also, Sinclair will make a ruling inside 24 hours, yeah that doesn’t help the timing going on here make any more sense.)
I also don’t praise Grail for very many things, but it’s hard not to compare the ‘going between ambassadors looking for help’ scenes here with the ones there, and these ones have so much less to offer, especially for Londo and G’Kar. There’s no energy in either of them, and the scenes don’t give them anything to work with; and Londo’s has a giant plot hole coming back again to the timing involved, because by the time Sinclair makes a ruling, then Londo stepped in with the Council to overturn it (even if he could do it straight away); the Council doesn’t do anything very quickly so by the time a decision is made the decision would been made by whatever the rules of the injunction are (whether or not he’s allowed to act while it’s being debated).
On the other hand there is a famous Kosh line, that really feels like it should have been in reference to something much more important than anything in this episode. And while at a glance Delenn’s response seems in character enough (it’s closer than the other two at least), it manages to get the conclusion entirely wrong within its own argument; the Minbari won’t interfere in other people’s beliefs, but we won’t help at all to keep people from interfering in each other’s beliefs; and while it’s clearly playing off the Soul Hunter issue, the Souls Hunter’s believe they’re saving people too and the Minbari will go to bat against them without any thought for what others may think of the nature of the soul. And that’s just the contradictions at this point in the series; considering that Delenn is a borderline religious zealot herself (the borderline part is open to interpretation), if she really wanted to take their side she damn well would, and she’d claim she was teaching Sinclair something important while she talked at him about it.
GODS DAMN IT. So I’m watching the scene with Garibaldi and Sinclair chatting, and I’m thinking things felt really awkward in their performance, and considering the episode I figure it’s the writing, but after my observations a couple reviews ago I decide I should check and see...and it was GODSDAMN COMPTON. Now, after so many years I feel like I should rethink where the blame for this episode lies; most of it is probably still on Gerrold, but I’m willing to think some blame could be shared now. (Why is it that these two are the Compton red flag? Although maybe I should have wondered after my notes on Ivanova’s early scene.)
For all the multitude of things wrong with this episode, I still ask how exactly do you justify the parents walking away while Shon is dying so that Stephan even has a chance to perform the operation?
Got to love how Ivanova’s reaction to sighting a raider is completely wrong. She considers the possibility that the scout could bring back reinforcements but not that it’s not a scout so much as a distraction, hoping to split up the few defenses present (still stupid, although if they were sending them out on a days’ long mission maybe they felt they couldn’t spare a full wing for that long), either for what happens or maybe to try and lead them off while another force swoops in and attacks the Asimov. Either way, Susan, bad call.
Well, one thing I’ll blame the direction for is the pacing at the start of the operation; Franklin shows no hesitation to start the operation before Hernandez is like “You can’t help but wonder” when to that point he doesn’t seem to be wondering.
I actually really likes Franklin’s response to the “Who asked you to play god?” question. With all the things this episode gets wrong about Franklin, that has a fair amount of truth to it. He has a bit of a god and/or savior complex, especially when it comes to his work, and that at least holds weight. Plus is feels realistic to me.
Then I had no more thoughts worth noting the rest of the episode. The resolution of the Ivaonova plot is beyond stupid, but that whole plot is just there to be stupid breaks in the bad main plot...so, whatever. Except that I still have like six bullet points of overall thoughts, damn this is a lot to say about an episode I dislike so much.
Something that I noticed early but thought I’d bring up here: this episode looks cheap. Having so much of it set in medlab is a huge problem, because the first season medlab set looks really cheap. For all there is a fair bit of mostly useless CGI, it looks cheap, and not showing the final fight highlights the fact that it was being cheap. As noted the lack of extras in the opening C&C scene is both confusing and cheap. The costumes...hell I meant the aliens, but those aren’t even the medlab uniforms we’re going to see over the rest of the series, just cheap shiny versions. The aliens’ makeup doesn’t suit the culture being portrayed, and clearly they were saving on an editor in this one to figure out how to lineup the timelines going on here.
