The end

[yohoob]

I just watched the last two ep and i always get depressed every time i watch the end of season 5. Even though the show has been gone for a while it just reminds me its over and its the end. The parts that get me in the two ep is the salute to the new crew with the music in the back ground. Then when sheriden is in the white star lorein appears, sheriden askes if he can come back? He is told no and sheriden and has this look of dissapointment in his eyes. Then when the crew says good bye to the station and it blows up.
I have never been moved so much in a series except for babylon 5. No tv program to me has ever lived up to this series. It was the perfect program for me and hope jms can pull something off with the new movie.

[funkymikemoses]

Re: The end

Originally posted by yohoob
I just watched the last two ep and i always get depressed every time i watch the end of season 5.

That's odd, always find it very up lifting in some respects. especially the line 'there can always be new beginnings, even for people like us'

One thing ends, another begins

[Jan]

Re: The end

Originally posted by yohoob
I just watched the last two ep and i always get depressed every time i watch the end of season 5. Even though the show has been gone for a while it just reminds me its over and its the end.

I always cry but not because I'm depressed. Sad that the series ended, yes, but if it did have to end, that ending was just perfect. Thank goodness we've got DVDs these days so we can experience it as often as we wish.

Jan

[WorkerCaste]

Ying and Yang. Crisis and Opportunity. Sadness and Joy. Endings and Beginings. Bittersweet. The last few eps are an emotional rollercoaster for me. They are so well done. Just the right balance of wrapping things up, but leaving you wanting more. The whole series seems to balance opposites.

Like the way I want to both thank JMS for the greatest TV show I've had the pleasure to watch, and to damn JMS all to hell for creating an impossibly high standard against which other shows fall short.

[Satai Delenn]

The end of b5 has me in tears every time perfectly well ,done a mixture of saddness and mystery of what happens next ?JMS is a great storyteller.

[grumbler]

I can watch most of the last episode with some tearing, but not Delenn and John's parting. After I saw that the first time on TV, I fast-forwarded past that scene when watching on tape of DVD (other than a single revisit when the DVD first came out). It is, literally, too intense for me to watch.

[Jan]

Originally posted by grumbler
I can watch most of the last episode with some tearing, but not Delenn and John's parting. After I saw that the first time on TV, I fast-forwarded past that scene when watching on tape of DVD (other than a single revisit when the DVD first came out). It is, literally, too intense for me to watch.

I understand what you mean completely. When John starts pulling away and we see Delenn's eyes you can *see* that she knows that she'll never see him again and desperately wants to hold on. And then his eyes say to her that he wishes he could stay. Still, I'll watch it over and over because of that.

I hope I never become immune to that scene.

Jan

[Shr'eshhhhhh]

I always felt that that last seen between John and Delenn had an almost oriental theatre feel to it. The starkness, the delecate and deliberate gesturing and phrasing of the words. I find the whole episode (particularly contextually) Some of the most moving drama I've ever seen. Shame The end credits are ruined with the It's a CNN broadcast gag and the crew photo posing bits. (sure they earned a mention but it does send the mood spiralling into what they used to call a black hole)

[Ranger1]

Originally posted by Shr'eshhhhhh
Shame The end credits are ruined with the It's a CNN broadcast gag and the crew photo posing bits. (sure they earned a mention but it does send the mood spiralling into what they used to call a black hole)

I think it was brilliant,i would never forget the first time it was aired,i think i cried even harder during that end credits (Get a hold of yourself man! stop crying).

When SiL ended i was in tears because of the story/drama/acting...you name it,but when the end credits began,it really clicked....its all over,no more B5.

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Delenn sitting on the bench alone watching the sunrise on Minbar visiting the memory of Sheridan...... another tough scene to get through.

[jahkneebee]

I'm getting all teary just reading about others reactions and remembering the scenes. Can't even come up with descriptors to describe the episode, simply moving.

[Joseph DeMartino]

Shame The end credits are ruined with the It's a CNN broadcast gag and the crew photo posing bits. (sure they earned a mention but it does send the mood spiralling into what they used to call a black hole)

I don't think last part of the end credits "ruined" anything that had gone before - or could. Also, if I recall correctly that part was less jarring than it is on the DVD because it was separated from the end of the episode by a couple of minutes of commercials.

Regards,

Joe

[Ranger1]

Originally posted by Joseph DeMartino
Also, if I recall correctly that part was less jarring than it is on the DVD because it was separated from the end of the episode by a couple of minutes of commercials.

Regards,

Joe

Most of the countries (well mine at least) did not have any commecials during the epsiodes.

[mslulu]

I cried my lil ole eyes out!

[Firebird]

A really moving pair of episodes. The original crew, moving on to their new assignments, friendships remaining but those friends being seperated by great distance, the emotional farewells. Is that not just like real life? Things change, things stay the same.

The Sheridan/Delenn climax is PERFECT drama. The emotion within such a drama, when done just right, is capable of tearing a person in two. These are exactly the sentements that have been expressed in this thread. I too disolve into blubbing at the end of SiL.

Brilliant.