Story: TKO
Written By: Larry DiTillio
Season: 1
This is a classic example of how the A/B story format doesn’t really gel with B5. One story involves some friend of Garibaldi’s trying to get into some kind of boxing/UFC style fight with aliens, the other with Ivanova reconnecting with her Rabbi and trying to come to terms with the death of her father. Jumping between the emotional well written story about Ivanova and the weak fairly pointless fighting guy story is jarring, and it feels like two different shows. The fighting storyline doesn’t even really do much character growth for any of the main cast or lend much of anything to the arc.
The Ivanova story is good, as at least it has character development, but the episode on the whole is filled with issue due to the poor choice for a second story. Had this episode cut the fighter storyline and focused on some other characters in smaller stories that advance the series on the whole, it might have been better, but it just doesn’t work too well in it’s current state.
NEXT TIME: Aldous Gajic
Written By: Larry DiTillio
Season: 1
This is a classic example of how the A/B story format doesn’t really gel with B5. One story involves some friend of Garibaldi’s trying to get into some kind of boxing/UFC style fight with aliens, the other with Ivanova reconnecting with her Rabbi and trying to come to terms with the death of her father. Jumping between the emotional well written story about Ivanova and the weak fairly pointless fighting guy story is jarring, and it feels like two different shows. The fighting storyline doesn’t even really do much character growth for any of the main cast or lend much of anything to the arc.
NEXT TIME: Aldous Gajic
Comments
Post a Comment