And yes, the blame for the cheapness can be spread around; production, set design, makeup, directing, writing, probably others. The acting is trying to sell this episode, it’s not saving much of it, but it is trying; and seeing as it was my new nemesis Compton directing this one I wonder if the acting could have saved more than it did if there had been a different director (plus a good Vejar direction to spice up the medlab sets...yeah it could have been helped). I’ve had more than one instance already with this show having to think about where I put the blame for things, especially as the lines between the levels blur because they’re bound to, but this one was a big one. I’ve always put the blame on the script, and while I think there was no saving this episode from being bad (the treatment of the raider plot alone would have been telling), it is giving me more to think about.
I don’t suppose I should be as surprised as I was to discover this was only the fifth episode produced; I know and have basically always known that season 1 was filmed out of order, but I rarely committed production order to memory. Now knowing how early it was made...well it shows; it doesn’t really seem to get any of the characters very well, nor does it have a firm handle on how this universe works, from travel to politics to medical science it all feels off; not ‘slightly off’, really off.
I touched on it a little bit in the as-watching review, but I want to get into it a little more in the wrap up, the aliens we have here don’t really work in a B5 universe. They are written as coming from a planet of hats, a unified world where these people are perfectly average for their race; except on B5, we’re often taught not to trust a planet of hats portrayal, so I don’t here. It would have been more believable if this was just *their* religion, not their entire races, it still would have been open for debate whether to respect it or not when Shon’s life was at stake, but them going around saying it’s the attitude of their race as a whole...I don’t buy it. I don’t buy that they would last very long as a species thinking that anything from a papercut to an appendectomy is all going result in them needing to die. I would not be surprised if there are plenty of doctors on their homeworld who would have performed the operation but these two went looking for a miracle elsewhere.
So let’s do a thought experiment and rework this episode from the basics up. Say this family arrives on station with their sick kid and they approach Franklin about ways to treat it. Franklin tells them surgery would cure that right up in a very short time but the parents refuse on religious grounds. Franklin makes an immediate appeal to Sinclair on the ground that on Earth such cases would be heard by a medical ethics board to determine the best course. The parents move to block that move on the not unreasonable grounds that such a board would be dominated by humans who are unlikely to be accepting of non-human beliefs. Franklin does his bloody homework and learns that these beliefs, especially to this extreme, aren’t even that common on their homeworld. The parents somewhere have a chance to make an impassioned case that since their people made contact with aliens their old traditions are losing their old position in their culture and they are still strong in their faith. Sinclair still talks to Shon to know that the boy is making a reasonably well informed choice (granted one could go on a rant about that, but not today), Jeff still gets to say that he personally passionately disagrees with the decision but he can’t in an official capacity go against the family’s beliefs. Franklin still violates orders and saves Shon anyway (needing slightly more effort in shooing the parents away from their child’s deathbed), you still get the arguments in the fallout, and Shon does still need to die to finish out the story I just can’t on short notice work out the story of how. But taking actual time to develop the situation cuts out the need for the B-plot that contributes so little to the story.
Another thing that occurred to me early on when I was wondering what Earth’s stance on this would have been among human religions; what sort of stance would the ISA have on this down the road? Aside from the fact that the leaders will probably not plan ahead for such an event, I’m not sure where their answer would end up. Food for thought.
I could go on longer about why this episode doesn’t work for me, or I could speculate on why it does work for some people, or why it’s been getting less and less popular over time, but this has gone on way too long already. Let’s move on to a slightly better episode.
Next time: that will be Survivors
(Note from editing: this review turned out pretty badly written, even after giving it a editing pass; I’ll blame it on getting into the badly written spirit of this episode.)
And well...the only way out is through, the only way out is through...
1x10: Believers
I’m going to say upfront: I do not like this episode. I have never liked this episode. I remember as a teenager I had always seen this one praised by B5 fandom but when I finally saw it I hated it from day one. These days there’s a lot bigger camp that sees this as quite possibly the worst episode of the series, so I no longer feel alone in that attitude. And, as already shown, I’m the person who will come to the defense of Infection if I can find a soapbox to stand on and ramble on the subject.
