The Bucket O' Nothing

"Passing Through Gethsemane" is one of the best Babylon 5 episodes I've seen.

Ivanova and Bester have both had quite fantastic moments, and I'm only six episodes in.

Additionally, you know you've roleplayed too much when an episode features a "political advisor" doing dubious things and you spot them quickly and then start figuring out how you'd do them more subtly.

So, what have I been doing recently? A few things.

1. Playing in a tabletop game run by gwyntar called "State of Mind", set in the Babylon 5 universe, along with a whole load of other CUTT people. Quite short campaign - four sessions - because it was in between university terms, but was a lot of fun. Entire PC group as telepaths on the run from Psi Corp. Plenty of moments involving gwyntar wearing black leather gloves and being scary Psi Cop - after two sessions, some of us would just start twitching when he put the gloves on. :)

2. Because of playing in "State of Mind" and enjoying it a lot, borrowing Babylon 5 DVDs from various friends and starting to watch it. I'm up to episode 16 of season 1 so far - I've been watching it in spare hours after work or at weekends.

I keep comparing it to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Babylon 5 comes out avourably in almost all of these comparisons, except for the ones where they end up even.

( Here's what I like about Babylon 5 so far. )

So, yeah. Babylon 5 is good. Watch it. I shall be watching more.

3. Helping to plan the end-of-year plot for CUTT, and this weekend running a linear related to it.

( What's a linear, then? )