#5, RE: On other kinds of psionics
Posted by Matrix Dragon on Oct-23-01 at 04:31 AM
In response to message #3
>Yeah - that was the first Bester episode (I believe it was entitled >"Mind War"). Wasn't that one awful? "I am... becoming." Yeah. >You're becoming the MacGuffin character on a season-3 episode of >Star Trek. "My... God, Bones. What did we just... witness?" Bleagh. I >realize it introduces a few important concepts and we get to see a >Psi Cop get schletzed, but between the "Where No Man Has Gone >Before" ending and that horrible, horrible "Do you know what it's like >when telepaths make love, Commander?" scene (nice touch having >the tram go into a tunnel right then, guys), ye gods, what a terrible >episode. Shiver. Shudder.I remember that one. Yuck. Second episode of B5 I ever saw, and it almost put me off the series. Thankfully, I only saw it for the first time a few months ago (The wonders of sci-fi in Australia people) and SOS convinced we to keep watching, if only to figure out all the references that were popping up. Matrix Dragon
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