I actually don’t exactly hate it as much as I did as a teenager, I can see more of what it’s trying to be and find a few more reasons to be forgiving in places, but I still think it’s pretty bad; if it’s not the worst episode of the series, it’s pretty damned close. But I’m a completest, I will always watch it on every rewatch I do and the most I’ve gotten to over all these years was ‘not quite as bad as 15 year old me thought it was, though in some ways it’s worse than I realized then.’ And look, I know there are people who like, even love, this episode; but I’m not one of them by any stretch of the imagination.
All that said, who knows what thoughts I’ll have to make up a review; so let’s get to it.
I feel like even the promo guys knew the main plot of this episode was bad, as they spiced it up with clips from the irrelevant B-plot. It’s also a very Trek preview I think, which I guess is fitting since the whole plot is kind of Trek. It’s not a very interesting promo, but maybe that’s because I know how much jiggering is going on and how much I don’t like the episode it’s representing. This has been a rather unhelpful promo review I’m sure (of a rather unhelpful promo).
The teaser is only about three minutes long but it seems to go on forever. Lots of exposition being thrown around here and it’s really not very interesting.
“Raider territory” doesn’t seem like a real thing. It should have been more along the lines of ‘That sector has been seeing a lot of raider activity lately’ (though possibly more concise).
Beyond that, there’s something weird about the writing of Ivanova’s rant (and given this episode, I’m inclined to blame the writing first) and I can’t put my finger on what it is. I almost feel like she’s supposed to be ranting against some sort of prejudice she feels is holding her down (and the bit about knitting leans me towards sexism) except that we’ve never really seen that be a factor. Not that it makes any sense that this type of mission would require a command presence to start with (yeah command crew went out during MOTFL but it still doesn’t make sense here); and the fact that I can’t tell if anyone else is in C&C during it doesn’t help, because it being empty doesn’t make sense as a general rule, but the rant is pitched really wrong if there are other people around. CC is starting to get into the groove of the Ivanova rant, and she does what she can with this one, but there’s some weirdness to it (that I’m not really putting on her).
Even ignoring what we know down the road of Franklin’s religious beliefs (but don’t think I’m letting that one slide completely, because this doesn’t track with what we come to know of Stephan’s beliefs, it barely tracks with his attitude to this point), he can’t even seem to make up his mind in this episode what he thinks of it. One moment he shows no respect for their attitudes (the open talking about what is written in the stream of time), the next he says they should work with them and understand what’s going on (even if he means in order to work within those beliefs to convince them to come around, it could have worked with his later revealed beliefs), the next he’s railing against all religion. It’s all over the map and doesn’t all hang together, especially since it isn’t buoyed up by later canon.
I guess it’s consistent to this point in the series, but why only send out two furies on this mission?
I’m hazy on the terms of this bet the doctors make. It’s treated later on as if it was a bet that Franklin could save Shon’s life, but in the moment it sounds more like he’s betting that Hernandez can’t find a better solution that will. And as we never see her attempting to find another solution I think Franklin might have won.
I’m curious what Earth’s policy is on cases like this; if it were a human religion that opposed a certain medical procedure what would the reaction of doctor and political leaders be? Because if this is something Earth has a policy on, whichever side it would be on, why does no one bring it up? Yes, the neutrality of Babylon 5 might throw a monkey wrench in whatever Earth/Earth Alliances policy would be regarding human cases, but knowing the expectations they would have in human situation would inform their behaviors here.
Though, for that matter, if B5 is actually neutral and not following Earth’s existing rules/laws/legal code then how do they try criminals and have those ruling upheld back on Earth? Back in The Gathering, Varner was supposedly subject to Earth arrest and trial by coming back to Earth Alliance station B5. And why would they have to break away from Earth if Earth rules and laws etc. weren’t the existing legal code on B5? Yeah, I think this whole “maintain the station’s neutrality” issue makes no sense, and again we should know what would happen if the family had gone to Earth looking for a cure and go from there
So the timeline of this episode isn’t working in its favor either. Shon is getting weaker in the amount of time it took Ivanova to even get to the sector she was going for without even finding the Asimov yet? While it tracks with Franklin’s statement that Shon wouldn’t survive the first jump if they had tried to take him anywhere else, that Shon’s degrading so fast now makes me think we should have gotten a better idea of how it’s progressed to this point. On the flip side, the question could be just how long a trip is Ivanova out on? Because for the amount of stuff that happens in the A-plot to happen with the lack of urgency it has then it should have been like a week’s trip.
I’m honestly not convinced that if these people had an ambassador around said ambassador wouldn’t be like “Yeah, our people have this surgery all the time, what we’ve got here are a couple of fringe cases who are holding on to long outdated traditions.” These two strike me as the kind who go around thinking (or at least claiming) they speak for their race as a whole but are actually a tiny minority.
(Also, Sinclair will make a ruling inside 24 hours, yeah that doesn’t help the timing going on here make any more sense.)
I also don’t praise Grail for very many things, but it’s hard not to compare the ‘going between ambassadors looking for help’ scenes here with the ones there, and these ones have so much less to offer, especially for Londo and G’Kar. There’s no energy in either of them, and the scenes don’t give them anything to work with; and Londo’s has a giant plot hole coming back again to the timing involved, because by the time Sinclair makes a ruling, then Londo stepped in with the Council to overturn it (even if he could do it straight away); the Council doesn’t do anything very quickly so by the time a decision is made the decision would been made by whatever the rules of the injunction are (whether or not he’s allowed to act while it’s being debated).
On the other hand there is a famous Kosh line, that really feels like it should have been in reference to something much more important than anything in this episode. And while at a glance Delenn’s response seems in character enough (it’s closer than the other two at least), it manages to get the conclusion entirely wrong within its own argument; the Minbari won’t interfere in other people’s beliefs, but we won’t help at all to keep people from interfering in each other’s beliefs; and while it’s clearly playing off the Soul Hunter issue, the Souls Hunter’s believe they’re saving people too and the Minbari will go to bat against them without any thought for what others may think of the nature of the soul. And that’s just the contradictions at this point in the series; considering that Delenn is a borderline religious zealot herself (the borderline part is open to interpretation), if she really wanted to take their side she damn well would, and she’d claim she was teaching Sinclair something important while she talked at him about it.
GODS DAMN IT. So I’m watching the scene with Garibaldi and Sinclair chatting, and I’m thinking things felt really awkward in their performance, and considering the episode I figure it’s the writing, but after my observations a couple reviews ago I decide I should check and see...and it was GODSDAMN COMPTON. Now, after so many years I feel like I should rethink where the blame for this episode lies; most of it is probably still on Gerrold, but I’m willing to think some blame could be shared now. (Why is it that these two are the Compton red flag? Although maybe I should have wondered after my notes on Ivanova’s early scene.)
For all the multitude of things wrong with this episode, I still ask how exactly do you justify the parents walking away while Shon is dying so that Stephan even has a chance to perform the operation?
Got to love how Ivanova’s reaction to sighting a raider is completely wrong. She considers the possibility that the scout could bring back reinforcements but not that it’s not a scout so much as a distraction, hoping to split up the few defenses present (still stupid, although if they were sending them out on a days’ long mission maybe they felt they couldn’t spare a full wing for that long), either for what happens or maybe to try and lead them off while another force swoops in and attacks the Asimov. Either way, Susan, bad call.
Well, one thing I’ll blame the direction for is the pacing at the start of the operation; Franklin shows no hesitation to start the operation before Hernandez is like “You can’t help but wonder” when to that point he doesn’t seem to be wondering.
I actually really likes Franklin’s response to the “Who asked you to play god?” question. With all the things this episode gets wrong about Franklin, that has a fair amount of truth to it. He has a bit of a god and/or savior complex, especially when it comes to his work, and that at least holds weight. Plus is feels realistic to me.
Then I had no more thoughts worth noting the rest of the episode. The resolution of the Ivaonova plot is beyond stupid, but that whole plot is just there to be stupid breaks in the bad main plot...so, whatever. Except that I still have like six bullet points of overall thoughts, damn this is a lot to say about an episode I dislike so much.
Something that I noticed early but thought I’d bring up here: this episode looks cheap. Having so much of it set in medlab is a huge problem, because the first season medlab set looks really cheap. For all there is a fair bit of mostly useless CGI, it looks cheap, and not showing the final fight highlights the fact that it was being cheap. As noted the lack of extras in the opening C&C scene is both confusing and cheap. The costumes...hell I meant the aliens, but those aren’t even the medlab uniforms we’re going to see over the rest of the series, just cheap shiny versions. The aliens’ makeup doesn’t suit the culture being portrayed, and clearly they were saving on an editor in this one to figure out how to lineup the timelines going on here.
And yes, the blame for the cheapness can be spread around; production, set design, makeup, directing, writing, probably others. The acting is trying to sell this episode, it’s not saving much of it, but it is trying; and seeing as it was my new nemesis Compton directing this one I wonder if the acting could have saved more than it did if there had been a different director (plus a good Vejar direction to spice up the medlab sets...yeah it could have been helped). I’ve had more than one instance already with this show having to think about where I put the blame for things, especially as the lines between the levels blur because they’re bound to, but this one was a big one. I’ve always put the blame on the script, and while I think there was no saving this episode from being bad (the treatment of the raider plot alone would have been telling), it is giving me more to think about.
I don’t suppose I should be as surprised as I was to discover this was only the fifth episode produced; I know and have basically always known that season 1 was filmed out of order, but I rarely committed production order to memory. Now knowing how early it was made...well it shows; it doesn’t really seem to get any of the characters very well, nor does it have a firm handle on how this universe works, from travel to politics to medical science it all feels off; not ‘slightly off’, really off.
I touched on it a little bit in the as-watching review, but I want to get into it a little more in the wrap up, the aliens we have here don’t really work in a B5 universe. They are written as coming from a planet of hats, a unified world where these people are perfectly average for their race; except on B5, we’re often taught not to trust a planet of hats portrayal, so I don’t here. It would have been more believable if this was just *their* religion, not their entire races, it still would have been open for debate whether to respect it or not when Shon’s life was at stake, but them going around saying it’s the attitude of their race as a whole...I don’t buy it. I don’t buy that they would last very long as a species thinking that anything from a papercut to an appendectomy is all going result in them needing to die. I would not be surprised if there are plenty of doctors on their homeworld who would have performed the operation but these two went looking for a miracle elsewhere.
So let’s do a thought experiment and rework this episode from the basics up. Say this family arrives on station with their sick kid and they approach Franklin about ways to treat it. Franklin tells them surgery would cure that right up in a very short time but the parents refuse on religious grounds. Franklin makes an immediate appeal to Sinclair on the ground that on Earth such cases would be heard by a medical ethics board to determine the best course. The parents move to block that move on the not unreasonable grounds that such a board would be dominated by humans who are unlikely to be accepting of non-human beliefs. Franklin does his bloody homework and learns that these beliefs, especially to this extreme, aren’t even that common on their homeworld. The parents somewhere have a chance to make an impassioned case that since their people made contact with aliens their old traditions are losing their old position in their culture and they are still strong in their faith. Sinclair still talks to Shon to know that the boy is making a reasonably well informed choice (granted one could go on a rant about that, but not today), Jeff still gets to say that he personally passionately disagrees with the decision but he can’t in an official capacity go against the family’s beliefs. Franklin still violates orders and saves Shon anyway (needing slightly more effort in shooing the parents away from their child’s deathbed), you still get the arguments in the fallout, and Shon does still need to die to finish out the story I just can’t on short notice work out the story of how. But taking actual time to develop the situation cuts out the need for the B-plot that contributes so little to the story.
Another thing that occurred to me early on when I was wondering what Earth’s stance on this would have been among human religions; what sort of stance would the ISA have on this down the road? Aside from the fact that the leaders will probably not plan ahead for such an event, I’m not sure where their answer would end up. Food for thought.
I could go on longer about why this episode doesn’t work for me, or I could speculate on why it does work for some people, or why it’s been getting less and less popular over time, but this has gone on way too long already. Let’s move on to a slightly better episode.
Next time: that will be Survivors
(Note from editing: this review turned out pretty badly written, even after giving it a editing pass; I’ll blame it on getting into the badly written spirit of this episode.)
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